Overview
Jonathan Christopher Mattingly grew up in Charlotte, NC, where he attended Irwin Avenue Elementary and Charlotte Country Day. He graduated from the NC School of Science and Mathematics and received a BS is Applied Mathematics with a concentration in physics from Yale University. After two years abroad with a year spent at ENS Lyon studying nonlinear and statistical physics on a Rotary Fellowship, he returned to the US to attend Princeton University, where he obtained a PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics in 1998. After 4 years as a Szego assistant professor at Stanford University and a year as a member of the IAS in Princeton, he moved to Duke in 2003. He is currently a professor of mathematics and statistical science.
His expertise is in the longtime behavior of stochastic system including randomly forced fluid dynamics, turbulence, stochastic algorithms used in molecular dynamics and Bayesian sampling, and stochasticity in biochemical networks.
Since 2013 he has also been working to understand and quantify gerrymandering and its interaction of a region's geopolitical landscape. This has lead him to testify in a number of court cases including in North Carolina, which led to the NC congressional and both NC legislative maps being deemed unconstitutional and replaced for the 2020 elections.
He is the recipient of a Sloan Fellowship and a PECASE CAREER award. He is also a fellow of the IMS, the AMS, SIAM and AAAS. He was awarded the Defender of Freedom award by Common Cause for his work on Quantifying Gerrymandering.
His expertise is in the longtime behavior of stochastic system including randomly forced fluid dynamics, turbulence, stochastic algorithms used in molecular dynamics and Bayesian sampling, and stochasticity in biochemical networks.
Since 2013 he has also been working to understand and quantify gerrymandering and its interaction of a region's geopolitical landscape. This has lead him to testify in a number of court cases including in North Carolina, which led to the NC congressional and both NC legislative maps being deemed unconstitutional and replaced for the 2020 elections.
He is the recipient of a Sloan Fellowship and a PECASE CAREER award. He is also a fellow of the IMS, the AMS, SIAM and AAAS. He was awarded the Defender of Freedom award by Common Cause for his work on Quantifying Gerrymandering.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Kimberly J. Jenkins Distinguished University Professor of New Technologies
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2022 - Present
Mathematics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Mathematics
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2012 - Present
Mathematics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Statistical Science
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2016 - Present
Statistical Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
PHASE SPACE CONTRACTION OF DEGENERATELY DAMPED RANDOM SPLITTINGS
Journal Article Probability and Mathematical Physics · January 1, 2025 When studying out-of-equilibrium systems, one often excites the dynamics in some degrees of freedom while removing the excitation in others through damping. In order for the system to converge to a statistical steady state, the dynamics must transfer the e ... Full text CiteConvergence of stratified MCMC sampling of non-reversible dynamics
Journal Article Stochastics and Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Computations · December 1, 2024 We present a form of stratified MCMC algorithm built with non-reversible stochastic dynamics in mind. It can also be viewed as a generalization of the exact milestoning method or form of NEUS. We prove the convergence of the method under certain assumption ... Full text Open Access CiteA pathwise approach to the enhanced dissipation of passive scalars advected by shear flows
Preprint · October 7, 2024 Link to item CiteRecent Grants
RTG: Training Tomorrow's Workforce in Analysis and Applications
Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2026Stochastic Dynamics and SPDEs
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Simons Foundation · 2024 - 2025Quantifying Gerrymandering in the North Carolina Legislature
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Imagine North Carolina First · 2022 - 2025View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Princeton University ·
1998
Ph.D.
Yale University ·
1992
B.S.