Dr. John Wettlaufer

Biography

John Wettlaufer is the A.M. Bateman Professor at Yale University, with expertise in Geophysics, Mathematics, and Physics. He is trained as a condensed matter theorist and has a wide variety of research interests encompassing soft matter, statistical physics, and applied mathematics. His current projects include stochastic processes, asymptotic analysis methods, numerical simulations, and the microscopic theory of melting, as well as exploring the mechanisms underlying cosmogony, climate dynamics, and information theory related to turbulence. Wettlaufer's work often aims to develop simple observationally constrained theories that align with experiments on complex phenomena such as nonlinear dynamics, fluid dynamics, astrophysics, and biophysics, with a strong focus on the implications of rapid climate change across atomic to astronomical scales. He collaborates with individuals from various disciplines, including students and postdoctoral researchers from departments of engineering, physics, and applied mathematics at Yale.

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