This will be a short recounting of the adventures of a nonlinear dynamics person trying to explore free energy surfaces in a data-driven manner.
It is therefore a history of many collaborations along the way, from Gerhard Hummer and Dimitris Maroudas and Thanos Panagiotopoulos in the 2000 years
at Princeton, via Andy Ferguson, Pablo Debenedetti --and a little Indiana Jones- later on, to Juan Bello Rivas, John Guckenheimer, current students (Anastasia Georgiou)
and colleagues (Brandon Bukowski) at Hopkins.
