Ipsita Datta

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I am a Postdoctoral Member at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. My mentor is Helmut Hofer.

I completed my PhD from the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University, under the supervision of Yasha Eliashberg in 2021.

I work in Symplectic geometry. I like thinking about moduli spaces of holomorphic curves and using them to understand various structures in the symplectic world. For example, I think about Lagrangian embeddings in R^4 and Reeb orbits on ellipsoids. I also like thinking about technical analysis relating to moduli spaces, like obstruction bundle gluing.

Here are some words that hint to what I like to think about these days: Lagrangian cobordisms, knots, moduli spaces of holomorphic curves, holomorphic disks with corners and boundary on Lagrangians, obstruction bundle gluing, Floer homologies, Closing lemma, Contact Homology, SFT, Legendrian Contact Homology, Front diagrams of higher dimensional Legendrians, Gromov-Taubes invariants.

I co-organise the following:

  • Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Joint Symplectic Seminar

ipsi AT ias DOT edu

Office: 104, Building A

Institute for Advanced Study
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Princeton, New Jersey
08540 USA

You may have met me in:

  • Introductory Workshop: Floer Homotopy Theory, Sept 2022, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  • Connections Workshop:Floer Homotopy Theory, Sept 2022, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  • SYNC Early Career Workshop, Aug 2022, UC Davis, CA, USA.
  • Workshop on the h-principle and Beyond, Nov 2021, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA.
  • Tech Topology Conference, Dec 2020, Virtual.
  • Obstruction Bundle Zooming, Fall 2020, Virtual.
  • Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology workshop, July 2019, Providence, RI, USA, in Project 4: Polyfold Laboratory.
  • SMS 2019 - Advances in Symplectic Geometry and Topology, July 2019, Montreal, Canada.
  • Kylerec 2019, May 2019, Truckee, CA, USA.