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Fall 2012 Cover.Indd 1 10/15/12 3:08 PM FALL 2012 Contents VOLUME 19 • NUMBER 3
The Magazine of Rhodes College • Fall 2012 THE SCIENCES AT RHODES Past, Present and Future Fall 2012 cover.indd 1 10/15/12 3:08 PM FALL 2012 Contents VOLUME 19 • NUMBER 3 2 Campus News Briefs on campus happenings 5 The Sciences at Rhodes—Past, Present and Future Conversations with faculty, alumni and current students who majored in or are currently engaged in one of the six science disciplines Rhodes offers: 6 The Biochemists and Molecular Biologists Professor Terry Hill, Amanda Johnson Winters ’99, Ross 10 Hilliard ’07, Xiao Wang ’13 10 The Biologists Professor Gary Lindquester, Veronica Lawson Gunn ’91, Brian Wamhoff ’96, Anahita Rahimi-Saber ’13 14 The Chemists Professor Darlene Loprete, Sid Strickland ’68, Tony Capizzani ’95, Ashley Tufton ’13 18 The Environmental Scientists Professor Rosanna Cappellato, Cary Fowler ’71, Christopher Wilson ’95, Alix Matthews ’14 22 The Neuroscientists Professor Robert Strandburg, Jim Robertson ’53 and Jon Robertson ’68, Michael Long ’97, Piper Carroll ’13 14 26 The Physicists Professor Brent Hoffmeister, Harry Swinney ’61, Charles Robertson Jr. ’65, Lars Monia ’15 30 A Case for the Support of the Sciences at Rhodes The importance of strengthening the sciences in the 21st century 32 Alumni News Class Notes, In Memoriam The 2011-2012 Honor Roll of Donors On the Cover From left: Alix Matthews ’14, Ashley Tufton ’13, Piper Carroll ’13, Lars Monia ’15 and Xiao Wang ’13, fi ve of the six science majors featured in this issue, at the Lynx 26 sculpture in front of the Peyton Nalle Rhodes Tower, home of the Physics Department Photography by Justin Fox Burks Contents_Fall ’12.indd 1 10/15/12 3:05 PM is published three times a year by Rhodes College, 2000 N. -
Thermodynamics of Chaotic Systems
This book deals with the various thermodynamic concepts used for the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems. The most important concepts are introduced in such a way as to stress the inter- connections with thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The basic ideas of the thermodynamic formalism of dynamical systems are explained in the language of physics. The book is an elementary introduction to the subject and no advanced mathematical preknowledge on the part of the reader is required. Among the subjects treated are probabilistic aspects of chaotic dynamics, the symbolic dynamics technique, information measures, the maximum entropy principle, general thermodynamic relations, spin systems, fractals and multifractals, expansion rate and information loss, the topological pressure, transfer operator methods, repellers and escape. The more advanced chapters deal with the thermodynamic formalism for expanding maps, thermodynamic analysis of chaotic systems with several intensive parameters, and phase transitions in nonlinear dynamics. Written for students and scientists working in physics and related fields, this easily readable introduction can also be used as a textbook for special courses. Thermodynamics of chaotic systems Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series 4 Series editors Professor Boris Chirikov, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk Professor Predrag Cvitanovic, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen Professor Frank Moss, University of Missouri-St Louis Professor Harry Swinney, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, The University of Texas at Austin Titles in this series 1 Weak chaos and quasi-regular patterns G. M. Zaslavsky, R. Z. Sagdeev, D. A. Usikov and A. A. Chernikov 2 Quantum chaos: a new paradigm for nonlinear dynamics K. Nakamura 3 Chaos, dynamics and fractals: an algorithmic approach to deterministic chaos J. -
August 30, 2016 Harry L. Swinney Sid Richardson Foundation Regents
August 30, 2016 Harry L. Swinney Sid Richardson Foundation Regents Chair Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin email: [email protected] phone: 512-471-4619 homepage: http://chaos.utexas.edu/swinney Education: B.S. with Honors (physics), Rhodes College, 1961 Ph.D. (physics), Johns Hopkins University, 1968; \The Spectrum of Light Scattered by Carbon Dioxide in the Critical Region" Advisor: Herman Z. Cummins Experience: 1990- Sid Richardson Foundation University of Texas at Austin Regents Chair in Physics 1984-90 Trull Centennial Professor University of Texas at Austin 1983(fall) Visiting Scientist Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (Bordeaux) 1978-84 Professor University of Texas at Austin 1978 Professor City College of CUNY 1973-77 Associate Professor City College of CUNY 1971-73 Assistant Professor New York University 1970-71 Visiting Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins University 1968-70 Research Associate Johns Hopkins University Honors: 2013 Boltzmann Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, awarded at Statphys25 (Seoul) \for his ingenious and challenging experiments, which have had a large impact on many areas of statistical physics" 2013 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Rhodes College 2012 Celebration of accomplishments of H. Swinney, J. Reppy (Cornell) and J. Sengers (U. Maryland) at the 108th Statistical Mechanics Conference 2012 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal of the European Geosciences Union, \For his pioneering experiments on deterministic chaos and highly original models of geophysical flows" -
Physics Newsletter 2006
Physics Newsletter SPRING 2008 Issue No. 8 University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Physics College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics INSIDE Letter from the Department Head ...........3 New Faculty ....................4 Research .....................6 Teaching ......................8 Graduate Students ..........9 Outreach and Service .........................10 People ............................11 Awards .........................13 INTEGRATED SCIENCE BUILDING Staff ............................14 In Memoriam ....................15 Alumni News ..................16 he University of Massachusetts Amherst has seen more than its share of change in New Alumni ...................22 the time since our last Newsletter. John Lombardi, our dynamic chancellor since Gifts ...............................23 2002, left in August to become president of the Louisiana State University System, T an excellent match to his experience and leadership qualities. His outspoken style and candor appealed to the LSU Board of Supervisors as they had to our faculty and Editors: Bob Krotkov students. While he was our chancellor, he started a $1 billion-plus capital improvement Ken Langley Gerry Peterson campaign that includes many needed renovations as well as new construction. As shown Monroe Rabin above, across the street from our venerable Hasbrouck Laboratory, a new Integrated Hajime Sakai Science Building will soon be completed. On the next page we give the reader a brief tour of some of the other construction that is part of John Lombardi’s legacy. He also initiated Design & Production: the Amherst 250 Plan to hire 50 new tenure-track professors each year over five years, Brigette McKenna and supported an effective plan for minority students. After retirement, he plans to live in nearby Pelham. Dr. Thomas W. Cole, former president of Atlanta Clark University, serves as interim chancellor until a permanent chancellor is appointed.