Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth: 28 November 1948

Place of Birth: Spirit Lake, Iowa, USA (It's where Lake Okiboji is!!)

Education

BS in Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1977
PhD in Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1983 Link to Swinney's group

1999 - Civil & Mechanical Division, School of Engineering, University of Warwick
1991-1998 Departments of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Warwick
1987-1991 Department of Mathematics, University of Warwic
1985-1987 Post-doctoral RA, Mathematics Department, Imperial College, London, UK
1983-1984 Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Signals and Radar Estab, Gt Malvern, UK
1972-1976 Materials Analyst, The Howard Finley Corp, Houston, Texas
1970-1971 US Army, Vietnam
1967-1970 Medical Laboratory Technician, Houston, Texas

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

IMA Invited Visitor (1997 - 98), at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, USA.
Invited Lecturer (1997), EPSRC Applied Nonlinear Mathematics Spring School, Loughborough, UK
Scientific meetings organized:

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.
ICIAM Mini-Symposium on Mixing with Chaos: Fundamentals, Applications, New Directions, International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Edinburgh 4-9 July 99.
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).
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.
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.

Teaching Interests