Troy Shinbrot, PhD
shinbrot@rutgers.edu
http://coewww.rutgers.edu/~shinbrot
(848) 445-6584
Fellow, AIMBE, APS
Editor, Physical Review Applied
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Education:
PhD in Physics, University of Maryland at College Park, 1992, Dissertation:
“Controlling Chaos: directing trajectories to targets in chaotic systems”
Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 1979-80
MA&S in Physics, Reed College, 1978
Thesis: “On Salient Phenomena of Stationary Waves in Water”
Experience:
2013-present: Founding Editor, Physical Review Applied
2008-12: Faculty Advisor: Engineers without Borders, Rutgers U.
2009-present: Professor, Rutgers U. Biomedical Engineering Dept.
2002-9: Associate Professor, Rutgers U. Biomedical Engineering Dept.
2008-10: Director of Honors Academy, Rutgers U. Biomedical Engineering
2002-7: Graduate Program Director, Rutgers U. Biomed. Eng’g Dept.
2003-6: Director of Rutgers GAANN Training Program
1998-2002: Associate Research Professor, Rutgers U. Chemical &
Biochemical Engineering Dept.
1995-8: Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern U. ChemE Dept.
1992-5: Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern U. Chemical Eng’g Dept.
1988-2: Research Assistant, NASA (Theoretical Astrophysics Branch) & U. of
Maryland Physics Dept.
1986-7: Senior Scientist, AD Little, Inc
1983-6: Research Physicist, Xerox Corp
Honors:
2016, Visiting scholar, Dept. of Chem. & Biol. Eng., Princeton University
2015: Received over 5000 scientific citations; h-index = 33
2014: Editorial Board: Granular Matter,
Revista Cubana de Fisica
2008: Elected Fellow Amer. Inst. for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
2008: Gastprofessor, Comp. Physics for Engineering Materials ETH, Zürich
2008: Nominated American Physical Society outstanding referee
2010: Graduate School of New Brunswick, Master teacher (also 2006,7,9)
2003: Award Winner, Gallery of Fluid Motion 2003b “Chaotic mixing in
viscous fluids.” Also received cover picture for this Gallery
2003: Award Winner, Gallery of Fluid Motion 2003a “3D chaotic mixing”
2002: Founding Organizer, Gordon conference on Granular flow
2002: Inducted into Who's Who in America
1995: Award Winner, Gallery of Fluid Motion 1995 “Mixing patterns for
surface dominated granular flows.” Also received cover for this Gallery
1988: Ralph D. Myers Teaching Award for outstanding teaching, U. Maryland
1987: Software Design Award for innovative dynamics simulation software,
STSC, Inc.
1985: Nominated Technologist of the Year for page turners & related
patents, Xerox Corp.
1984: Awarded Best of Show for book copiers, Innovator’s Show, Xerox
Corp.
Invited
Publications:
T. Shinbrot, “Granular chaos & mixing: Whirled in a grain of sand,” CHAOS 25
(2015) 097622
T. Shinbrot, “Granular electrostatics: progress and outstanding questions”
Eur. Phys. J. 223 (2014) 2241-52.
T. Shinbrot, “The movable & the jammed,” Nature Physics 9 (2013) 263-4.
T. Shinbrot & HJ Herrmann, “Static in motion” Nature 451 (2008) 773-4
T. Shinbrot, “Delayed transitions between solid-like and fluid-like granular
flows,” European Journal of Physics E 22 (2007) 209-17.
S. Maskery & T. Shinbrot, “Stochastic and Deterministic Elements of Neuronal
Outgrowth” Annual Reviews of Biomedical Engineering 7 (2005)
187-221.
T. Shinbrot, "Drat! Such Custard." Nature 438 (2005) 746-7.
T. Shinbrot, "The brazil nut effect — in reverse" Nature 429 (2004) 352-3
FJ Muzzio, BJ Glasser & T. Shinbrot, “Powder technology in the
pharmaceutical industry: the need to catch up fast,” Powder
Technology 124 (2002) 1-7.
