ep43 - Steve Brunton: DMD, Koopman, SINDy, Eigensteve Channel, HydroGym, Optimization, and much more

About this episode

In this episode, Steve Brunton discusses various topics including Dynamic Mode Decomposition, fluid dynamics, and his educational initiatives.

Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:15 - Origin story: early path and the road to science 04:20 - On graphical visualization and aphantasia 08:08 - The interest in fluid dynamics 12:00 - Caltech, Jerry Marsden, and the move to the Pacific time zone 19:43 - Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) and the Koopman operator 27:15 - On teaching and the Eigensteve channel 39:22 - SINDy: Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics 45:45 - Automatic knowledge creation and Expl...

People in this episode

Host: Alberto Padoan

Guest: Steve Brunton

Topics covered

• Dynamic Mode Decomposition
• Koopman operator
• SINDy
• fluid dynamics
• teaching
• graphical visualization

Keywords

• DMD
• Koopman
• SINDy
• Eigensteve Channel
• fluid dynamics
• optimization
• automatic knowledge creation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Caltech

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