Curriculum Vitæ Arvind Ayyer

Department of Mathematics Phone: +91-80-2293 3215

Indian Institute of Science Fax: +91-80-2360 0146
Bangalore 560012 Email: [email protected]
India http://www.math.iisc.ac.in/~arvind

Areas of Specialisation

1. Probability Theory

2. Combinatorics

3. Statistical Physics

4. Mathematical Physics

5. Experimental Mathematics

Employment
March 2018 – present Associate Professor Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India

July 2013 – March 2018 Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore, India

Sep 2010 – June 2013 Krener University of California, Davis.

Assistant Professor

Jan – May 2012 Research MSRI, Berkeley, California.

Member

June 2011 Aryabhata Department of Theoretical Physics,

Visitor TIFR, Mumbai, India.

Nov 2008 – Sep. 2010 Postdoctoral Institut de Physique Théorique,

Research Scientist CEA Saclay, France.

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Education
Aug 2003 – Sep. 2008 Ph.D Physics, Rutgers University, USA
under the joint supervision of Joel L.
Lebowitz and Doron Zeilberger titled
Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics
of Some Discrete Lattice Models.

Aug 1998 – May 2003 Intg. M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India.

Honors

1. Invited Participant, Institut Mittag Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden, Jan – April

2020.

2. Editorial board member for Algebraic Combinatorics since April, 2020.

3. Editorial board member for Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
since November 2019.

4. Associate Faculty in Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Ban-

galore since 2019.

5. Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences, July 2014 – December 2017.

6. Research Membership, MSRI, Berkeley, for the period Jan–May 2012.

7. Aryabhata Visitorship, Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, Mumbai,

June 2011.

8. Graduate Assistantship, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers Uni-

versity, Fall 2006 to Summer 2008.

9. Teaching Assistantship, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers Uni-

versity, Fall 2003 to Spring 2006.

10. General Proficiency Medal for best academic performance in Physics for the
Graduating Class of 2003, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Convoca-
tion, May 30, 2003.

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Grants

1. Royal Society Yusuf Hamied International Exchange Award IES \R1 \191139
for the period September 2019 – August 2021 jointly with Sunil Chhita
(Durham University, UK).

2. SERB grant EMR/2016/006624 for the period 2018–2020.

3. Indo-Swedish grant DST/INT/SWD/VR/P-01/2014 for the period

2014–2017 jointly with Svante Linusson (KTH, Stockholm).

4. NSF Travel Grant, to attend ICMP 2012 in August 2012.

5. NSF Travel Grant, to attend STATPHYS 23 in July 2007.

Workshops Organised

1. Sage Days 60 (joint with A. Prasad and S. Viswanath), IMSc Chennai, Au-
gust 14-17, 2014.

2. UGC Workshop on Probability and Representation Theory (joint with P.

Singla and E. K. Narayanan), IISc Bangalore, March 16–17, 2015.

3. NCM Workshop on Probability and Representation Theory (joint with A.

Prasad and K. N. Raghavan), IMSc Chennai, March 7–12, 2016.

4. Large deviation theory in statistical physics: Recent advances and future

challenges (joint with F. den Hollander, A. Dhar, J. P. Garrahan, C. Jarzyn-
ski, M. Krishnapur, A. Lelievre, S. Sabhapandit and H. Touchette) at ICTS
Bangalore, August 14 – October 13, 2017.

5. Universality in random structures: Interfaces, Matrices, Sandpiles (joint with

R. Basu and M. Krishnapur) at ICTS Bangalore, January 14 – February 8,
2019.

6. Combinatorics and Random Processes (joint with J. S. Kim and O. Man-

delshtam) at Institut Mittag Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden, January 27–31,
2019.

7. Combinatorics and algebras: in honor of Doron Zeilberger and Amitai Regev

on the occasion of their 70+80’th birthdays (joint with R. Adin, A. Aizenbud
and Y. Roichman) at Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, July 20–22, 2020.

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8. FPSAC’21: The 33’rd international conference on Formal Power Series and

Algebraic Combinatorics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 5–9,
2021

Graduate Students

1. Himanshu Gupta (Masters, defended in June, 2018)

Thesis title: Correlation Functions in the Finite Toom Model

2. Subhajit Ghosh (ongoing)

3. Dipankar Roy (ongoing, jointly advised with Rahul Pandit)

4. Nimisha Pahuja (ongoing)

5. Surjadipta De Sarkar (ongoing)

Postdoctoral candidates mentored

1. Samrith Ram, Jan. – Sep., 2015. Currently Assistant Professor at IIIT

Delhi.

