GREG CHINI

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Co-director, Program in Integrated Applied Mathematics
Ph.D., Cornell University

Geophysical, environmental, biological (pulmonary) and industrial fluid dynamics, physical applied mathematics, applied nonlinear PDEs, multiscale asymptotic/numerical methods, equation hierarchies for ocean modeling, model reduction for infinite-dimensional, dissipative nonlinear dynamical systems.

 KEVIN SHORT

University Professor & Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Co-director, Program in Integrated Applied Mathematics
Ph.D., Imperial College of Science and Technology, London

Nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear signal processing, unstable periodic orbits.

Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D., Princeton University

Theoretical plasma physics and astrophysics, including plasma turbulence, the solar wind, galaxy clusters, astrophysical magnetic fields, and cosmic rays.

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D., Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf

High performance, massively parallel numerical methods for plasma physics, in particular block-structured adaptive mesh refinement to efficiently resolve a large range of spatial scales and implicit Newton-Krylov-Schwarz based methods to overcomestability limitations present in explicit numerical schemes, in application to fast reconnection processes in two-fluid systems in laboratory and space plasmas.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Ph.D., Cornell University

Dynamical systems, computational mathematics, and turbulence. How unstable nonlinear solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations structure the dynamics of turbulence.

Presidential Professor & Professor of Physics, Department of Physics
Graduate Director, Department of Physics
Professor, Space Science Center (EOS)
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Space physics, solar-terrestrial theory.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Numerical analysis, Scientific Computing, and Partial Differential Equations. Applications including Fluid Mechanics and Solid Mechanics.

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D., University of Michigan

Fluid mechanics and applied math, internal waves in the atmosphere of earth and other planets, origins of the deep ocean circulations, non-linear waves on the surface of a fluid, and mesoscale oceanic vortices.

JAMES PRINGLE

Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Joint Program

Dynamics of coastal circulation, interactions of coastal and estuarine circulation in large estuaries, the effects of alongshore currents in species composition, allele frequency, and relative fitness of species, and the impact of coastal circulation on the transport of zooplankton and icthyoplankton.

JOACHIM (JIMMY) RAEDER

Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D., Universität zu Köln, Germany

Magnetohydrodynamics, magnetospheric physics, space weather, high performance computing, numerical algorithms, visualization, space weather.

MARIANNA SHUBOV

Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Ph.D., St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University

Fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, biofluid dynamics, with emphasis on flutter problems, spectral analysis of nonselfadjoint operators in a Hilbert spaces, asymptotic analysis, mathematical control theory of distributed parameter systems, resonances in acoustical and quantum scattering theory.