I'm Henry Yip, a mathematical physics student from Hong Kong, based between Edinburgh and Zürich. My work so far has ranged from the three-body problem and two-dimensional turbulence to statistical physics and tropical cyclones.
Research
- Summer 2026Hong Kong Observatory internship. Estimating the intensity and central pressure of tropical cyclones from machine-learning weather forecasts. First-author paper submitted.
- Spring 2026Computational Statistical Physics final project, ETH Zürich. A Monte Carlo study of the 3D Heisenberg model; it received full marks.
- 2026Semester project, Atmospheric Physics, ETH Zürich. How the potential intensity of tropical cyclones depends on the resolution of its inputs.
- Summer 2025Summer research, University of Edinburgh. Synchronisation of small scales in two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow, supervised by Dr Jacob Page, with assistance from Dr Dmitriy Zhigunov.
- Summer 2024Summer research, University of Edinburgh. The three-body problem and symplectic integrators, supervised by Prof. Jenni Smillie.
Publications
H. Yip et al., A Model-Agnostic Post-Processor for Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Central Pressure in Machine-Learning Weather Forecasts, submitted (2026).
From my summer 2026 internship at the Hong Kong Observatory: estimating the intensity and central pressure of tropical cyclones from machine-learning weather forecasts.
H. Yip and J. M. Smillie, An Analysis of the Restricted Euler Problem Using Symplectic Integrators, Edinburgh Student Journal of Science 1(3), 2025.
Written up from my first research project, an eight-week summer project in 2024: an early, exploratory piece of work.