Abhijit Dasgupta teaches classes in mathematics at all levels using various teaching techniques such as the Moore Method. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in Topology, Analysis, and Measure Theory in the context of the Borel and Projective hierarchies in Polish spaces, an area known as Descriptive Set Theory, which uses tools and techniques from Mathematical Logic and Theory of Computation. Recently, he has also worked in Nonstandard Analysis, Philosophy of Randomness, and Algorithmic Information Theory. Before joining University of Detroit Mercy, he had earlier taught at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and Jadavpur University, India. He had also worked in the networking industry as a network hardware and software engineer for many years at various companies including ANS, AOL, MCI/Worldcom, and Cisco Systems. His EECS interests and experience are in the areas of network and systems programming and operating systems (especially Linux/UNIX). He is also an electronic hobbyist, likes playing with embedded systems and writing programs in C and assembly, and occasionally writes parsing and lexical analysis software.
Dasgupta graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in 1995 and placed fourth in the 1995 Westinghouse Science Talent Search with a project on Schinzel's hypothesis H.[1] He then attended Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1999.[1][2] In 2004, Dasgupta received a PhD in mathematics from University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Ken Ribet and Henri Darmon.[3]
Dasgupta's research is focused on special values of L-functions, algebraic points on abelian varieties, and units in number fields.[5] In particular, Dasgupta's research has focused on the Stark conjectures and Heegner points.[3][6][7][8]
In 2009, Dasgupta received a Sloan Research Fellowship.[5] He was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to number theory, in particular the theory of special values of classical and p-adic L-functions".[9]
Upon graduation from PNW in 1994, his mathematics degree allowed him to experience a variety of jobs across the country. He catapulted from coding dynamic websites in Chicagoland to developing mobile productsin Seattle. Now, two decades later, he is the vice president of Advanced Development at ESPN in Bristol, Conn. where he leads a team to implement sports content through new technology mediums.
I studied applied mathematics at Cambridge as an undergraduate, from 1962 to 1965. The Vietnam War was under way, and I drew close to fellow students in economics, who seemed to know better how to think of societal conflicts. That probably influenced me to move to the economics faculty, to pursue a Ph.D.
Economics is an inherently quantitative discipline. For example, the Chancellor of the Exchequer wants to know how much the Government can raise if he was to raise the tax rate on income by so much. For that, his economists need to estimate the structure of demand for goods. And so on. All this involves mathematical reasoning and careful data collection.
I have, to date, taken part in more than 130 events: lectures, interviews, panel discussions, and question-and-answer sessions. The Treasury will issue a formal response to the review in the next month or so.
I continue to be surprised that ecological economics remains on the fringes of mainstream economics. It is not only a profoundly important field of inquiry: it is also as beautiful as any field of inquiry I can think of.
Once we returned to Benares, I went to a boarding school in Lucknow. The peripatetic childhood I experienced did not at all affect me adversely. I always felt wholly grounded: my parents and my sister showered so much affection on me that, on reflection, I was at risk of being spoiled silly.
My understanding of spiritual values is woefully inadequate, but nature would seem to me to be the seat of our transcendental experiences. The idea of paradise being an enclosed green space is an aristocratic invention. The landscape and the oceans that appear to extend beyond the horizon invite us to wonder what lies in that beyond.
The stupidity that too much education and a comfortable life can elicit among people is what makes me angry. I have in mind a feigned cosmopolitanism that dismisses life-affirming communitarian allegiances.
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Three studies tested a stereotype inoculation model, which proposed that contact with same-sex experts (advanced peers, professionals, professors) in academic environments involving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) enhances women's self-concept in STEM, attitudes toward STEM, and motivation to pursue STEM careers. Two cross-sectional controlled experiments and 1 longitudinal naturalistic study in a calculus class revealed that exposure to female STEM experts promoted positive implicit attitudes and stronger implicit identification with STEM (Studies 1-3), greater self-efficacy in STEM (Study 3), and more effort on STEM tests (Study 1). Studies 2 and 3 suggested that the benefit of seeing same-sex experts is driven by greater subjective identification and connectedness with these individuals, which in turn predicts enhanced self-efficacy, domain identification, and commitment to pursue STEM careers. Importantly, women's own self-concept benefited from contact with female experts even though negative stereotypes about their gender and STEM remained active.
