S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

About

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan is the Frank Jay Gould Professor of Science and Professor of Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute. His research focuses on probability theory and its connections to analysis, particularly stochastic processes and their relation to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations.

Education

• Ph.D., Mathematics, Indian Statistical Institute, India, 1963
• M.A., Mathematics, Presidency College, Madras, India, 1960
• B.A., Mathematics, Presidency College, Madras, India, 1959

Selected publications

• Nonconventional large deviations theorems
• Nonconventional limit theorems in discrete and continuous time via martingales
• Large deviations for the current and tagged particle in 1D nearest-neighbor symmetric simple exclusion