Ronald Huidrom

Ronald Huidrom

Computer Science • Mathematics • Music • IISER-M • Computational Complexity • Topology • Knot Theory • Violin

October 2023

Contact
- Address: IISER Mohali, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Punjab 140306
- Email: ms19167@iisermohali.ac.in
Academic Career
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
- Fields: low-dimensional topology (braid groups, link invariants, the Jones polynomial, combinatorial knot theory), category theory, computational complexity theory, combinatorial game theory
- CV (abridged)
- CV (comprehensive)
Academic Visits
- July 2022: Internship at ISI Delhi
- June 2022: Summer course at ICTS-TIFR
- May 2022: Workshop in Production and Industrial Engineering at Punjab Engineering College
- Summer 2021: Internship at IIT Bombay
Recent Activities (excluding the visits listed above)
- Conference: Geometry, Groups and Mathematical Philosophy, Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana (May 2022)
- Conference: 100 Years of Mock Theta Functions, Vanderbilt University (May 2022)
Currently Working On
- [Thesis] On Braid Groups and Link Invariants
- [Book] Solutions to Nathanson's Elementary Methods in Number Theory
Outside Academics

[Art] Son Goku (GT)

Likes/follows

[Books] Dostoevsky, Proust, Eliot and a bunch of classics.
[Anime] Check out my MAL.

Currently working on my thesis in low-dimensional topology particularly knot theory and braid groups, my interests in computer science and mathematics also include computational complexity theory and combinatorial game theory. I am a big fan of GNU/Linux and Emacs. I code in Python and C++. My GitHub account has some interesting repos including a solution manual I have written.

Besides mathematics, I am studying the violin and music theory, having received formal musical training from Bal Mukunda Music College. I read classics and Russian literature, especially Dostoevsky.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

— John von Neumann, Hungarian-American polymath

It [Mathematics] is more absorbing than chess, more of a gamble than poker, and lasts longer than Monopoly. It's free. It can be played anywhere - Archimedes did it in a bathtub.

— Richard J. Trudeau, mathematics author

Last updated October 25, 2023 by Ronald Huidrom.