2. Bikramaditya Sahu, Jan., 2019 – Mar., 2020. Assistant Professor at NIT

Rourkela from April, 2020.

3. Sudip Bera, Apr., 2018 – (ongoing)

4. Arun Maiti, Feb. 2020 – (ongoing)

Teaching Experience

1. (At UC Davis) Probability, Combinatorics and Calculus courses.

2. MA 361, Probability Theory – Winter 2013

3. UM 101, Analysis and Linear Algebra I (for UGs) – Autumn 2014, 2018.

4. MA 318, Combinatorics – Winter 2014, 2017.

5. MA 261, Probability Models – Autumn 2015, 2019.

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6. MA 319, Algebraic Combinatorics – Winter 2016, 2019.

7. MA 386, Coxeter Groups – Winter 2018.

Publications

1. (with A. Sharan, R. Sharma, S. N. Sandhya and K. K. Sharma) Modeling

absorption in saturable absorbers, Optics Communications, 199 (2001), no.
1-4, 267–275.

2. (with M. K. Verma, A. V. Chandra, O. Debliquy and S. Kumar) Local

shell-to-shell energy transfer via nonlocal interactions in fluid turbulence,
Pramana, 65 (2005), 297–310.

3. (with M. K. Verma and A. V. Chandra) Energy transfer and locality in

magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, Phys. Plasmas, 12 (2005), 082307, 7pp.

4. (with T. Amdeberhan) Towards the moduli space of extended partial isome-

tries, preprint, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0508014.

5. (with D. Zeilberger) The number of [old-time] basketball games with final

score n:n where the home team was never losing but also never ahead by
more than w points, Electronic J. of Combinatorics, 14 (2007), no. 1, R19,
8pp.

6. (with D. Zeilberger) Two dimensional directed lattice walks with bound-

aries, Tapas in Experimental Mathematics, Contemporary Mathematics 457,
edited by Tewodros Amdeberhan and Victor Moll, 1–19, (2007).

7. (with M. Stenlund) Exponential decay of correlations for randomly chosen

hyperbolic toral automorphisms, Chaos, 17 (2007), 043116, 7pp.

8. The half-perimeter generating function of gated and wicketed Ferrers dia-

grams, Journal of Integer Sequences, 10 (2007), no. 10, 07.10.3, 11pp.

9. Towards a human proof of Gessel’s conjecture, Journal of Integer Sequences,

12 (2007), no. 4, 09.4.2, 15pp.

10. (with D. Zeilberger) A bijectional attack on the Razumov-Stroganov con-

jecture, The Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger,
appeared Dec 2, 2008, arXiv:0812.0447.

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11. (with C. Liverani and M. Stenlund) Quenched CLT for random toral auto-
morphisms, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, A, 24 (2009) no.
2, 331–348.

12. (with J. L. Lebowitz and E. R. Speer) On the asymmetric exclusion process

with semi-permeable boundaries, Journal of Statistical Physics, 135 (2009),
no. 5–6, 1009–1037.

13. (with E. A. Carlen, J. L. Lebowitz, P. K. Mohanty, D. Mukamel and E. R.

Speer) Phase diagram of the ABC model on an interval, Journal of Statistical
Physics, 137 (2009), no. 5–6, 1166–1204, [Erratum: Journal of Statistical
Physics, 144 (2011), no. 4, 920–921].

14. (with K. Mallick) Exact results for an asymmetric annihilation process with
open boundaries, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 43 (2010), 045003, 22pp.

15. A natural bijection between permutations and a family of descending plane

partitions, European Journal of Combinatorics, 31 (2010) no. 7, 1785–1791.

16. (with V. Strehl) The spectrum of an asymmetric annihilation process, DMTCS

Proceedings, 22nd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Al-
gebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC, 2010), (2010), 461–472.

17. Algebraic properties of a disordered asymmetric Glauber model, J. Stat.

Mech., 2011 (2011), P02034, 17pp.

18. (with C. Arita, S. Prolhac and K. Mallick) Recursive structures in the mul-
tispecies ASEP, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 44 (2011), 335004, 26pp.

