News

June 12, 2023

PhD student, William Anderson, successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, William.
William's thesis is freely available here.

May 11, 2023

PhD student, Alex Mendez, successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Alex.
Alex's thesis is freely available here.

Sept. 19, 2022

Our paper "Quantifying rare events in spotting: How far do wildfires spread?" has been selected by the Editor-in-Chief as a featured article in the Fire Safety Journal:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/fire-safety-journal/about/featured-articles

May 13, 2022

Our PhD student, William Anderson, wins the 2022 SIAM Student Paper Prize. This prize is awarded annually to only 3 students worldwide. Congrats, William!

The prize is awarded for the following paper:
Evolution of Nonlinear Reduced-Order Solutions for PDEs with Conserved Quantities, SIAM J. on Scientific Computing, vol. 44, pp. A176-A197, 2022

April 25, 2022

Our PhD student, William Anderson, wins the Winton-Rose Award for excellence in research. Congratulations, William!

April 12, 2022

John Hood, our REU student, has been awarded the NSF-GRFP fellowship and will be joining University of Chicago to pursue his graduate studies. Congrats, John!

April 9, 2022

Our paper on "Shape-morphing reduced-order models for nonlinear Schrodinger equations" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics.

March 27, 2022

Ethan Brady, our REU student, has been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship. Since May 2021, Ethan has been working with Dr. Farazmand on deep learning of rare extreme events from partial observations. Congrats, Ethan!

March 21, 2022

Our paper on "Model-assisted deep learning of rare extreme events from partial observations" has been accepted for publication in Chaos.

Nov. 8, 2021

Our paper on "Investigating  climate  tipping points under various emission reduction and carbon capture scenarios with a stochastic climate model" has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

October 8, 2021

Dr. Farazmand gave a talk as part of the UCLA Seminar Series on Network Science for Fluid Mechanics. A recorded version of the talk is available here

October 8, 2021

Our paper on "Evolution of nonlinear reduced-order solutions for PDEs with conserved quantities" has been accepted for publication in SIAM J. on Scientific Computing.

September 22, 2021

Farazmand's research group now has a twitter page. Follow @FarazmandLab

August 9, 2021

Our paper on "Mitigation of rare events in multistable systems driven by correlated noise" has been accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E.

August 2, 2021

During the summer, Dr. Farazmand supervised a group of undergraduate students as part of DRUMS, an REU program. For more information, visit the DRUMS webpage: https://drums.wordpress.ncsu.edu/

The following short video summarizes the research project:

April 30, 2021

Dr. Farazmand wins the John Griggs Award for Outstanding Research.

March 12, 2021

Dr. Farazmand gives a talk at the Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series jointly organized by University of Cambridge, Leeds Institute, UK Fluids Network and Journal of Fluid Mechanics:

Sept. 8, 2020
Dr. Farazmand gives a talk in the Second Symposium on Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems at the Fields Institute: Data-driven prediction of multistable systems from sparse measurements

Aug. 26, 2020

Dr. Farazmand is awarded the Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) Award from NC State

June 29, 2020

Dr. Farazmand receives the Lloyd H. Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award from ASME. This award is given jointly to Dr. Farazmand and Dr. Themis Sapsis (MIT) for the paper Extreme Events: Mechanisms and Prediction.

June 15, 2020

Our paper "Multiscale analysis of accelerated gradient methods" is accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Optimization.

February 21, 2020

Our paper on "Vortex boundaries as barriers to diffusive vorticity transport in two-dimensional flows" has been published in Phys. Rev. Fluids.

January 15, 2020

Dr. Farazmand presents his work on accelerated gradient optimization in the SIAM Minisymposium on Applications of Machine Learning to the Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Joint Mathematics Meeting, Denver, Colorado 

January 8, 2020

Our paper "Mitigation of tipping point transitions with time-delay feedback control" is accepted for publication in Chaos' focus issue on Rare Events in Complex Systems: Understanding and Prediction

November 25, 2019

Dr. Farazmand gives a talk in the 72nd annual meeting of American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics.

November 3, 2019

Dr. Farazmand gave an invited lecture at 9th Naval Academy Science and Engineering Conference.

October 28, 2019

Dr. Farazmand presented his work on accelerated gradient optimization at UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) as part of the Workshop on Machine Learning. The recorded talk is available below: 

October 4, 2019

Dr. Farazmand is invited to serve as an editor of the Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics

September 30, 2019

Our group is featured in NC State News. You can read the article here: Link.

September 24, 2019

Our invited review article is published in ASME Applied Mechanics Review:

September 16, 2019

Our paper "Closed-loop adaptive control of extreme events in a turbulent flow" is published in Phys. Rev. E. 

May 19-23, 2019

I co-organized a two-session minisymposium on Extreme Events in Dynamical Systems as part of the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS19). The list of speakers can be found here:

November 18-20, 2018

I co-organized a focus session on Extreme Events in Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows (Focus Session 40.1) as part of the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Mechanics. [Link]

January 29, 2018

Our article on extreme events appears in SIAM News:

https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/physics-based-probing-and-prediction-of-extreme-events

September 22, 2017

MIT News writes a story about our paper on the prediction of extreme events:

http://news.mit.edu/2017/technique-spots-warning-signs-climate-aircraft-oceans-0922

May 21-25, 2017

I co-organized a two-session minisymposium on Rare Extreme Phenomena in Dynamical Systems

Some of the talks were recorded and are available through the following links:

Session 1 

Session 2