T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, "Noise to Order" Nature 410 (2001), 251-8
H. Jaeger, T. Shinbrot & P. Umbanhowar "Does the Granular Matter?"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 97 (2000)
12959-60.
T. Shinbrot, M. Zeggio & FJ Muzzio, "Computational approaches to granular
segregation in tumbling blenders," Powder Technology 116 (2001)
224-31.
M. Moakher, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, "Experimentally validated computations
of flow, mixing and segregation of non-cohesive grains in 3D tumbling
blenders" Powder Technology 109 (2000) 58-71.
T. Shinbrot, AW Alexander, M. Moakher & FJ Muzzio, "Chaotic Granular
Mixing," CHAOS 9 (1999) 611-620.
T. Shinbrot, "Perspectives on the Control of Chaos," Advances of Physics
44 (1995) 73-111.
T. Shinbrot, "Chaos: Unpredictable yet Controllable?" Nonlinear Sciences
Today 3 (1993) 1-8 (cover article).
T. Shinbrot, E. Ott, C. Grebogi & JA Yorke, "Using Small Perturbations to
Control Chaos," Nature 363 (1993) 411-7.
Other
Publications:
R. Yoshimatsu, NAM Aruajo, T. Shinbrot & HJ Herrmann, “Field Driven Charging Dynamics of a Fluidized Granular Bed” Soft Matter 12 (2016) 6261-7.
T. Shinbrot, M. Vivar Lazo, & T. Siu, “Network simulations of optical illusions,”
Int. J. Modern Physics C 28 (2016).
T. Shinbrot, M. Rutala, A. Montessori, P. Prestininzi & S. Succi, “Paradoxical
ratcheting in cornstarch,” Physics of Fluids 27 (2015) 103101
JR Leeman, MM Scuderi, C. Marone, DM Saffer & T. Shinbrot, “On the origin
and evolution of electrical signals during frictional stick slip in sheared
granular material” Journal of Geophysical Research 119 (2014) 4253-68
KE Daniels, C. Bauer & T. Shinbrot, “Correlations between electrical and
mechanical signals during granular stick-slip events,” Gran. Matt. 16
(2014) 217-22.
T. Siu, J. Cotton, G. Mattson & T. Shinbrot, “Self-sustaining charging of
identical colliding particles,” Physical Review E 89 (2014) 052208
S. Bianchini, A. Lage, T. Siu, T. Shinbrot & E. Altshuler, “Upstream
contamination by floating particles,” Proceedings of the Royal
Society A 469 (2013) 20130067.
T. Shinbrot, NH Kim & NN Thyagu, “Electrostatic precursors to granular slip
events,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
109 (2012) 10806-10.
NN Thyagu, A. Vasilenko, A. Voyiadjis, BJ Glasser & T. Shinbrot , “Stuck in
traffic: patterns of powder adhesion,” Eur. Phys. J. E 35 (2012)
KC Pingali, T. Shinbrot, A. Cuitino, FJ Muzzio, E. Garfunkel, Y. Lifshitz, AB
Mann “AFM study of hydrophilicity on acetaminophen crystals,” Int. J.
Pharmaceutics, 438 (2012) 184-90.
KA Norton, S. Namazi, N. Barnard, M. Fujibayashi, G. Bhanot, S. Ganesan, H.
Iyatomi, K. Ogawa, & T. Shinbrot “An Automated Reconstruction
Algorithm for Identification of 3D Architectures of Cribriform Ductal
Carcinoma in Situ” PLoS ONE 7 (2012) e44011
E. Strombom, CE Caicedo-Carvajal, NN Thyagu, D. Palumbo & T. Shinbrot,
“Simple, simpler, simplest: Spontaneous pattern formation in a
commonplace system,” Amer. J. Phys. 80 (2012) 578-86.
CM Schneider, RFS Andrade, T. Shinbrot & HJ Herrmann, “The fragility of
protein-protein interaction networks,” Eur. Phys. Lett. 95 (2011)
16001
AG Voyiadjis, HM Buettner, D. Shreiber & T. Shinbrot, “Engineered in vitro/in
silico models to examine neurite target preference,” J. Neurotrauma 28
(2011) 2363-75 (+ cover)
E. Su, R. Osan & T. Shinbrot “The interplay between branching and pruning
on neuronal target search during developmental growth: functional role
and implications” PLoS ONE PLoS ONE 6 (2011) e25135
AG Voyiadjis, M. Doumi, E. Curcio & T. Shinbrot, “Fasciculation and
Defasciculation of Neurite Bundles on Micropatterned Substrates” Ann.
