### Ph.D (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Specialization

Research Interest

## Education

• PhD : The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

## CV

• (with Július Korbaš and Aniruddha C. Naolekar) Characteristic rank of vector bundles over Stiefel manifolds, Arch. Math. (Basel) 99 (2012), pp. 577-581.

• On trivialities of Stiefel-Whitney classes of vector bundles over iterated suspensions of Dold manifolds, Homology, Homotopy and Applications 15 (2013), No. 1, pp. 223-233.

• (with Parameswaran Sankaran) Complex structures on  product of circle bundles over complex manifolds, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 63 (2013), No. 4, pp. 1331-1366.

• (with Indranil Biswas and Mahan Mj) Infinitesimal deformations and Brauer group of some generalized Calabi-Eckmann manifolds, Tokyo Journal of Mathematics 37 (2014), No. 1, pp. 61-72.

• (with Prateep Chakraborty) Nonexistence of almost complex structures on the product $S^{2m} \times M$, Topology and its applications 199 (2016), pp. 102-110.

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, February 2014 - January 2017

• Post-doc, Haifa University Israel, April 2013 - January 2014

• Post-doc, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, October 2012 - March 2013

• Post-doc, Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, October 2011 - September 2012

• DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award 2013

• UGC-CSIR JRF Fellowship 2005

• NBHM PhD Fellowship 2005

• NBHM MSc Fellowship 2004

Topology

Office

FB 329, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016

Office Phone: 0512-259-7287 (O)

Email: asthakur[AT]iitk.ac.in