Activities | Brahadeesh Sankarnarayanan

2026-04-04 Competency-based Learning in Mathematics. Session at the STEM Teacher Training Program, organized (in association with Jodhpur Zila Parishad and Shiksha Vibhag) by the Centre for Education Technology (IIT Jodhpur).
2025-12-01 Nonstandard analysis: a gentle introduction. Discussion Meeting on Number Theory and Combinatorics (Evolve Back, Coorg).
2025-05-15 Bisection-closed families, tournaments, and symmetric designs. Geometry, Probability, and Algorithms (ICTS Bengaluru). [recording]
2025-04-28 Sunflowers and symmetric designs. Research seminar (IIT Jodhpur).
2024-11-21 Sunflowers and symmetric designs. RA Seminar (ISI Bangalore Centre, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit).
2024-06-01 Some recent work on fractional intersecting families. Meru Combinatorics Conference (GEHU, Bhimtal).
2024-05-29 Sunflowers, tournaments, and symmetric designs. IPDF Seminar (IIT Bombay).
2024-03-02 Some recent work on fractional intersecting families. CSE Research Symposium (IIT Palakkad).

2025-12-22 Counting the Infinite. Guest Lecture on the occasion of National Mathematics Day (“Prime Minister College of Excellence” Government College Makroniya Bujurg, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh).

2026-03-08 Career Opportunities Beyond Academia: One-day interaction session with industry professionals; talks by Sagar Sawant and Priyanka Magar-Sawant (mathematicians at Raphe mPhibr Pvt. Ltd.) on transitioning from academia to industry research (IIT Jodhpur).
2026-02-26 An Introductory Workshop on the Lean Theorem Prover. Three-day workshop on the Lean theorem prover, led by T. V. H. Prathamesh (Krea University); co-organized with Dilpreet Kaur and Kriti Goel (IIT Jodhpur).

I review papers regularly for the following journals, conferences, and databases:

I am an Affiliate Member of the American Mathematical Society.

Within India, I am a Life Member of the Indian Mathematical Society and the Mathematics Teachers' Association (India), which supports mathematics education and conducts the Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Mathematics (IOQM).

From September 2024 to February 2025, I served on the Advisory Board of Heliyon Mathematics, a Cell Press publication.

2024 Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship, IIT Bombay.
2018 NBHM Research Award, National Board for Higher Mathematics.
2017 Joint CSIR–UGC National Eligibility Test for Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR–HRDG); All-India Rank 20 (Mathematical Science).
2017 Director's Gold Medal, IISER Bhopal. Awarded for outstanding all-round achievement and leadership in the BS–MS graduating class in all disciplines.
2016 Invited to Rashtrapati Bhavan for the “In-Residence” Programme for Scholars from IITs, IISERs, and IISc Bangalore. [press release] [NDTV interview]
2015, 2016 IASc–INSA–NASI Summer Research Fellowship.
2015 Member of the Indian contingent at the World Science Conference, Israel. [my interview of Nobel laureate Robert Aumann]
2012 INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE), Department of Science and Technology. Awarded for the BS–MS programme at IISER Bhopal.

2025– Faculty Advisor, Mathematics Society, Board of Departmental Societies.
2025– Member, Departmental Undergraduate Committee (DUGC).
2025 Member, Department-level committee for projection of new B.S. program in Mathematics and Computing.