
Dr. Biplab Paul
Assistant Professor
- Office: 330, SBS
- +91-674-713-5364
- bpaul@iitbbs.ac.in
- Department of Mathematics
Research Interests:
Number Theory: Analytic Number Theory; Theory of L-functions; Algebraic Number Theory; Quadratic forms; Automorphic forms: Modular forms of integral and half-integral weight; Siegel Modular forms; Jacobi forms; Hermitian Modular forms; Langlands program;
- Biosketch
- Teaching
- Mentoring
- Honours & Awards
- Projects
- Publications
- Conferences
- Professional Experience
- Others
Degree | Discipline | Year | School |
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BSc | Honours in Mathematics | 2012 | Krishnagar Govt. College, University of Kalyani, WB |
MSc | Pure Mathematics | 2014 | University of Calcutta, Kolkata, WB |
PhD | Mathematics | 2019 | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, HBNI, Chennai |
Teaching at IIT Bhubaneswar:
- Autumn 2025: Calculus and ODE (MA1L003) for BTech 1st Sem (course coordinator).
- Spring 2025: Numerical Methods (MA2L304) for BSc-BEd (under ITEP – all major) 4th Sem.
- Autumn 2024: Math-1 (MA1L001) for BTech 1st sem, and Theory of Modular forms (MA7L030) for MSc and PhD optional.
- Spring 2024: Real Analysis (MA1L304) for BSc-BEd (under ITEP – Math Major) 2nd Sem.
- Autumn 2023: Math-1 (MA1L001) for BTech 1st Sem.
Teaching at CMI:
- Spring 2023: Complex Analysis (MSc 2nd Sem; jointly with Prof. Purusottam Rath).
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PhD Student:
- Neha Tiwari
MSc Students:
- Labanya
- Avinash
- Sayantan
- Anirban
- INSPIRE faculty fellowship; awarded by DST, India. (2023)
- SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship; awarded by SERB, India. (2021)
- JSPS international postdoctoral fellowship and Grant-in-Aid for JSPS fellows (under host Professor Masanobu Kaneko); awarded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan. (2019)
- Qualified CSIR–UGC NET: Certificate of Junior Research fellowship in Mathematical Sciences; awarded by CSIR, India. (2014)
- NBHM Ph. D. Scholarship; awarded by National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), India (did not avail). (2014)
- NBHM MA/MSc Scholarship; awarded by National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), India. (2012)
- INSPIRE: to be added
- Biplab Paul and Sujeet Kumar Singh, Variants of Kohnen’s conjecture for hermitian modular forms, To appear in J. Number Theory (2025).
- Balesh Kumar and Biplab Paul, Additive twists of L^2-norm of Fourier-Jacobi coefficients of Siegel cusp forms; J. Number Theory 251 (2023), 70 — 83.
- Biplab Paul and Abhishek Saha, On Fourier coefficients and Hecke eigenvalues of Siegel cusp forms of degree 2, International Mathematics Research Notices IMRN 2023 (2023), No 24, 21707 — 21760.
- Biplab Paul, On values of logarithmic derivative of L-function attached to modular form, Int. J. Number Theory 19 (2023), no. 03, 531–552.
- Sanoli Gun, V. Kumar Murty and Biplab Paul, Distinguishing newforms by their Hecke eigenvalues, Research in Number Theory 7 (2021), Paper No. 49, 24pp.
- Balesh Kumar and Biplab Paul, Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture for Fourier–Jacobi coefficients of Siegel cusp forms, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 53 (2021), no. 1, 274–284.
- Sanoli Gun, Winfried Kohnen and Biplab Paul, Arithmetic behaviour of Hecke eigenvalues of Siegel cusp forms of degree two, Ramanujan J. 54 (2021), no. 1, 43–62.
- Balesh Kumar and Biplab Paul, On the Petersson inner products of Fourier–Jacobi coefficients and Hecke eigenvalues of Siegel cusp forms, Acta Arith. 197 (2021), no. 1, 21–35.
- Biplab Paul and Ayyadurai Sankaranarayanan, On the error term and zeros of the Dedekind zeta function, J. Number Theory 215 (2020), 98–119.
- Sanoli Gun, Balesh Kumar and Biplab Paul, The first simultaneous sign change and non-vanishing of Hecke eigenvalues of newforms, J. Number Theory 200 (2019), 161–184.
- Sanoli Gun, Biplab Paul and Jyoti Sengupta, On Hecke eigenvalues of Siegel modular forms in the Maass space, Forum Math. 30 (2018), no. 3, 775–783.
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Postdoctoral Experiences
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SERB-National postdoctoral fellow (NPDF) (Mentor: Professor Purusottam Rath), Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Chennai, India (June 2022—May 2023).
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Postdoctoral research assistant (Mentor: Professor Abhishek Saha), School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK (November 2021–June 2022).
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JSPS international postdoctoral fellow (Host: Professor Masanobu Kaneko), Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (November 2019–October 2021).
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Visiting Fellow (Postdoc position; mentor: Professor Purusottam Rath), Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Chennai, India (June 2019–October 2019).