Senior Lecturer, ARC DECRA Fellow, and Tuckwell Fellow
Mathematical Sciences Institute
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
Email: asilata.bapat at anu dot edu dot au
Office: 4.84 Hanna Neumann Building #145
Phone: +61 2 6125 7320
Research interests and background
I am interested in the topology, geometry, and combinatorics of spaces and categories that arise from representation theory. I am currently thinking about Bridgeland stability conditions on triangulated categories and categorical braid group actions. Other topics of interest include perverse sheaves, hyperplane arrangements, and Bernstein–Sato polynomials. More broadly, I enjoy mathematical topics that are rooted in explicit examples.
Before coming to ANU, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Georgia, supervised by William Graham. I got my PhD from the University of Chicago, supervised by Victor Ginzburg. I have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
My papers and preprints are on my research page. A CV is available here (html) and here (pdf).
Current and upcoming activities
My professional activities include doing research and presenting research work, teaching classes, supervising students, and mentoring Tuckwell scholars. Selected current and upcoming activities are listed below. Archives are available under activities.
Semester 2, 2025
- Supervising Yangda Bei's honours project with Leonardo Maltoni.
- Coordinating the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition at ANU with Yun Kuen (Marco) Cheung. Get in touch if you want to register!
- Coordinating/attending problem-solving sessions for SMMC.
Presentations and research travel
- Nov 2025: Combinatorial Geometries and Geometric Combinatorics, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona
- Feb 2026: ICTS workshop on Geometric Structures and Stability, ICTS Bengaluru
- Apr 2026: Symplectic theory meets representation theory, University of Cambridge