Sunil Chebolu

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    Sunil K. Chebolu

    Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Univ. of Washington (2005)

    Research interests: Homotopy theory, modular and geometric representation theory, support varieties, affine group schemes, spectra, triangulated categories, derived categories, Galois cohomology, Quadratic forms, Bloch-Kato conjecture, and K-theory.

    Office: Stevenson 303B.
    Office Phone: (309) 438 3893

    Fax: (309) 540 5678 (Include my name)
    E-mail: szchebol@ilstu.eduz     (with the two "z"s removed)

    Address: Department of Mathematics, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4520, Normal, IL 61790. USA



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About me

I am an assistant professor in the department of mathematics at Illinois State University, and an adjunct research professor at the University of Western Ontario. From 1995 to 2000, I attended the Indian Statistical Institute (Kolkatta) where I got my Bachelors and Masters degrees in Statistics with a specialisation in Advanced Probability. Under the supervision of John Palmieri I got my Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Univerity of Washington, Seattle in 2005. My thesis was in the area of stable homotopy theory. After completing my Ph.D., I had a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. I joined Illinois State in Fall 2008.

My interests include Mathematics, Music, Physics, Astronomy, Cosmology, Games, Logic, Computing, Philosophy, and the History of Intellectual Thought.

I enjoy working with students. If you are a student who is interested in doing an Honors project, or a Masters thesis/project or an independent study in some area of Mathematics under my supervison please contact me. I will be happy to guide you.

I am the organiser of the algebra seminar at Illinois State. If you would like to give a talk in the seminar please let me know. We meet on Tuesdays from 2:00 - 3:00. Here is our seminar homepage CLICK HERE. I am one of the executive members of the Math Club at ISU and I will be the in-charge of the Putnam Mathematical Competition at ISU.


Papers



PDF Slides of some talks

  1. Progress report on the generating hypothesis AMS special session on Homotopy theory and Geometric aspects of algebraic topology, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, Mar 27-29, 2010.
  2. The unreasonably beautiful world of numbers, Presentation in Math Club, Illinois State University, March 3rd 2010.
  3. Cohomology of Bloch-Kato profinite groups AMS special session on Homotopy theory, Penn. State Univ., State College, Oct 24-25, 2009.
  4. Cohomology with stones and sticks, Plenary talk at MAA meetings, Bradley univeristy, Peoria, February 2009.
  5. Strongly regular graphs, Discrete Math Seminar, Oct 14th 2008. (Page 10 is missing, here it is Page 10.)
  6. A new interpretation of the quadratic closure of a field, AMS meetings in Vancouver, BC, Oct 3-4, 2008.
  7. A new perspective on groups with periodic cohomology, CMS meetings in London, ON, Dec. 10, 2007.
  8. Towards a refinement of the Bloch-Kato conjecture, CMS meetings in London, ON, Dec. 9, 2007.
  9. Finite generation of Tate cohomology and Freyd's generating hypothesis, AMS meetings in Murfreesboro, TN, Nov. 3, 2007.
  10. Diagrammatic methods in representation theory and cohomology, Graduate student seminar, UWO, London, July 23rd, 2007.
  11. Tate cohomology often fails to detect null homotopy, AMS meetings in Davidson, NC, March 3-4, 2007.
  12. Which finite p-groups are like a finite product of fields?, CMS Winter 2006 meetings, Toronto, December 10, 2006.
  13. Stable homotopy theory -- A gateway to Modern Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore, May 2006
  14. Thick subcategories in stable homotopy theory (work of Devinatz, Hopkins, Smith) at a workshop on thick subcategories, Oberwolfach, Germany, February 2006.
  15. My final examination at the University of Washington, Seattle, May 11 (on my birthday!) 2005.
  16. A Brave New World in homotopy theory, Graduate student topology conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, April 2005
  17. A Krull-Schmidt theorem for wide subcategories of modules, Joint Meetings of the AMS, Atlanta, January 2005


Conferences

Keir Lockridge and I have organised an AMS special session on "Triangulated categories and their associated cohomology theories" at University Park, PA on October 24-25, 2009.


MATH VIDEOS



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