Biomed. Eng. 39 (2010) 559-69.
CE Caicedo-Carvajal, T. Shinbrot & RA Foty, “α5β1 Integrin-Fibronectin
Interactions Specify Liquid to Solid Phase Transition of 3D Cellular
Aggregates” PLoS One 5 (2010) e11830
T. Pähtz, HJ Herrmann, T. Shinbrot, “Why do particle clouds generate electric
charges?” Nature Physics 6 (2010) 364-8
KA Norton, M. Wininger, G. Bhanot, S. Ganesan, N. Barnard & T. Shinbrot, "A
2D mechanistic model of breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
morphology and progression" J. Theoretical Biology 263 (2010):393406
HJ Seybold, P. Molnar, AM Devrim, M. Doumi, M. Cavalcanti Tavares, T.
Shinbrot, HJ Herrmann & W. Kinzelbach, "The topography of an inland
delta: observations, modeling, experiments" Geophysical Research
Letters 37 (2010) L08402.
CJ Caicedo-Carvajal, R. Foty & T. Shinbrot, “Cellular Morphogenesis In Silico,”
Biophysical Journal 97 (2009) 958-967.
KR LaMarche, FJ Muzzio, T. Shinbrot & BJ Glasser, “Granular flow and
dielectrophoresis: the effect of electrostatic forces on adhesion and flow
of dielectric granular materials,” Powder Technology 199 (2010) 1808.
K. LaMarche, K. Shah, X. Liu, T. Shinbrot & BJ Glasser, “Electrostatic charging
during the flow of grains from a cylinder” Powder Technology 195
(2009) 158-65.
KR LaMarche, MJ Metzger, BJ Glasser & T. Shinbrot, "Shape-mediated
ordering in granular blends," Physical Review E 81 (2010) 052301.
T. Shimada, D. Kadau, T. Shinbrot & HJ Herrmann, “Swimming in granular
media” Physical Review E 80 (2009) 020301 1-4
KC Pingali, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, “Use of a static eliminator to improve
powder flow,” International Journal of Pharmaceutics 369 (2009)
2-4
CJ Caicedo-Carvajal & T. Shinbrot, “In silico Zebrafish pattern formation”
Developmental Biology 315 (2008) 397-403.
T. Shinbrot & W. Young, “Why decussate? - Topological constraints on
neuronal wiring, development, and regeneration” Anatomical Record
291 (2008) 1278-92.
KC Pingali, T. Shinbrot, SV Hammond & FJ Muzzio, “An observed correlation
between flow and electrical properties of pharmaceutical blends,”
Powder Technology 192 (2009) 157-65
T. Shinbrot, TS Komatsu & Q. Zhao, “Spontaneous tribocharging of similar
materials,” Europhysics Letters 83 (2008) 24004 1-4
A. Mehrotra, FJ Muzzio & T. Shinbrot, “Spontaneous separation of charged
grains,” Physical Review Letters 99 (2007) 058001 1-4.
T. Shinbrot, NH Duong, M. Hettenbach & L. Kwan, “Coexisting static and
flowing regions in a centrifuging granular heap,” Granular Matter 9
(2007) 295-307.
CE Caicedo-Carvajal, BJ Glasser & T. Shinbrot, “Granular flow transitions on
sinusoidal surfaces,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 556 (2006) 253-69.
T. Shinbrot, “Simulated morphogenesis of developmental folds due to
proliferative pressure,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 242 (2006)
764-73.
KR LaMarche, SL Conway, BJ Glasser & T. Shinbrot, “Cellular automata model
of gravity-driven granular flows,” Granular Matter 9 (2006) 219-29.
T. Shinbrot, K. LaMarche & BJ Glasser, “Triboelectrification and Razorbacks:
geophysical patterns produced in dry grains,” Physical Review Letters
96 (2006) 178002.
