Curriculum Vitae
Date of Birth: 28 November 1948
Place of Birth: Spirit Lake, Iowa, USA (It's where Lake Okiboji
is!!)
Education
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BS in Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1977
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PhD in Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1983
Link
to Swinney's group
CAREER
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1999 - Civil & Mechanical
Division, School of Engineering, University of Warwick
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1991-1998 Departments of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Warwick
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1987-1991 Department of Mathematics, University of Warwic
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1985-1987 Post-doctoral RA, Mathematics Department, Imperial College, London,
UK
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1983-1984 Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Signals and Radar Estab, Gt Malvern,
UK
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1972-1976 Materials Analyst, The Howard Finley Corp, Houston, Texas
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1970-1971 US Army, Vietnam
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1967-1970 Medical Laboratory Technician, Houston, Texas
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
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IMA Invited Visitor (1997 - 98), at the Institute for Mathematics
and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, USA.
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Invited Lecturer (1997), EPSRC Applied Nonlinear Mathematics
Spring School, Loughborough, UK
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Scientific meetings organized:
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Member of Organizing and Scientific Committee for the 2nd International
Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid EngineeringSeptember
20--23, 1999 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.
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ICIAM Mini-Symposium on Mixing with Chaos:
Fundamentals, Applications, New Directions, International Congress
of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Edinburgh 4-9 July 99.
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Mir@w Workshop on Mixing with Chaos: The application of
nonlinear dynamics to the mixing and stirring of fluids, Mathematics
Institute, University of Warwick (8 March, 1999).
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Member of the Organizing Committee for the 1st International
Symposium on Ultrasonic Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Engineering
September 9--11, 1996 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.
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Co-organiser (with Prof P G Drazin, Bristol) of IUTAM Symposium and NATO
Advanced Research Workshop on Interpretation of Time Series from Nonlinear
Mechanical Systems, held at the University of Warwick, August
26-30, 1991.
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Editorships:
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Guest Editor (with P.G. Drazin), Physica D, Volume 58, 1992.
Research
Contracts
Teaching Interests
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Geophysical and Environmental fluid dynamics, Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
Research
Interests