Benjamin Claveau

PhD student

Education

PhD in Physics, Université Laval (2025–present) Supervised by Patrick Desrosiers and Antoine Allard

MSc in Physics, Université Laval (2023–2025) — Perspective spectrale sur la dynamique des systèmes complexes par la théorie de Koopman Supervised by Patrick Desrosiers and Antoine Allard

BSc in Physics, Université Laval (2020–2023)

• Internship (2022)

Publications

Operator-theoretic approach to the partial integration of randomly coupled phase oscillators

Vincent Thibeault, Benjamin Claveau, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

to appear in J. Phys.: Complex. (2026)

doi | arXiv

dimension-reduction

Kuramoto meets Koopman: Constants of motion, symmetries, and network motifs

Vincent Thibeault, Benjamin Claveau, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

arXiv

dimension-reduction

Perspective spectrale sur la dynamique des systèmes complexes par la théorie de Koopman

Benjamin Claveau

MSc thesis, Université Laval (2025)

doi | pdf

★ Thesis added to the Board of Honor, the highest distinction at Université Laval.

Presentations

A Koopmanian approach to spectral and geometric properties of dynamics on networks

Benjamin Claveau, Vincent Thibeault, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

Contributed presentation, International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2026)

Boston, USA, 2026

Analytical Koopman approach to recurrent neural networks

Benjamin Claveau, Vincent Thibeault, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

Poster presentation, UNIQUE Center Scientific Retreat

Saint-Paulin, Canada, 2025

Kuramoto meets Koopman – Constants of motion, symmetries and network motifs

Vincent Thibeault, Benjamin Claveau, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

Contributed presentation, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25)

Denver, USA, 2025

Rank-reducible dynamics on networks through Koopman eigenfunctions

Benjamin Claveau, Vincent Thibeault, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

Contributed presentation, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25)

Denver, USA, 2025

Deciphering large-scale dynamics in complex systems through Koopman operator theory

Benjamin Claveau, Vincent Thibeault, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

Contributed presentation, Sentinelle Nord Scientific Meeting

Québec, Canada, 2025

Revisiting the Kuramoto model on graph – integrals of motion, motifs, and symmetries

Vincent Thibeault, Benjamin Claveau, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

Contributed presentation, International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2024)

Québec, Qc, 2024

Exploring recurrent neural network dynamics – A spectral approach based on Koopman operator theory

Benjamin Claveau, Vincent Thibeault, Antoine Allard and Patrick Desrosiers

Poster presentation, International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2024)

Québec, Canada, 2024

Développement d’analyses des réseaux d’activité cérébrale par imagerie optique

Benjamin Claveau, Jérémie Guilbert, Vincent Chouinard and Michèle Desjardins

Poster presentation, Journée scientifique des étudiants – Centre de recherche sur le cancer de l’Université Laval

Québec, Canada, 2022

Not completed as a member of Dynamica