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Jeroen Wouters

Email:
j.wouters@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
0118 378 4744
Job title:
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics/Statistics

Responsibilities:

Study Abroad Coordinator

Areas of interest

Model reduction, parametrization
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (response theory, fluctuation theorems)
Extreme value theory, rare event simulation
Dynamical systems theory
Information theory (quantum information theory, image processing)
Climate dynamics

Teaching

Current teaching (2021/22):

Websites/blogs

Publications

Wouters, J. , Schiemann, R. ORCID: 0000-0003-3095-9856 , Shaffrey, L. (2023) Rare event simulation of extreme European winter rainfall in an intermediate complexity climate model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems , 15 (4). ISSN: 1942-2466 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003537

Galfi, V. , Lucarini, V. ORCID: 0000-0001-9392-1471 , Ragone, F. , Wouters, J. (2021) Applications of large deviation theory in geophysical fluid dynamics and climate science. Rivista del Nuovo Cimento ISSN: 1826-9850 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40766-021-00020-z

Wouters, J. (2020) Deviations from Gaussianity in deterministic discrete time dynamical systems. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science , 30 (2). ISSN: 1089-7682 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5127272

Galfi, V. , Lucarini, V. , Wouters, J. (2019) A large deviation theory-based analysis of heat waves and cold spells in a simplified model of the general circulation of the atmosphere. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment ISSN: 1742-5468 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/ab02e8
Wouters, J. and Gottwald, G. (2019) Stochastic model reduction for slow-fast systems with moderate time-scale separation. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation : a SIAM interdisciplinary journal , 17 (4). pp. 1172-1188. ISSN: 1540-3459 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1137/18M1219965
Wouters, J. and Gottwald, G. (2019) Edgeworth expansions for slow-fast systems with finite time scale separation. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , 475 (2223). ISSN: 1364-5021 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2018.0358

Ragone, F. , Wouters, J. , Bouchet, F. (2018) Computation of extreme heat waves in climate models using a large deviation algorithm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , 115 (1). pp. 24-29. ISSN: 0027-8424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712645115

Lucarini, V. and Wouters, J. (2017) Response formulae for n-point correlations in statistical mechanical systems and application to a problem of coarse graining. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical , 50 (35). ISSN: 1751-8113 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa812c

Wouters, J. and Bouchet, F. (2016) Rare event computation in deterministic chaotic systems using genealogical particle analysis. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical , 49 (37). ISSN: 1751-8121 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/49/37/374002
Gottwald, G. , Wormell, J. , Wouters, J. (2016) On spurious detection of linear response and misuse of the fluctuation–dissipation theorem in finite time series. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena , 331 pp. 89-101. ISSN: 0167-2789 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2016.05.010
Wouters, J. , Dolaptchiev, S. , Lucarini, V. , Achatz, U. (2016) Parameterization of stochastic multiscale triads. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics , 23 (6). pp. 435-445. ISSN: 1023-5809 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/npg-23-435-2016

Faranda, D. , Lucarini, V. , Manneville, P. , Wouters, J. (2014) On using extreme values to detect global stability thresholds in multi-stable systems: the case of transitional plane Couette flow. Chaos Solitons & Fractals , 64 pp. 26 - 35. ISSN: 0960-0779 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2014.01.008
Lucarini, V. , Blender, R. , Herbert, C. , Ragone, F. , Pascale, S. , Wouters, J. (2014) Mathematical and physical ideas for climate science. Reviews of Geophysics , 52 (4). pp. 809-859. ISSN: 8755-1209 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013RG000446
Lucarini, V. , Faranda, D. , Wouters, J. , Kuna, T. (2014) Towards a general theory of extremes for observables of chaotic dynamical systems. Journal of Statistical Physics , 154 (3). pp. 723-750. ISSN: 0022-4715 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10955-013-0914-6

Wouters, J. and Lucarini, V. (2013) Multi-level dynamical systems: connecting the Ruelle response theory and the Mori-Zwanzig approach. Journal of Statistical Physics , 151 (5). pp. 850-860. ISSN: 0022-4715 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10955-013-0726-8
Blender, R. , Wouters, J. , Lucarini, V. (2013) Avalanches, breathers, and flow reversal in a continuous Lorenz-96 model. Physical Review E , 88 (1). ISSN: 1550-2376 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.013201

Lucarini, V. , Kuna, T. , Wouters, J. , Faranda, D. (2012) Relevance of sampling schemes in light of Ruelle's linear response theory. Nonlinearity , 25 (5). pp. 1311. ISSN: 1361-6544 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/25/5/1311
Wouters, J. and Lucarini, V. (2012) Disentangling multi-level systems: averaging, correlations and memory. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment , 2012 (3). ISSN: 1742-5468 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2012/03/P03003

Wemekamp-Kamphuis, H. , Karatzas, A. , Wouters, J. , Abee, T. (2002) Enhanced levels of cold shock proteins in Listeria monocytogenes LO28 upon exposure to low temperature and high hydrostatic pressure. Applied and Environmental Microbiology , 68 (2). pp. 456-463. ISSN: 0099-2240 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.68.2.456-463.2002