About and Contact Information
Office: 4-214.13
Phone: +1 (212) 817-8533
Email: dsakthivadivel@gc.cuny.edu
I am currently a member of faculty at the CUNY Graduate Centre, where I am visiting under the Einstein Chair professorship in mathematics. Previously, I have been at Stony Brook University and MIT. From January 2022 to November 2025 I was also the lead researcher in the theory group at the VERSES Research Lab.
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. Quantum field theories of various sorts and path integrals feature heavily in my work as rich objects living in the intersection of these areas. My primary research programme is devoted to (non-equilibrium) statistical field theory and the properties of spaces of functions, probability in infinitely many dimensions, and similar topics.
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
Former supervisees (including postdoctoral members of the VERSES theory group, cosupervised with K Friston FRS)
Francesco Sacco (cosupervised with M Levin)
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