Sanchit Chaturvedi, Ph.D.

Sanchit Chaturvedi will be joining Courant Institute at NYU as a postdoctoral fellow and will be working with Prof. Vlad Vicol and Prof. Scott Armstrong. He is completing his Ph.D. at Stanford with Prof. Jonathan Luk and previously was an undergraduate student at NYU. He grew up in Agra, India, and completed high school in Agra.

During his Ph.D., Chaturvedi has been working 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.