Steven Brunton

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Teaches math to engineers: youtube.com/c/eigensteve

Professor @UW researching #MachineLearning for #Dynamics and #Control, especially for #FluidDynamics.

eigensteve.com Joined April 2016

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Steven Brunton @eigensteve Aug 20

HydroGym: A Reinforcement Learning Platform for Fluid Dynamics

Now published in Nature!! nature.com/articles/s4158…
GitHub: github.com/dynamicslab/hy…

Amazing collaboration with Christian Lagemann, S Mokbel, M Gondrum, M Rüttgers, Y Wang, P Suárez, L Paehler, D A Bezgin, A B Buhendwa, J L Callaham, S Ahnert, N Zolman, X Shao, J-Ch Loiseau, N A. Adams, M Meinke, W Schröder, K Lagemann, E Lagemann, R Vinuesa & S L Brunton

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Steven Brunton @eigensteve Oct 27

I really enjoyed taking part in this discussion, especially at this moment in time. Thanks Lex, Alex, and Ankur for the great conversation!

Lex Fridman Verified account @lexfridman Oct 26

This is an incredible moment in this history of mathematics, computer science, physics & science with some of the hardest problems in human history being solved by AI over a period of weeks. Depending on your perspective, it's either a crisis, a triumph, or both. I don't think anyone knows for sure. We're all trying to make sense of it. I oscillate between fear/dread and optimism/excitement on a daily basis. The rate of progress is insane, including today's announcement from OpenAI of more problems solved.

To help make sense of all of it, here's my conversation with three mathematicians about this moment. Each of them is an expert in the field of each of the biggest problems solved: Navier-Stokes, quasi-Riemann hypothesis, the unique games conjecture and complexity theory more generally.

Ankur Moitra is a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at MIT, visiting the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Steven Brunton (@eigensteve) is a mathematician and fluid dynamics expert at UW. Alex Kontorovich (@AlexKontorovich) is a mathematician at Rutgers specializing in number theory.

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Steven Brunton @eigensteve Oct 8

The passing of a legend. Less well known is that she coded and simulated the ODEs that Lorenz ended up using for the “Lorenz” system (with Linda Fetter).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Verified account @MIT Oct 7

We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-…

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Steven Brunton @eigensteve Sep 28

Awesome work, and really interesting collaboration!!!

Eli Muller @eli_j_muller Sep 28

Rivers, pendulums and the thalamus: how the brain balances stable and flexible dynamics, and what changes when consciousness fades.

Our latest journey into how the thalamus is shaping cortical dynamics in @ScienceAdvances 🧵1/10

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Steven Brunton @eigensteve Sep 15

Very cool benchmark environment for robot learning!!

The NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems is optimistically developing benchmark environments for learning across the engineering and natural sciences -- try this one out!!

rlebench Verified account @rlebench Sep 14

GPT-6 Astra is impressive, but agentic robotics ≠ just control.

Physical agents should control robots, learn new skills, and design their own hardware.

So we introduce RLE-Bench: 48 everyday robotics engineering tasks spanning closed-loop control, policy learning, perception, and mechanical design.

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