Sukanta Pati

Myself:

I am a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.



Broad research area `Combinatorial Matrix Theorey’.

More specific research area `Spectral Graph Theory’.

Information about me including a list of my publications can be found here.



Academic experience:

PhD from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, during 1994-99.

Postdoc at the Department of Mathematics, University of Regina, Canda, from Sept 1999 to April 2001.

Faculty at the Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati, INDIA , June 2001- till date.

Visited the Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, June-Aug 2006.


My daughter Sunaina’s web page. She is very inetrested in mathematics.


This page just provides some additional links.



I can be contacted at pati AT iitg DOT ac DOT in


Current editorial board of journals:

Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, 2024--

Indian Journal of Discrete Mathematcis, Academy of Discrete Mathematics and Applicatons INDIA, 2024--

The Mathematcis Student, Indian Mathematical Society, 2022--

Mathematics Newsletter, Ramanujan Mathematical Society, 2022--



Past editorial board of journals:

Linear and Multilinear Algebra, Taylor & Francis, 2012-- 2024

Proceedings of Mathematical Sciences, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2017–20.



Other editorial works:

Book: Linear Algebra with Applications- A volume in honor of Professor Ravindra B Bapat, Manipal Uinversity Press, 2014,

Book: Applied Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics, A Volume in Honour of C. R. Rao and Arbind K. Lal, Springer, 2023.



Completed PhD Students:

Sasmita Barik, Ph.D. 2007, IIT Guwahati, Thesis: On the Spectra and the Laplacian Spectra of Graphs. Currently she is a faculty at IIT Bhubaneswar. She is also an associate editor of SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (SIURO), 2021-23.

Debajit Kalita, Ph.D. 2012, IIT Guwahati, Thesis: Spectra of Weighted Directed Graphs. Currently, he is a faculty at Tezpur Central University, Assam, India.

Swarup K. Panda, Ph.D. 2016, IIT Guwahati, Thesis: On the Inverse of Bipartite Graphs with Unique Perfect Matchings and Reciprocal Eigenvalue Properties.

Currently, he is a faculty at IIT Kharagpur, India.

Rakesh Jana, Ph.D. 2022, IIT Guwahati, Thesis: On the bipartite distance matrix and the bipartite Laplacian matrix.

Currently, he is a postdoc at IIT Bombay.



My Teachers / Mentors: I would not be the same without any of them.

B. R. Pradhan, Retired Professor of Rajendra College, Balangir, Odisha, India.

C. K. Mohapatra, Retired Professor of Sambalpur University, Odisha, India.

Swadhin Pattanayak, Retired founding director of Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

R. B. Bapat, Professor at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India.

Steve Kirkland, Professor at University of Manitoba, Canada.

Shaun Fallat, Professor at University  of Regina, Canada.

Miki Neumann, Former Professor at University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA.