The Cat(egory) Whisperer (under construction)

I am working in the area of higher category theory and categorical homotopy theory with Martina Rovelli.

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Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Doctor of Philosophy (2024 -- present)

• Indian Institute of Science, India
Master of Science (2021 -- 2024)
Thesis : Higher categories of n-bordisms advised by Siddhartha Gadgil
• University of Calcutta, India
Bachelor of Science (2017 -- 2020)

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Research

• The Morita (∞,2)-category of a monoidal category as a 2-complicial set, with S. Luneia, M. Rovelli, and S. Silver, 2025 : arXiv

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Conferences and Workshops

• International Category Theory Conference CT2025, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
• Midwest Topology Seminar 2025, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Annual Workshop on Categorical Logic and Higher Categories, University of Manchester, UK
• Young Homotopy Theorists Online Meeting, organized by Julie Rasmusen, University of Warwick and Torgeir Aambø, Norwegian University
• Applied Category Theory, 6th International Conference, attended online, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
• Dualities in Topology and Geometry, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
• National Seminar and Conference on Contemporary Research in Theoretical and Applicable Mathematics, The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata, India

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Expositions and Notes

• A_∞ operads and May's recognition principle [pdf]
• Bousfield Friedlander theorem [pdf]
• Smith's recognition lemma [pdf]
• An introduction to the category theory of Segal types [pdf] [slides]
• On the existence and uniqueness of Haar measure in locally compact topological groups [pdf]

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