I'm Nitin Chidambaram, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn working with Gaetan Borot . In July 2020, I defended my PhD at the University of Alberta where I was supervised by Vincent Bouchard and David Favero .

I'm broadly interested in algebraic geometry and what ideas from string theory can teach us about geometry. I've spent some time thinking about the Eynard-Orantin topological recursion in connection to enumerative geometry, and I'm currently trying to understand various contexts in which Airy structures produce physically and/or geometrically interesting invariants. I'm also interested in derived categories, especially in the context of the Bondal-Orlov conjecture on flops (i.e., the relationship to birational geometry), and I'm pursuing an approach to this conjecture using the notion of windows.

You can also take a look at my CV below.

## Publications and Preprints

Here is a list of all my publications and preprints:

Relations on $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ and the negative r-spin Witten conjecture
(with Garcia-Failde and Giacchetto, 51 pages)
arXiv:2205.15621 [math.AG]
Shifted Witten classes and topological recursion
(with Charbonnier, Garcia-Failde and Giacchetto, 34 pages)
arXiv:2203.16523 [math.AG] (submitted)
Whittaker vectors for W-algebras from topological recursion
(with Borot, Bouchard and Creutzig, 79 pages)
arXiv:2104.04516v1 [math-ph] (submitted)
Windows for cdgas
(with Favero, 29 pages)
Kernels for Grassmann Flops
(with Ballard, Favero, McFaddin and Vandermolen, 27 pages)
J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) 147 (2021), 29–59.
Higher Airy Structures, W algebras and topological recursion
(with Borot, Bouchard, Creutzig and Noschenko, 93 pages)
arXiv:1812.08738[math-ph] (accepted in Memoirs of the AMS)
Quantizing Weierstrass
(with Bouchard and Dauphinee, 40 pages)
Commun. Num. Theor. Phys. 12 253-303. (2018)
Canonical Structure of the E10 Model and Supersymmetry
(with Kleinschmidt and Nicolai, 40 pages)
Phys. Rev. D 91, 085039. (2015)

Or equivalently, here is the list on the arXiv :

## Other things I like to do

When I'm not doing math, I try to get outdoors as much as possible - climbing, skiing, or running for example. Recently, I've been learning to crack climb in Ettringen! Here are some pictures.

#### Ultrarunning

My first 100-mile race: Sinster 7 at Crowsnest Pass

#### Ski touring

St. Nicholas peak on the Wapta Icefields

#### Rock climbing

"I cant believe it's a girdle", Joshua Tree

## Contact Me

If you would like to talk about math (or go climbing/running), you can find me at

#### Email

kcnitin (at) mpim-bonn (dot) mpg (dot) de

Nitin's website
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