Kaplan-Yorke attractor (created with Dynamics)

Nonlinear Dynamics Personnel

What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe! - Blaise Pascal.

Washington Area Chaos Group photo

This October 15, 1998 photo of the Washington Area Chaos Group includes scientists, faculty, visitors, and graduate students from George Mason University, Howard University, The Naval Academy, Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center, University of Delaware, University of Maryland, including mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and biologists. The occasion of the photo? we sent out an email announcement that a chaos group photo would be taken after the seminar. A list of the people in the photo is available


Faculty
Edward Ott - Chaotic dynamics and applications to physics and engineering James A. Yorke - Nonlinear dynamics, epidemiology, genomics
Brian Hunt - Dynamical systems theory and applications Daniel P. Lathrop - Turbulence, magnetic dynamics, nonlinear fluid behavior
Wolfgang Losert - Granular media, soft condensed matter, pattern formations Rajarshi Roy - Nonlinear dynamics of optical systems
K. R. Sreenivasan - Turbulence

Associated Faculty
Steve Anlage - Microwave experiments on wave chaos Tom Antonsen - Wave chaos, chaotic advection in fluids
Bob Dorfman - Chaos in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics David Levermore - PDE, fluids, kinetic theory
Richard Prauge - Wave chaos

Grad Students
S. J. Baek Romulus Breban Chris Danforth Somantika Datta Ian Frommer Angela Grant
J. T. Halbert John Harlim Ryan Lance Su Li Mike Oczkowski Will Ott
Jonathan Ozik Brandy Rapatski Juan G. Restrepo Suzanne Sindi Yue-Kin Tsang Cevat Ustun
Xing "Henry" Zheng Aleksey Zimin