Sanchit Chaturvedi, Ph.D.

Sanchit Chaturvedi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Courant Institute at New York University and works with Vlad Vicol and Scott Armstrong. He completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University with Jonathan Luk and previously was an undergraduate student at New York University. He grew up in Agra, India, and completed high school in Agra.

During his Ph.D., Chaturvedi has worked mathematically solving problems arising in physics with the aid of analysis and geometry. In practice, this involves studying nonlinear partial differential equations that model phenomena occurring at scales of tiny gas particles to scales of massive galaxies and black holes. Over the course of his Ph.D., he has worked on problems from kinetic theory, compressible fluid dynamics and on understanding the interaction of kinetic theory with general relativity. More precisely, he has worked on understanding the global behavior of plasmas both in Newtonian and general relativistic settings and on understanding singularities in compressible fluids such as shocks.