Dominic Veconi

My area is hyperbolic dynamical systems and smooth ergodic theory. This field uses techniques from statistical physics and thermodynamics to answer questions in classical mechanics, meteorology, pure mathematics, and other areas of science. Although the problems in natural science that we investigate are often too complex to find explicit solutions for (such as Newton's three-body problem), we can still find statistical regularities in their trajectories over time. I think it's beautiful that by treating these mathematical models as "random" processes, and examining the resulting statistics, we can do more to analyze and study their long-term behavior.