My colleagues will, scientifically speaking, probably describe me as a mathematical physicist1 that has morphed into some blend of a physical mathematician2 and a computational scientist with a profound inability to be happy unless things are computed explicitly and/or proved in full rigour.3
General scientific philisophy:
“If you can’t explain it to a non-expert, you don’t really understand it.”
“If you can’t turn it into an algorithm, or formalize it for a computer, or prove that it can’t be turned into an algorithm, you don’t really understand it.”
What I do
I love computing and solving all kinds of mathematical problems, and am endlessly fascinated by how and why mathematics can describe the workings of the world around us. You can learn more about my research here here.
Where I am and how to reach out
I am a member of the ERC funded MaScAmp team (studying mathematical structures in scattering amplitudes) at the AEI Potsdam and a member of the Mathematical Strucutres in Physics group, and an affiliate member of the Numerical Algebraic Geometry group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences.4
Best reachable via email: kidambi[AT]duck[dot]com
I do not have any social media presence.
I am committed to a pursuit of science with a childlike curiosity together with a sense of scientific, moral, environmental and humanitarian integrity. I do not engage with work, activities, collaborations, or agents that compromise my standards and values.
(Un)interesting things about me
- Existentialism and cosmic nihilism are my dear friends.
- I am an adrenaline junkie. I love solo mountaineering and wilderness backpacking.
- I am particularly fascinated by (active) volcanoes and enjoy climbing and observing them.
- I enjoy playing football, long distance cycling, trail running, surfing and boxing.
- I also enjoy nature (landscape and wilderness) photography.
Footnotes
I define mathematical physics to be a branch of physics where a physical problem is solved to a (relatively) high level of mathematical rigour. For example: The seminal solution of the Heisenberg anti-ferromagnet by Freeman Dyson, Elliott Lieb and Barry Simon would be something that falls into mathematical physics under my definition scheme.↩︎
I define physical mathematics to be a branch of mathematics where the motivation derives from physics, and the aim is to prove theorems in mathematics (in full rigour and/or formality) or develop certifiable algorithms using physical insight. For example: The proof of the Moonshine conjectures by Richard Borcherds is something I consider physical mathematics.↩︎
This notion of full rigour is very much under replacement by the notion of formal rigour.↩︎
Any and all views expressed on this website are mine and mine alone.↩︎
