About and Contact Information
Office: 4-214.13
Phone: +1 (212) 817-8533
Email: dsakthivadivel@gc.cuny.edu
I am currently a visitor at the CUNY Graduate Centre under the Einstein Chair professorship in mathematics. I am also the lead researcher in the theory group at the VERSES Research Lab. Previously, I have been at Stony Brook University and MIT.
For a summary of my current research, see this page (/research). I am broadly interested in topology and how it threads through different areas of algebra, analysis, and arithmetic. I am often motivated by objects or questions in mathematical and statistical physics. Chern–Simons theories feature heavily in my work as rich objects living in the intersection of these areas. I am also interested in probability theory and its applications: I have a secondary research programme devoted to (non-equilibrium) statistical field theory and the properties of spaces of functions.
My articles (with bibliographic information) can be found on the arXiv or Google Scholar. Some of the talks I have given are viewable here (/talks). Advocacy and press relating to my work can be found here (/other). I maintain a blog about my work, amongst other things. I can also be found on MathOverflow and with ORCiD 0000-0002-7907-7611.
Students
Francesco Sacco (co-supervised with M Levin)
Postdoctoral members of the VERSES mathematics group (co-supervised with K Friston FRS)
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