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D-Index
35
Citations
4893
World Ranking
2790
National Ranking
1140

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For investigations of nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation.
  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Tasso J. Kaper is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of physics, astronomy, and computer science. Their academic focus includes nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, and quantum chaos and dynamical systems. Additional areas of study encompass mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models, neural dynamics and brain function, nonlinear photonic systems, and spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies.

Their recent publications include:

  • Fronts in the Wake of a Parameter Ramp: Slow Passage through Pitchfork and Fold Bifurcations (2023) in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
  • Delayed Hopf Bifurcation and Space-Time Buffer Curves in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation (2022) in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
  • Multi-mode attractors and spatio-temporal canards (2020) in Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena
  • Symmetry-breaking rhythms in coupled, identical fast-slow oscillators (2023) in Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • A new class of chimeras in locally coupled oscillators with small-amplitude, high-frequency asynchrony and large-amplitude, low-frequency synchrony (2021) in Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science

Their frequent coauthors include Theodore Vo, Ryan Goh, Arnd Scheel, Naziru M. Awal, and Irving R. Epstein. Publication venues where their work often appears include arXiv (Cornell University), Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, and Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena.

Their main fields of study are:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Computer Science

Their subfields of study include:

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The topics they frequently work on are:

  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
  • stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
  • Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies

They have received several recognitions, including being named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013 and a SIAM Fellow in 2009 for investigations in nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation. Earlier in their career, they were a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Pattern formation in the one-dimensional Gray - Scott model

    Arjen Doelman;Tasso J Kaper;Paul A Zegeling

  • Large stable pulse solutions in reaction-diffusion equations

    Arjen Doelman;Robert A. Gardner;Tasso J. Kaper

  • Stability analysis of singular patterns in the 1D Gray-Scott model: a matched asymptotics approach

    Arjen Doelman;Robert A. Gardner;TAsso J. Kaper

  • Asymptotic analysis of two reduction methods for systems of chemical reactions

    Hans G. Kaper;Tasso J. Kaper

  • Projecting to a Slow Manifold: Singularly Perturbed Systems and Legacy Codes

    C. W. Gear;T. J. Kaper;I. G. Kevrekidis;A. Zagaris

  • Analysis of the Computational Singular Perturbation Reduction Method for Chemical Kinetics

    Antonios Zagaris;Hans G. Kaper;Tasso J. Kaper

  • Coupled pulsation and translation of two gas bubbles in a liquid

    Anthony Harkin;Tasso J. Kaper;Ali Nadim

  • Tracking invariant manifolds up to exponentially small errors

    C. K. R. T. Jones;Tasso J. Kaper;Nancy Kopell

  • Alpha-frequency rhythms desynchronize over long cortical distances: a modeling study.

    Stephanie R. Jones;David J. Pinto;David J. Pinto;Tasso J. Kaper;Nancy Kopell

  • Introduction to focus issue: mixed mode oscillations: experiment, computation, and analysis.

    Morten Brøns;Tasso J. Kaper;Horacio G. Rotstein

  • Mixed-mode bursting oscillations: Dynamics created by a slow passage through spike-adding canard explosion in a square-wave burster

    Mathieu Desroches;Tasso J. Kaper;Martin Krupa

  • N th-order operator splitting schemes and nonreversible systems

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  • A stability index analysis of 1-D patterns of the Gray-Scott model

    Arjen Doelman;Robert A. Gardner;Tasso J. Kaper

  • Fast and Slow Dynamics for the Computational Singular Perturbation Method

    Antonios Zagaris;Hans G. Kaper;Tasso J. Kaper

  • MULTI-BUMP ORBITS HOMOCLINIC TO RESONANCE BANDS

    Tasso J. Kaper;Gregor Kovacic

  • Analysis of a renormalization group method and normal form theory for perturbed ordinary differential equations

    R.E. Lee DeVille;Anthony Harkin;Matt Holzer;Krešimir Josić

  • Semistrong Pulse Interactions in a Class of Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Equations ∗

    Arjen Doelman;Tasso J. Kaper

  • Spatially periodic and aperiodic multi-pulse patterns in the one-dimensional Gierer-Meinhardt equation

    A. Doelman;T.J. Kaper;H. van der Ploeg

  • Pulse Dynamics in a Three-Component System: Existence Analysis

    Arjen Doelman;Arjen Doelman;Peter van Heijster;Tasso J. Kaper

  • An analytical study of transport in Stokes flows exhibiting large-scale chaos in the eccentric journal bearing

    Tasso J. Kaper;S. Wiggins

  • An unfolding theory approach to bursting in fast–slow systems

    Martin Golubitsky;Kre imir Josic;Tasso J Kaper

Frequent Co-Authors

Arjen Doelman
Arjen Doelman Leiden University
Nancy Kopell
Nancy Kopell Boston University
Mark A. Kramer
Mark A. Kramer Boston University
Freddy Dumortier
Freddy Dumortier Hasselt University
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis Johns Hopkins University
Stephen Wiggins
Stephen Wiggins University of Bristol
Christopher K. R. T. Jones
Christopher K. R. T. Jones University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Charles William Gear
Charles William Gear Princeton University
Lambertus A. Peletier
Lambertus A. Peletier Leiden University
Brian Mulloney
Brian Mulloney University of California, Davis

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