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Home - Erik Bollt

Erik Bollt

W Jon Harrington Professor of Mathematics / Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering / Director of the Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science
Department(s) / Center(s)

Electrical & Computer Engineering , Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science (C3S2)

School(s)

Coulter School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

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Research Interests

My specialty field is Chaos Theory and Dynamical Systems. I do research in Control of Chaos, Time-Series Embedding Analysis, Frobenius-Perron Operators, Stochastic Dynamical Systems and Noise induced transport mechanism, Hamiltonian Dynamics, Symbol Dynamics, Celestial Mechanics, and Communicating with Chaos. In particular, I have recently been working on how noise and determinism interact to create complication motions. I have also been working lately on information theoretic questions such as loss-less image compression as well as pattern (facial) recognition via support vector machines and kernel learning. I am very interested in networks. I am interested in problems of model reduction, sensing, and predicting bursting.

Contact

Email:
ebollt@clarkson.edu

Office Phone Number: 315/268-2307

Office Location: 322 CAMP Building

Clarkson Box Number: CU Box 5720

Website: webspace.clarkson.edu

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