PE Arratia, T. Shinbrot, MM Alvarez & FJ Muzzio, “Mixing of non-Newtonian
fluids in steadily forced systems,” Physical Review Letters 94 (2005)
084501 1-4.
S. Maskery, HM Buettner & T. Shinbrot, “Growth cone pathfinding: a
competition between deterministic and stochastic events” Biomed.
Central Neuroscience 5 (2004)
PE Arratia, MM Alvarez, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, “3D Chaotic Mixing” Physics
of Fluids 16 (2004) S8.
A. Alexander, FJ Muzzio & T. Shinbrot “Effects of Scale and Inertia on
Granular Banding Segregation” Granular Matter 5 (2004) 171-5.
A. Alexander, T. Shinbrot, B. Johnson & FJ Muzzio “V-blender segregation
patterns for free-flowing materials: effects of blender capacity and fill
level,” International Journal of Pharmaceutics 269 (2004) 19-28.
PE Arratia, JP LaCombe, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, “Segregated regions in
continuous laminar stirred tank reactors,” Chemical Engineering
Science 59 (2004) 1481-90.
T. Shinbrot, NH Duong, L. Kwan & MM Alvarez, “Dry granular flows can
resemble some Martian geological features attributed to liquid flow”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101
(2004) 8542-6.
NH Duong, E. Shen, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, “Segregation in granular
materials and the direct measurement of surface forces using atomic
force microscopy,” Powder Technology 145 (2004) 69-72
SL Conway, T. Shinbrot, BJ Glasser “A Taylor Vortex Analogy in Granular
Flows” Nature 431 (2004) 433-6
NH Duong, A. Hosoi & T. Shinbrot “Periodic knolls and valleys: Coexistence of
Solid and Liquid States in Granular Suspensions” Physical Review
Letters 92 (2004) 224502 1-4.
MM Alvarez, JM Zalc, T. Shinbrot, P. Arratia & FJ Muzzio, “Mechanisms of
Mixing and Creation of Structure in a Laminar Stirred Tank” American
Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal 48 (2002) 2135-48.
MM Alvarez, T. Shinbrot, J. Zalc & FJ Muzzio, “Practical Chaotic Mixing,”
Chemical Engineering Science 57 (2002) 3749-53
D. Goldfarb, BJ Glasser & T. Shinbrot, "Shear Instabilites in a Granular Flow",
Nature 415 (2002) 302-5.
A. Alexander, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio “Scaling surface velocities in rotating
cylinders as a function of vessel radius, rotation rate & particle size,”
Powder Technology 126 (2002) 174-90.
SL Conway, DJ Goldfarb, T. Shinbrot & BJ Glasser, “Free Surface Waves in
Wall-Bounded Convection,” Physical Review Letters 90 (2002)
074301-1-4.
T. Shinbrot, MM Alvarez &, JM Zalc & FJ Muzzio, "Attraction of Minute
Particles to Invariant Regions of Volume Preserving Flows by
Transients," Physical Review Letters 86 (2001) 1207-10.
AW Alexander, T Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio "Granular Segregation in the Double
Cone Blender: Transitions and Mechanisms," Physics of Fluids A 13
(2001) 578-87.
RM Lueptow, A. Akonur & T. Shinbrot, "PIV for Granular Flows,"
Experiments in Fluids 28 (2000), 183-6.
T. Shinbrot, L. Lomelo & FJ Muzzio, "Harmonic Patterns in Fine Granular
Vibrated Beds" Granular Matter 2 (2000) 65-9.
T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, "Nonequilibrium Patterns in Granular Mixing and
Segregation," Physics Today (March, 2000) 25-30.
T. Shinbrot & K. Scarbrough, "Using Variability to Regulate Long Term
Biological Rhythms," Journal of Theoretical Biology 196 (1999) 45571.
T. Shinbrot, AW Alexander & FJ Muzzio, "Spontaneous Chaotic Granular
Mixing" Nature 397 (1999) 675-8.
