* Large deviations (rare events) in a broad range of stochastic dynamical systems. These include fairly simple systems such as Brownian motion, but also systems from statistical field theory with nonlinear dynamics such as interacting diffusive lattice gases and surface growth (including e.g., the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation), and, additionally, population dynamics of systems from ecology, epidemiology and chemistry.
* Random matrix theory.
* Cold atoms, and in particular trapped Fermi gases. I am interested mostly in the spatial properties such as the density of the gas and its spatial correlations.
* Generally speaking, my research fields are from statistical physics (both in and out of equilibrium), dynamical systems, nonlinear physics, optimization problems and probability theory.
* The research is mainly theoretical but includes numerical work as well, e.g. Monte-Carlo simulations of stochastic systems.

2020-2021
The Airy distribution: experiment, large deviations and additional statistics, T. Agranov, P. Zilber, N. R. Smith, T. Admon, Y. Roichman, B. Meerson, Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 013174 (2020).

Noninteracting trapped Fermions in double-well potentials: inverted parabola kernel, N. R. Smith, D. S. Dean, P. Le Doussal, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, Phys. Rev. A 101, 053602 (2020).

Kernels for noninteracting fermions via a Green's function approach with applications to step potentials, D. S. Dean, P. Le Doussal, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, N. R. Smith, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54 084001.

Constrained non-crossing Brownian motions, fermions and the Ferrari-Spohn distribution, T. Gautié and N. R. Smith, J. Stat. Mech. (2021) 033212.

Counting statistics for noninteracting fermions in a d-dimensional potential, N. R. Smith, P. Le Doussal, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, Letter in Phys. Rev. E 103, L030105 (2021).

Full counting statistics for interacting trapped fermions, N. R. Smith, P. Le Doussal, S. N. Majumdar, G. Schehr, arXiv:2106.05014.

PhD in physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2019). PhD Advisor: Baruch Meerson