Sidhanth Raman (he/him)

Undergraduate Research

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 was 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 was a mentor and curriculum organizer 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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