T. Shinbrot, L. Bresler & JM Ottino, "Manipulation of isolated structures in
experimental chaotic fluid flows," Experimental Thermal & Fluid
Science 16 (1998) 76-83.
M. Rudolph, T. Shinbrot & RM Lueptow, "A Model of Mixing and Transport in
Wavy Taylor-Couette Flow," Physica D 121 (1998) 163-174.
T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, "Reverse Buoyancy in Shaken Granular Beds,"
Physical Review Letters 81 (1998) 4365-8.
T. Shinbrot, "Granular Coarsening," Granular Matter 1 (1998) 145-8.
DV Khakhar, JJ McCarthy, T. Shinbrot & JM Ottino, "Transverse Flow & Mixing
of Granular Materials in a Rotating Cylinder" Physics of Fluids 9 (1997)
31-43.
L. Bresler, T. Shinbrot, G. Metcalfe & JM Ottino, "Isolated Mixing Regions:
Origin, Robustness and Control" Chemical Engineering Science 52
(1997) 1623-36.
T. Shinbrot, DV Khakhar, JJ McCarthy & JM Ottino, "A Role for Voids in
Granular Convection," Physical Review E 55 (1997) 6121-33.
T. Shinbrot, DV Khakhar & JM Ottino, "A Simple Model for Granular
Convection," Physical Review Letters 79 (1997) 829-32.
T. Shinbrot, "Competition Between Randomizing Impacts and Inelastic
Collisions in Granular Pattern Formation" Nature 389 (1997) 574-6.
T. Shinbrot, L. Bresler & JM Ottino, "Control of Transport in a Chaotic
Lattice," Physica D 93 (1996) 191-209.
JJ McCarthy, EJ Wolf, T. Shinbrot, G. Metcalfe & JM Ottino, "Mixing of
Granular Materials in Slowly Rotated Containers," American Institute
of Chemical Engineers Journal 42 (1996) 3351-3.
T. Shinbrot & JM Ottino, "Maps, PDE's and Solitary Waves," International
Journal of Bifurcations & Chaos 5 (1995) 955-70
G. Metcalfe , T. Shinbrot, JJ McCarthy & JM Ottino, "Avalanche Mixing of
Granular Solids," Nature 374 (1995) 39-41 (cover article)
T. Shinbrot, "Synchronization of Coupled Maps and Stable Windows,"
Physical Review E 50 (1994) 3230-3.
T. Shinbrot & JM Ottino, "A Geometric Method to Create Coherent Structures
in Chaotic Flows" Physical Review Letters 71 (1993) 843-7.
T. Shinbrot, E. Ott, C. Grebogi & JA Yorke, "Using Chaos to Direct Orbits to
Targets in Systems Describable by a 1D Map," Physical Review A 45
(1992) 4165-8.
T. Shinbrot, C. Grebogi, J. Wisdom & JA Yorke, "Chaos in a Double
Pendulum", American Journal of Physics 60 (1992) 491-9 (voted
among the more memorable papers of past 60 years).
T. Shinbrot, C. Grebogi, E. Ott & JA Yorke, "Using Chaos to Target Stationary
States of Flows," Physics Letters A 169 (1992) 349-54.
T. Shinbrot, W. Ditto, C. Grebogi, E. Ott, M. Spano & JA Yorke, "Using the
Sensitive Dependence of Chaos (the 'Butterfly Effect') to Direct Orbits to
Targets in an Experimental Chaotic System," Physical Review Letters
68 (1992) 2863-6.
A. Harding, T. Shinbrot & J. Cordes, "A Chaotic Attractor in the Vela Pulsar?",
Astrophysical Journal 353 (1990) 588-96
T. Shinbrot, E. Ott, C. Grebogi & JA Yorke, "Using Chaos to Direct
Trajectories to Targets", Physical Review Letters 65 (1990) 3215-8.
T. Shinbrot, "A Novel Model of Contact Charging," Journal of Electrostatics
(May 1983).
Book
Chapters:
T. Shinbrot, “Controlling Chaos,” Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science (Taylor &
Francis, NY 2004);
FJ Muzzio, AW Alexander, C. Goodridge, E. Shen & T. Shinbrot “Part A:
Fundamentals of Solids Mixing” Chapter 15, Handbook of Industrial
Mixing, Kresta, Paul, Atiemo-Obeng ed’s (John Wiley & Sons, NY 2003).
