Sidhanth Raman (he/him)

Undergraduate Research

In Summer 2026, I was a mini-course lecturer and mentor for the UChicago REU. If you are an undergraduate partaking in the program, feel free to reach out if you are interested in writing an REU paper supervised by me.

In Summer 2024, I was a research mentor for the UCLA Geometry & Topology REU supervised by Mason Porter. The research topic was topological data analysis; for more information and the students' final report, see the RTG webpage.

I was an undergraduate research mentor to Siddharth Viswanath, supervised by Jesse Wolfson. Building on the works of Ron Eglash and Reggie Wilson, we performed quantitative analysis to compute the Hausdorff dimension of African music samples. Our research sits at the intersection of mathematics and anthropology, and we work to challenge conventional notions of who encounters and embodies mathematical knowledge in the arts and sciences.

Directed Readings

I have supervised a number of independent studies across analytic and algebraic aspects of geometry and topology. If you are an undergraduate at UChicago interested in doing a directed reading with me, please don't hesitate to reach out!

I have supervised the following directed readings at UChicago:

Spring 2026 - Plane Algebraic Curves
- - Students - Sacha de Poyen-Brown, Sascha Gordon-Zolov, and Yili Wen
Winter 2026 - Vector Bundles
- - Students - Sacha de Poyen-Brown, Sascha Gordon-Zolov, and Yili Wen
Fall 2025 - de Rham Cohomology
- - Students - Sacha de Poyen-Brown, Sascha Gordon-Zolov, and Yili Wen

I was an organizer and instructor for UCI's Directed Reading Program:

Spring 2025 - Ergodic Theory
- - Student - Ahoora Tamizifar
Spring 2024 - Braid Groups
- - Student - Gregory Borissov
Winter 2024 - Nielsen–Thurston Theory
- - Students - James Corcoran and Kejun Yang
Fall 2022 - Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
- - Students - Dylan Carden, Yining Lu, and Xiaohan Zhao
Spring 2021 - Algebraic Curves and Riemann Surfaces
- - Students - Joy Da Ae Shin and Zhengran Ji
Winter 2021 - Geometric Group Theory
- - Student - Tianshu Chu

Outreach

I am summer lecturer for high school enrichment programs at UChicago such as Phoenix STEM. This program aims to foster interest and prepare students from a wide array of backgrounds for their future STEM studies.

I was a mentor for Math CEO, a community educational outreach program built with features that education literature has identified as successful in STEM after school program for students coming from low income communities. Part of this work involved running math and dance workshops for middle schoolers with Reggie Wilson.

In 2021 and 2023, I served as a Teaching Assistant for the Stanford University Math Camp, a summer program geared towards teaching 10th and 11th graders mathematics outside of typical school curricula and competition math, such as abstract algebra and algebraic topology.

When I lived in Atlanta, I was involved in outreach initiatives with Evans Harrell and events sponsored by Science ATL. I also served in some formal and informal peer mentorship roles for the School of Math.

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