Nitin Kumar
Chidambaram
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
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.
I'm currently on the job market.
You can also take a look at my CV below.
Here is a list of all my publications and preprints:
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.
My first 100-mile race: Sinster 7 at Crowsnest Pass
St. Nicholas peak on the Wapta Icefields
"I cant believe it's a girdle", Joshua Tree
If you would like to talk about math (or go climbing/running), you can find me at