Govind S. Krishnaswami

PhD Students

  1. Sachin Phatak: Field theoretic viewpoints on certain fluid mechanical phenomena (2020). CTO at beneathatree.com, Bengaluru.

  2. Sonakshi Sachdev: Conservative regularization of neutral fluids and plasmas (2020). Postdoc at IIT Kanpur, now Quantitative Analytics Specialist at Wells Fargo, Hyderabad.

  3. Himalaya Senapati: Instabilities and chaos in the classical three-body and three-rotor problems (2020). Postdoc at IIT Madras, Associate at Goldman Sachs, now Assistant Vice President at HSBC, Bengaluru.

  4. T R Vishnu: Integrability and dynamics of the Rajeev-Ranken model (2021). Postdoc at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru.

  5. Ankit Yadav: Bifurcation cascade, self-similarity and duality in the 3-rotor problem , (working also with V V Sreedhar)

  6. Pritish Sinha: Level crossing instabilities in inviscid isothermal compressible Couette flow , (working also with Alok Laddha)

  7. Garima Rajpoot: Integrable systems, (working also with Sudhir Jain)

MSc theses supervised

  1. Fluid mechanics and the Higgs mechanism - Sachin Phatak, MSc thesis 2013-14.

  2. Conservative regularization of compressible fluid and MHD equations - Sonakshi Sachdev, MSc thesis 2014-15.

  3. Classical three body problem and stability analysis - Himalaya Senapati, MSc thesis 2014-15.

  4. Integrability and inverse scattering transform for the KdV equation - T R Vishnu, MSc thesis 2015-16.

  5. Symbol sequences from three rotor coincidences - Anirudh Rameshan, MSc thesis Autumn 2024.

  6. Quartic anharmonic classical oscillator: Exact and perturbative results - Athira Sudhakaran, MSc thesis Spring 2025.

BSc theses supervised

  1. The KdV equation - Nana Siddharth B.Sc. thesis 2010-11.

  2. Renormalization of the two dimensional Dirac delta potential - Uddhipan Thakur, BSc thesis 2011-12.

  3. 2D Ising Model: Analytic and Numerical approaches - Himalaya Senapati, BSc thesis 2012-13.

  4. Rigid body dynamics on its configuration manifold - Sonakshi Sachdev, BSc thesis 2012-13.

Some projects supervised

  1. Coherent states and their properties - Sonakshi Sachdev, Summer project 2012.

  2. Renormalization group approach to Ising model - Himalaya Senapati, Summer project 2012.

  3. Mechanics and stability on the hyperbolic plane - Sourabh Nampalliwar, Summer project 2012.

  4. Mechanics, geometry and group theory of Poincare upper half-plane - Sonakshi Sachdev, Summer & Autumn project 2012.

  5. Topics in quantum field theory - Shanmugapriya Prakasam, Summer & Autumn 2018.

  6. Mechanics and geometry - Shivangi Dhiman, Summer 2020.

  7. Dynamical systems - Ankit Yadav, Summer 2020.

  8. Integrable systems - Garima Rajpoot, 2023.

  9. Mathematical Methods and Classical Mechanics - Elavarasi Palaniyandi, Summer 2024.

  10. Mathematical Methods and Classical Mechanics - Krtin Prabhu, Summer 2024.

  11. Word-complexity of periodic and quasiperiodic three-rotor symbol sequences - Anirudh Rameshan, Spring 2025.