Jan Vrbik

Jan Vrbik is a Professor of Mathematics at Brock University, affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. His research spans Celestial Mechanics, Probability and Statistics, and Monte Carlo techniques. He holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Calgary, and completed his BSc and MSc at Charles University in Prague.

Vrbik's work focuses on perturbed Kepler problems, statistical inference for autoregressive models, and numerical solutions to integral equations. His contributions include advancements in celestial mechanics via quaternionic methods and Monte Carlo simulations for quantum chemistry. He has published extensively in journals such as *Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy*, *Communications in Statistics*, and *Journal of Chemical Physics*.

He teaches courses including Probability, Mathematical Statistics, and Numerical Analysis. His research interests also encompass statistical distributions, confidence interval construction, and applications of numerical methods in engineering and physics.