Claire Valva

I am a PhD student at the Center for Atmosphere and Ocean Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I am advised by Dimitris Giannakis and Ed Gerber, and am currently supported by the NSF GRFP. I am generally interested in problems that include (geophysical) fluid dynamics, climate and atmospheric dynamics, dynamical systems, or numerical (and spectral) analysis of nonlinear systems.

The primary theme of my graduate research is to develop data-driven methods — specifically those using the formalism of dynamical systems — to understand turbulent fluid flows and large-scale flow in the atmosphere and ocean. In particular, I am currently thinking about improving data-driven approximations of Koopman operators and how we can apply these methods (and similar) to physical systems.