Have you every wondered if the predicted rise in sea level due to global warming could be the result of some rounding errors running amok? Or if those annoying variations in stock market prices can somehow be tamed? Mark Veraar may be one of the few people on earth who can actually provide (the semblance of) an answer. Noise is his thing. Well, the advanced mathematical modelling of noise and its consequences is.
The basis of such modelling lies in the apparent random motion of pollen in air. So, it will be up to pollen to prove that the latest hurricane ravaging the Caribbean was indeed caused by a swallowtail butterfly flapping its wings in China. Here you can read more about Mark Veraar’s research on noise.