Dr. Ananth Shankar

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Ananth Shankar received his PhD from Harvard University in 2017. He held the CLE Moore Instructorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has held a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2023, he joined the faculty at Northwestern University. His research primarily focuses on arithmetic geometry and number theory, particularly on Shimura varieties and abelian varieties, and he has also worked on arithmetic differential equations.

Research Interests

Requirements for Northwestern University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
U.S. Bachelor's degree or equivalent
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Specialization Notes

Standard PhD requirements for TGS departments including Chemistry, Physics, and Sociology.