Experience:

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Texas at Austin (2004-2007)

Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Texas at Austin (2003-2004,2007)


Education:

Ph.D. (Physics)
University of Texas at Austin (2004-2007)
Advisor: Harry L. Swinney

M.A. (Physics)
University of Texas at Austin (2003-2005)
Advisor: Harry L. Swinney

B.A. (Physics), mcl
Harvard College (1999-2003)


Honors:

David Bruton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship
University of Texas at Austin (2006-2007)

Tel: (512) 203-5525

2008 News:

• I finished my PhD! My dissertation and defense talk are available on my Publications page. 1-10-2008
• Nature "2007 in Review" selected an image and video of the bouncing jet as an "Image of the Year" and a "Top 10 Video of 2007." A Gallery of all of the Images of the Year can be viewed at [Gallery]. The bouncing jet image is available at [HTML] and [PDF]. The Top 10 videos can be viewed at [HTML] 1-10-2008
• UT's College of Natural Science will carry a short piece on the bouncing jet in their magazine Focus on Science. 01-10-2008
• Prof. Guido Caldarelli used an image of one of our viscous fingering experiments in his book, Scale-free networks Oxford University Press, Oxford (2007). It is in Fig. 3.12 left, page 76. 01-10-2008
• Older news is listed farther down the page.

Research Interests:

Viscous Fingering	Bouncing Jet

I am interested in fluid dynamics, interfacial instabilities, and the patterns formed by unstable growth processes. I am especially interested in those phenomena which are observable in everyday life.

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Conferences and Talks

Teaching

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CV (ps, pdf)

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Personal Site

Affiliations:

• Center for Nonlinear Dynamics
• Department of Physics
• American Physical Society
• American Association of Physics Teachers

2007 News:

• The New York Times Syndicate has decided to distribute photos of the bouncing jet to international newspapers and magazines. 10-22-2007
• The 2007 Gallery of Fluid Motion is now online with the bouncing jet movies available here. You can read a transcript of the video here. The Gallery paper is also available here as a PDF. 10-22-2007
• Scientific American included the bouncing jet in its Gallery section. You can read the clip directly here. 10-07-2007
• Sciences et Avenir ran a short piece on the bouncing jet "L'huile fait des bonds", which you can download here: [html] [jpg] [pdf] and a Babelfish translation is here. Thanks to Gérard Tayeb for the scan. 09-05-2007
• Pour la Science, the French edition of Scientific American, plans to run a short news story on the bouncing jet. You can read the article "Le jet qui rebondit" here. 08-03-2007
• bild der wissenschaft has an article in German on the bouncing jet: "Öl beim Hürdenlauf" 07-27-2007
• Die Zeit plans to carry a short piece on the bouncing jet. You can download the article here. 07-27-2007
• UT's College of Natural Science has a link on its homepage to the Nature News article. 07-25-2007
• Iran Daily carried a piece on the bouncing jet in its Science section. 07-23-2007
• Science News includes a short piece titled "Slick Serpant." (Full text is available to subscribers only.) 07-23-2007
• Nature News has a piece on the bouncing jet titled "Liquids bounce again." 07-20-2007
• Movies about the Bouncing Jet are now available. 07-19-2007
• IoP's PhysicsWeb features the bouncing jet in "Liquid jets bounce along" (You must sign-in to read, but an account is free.). 07-19-2007
• Paper titled "The Universality Class of Diffusion Limited Aggregation and Viscous Fingering" was chosen as a Europhysics Letters Editorial Board highlight of 2006. 02-02-2007