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Michael Ostroff is a physicist who is primarily interested in General Relativity(GR) and electrodynamics. He's currently working towards finding non-null electrovacuum solutions to Einstein's equations which have no singularities and have charge sources. In particular, he's looking for topological soliton solutions. They typically use Mathematica in their research due to its power in performing symbolic manipulation and flexibility in computing. ​ ​

They're also very interested in chaotic, nonlinear systems. Michael Ostroff is currently doing research at FAU's MPCR Lab regarding pseudorandom key generation using digital chaotic systems. Whilst studying chaotic systems, Michael Ostroff discovered a phenomena he refers to as fractal flow. Fractal Flow is how the components of a fractal move around as their parameters change. For a fractal defined on the complex plane, such as the Julia set, the output is a complex number. For a general fractal though, the fractal flow is of the same type as its domain.