19. (with R. Cori and D. Gouyou-Beauchamps) Monotone triangles and 312

pattern avoidance, Electronic J. of Combinatorics, 18 no. 2 (2011), no. 2,
P26, 22pp.

20. (with J. L. Lebowitz and E. R. Speer) On some classes of open two species
exclusion processes, Markov Processes and Related Fields, 18 (2012), 157–
176.

21. (with C. Arita, S. Prolhac and K. Mallick) Generalized matrix Ansatz in

the multispecies exclusion process - partially asymmetric case, J. Phys. A:
Math. Theor., 45 (2012), 195001, 16pp.

22. Determinants and perfect matchings, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Se-

ries A, 120 no. 1 (2013), 304–314.

23. (with D. Romik) New enumeration formulas for alternating sign matrices
and square ice partition functions, Advances in Math, 235 (2013), 161–186.

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24. (with V. Strehl) Stationary distribution and eigenvalues for a de Bruijn Pro-
cess, Advances in Combinatorics, Waterloo Workshop in Computer Algebra,
W80, May 26-29, 2011, Kotsireas, Ilias S and Zima, Eugene V. (Eds.) ,
(2013) 101–120.

25. (with S. Linusson) An inhomogeneous multispecies TASEP on a ring, Ad-

vances in Applied Mathematics, 57 (2014) 21–43.

26. (with S. Klee and A. Schilling) Combinatorial Markov chains on linear ex-
tensions, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 39 no. 4 (2014) 853–881.

27. (with S. Klee and A. Schilling) Markov chains for promotion operators, Al-
gebraic Monoids, Group Embeddings, and Algebraic Combinatorics, Fields
Institute Communications, 71 (2014), 285–304.

28. (with Priyanka and K. Jain) Two-point correlation function of an exclusion

process with hole-dependent rates, Phys. Rev. E, 90 no. 6 (2014) 062104,
10pp.

29. (with J. Bouttier, S. Corteel and F. Nunzi) Multivariate Juggling Probabil-

ities, DMTCS Proceedings, 25th International Conference on Probabilistic,
Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms, BA
(2014), 1–12.

30. (with A. Schilling, N. M. Thiéry and B. Steinberg) Directed nonabelian sand-

pile models on trees, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 335 no. 3
(2015), 1065–1098.

31. (with A. Schilling, N. M. Thiéry and B. Steinberg) Markov chains, R-trivial

monoids and representation theory, International Journal of Algebra and
Computation, 25 Issue 1 no. 2 (2015), 169–231.

32. (with J. Bouttier, S. Corteel and F. Nunzi) Multivariate juggling probabili-

ties, Electronic Journal of Probability, 20 no. 5 (2015), 1–29.

33. A statistical model of current loops and magnetic monopoles, Mathematical

Physics, Analysis and Geometry, 18 no. 1 (2015), 16, 19pp.

34. (with J. Bouttier, S. Linusson and F. Nunzi) Some generalized juggling

processes, DMTCS Proceedings, 27nd International Conference on Formal
Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC, 2015), FPSAC ’15
(2015), 925–936.

35. A finite variant of the Toom model, Journal of Physics: Conference Series,
638 (2015), 012005, 9pp.

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36. Full current statistics for a disordered open exclusion process, J. Phys. A:
Math. Theor., 49 no. 15 (2016), 155003, 10pp.

37. (with A. Prasad and S. Spallone) Odd partitions in Young’s lattice, Séminaire
Lotharingien de Combinatoire 75 (2015), B75g, 13 pp.

38. (with S. Linusson) Correlations in the multispecies TASEP and a conjecture

by Lam, Transactions of the AMS 369 (2017), 1097–1125.

39. (with A. Schilling and N. M. Thiéry) Spectral gap for random-to-random

shuffling on linear extensions, Experimental Mathematics 26 (2017), 22–30.

40. (with A. Prasad and S. Spallone) Representations of symmetric groups with

non-trivial determinant, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 150
(2017) 208–232.

41. (with D. Roy) The exact phase diagram for a class of multispecies asymmetric
exclusion processes, Scientific Reports, 7 (2017), 13555, 8pp

42. (with C. Finn and D. Roy) Matrix product solution of a left-permeable two-
species asymmetric exclusion process, Phys. Rev. E, 97 no. 1 (2018) 012151,
10pp.

