Michael Small

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Michael Small is director of the University of Western Australia Data Institute and a professor of applied mathematics. He is also editor in chief of the journal Chaos. His research interests span nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear time-series analysis and complex systems. That work includes a range of applications, from mental health and disease transmission to engineering, transportation, and geology.


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Beware the Funnel: When Simplifying Dynamics Can Mislead

Simplified models of systems with fast and slow dynamics can miss a narrow region of phase space—a “singular funnel”—leading to misleading predictions of the system’s behavior. Read More »