Sucharit Sarkar is currently Ritt Assistant Professor at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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Education

He received his B. Math degree from Indian Statistical Institute in 2005. He represented India at IMO

IMO

The three-letter acronym IMO may refer to:* International Mathematical Olympiad* International Maritime Organization** IMO ship identification number, unique identity numbers issued to seacraft * International Meteorological Organization...

 in 2001, 2002 and secured Gold medal and silver medal respectively. He got the third rank in IIT-JEE 2002. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2009 under the guidance of Zoltan Szabo

Zoltán Szabó

Zoltán Szabó is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Peter Ozsváth, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds. For this contribution to the field of topology, Ozsváth and Szabó were awarded the 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.He got his...

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Research Contribution

His research area is low dimensional topology. He is currently working on Heegaard Floer homology for three -manifolds and knots inside three-manifolds.