T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, "Mixing and segregation in tumbling blenders,"
Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology (Marcel-Dekker, 2002)
1805-20.
T. Shinbrot "Using Chaotic Sensitivity," Handbook of Chaos Control, HG
Schuster, ed. (Wiley, NY, 1999).
JM Ottino, & T. Shinbrot, "Comparing Extremes: Mixing of Fluids, Mixing of
Solids," Mixing: Chaos and Turbulence, Chaté et al., ed's, (Kluwer
Academic/Plenum, NY 1999) 163-86.
T. Shinbrot, "Chaos, Coherence & Control," Flow Control -- Fundamentals and
Practices, M. Gad-el-Hak et al., ed's (Springer, Berlin, 1998) 501-27.
T. Shinbrot, et al. "Control: Targeting and Goal Dynamics," Chap. 11 Coping
with Chaos, ed's. E. Ott, T. Sauer & JA Yorke (Wiley, NY 1994).
Reviews:
T. Shinbrot & JM Ottino, Review of: Chaos & Nonlinear Dynamics (Hilborn)
and Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos (Strogatz) American Institute of
Chemical Engineers Journal 1831-2. (July 1995).
Patents:
T. Shinbrot “Frictionless vacuum feeder for book copying” Canadian Patent
1,282,085
T. Shinbrot & Y. Kuo “Document Feeder,” Canadian Patent 1,291,491.
T. Shinbrot & Y. Kuo "Document Feeder for Moving Platen Copiers," US
Patent 4,707,133.
T. Shinbrot "Frictionless Feeder for Book Copying," US Patent 4,673,286.
T. Shinbrot "Page Flipper for Book Copying," US Patent 4,663,873.
G. Garavuso & T. Shinbrot "Platen Transport and Vacuum Plenum for Book
Copying," US Patent 4,693,594.
Science
Commentaries: T. Shinbrot “Stem cell research…” Home News Tribune (New Jersey
Newspaper), 6/16/04.
T. Shinbrot “Exploitation of junior scientists must end” Nature 399 (1999)
521.
T. Shinbrot “Academic Decision Making” Science 263 (1994) 455.
T. Shinbrot “A Journal for Unorthodox Thought?” Physics Today (March,
1992) 102.
My research has also been the subject of feature articles in: Science, Nature, Scientific
American, Discover, Science News, New Scientist, The Scientist, Reuters, BBC, New
York Times, Washington Post, Albuquerque Journal, Chicago Tribune, etc.
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Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology
SIAM, Snowbird
ETH, Zürich
University of Havana, Cuba
Gordon Conference on Granular Flow
Electrostatics Society of America
University of Limerick, Ireland
Electrostatics Society of America
KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
DARPA Granular Workshop
Princeton University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Krasnow Institute, George Mason University
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana, Geology Colloquium
17th Int’l Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics Of Electronic Systems,
Rapperswil, Switzerland
2009: Gordon Conference on Nonlinear Science, Mt. Holyoke College
2009: Lafayette College, Applied Life Sciences
2009: Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
2008: American Geophysical Union Annual meeting, San Francisco, CA
2008: University of Zürich, Irchel, Inst. for Neuroinformatics
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International Winter Workshop on Complex Systems, Lavin, Switzerland
University of Bayreuth, Germany, Dept. of Experimentalphysik
Complex Systems Symposium, ETH, Hönggerberg, Switzerland
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Dept. of Physics
Statphys06: Statics & Dynamics of Granular Media & Colloidal
Suspensions, Napoli, IT, declined
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Millersville University, Dept. of Physics
4th Int’l Conf. on Applied Math’s & Computing, Plotdiv, Bulgaria, declined
University of Rennes & CNRS, France
Gordon Research Conference on Granular-Fluid Flows
Computational Tumor Modeling Workshop, DIMACS
Traffic & Granular Flow ’05, Berlin, Germany, declined
Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics, Chennai, India, declined
Cornell University, Dept. of Mech. Engineering
Georgia Inst. Of Technology, Complex Systems Colloquium
Delaware State University
Emory University, Dept. of Physics
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, declined
Boston University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Argonne National Laboratory, Granular Flow Workshop
American Physical Society general meeting, Austin, TX
Haverford College, Physics Colloquium
University of California at Berkeley, Dept. of Physics
London Mathematical Society
Penn. State University, Dept. of Physics
American Association of Physics Teachers, Rochester, NY
