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I am a Fellow (i.e. a faculty member) at the TIFR Centre in Bangalore.

I was a postdoc in MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute) and in Math at UNC Chapel Hill and at SAMSI (Statistical and A.M.S.I.), located in the Research Triangle in Durham. I completed my Ph.D. in Physics at UT Austin.

Dynamical systems provide a general framework for my research, which, like my affiliations so far, has connections with physics, mathematics, and statistics. One of the areas of great interest to me is that of data assimilation -- the incorporation of noisy observations of a system into an incomplete dynamical model of that system. This problem is pertinent to a variety of applications, including weather and climate prediction. My other research interests are in Hamiltonian systems, specifically, periodic orbit bifurcation phenomena and breakup of invariant circles in nontwist systems, such as the meandering jet of the Gulf stream in the Atlantic ocean.

Some news: Ruth has a brand new blog (in spanish):
Ruth Yazmin Pineda -- Creado para estar mas cerca de mi Familia en Colombia.