Ajay Prajapati

Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

About Me

I am a third-year PhD student working in Algebraic Number Theory under the guidance of Prof. Mahesh Kakde.

Education

• PhD candidate at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (August 2022- present)
• BS-MS Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (August 2017- May 2022)

Teaching

Conferences/Workshops attended

• "Introduction to the p-adic local Langlands program" at IIT Jammu. (17th Sept- 25th Sept 2024)
• "Iwasawa theory of Hilbert Modular forms" at Harish Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj. (13th May-17th May 2024)
• "Hida Theory and the Iwasawa Main Conjecture" at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Chennai. (4 Dec-9 Dec 2023)
• "Rational Points on Modular Curves" at International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. (11 Sept-22 Sept 2023)
• "Elliptic Curves and the Special values of L-functions" at International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. (8 Aug-19 Aug 2022)
• "Elliptic Curves and the Special values of L-functions" at International Center for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. (2 Aug-7 Aug 2021)

Achievements

• Received the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. studies.
• Received the Bhagwan Das Sanghi Memorial Gold Medal in the IIT Kanpur’s 55th Convocation.
• Secured All India Rank 588 in JEE Advanced 2017 and All India Rank 399 in JEE Mains 2017.
• Awarded the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship in 2017.
• Selected for participation in the Indian National Mathematics Olympiad (INMO) in the years 2015 and 2016.

Contact Information

Email: ajayp at iisc dot ac dot in