43. (with J. Bouttier, S. Corteel, S. Linusson and F. Nunzi) Bumping sequences

and multispecies juggling, Advances in Applied Mathematics, 98 (2018) 100–
126.

44. (with S. Ramassamy) The Hilbert-Galton board, Latin American Journal of

Probability and Mathematical Statistics (ALEA), 15 no. 2 (2018), 755–774.

45. (with C. Finn and D. Roy) The phase diagram for a multispecies left-
permeable asymmetric exclusion process, Journal of Statistical Physics, 174
no. 3 (2019), 605–621.

46. (with R. E. Behrend) Factorization theorems for classical group characters,

with applications to alternating sign matrices and plane partitions, Journal
of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 165 (2019), 78–105.

47. (with S. Linusson) Reverse juggling processes, Random Structures & Algo-
rithms, 55 no. 1 (2019), 56–72.

48. (with E. Aas, S. Linusson and S. Potka) The exact phase diagram for a
semipermeable TASEP with nonlocal boundary jumps, J. Phys. A: Math.
Theor., 52 no. 35 (2019), 355001, 19pp.

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49. (with I. Fischer) Bijective proofs of skew Schur polynomial factorizations,

Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 174 (2020), 105241, 40pp.

50. Squareness for the monopole-dimer model, Annals of Combinatorics, to ap-

pear, arXiv:1608.03151.

51. (with P. Singla) Random motion on finite rings, I: commutative rings, Alge-
bras and Representation Theory, to appear, arXiv:1605.05089.

52. (with A. Prasad and S. Spallone) Macdonald trees and determinants of repre-
sentations for finite Coxeter groups, Indian Journal of Discrete Mathematics,
to appear, arXiv:1812.00608.

53. (with M. Josuat-Vergès and S. Ramassamy) Extensions of partial cyclic or-

ders and consecutive coordinate polytopes, Annales Henri Lebesgue, to ap-
pear, arXiv:1803.10351.

54. (with B. Steinberg) Random walks on rings and modules, Algebraic Combi-
natorics, to appear, arXiv:1708.04223.

55. (with R. E. Behrend and I. Fischer) Extreme diagonally and antidiagonally

symmetric alternating sign matrices of odd order, Advances in Mathematics,
to appear, arXiv:1611.03823.

56. (with N. Bhatnagar) The number of inversions of permutations with fixed

shape, submitted, arXiv:1712.10122.

57. (with P. Singla) Random motion on finite rings, II: Noncommutative rings,
submitted, arXiv:1807.04082.

58. (with S. Sinha) The size of t-cores and hook lengths of random cells in random
partitions, submitted, arXiv:1911.03135.

59. Appendix to the article: A character relationship between symmetric group

and hyperoctahedral group by F. Lübeck and D. Prasad, arXiv:1912.08576.

60. A simple symmetric exclusion process driven by an asymmetric tracer par-

ticle, submitted, arXiv:2001.02425.

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Professional Service

1. Editorial board member for Algebraic Combinatorics.

2. Associate editor, Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IJPAM).

3. Referee for mathematics journals:

(a) AMS MathSciNet Mathematical Reviews (Reviews of published work)

(b) Zentralblatt MATH (Reviews of published work)
(c) Pacific Journal of Mathematics
(d) Advances in Applied Mathematics
(e) Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
(f) European Journal of Combinatorics
(g) Algebraic Combinatorics
(h) Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
(i) Discrete Mathematics
(j) Annals of Combinatorics
(k) SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
(l) Discrete Applied Mathematics
(m) Journal of Symbolic Computation
(n) SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Appli-
cations)

4. Referee for physics journals:

(a) Journal of Statistical Physics

(b) Journal of Physics A
(c) Journal of Statistical Mechanics
(d) Scientific Reports
(e) Modern Physics Letters B

5. Referee for conference proceedings:

(a) Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC)

(b) ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)

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6. Member of the Institute Webpage Committee, IISc.

7. Member of the Computer Committee, Department of Mathematics, IISc.

8. Coordinator of the UG Mathematics programme, IISc.

9. Contributor to Sage Mathematical Software (www.sagemath.org).

Personal Information

1. Date of Birth: July 6, 1980.

2. Citizen of India.

3. Human Languages - English, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, French.

4. Computer Languages - C, Python, LATEX, Maple, Mathematica, Sage.

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