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D-Index
108
Citations
53362
World Ranking
30
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2013 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the understanding and application of chaotic dynamics.
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamics
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

James A. Yorke is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans key areas within mathematics and physics, with a particular focus on dynamical systems and chaos theory. Yorke's main fields of study include Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, with specific subfields emphasizing Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Mathematical Physics, Computer Networks and Communications, Geometry and Topology, and Genetics.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Quantum chaos and dynamical systems, Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals, Chaos control and synchronization, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, and Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models.

Yorke has contributed to numerous publications, appearing frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Nonlinear Dynamics, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Streams and Graphs of Dynamical Systems, 2024, Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems
  • Dynamics of circular oscillator arrays subjected to noise, 2022, Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Noise-induced chaotic-attractor escape route, 2020, Nonlinear Dynamics
  • When the Best Pandemic Models are the Simplest, 2020, Biology
  • When the best pandemic models are the simplest, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Yorke collaborates frequently with several researchers, including R. De Leo, Sana Jahedi, Yoshitaka Saiki, Timothy Sauer, and Hiroki Takahasi.

Throughout their career, Yorke has been recognized with several distinctions. These include being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019, a SIAM Fellow in 2013 for contributions to the understanding and application of chaotic dynamics, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2003 with a citation for seminal contributions to the theory of chaotic dynamics, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998, and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1980.

Best Publications

  • Period Three Implies Chaos

    Tien-Yien Li;Tien-Yien Li;James A. Yorke;James A. Yorke

  • Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems

    Kathleen T. Alligood;Tim D. Sauer;James A. Yorke;J. D. Crawford

  • Crises, sudden changes in chaotic attractors, and transient chaos

    Celso Grebogi;Edward Ott;James A. Yorke

  • THE DIMENSION OF CHAOTIC ATTRACTORS

    J. Doyne Farmer;Edward Ott;James A. Yorke

  • Using small perturbations to control chaos

    Troy Shinbrot;Troy Shinbrot;Celso Grebogi;James A. Yorke;Edward Ott

  • A local ensemble Kalman filter for atmospheric data assimilation

    Edward Ott;Brian R. Hunt;Istvan Szunyogh;Aleksey V. Zimin

  • Chaotic behavior of multidimensional difference equations

    James L. Kaplan;James A. Yorke

  • On the existence of invariant measures for piecewise monotonic transformations

    A. Lasota;James A. Yorke

  • CHAOTIC ATTRACTORS IN CRISIS

    Celso Grebogi;Edward Ott;James A. Yorke

  • Strange attractors that are not chaotic

    Celso Grebogi;Edward Ott;Steven Pelikan;James A. Yorke

  • GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms

    Steven L. Salzberg;Adam M. Phillippy;Aleksey Zimin;Daniela Puiu

  • A Deterministic Model for Gonorrhea in a Nonhomogeneous Population

    Ana Lajmanovich;James A. Yorke

  • Fractal basin boundaries

    Steven W. McDonald;Celso Grebogi;Edward Ott;James A. Yorke

  • Coping with chaos. Analysis of chaotic data and the exploitation of chaotic systems

    Edward Ott;Tim Sauer;James A. Yorke

  • Critical exponents for crisis-induced intermittency

    Celso Grebogi;Edward Ott;Filipe Romeiras;James A. Yorke

  • Border-collision bifurcations including “period two to period three” for piecewise smooth systems

    Helena E. Nusse;Helena E. Nusse;James A. Yorke

  • The liapunov dimension of strange attractors

    Paul Frederickson;James L Kaplan;Ellen D Yorke;James A Yorke

  • RECURRENT OUTBREAKS OF MEASLES, CHICKENPOX AND MUMPS I. SEASONAL VARIATION IN CONTACT RATES

    Wayne P. London;James A. Yorke

  • Chaos, strange attractors, and fractal basin boundaries in nonlinear dynamics.

    Celso Grebogi;Edward Ott;James A. Yorke

  • Prevalence: a translation-invariant “almost every” on infinite-dimensional spaces

    Brian R. Hunt;Timothy Sauer;James A. Yorke

  • Using chaos to direct trajectories to targets.

    Troy Shinbrot;Edward Ott;Celso Grebogi;James A. Yorke

  • Finding zeroes of maps: homotopy methods that are constructive with probability one

    Shui Nee Chow;John Mallet-Paret;James A. Yorke

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Ott
Edward Ott University of Maryland, College Park
Celso Grebogi
Celso Grebogi University of Aberdeen
Brian R. Hunt
Brian R. Hunt University of Maryland, College Park
Timothy Sauer
Timothy Sauer George Mason University
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Eugenia Kalnay
Eugenia Kalnay University of Maryland, College Park
Daniela Puiu
Daniela Puiu Johns Hopkins University
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán
Miguel A. F. Sanjuán King Juan Carlos University
John Mallet-Paret
John Mallet-Paret Brown University
Troy Shinbrot
Troy Shinbrot Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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