CV
Basics
| Name | Swaroop Hegde |
| Label | PhD Candidate in Mathematics |
| Research interests | Additive Combinatorics, Extremal Combinatorics, Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics |
Education
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2021 - Present Athens, GA
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2015 - 2020 Bhubaneswar, India
Integrated M.Sc.
National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER)
Mathematics
- Master's Thesis: Combinatorics and Representation Theory of Symmetric Groups
Work
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2021.08 - Present Graduate Student Instructor
Universiy of Georgia
Responsible for most aspects of the course including preparing course notes, delivering lectures, writing exams and quizzes, holding office hours and managing grades.
- Calculus I (Math 2250): Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
- PreCalculus (Math 1113): Spring 2026 (x2), Fall 2025 (x2), Spring 2024 (x2), Spring 2022 (x2), Fall 2021
- Online Precalculus (Math 1113E): Summer 2024
Service
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2025.01 - 2025.05 -
2024.01 - 2024.05 Co-facilitator of the Precalculus community working group
Mathematics Department, University of Georgia
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2023.10 - 2024.10 Volunteer for High School Math Tournament
University of Georgia
Volunteered in Oct 2023 and Oct 2024.
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2023.08 - 2025.05 -
2022.08 - 2023.05
Awards
- 2024.04.01
David Galewski Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
Mathematics Department, University of Georgia
- 2024.03.01
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia
- 2018.09.01
Certificate of Merit
School of Mathematical Sciences, NISER
For outstanding performance in the Spring 2018 semester.
- 2015.01.01
INSPIRE Scholarship Award
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
- 2015.01.01
All-India Rank 12116
IIT-JEE Mains Exam
Top 1 percentile of all students who appeared for the exam nationwide.
Courses
| Selected Graduate Courses | ||||||||||||
| Ramsey Theory | ||||||||||||
| Additive Combinatorics I & II | ||||||||||||
| Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics | ||||||||||||
| Ergodic Theory | ||||||||||||
| The Circle Method | ||||||||||||
| Equations with Prime Variables | ||||||||||||
| Algebraic Graph Theory | ||||||||||||
| Quiver Representations | ||||||||||||
| Commutative Algebra | ||||||||||||
| Lie Algebras | ||||||||||||
| Hopf Algebras | ||||||||||||
| Selected Reading Courses | ||||||
| Asymptotics of Ramsey Number R(4,t) (Oral Exam) | ||||||
| Kelley-Meka bound for Roth's theorem | ||||||
| Some recent improvements on Freiman's Theorem | ||||||
| Polynomial Methods in Combinatorics | ||||||
| Reflection Groups | ||||||
Publications
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2025.10 An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets
arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20073
Conferences/workshops
- 2025.07
PCMI 2025 Graduate Summer School on Extremal Combinatorics and Probabilistic Methods
PCMI, Park City, Utah
- 2025.06
Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- 2025.05
CanaDAM Conference 2025
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- 2025.05
Integers Conference 2025
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
- 2025.03
Algebraic and Analytic Methods in Combinatorics
SLMath, Berkeley, CA
- 2025.02
Introductory Workshop - Graph Theory: Extremal, Probabilistic and Structural
SLMath, Berkeley, CA
- 2024.06
Early-Career Conference in Combinatorics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL
- 2024.05
33rd Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing
Mississippi State University, MS
- 2023.06
Formalization of Mathematics
SLMath, Berkeley, CA
- 2023.05
Integers Conference 2023
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
- 2017.06
ATM-Schools AIS on Representation Theory of Finite Groups
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
- 2017.06
Madhava Mathematics Camp
Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India
- 2015.12
National Science Camp (VIJYOSHI)
Kolkata, India
Talks
- 2025.10
An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets
Discrete Math Seminar, Iowa State University (virtual)
- 2025.05
An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets
CanaDAM Conference, Ottawa, Canada
- 2025.05
An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets
Integers Conference, UGA
- 2025.04
An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets
Number Theory Seminar, UGA
- 2023.10
AKS Algorithm for Primality Testing
Combinatorial Number Theory Reading Seminar, UGA
- 2023.10
A Polygon Problem
Graduate Student Seminar, UGA
- 2023.04
The RSK Correspondence
Graduate Student Seminar, UGA
- 2023.02
Almost Periods of Convolutions and Application to Roth's Theorem
Additive Combinatorics Reading Seminar, UGA
- 2022.11
Cores and Quotients of Integer Partitions
Graduate Student Seminar, UGA
- 2021.09
Rédei's Theorem and Szőnyi Method
Polynomial Methods Reading Seminar, UGA
- 2019.04
Roth's Theorem via Finite Fourier Analysis
Math Seminar, NISER
- 2018.04
Pebbling the Chessboard
NISER Open Day
- 2017.02
The Story of Dimension
MathematiX Club, NISER
- 2016.04
Clock Arithmetic
NISER Open Day (for high school students)
- 2015.11
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
MathematiX Club, NISER
Mentoring
- 2025.01 - 2025.04
Applications of Entropy in Combinatorics
Directed Reading Program (DRP), UGA Math Department
- Student: Benjamin Wang-Tie (UGA Undergraduate)
- 2021.06 - 2021.07
Mathematics of Card Shuffling
Directed Reading Program (DRP), UGA Math Department
- Student: Aakash Khanal (UGA Undergraduate)