Ipsita Datta

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I am a Postdoc at ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics, Zürich, Switzerland. My mentor is Paul Biran.

I completed my PhD from the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University, under the supervision of Yasha Eliashberg in 2021.

I work in Symplectic geometry. I like thinking about moduli spaces of holomorphic curves and using them to understand various structures in the symplectic world, like Lagrangian embeddings in R^4. I also like thinking about technical analysis relating to moduli spaces, like obstruction bundle gluing.

Here are some words that hint to what I like to think about these days: Lagrangian cobordisms, knots, moduli spaces of holomorphic curves, holomorphic disks with corners and boundary on Lagrangians, obstruction bundle gluing, Floer homologies, Legendrian Contact Homology in Seifert fibered spaces, displacement energy of Lagrangians.

You may have met me in:

  • Contemporary Trends in Hamiltonian Geometry, Sept 2026, SwissMAP Research Station, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
  • Symplectic Topology - A conference in honor of Kai Cieliebak, Aug 2026, Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Germany
  • Symplectic Topology, Hamiltonian Dynamics, and Persistence Structures. A conference in honour of Octav Cornea, June 2026, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Speaker)
  • Two days in Symplectic Dynamics and Beyond, June 2026, Institut de Math\'ematiques, Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, France (Speaker)
  • European Kylerec - Kuranishi Structures and Applications to Contact Topology, March 2026, Heidesee, Germany (Mentor)
  • Oberwolfach Workshop - Dynamische Systeme, July 2025, MFO, Oberwolfach, Germany
  • CIME School - Symplectic Dynamics and Topology, June 2025, Cetraro, Italy.
  • CAST 2025, February 2025, Institut Fourier, Grenoble, France.
  • NCMW - Holomorphic and Topological Methods in Symplectic Geometry (2024), June 2024, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
  • CAST 2024, February 2024, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany
  • SFT 10, August 2023, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany.

email: ipsita DOT datta AT math DOT ethz DOT ch

Office: E 64

ETH Zürich
Department of Mathematics
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zurich
Switzerland

I am actively looking for academic positions. Please let me know of any relevant information!