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Scholarships

A few scholarships that I received, and highly encourage others to apply for:

• Cecil King Travel ScholarshipLondon Mathematical Society (during PhD, for UK-based students)
• Prize ScholarshipMerton College (for Merton College graduate students)
• James Buckee ScholarshipMerton College (for PhD funding in Theoretical Physics)
• Director's Gold MedalIIT Kanpur — for various Convocation Awards (nominated at the end of degree)
• Bhagwani Devi Maheswari Gold MedalIIT Kanpur (for graduating students)
• SN Bose Travel ScholarshipDuring undergraduate degree, to travel to the US for a research internship

Journey

My class 10 result funnily enough made the local papers, which is cute and a little funny to me now.

By the end of my undergraduate degree, I had picked up a very diverse set of interests, ranging from neuroscience to theoretical physics and mathematics. I applied to a range of programmes reflecting that, including Applied Mathematics at Harvard, Theoretical Physics at Oxford, and Mathematics at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, and heard back positively. I chose Oxford because the scholarship there was independent of any specific advisor or project, which gave me the flexibility to tailor my own path once I got there, and I eventually moved from Theoretical Physics into Mathematics.

I am on the Youth Advisory Board of the International Association for Premenstrual Disorders (IAPMD), a nonprofit supporting people affected by PME and related conditions. I'm passionate about destigmatizing PME and related disorders, and about helping students navigate education systems, find meaningful support, redefine success in ways that honour their health, needs, and lived realities, and build systems without cracks.

People in My Field

Some people working in and around my area, who are familiar with my work: André Henriques, Chris Douglas, Theo Johnson-Freyd, Graeme Segal, Konrad Waldorf, Matthias Ludewig, Dan Berwick-Evans, and Dmitri Pavlov.

YouTube: Talking About (Sometimes PhD Life in) Mathematics

• Category Theoretic Methods in QFTTalk at ICTS Bangalore, Women at the Intersection of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
• Functorial 2d Chiral CFTs from Conformal NetsTalk at ICMS Edinburgh, Operator Algebras and Mathematical Physics
• Categories for the Working PhysicistTalk for the Oxford University Physics Society (video and sound quality is a bit meh :\)
• Long Conversation / Podcast 1Mathematics is for everyone, and my academic journey
• Long(er) Conversation / PodcastQuite candid — also addressing Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and the role of a good supervisor
• About PhD Applications
• Me and My Maths seriesBy Oxford Mathematics
• Stress? Manifolds
• Reading Old Philosophers? Parse Trees
• My Grothendieck Mug
• Three Generations of Mathematicians Studying Functorial Conformal Field TheoryWith André and Graeme

Other Stuff

Some of my favourite writers are Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Kahlil Gibran, Oscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell, and Alexander Grothendieck.

If you want to get lost, go here: The Library of Babel.

I love hiking and being in the mountains. I also love the moon.

Reading for AI and Math

• On Proof and Progress in MathematicsWilliam P. Thurston
• Blog: Proofs and Prompts
• Mathematical DiscourseA peer-reviewed video journal for math research talks