Pfizer, Inc., Groton, CT
American Physical Society general meeting, Minneapolis, MN
West Virginia University, Dept. of Physics
University of Connecticut, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of California at San Diego, Inst. for Nonlinear Science
Princeton University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
NASA Glenn Research Center, Granular Flow minicourse
National Academy of Sciences, "Frontiers of Science"
Segregation in Granular Flows workshop, Cape May, NJ
University of Maryland, Dynamics Seminar
Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Argonne National Laboratory, Granular Flow Workshop
University of Illinois, Chicago, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
University of Florida, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Ohio University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
GI Taylor Symposium, ASME, ASCE, SES joint mechanics meeting
Dynamics Days, Tempé, AZ
University of Minnesota, Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics Dept.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept. of Physics
University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
University of Minnesota, Electrical Engineering Dept.
University of Chicago, James Franck Inst.
NATO ASI Short Course, Cargèse, France
Institute d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse, Corsica, France
University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept. of Applied Mathematics
University of California at Santa Barbara, Dept. of Mathematics
1995: SIAM Dynamical Systems Conference, Snowbird, Utah
1995: University of Victoria, British Columbia, Dept. of Mathematics
1995: MIT, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
1995: University of Chicago, Granular Materials Conference
1994: University of Chicago, James Franck Inst.
1994: University of Toronto, Ontario, Dept. of Physics
1994: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1994: Illinois Institute of Technology, Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Eng'g
1994: Cornell University, Dept. of Mech. Engineering
1994: Los Alamos National Labs, Center for Nonlinear Studies
1994: Northwestern University, Dept. of Eng. Sci. & Applied Mathematics
1994: American Physical Society general meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
1993: Northwestern University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
1993: Northwestern University, Dept. of Eng. Sci. & Applied Mathematics
1993: University of Illinois, Urbana, Dept. of Physics
1993: University of Missouri, Dept. of Physics
1993: Université de Montréal, Québec, Centre de Rechérches Mathematiques
1993: Fields Institute, Waterloo, Ontario
1992: University of Illinois, Urbana, Beckmann Inst.
1992: University of Maryland, Dynamics Seminar
1992: Northwestern University, Dept. of Mathematics
1992: National Institutes of Health, Mathematical Modeling Branch
1992: MIT, Dept. of Mathematics
1992: Naval Research Labs, Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar
1992: Duke University, Dept. of Physics
1991: University of Maryland, Dynamics Seminar
1991: Experimental Chaos Conference, Crystal City, VA
1990: University of Maryland, Dynamics Seminar
Reviewer for: AAAS Women’s Int’l Sci. Collab. Pgm
ASME J. of Heat Transfer
Amer. Inst. Chem. Eng. Journal
American Journal of Physics
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Applied Mechanics Reviews
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Automatica
Biophysical Journal
CHAOS
European Research Council
Europhysics Letters
Geology
Granular Matter
Icarus
IEEE T. Auto Ctrl & T. C&S
Physics Letters A
Journal of the American Chemical Society
FONDECYT (Chile)
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Journal of Rheology
Journal of Statistical Physics
Journal of Vibration and Control
Langmuir
Latin American Applied Research
Measurement Science & Technol.
Nature
Nature Reviews Mol. Cell Biology
Nature Physics
NASA
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Nonlinearity
Physica D
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Physics of Fluids A
Physical Review E
Physical Review Letters
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Proc. of the Royal Society A
Reviews of Modern Physics
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Science
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Emergency Medical Technician: Oregon, 1981
Black Belt, Karate: New Jersey, 2005
Black Belt II, Karate: New Jersey, 2009