I specialize in the study of nonlinear differential equations, particularly those set on infinite dimensional spaces, such as delay and partial differential equations. I investigate aspects of dynamical system theory, with a focus on invariant manifolds, connecting orbits, as well as bifurcation analysis. This research employs numerical simulations to explore intricate dynamics, which are then rigorously coupled with analytic methods to prove ‘‘what is seen on the screen’’. This process draws from several fields, such as numerical analysis, functional analysis and approximation theory.
I also have a particular interest for applications, specifically in celestial mechanics.

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Publications

• K. E. M. Church, J.-Y. Dai, O. Hénot, P. Lappicy and N. Vassena, Global continuation of stable periodic orbits in systems of competing predators, ArXiv (2025).
• R. Calleja, C. García-Azpeitia, O. Hénot, J.-P. Lessard and J. D. Mireles James, From the Lagrange triangle to the figure eight choreography: proof of Marchal's conjecture, ArXiv (2024).
• O. Hénot, J.-P. Lessard and J. D. Mireles James, Numerical computation of transverse homoclinic orbits for periodic solutions of delay differential equations, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 22 (2023), 3093-3129.
• J. B. van den Berg, O. Hénot and J.-P. Lessard, Constructive proofs for localised radial solutions of semilinear elliptic systems on \(\mathbb{R}^d\), Nonlinearity, 36 (2023), 6476.
• K. E. M. Church, O. Hénot, P. Lappicy, J.-P. Lessard and H. Sprink, Periodic orbits in Hořava-Lifshitz cosmologies, General Relativity and Gravitation, 55 (2022), 2.
• O. Hénot, J.-P. Lessard and J. D. Mireles James, Parameterization of unstable manifolds for DDEs: formal series solutions and validated error bounds, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 34 (2022), 1285–1324.
• O. Hénot, On polynomial forms of nonlinear functional differential equations, Journal of Computational Dynamics, 8 (2021), 307-323.
• O. Hénot and C. Rousseau, Spiderweb central configurations, Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems, 18 (2019), 1135–1160.