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Events

Here are some of the events I have participated in the past.
  1. 9th Indian School on Logic and its Applications (ISLA), IIT-Kanpur, May 2022.This workshop-cum-school was focused on exploring the theme of logic and duality, specifically in the context of Stone dualities and categorical syntax-semantic dualities. The topics covered included first order logic, topology, order and lattice theory, Boolean algebras, Stone duality, spectral and Priestley spaces, category theory, some categorical logic and topos theory. I delivered a student presentation on "Completeness in Propositional Logic."
  2. Curves and Surfaces: Geometry and Physical Applications, ICTS (Bangalore), June 2022. The summer school developed the differential geometry of curves and surfaces with a view towards applications to polymers and membranes.
  3. 3rd World Conference on Logic and Religion (WoCoLoR), IIT-BHU (Varanasi), November 2022. The conference was broadly concerned with logic and religion, with some special workshops dedicated to the interplay of mathematics and religion as well as formal methods in theology.
  4. AIS: The Laplacian in Riemannian Geometry, IISER-Bhopal, December 2024. This was an advanced school aimed at introducing geometric analysis, specifically aspects of spectral geometry centred around the Laplacian.
  5. Geometric Aspects of Algebraic Varieties, IISER-Mohali, March 2025. A conference in honour of Prof. Kapil Hari Paranjape's 65th birthday, centred around various topics close to his research interests (quite inaccessible to me at the time of writing this!)

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