Dean Johnson, scholarly associate professor, mathematics and statistics, co-edited a special issue of Stat, journal of the International Statistical Institute, devoted to statistical consulting and collaboration.
Why mathematics? Hardy has an elaborate answer here . They say universe is mostly empty. They also say universe is full of turbulence. Human life is perhaps a reflection of both cosmic loneliness and turbulence. For me, mathematics is an excursion away from the dance of these two forces.
The purpose of this course is to summarise, crystallise, enhance and give a forward orientation to the mathematical methods taught in undergraduate curriculum, with projections to future requirements. It is needed as background necessary to appreciate specialised advanced subjects in engineering and science, and also to engage in professional analysis, modelling, design and research.
Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.His teaching and research areas are robotics,theory of machines, computer aided design, optimization, applied mathematics, communication skills etc.He is the author of the PG textbook Applied Mathematical Methods (Pearson, 2006). His other interests are languages, literature, history and philosophy.
In collaboration with graduate students and postdocs, my current research identifies the types of academic and professional contexts that protect individuals' sense of self and aspirations against negative stereotypes. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the American Psychological Foundation.
Dasgupta, N. (2015). Role models and peers as a social vaccine to enhance women's self-concept in STEM. The American Society for Cell Biology. Retrieved from -models-and-peers-as-a-social-vaccine-to-enhance-womens-self-concept-in-stem/. [get paper]
Dasgupta, N., McManus Scircle, M., & Hunsinger, M. (2015). Female peers in small work groups enhance women's motivation, verbal participation, and career aspirations in engineering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, accessed online from [get paper]
Dasgupta, N. & Stout, J.G. (2014). Girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: STEMing the tide and broadening participation in STEM careers. Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [get paper]
Yogeeswaran, K, & Dasgupta, N. (2014). The devil is in the details: Abstract versus concrete construals of multiculturalism differentially impact intergroup relations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 772-789. [get paper]
Yogeeswaran, K., Adelman, L., Parker, M.T., & Dasgupta, N. (2014). In the eyes of the beholder: White Americans' national identification predicts differential reactions to ethnic identity expressions. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. [get paper]
Dasgupta, N. (2013). Implicit attitudes and beliefs adapt to situations: A decade of research on the malleability of implicit prejudice, stereotypes, and the self-concept. In P.G. Devine and E.A. Plant (Eds.). Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 233-279. UK: Academic Press. [get paper]
Yogeeswaran, K., Dasgupta, N., & Gomez, C. (2012). A new American dilemma? The effect of ethnic identification and public service on the national inclusion of ethnic minorities. European Journal of Social Psychology. 42(6), 691-705. [get paper]
Asgari, S., Dasgupta, N., & Stout, J. G. (2012). When do counterstereotypic ingroup members inspire vs. deflate? The effect of successful professional women on women's leadership self-concept. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 370-383. [get paper]
Asgari, S., Dasgupta, N., & Gilbert Cote, N. (2010). When does contact with successful ingroup members change self-stereotypes? A longitudinal study comparing the effect of quantity vs. quality of contact with successful individuals. Social Psychology, 41, 202-211. [get paper]
Jost, J.T., Rudman, L.A., Blair, I.V., Carney, D.R., Dasgupta, N.. Glaser, J. & Hardin, C.D. (2009). The existence of implicit bias is beyond reasonable doubt: A refutation of ideological and methodological objections and executive summary of ten studies that no manager should ignore.In A. Brief & B. M. Staw (Eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior. New York, Elsevier.[get paper]
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