Physics 513: Related Links

Course Links:

• Syllabus
• Lectures
• Homeworks
• Miscellaneous
• Other nonlinear dynamics courses:
  • Chaos and Time Series Analysis by Clint Sprott at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
  • Chaos on the Web. by Mike Cross, an online course on nonlinear dynamics.
  • Chaotic dynamics by Elizabeth Bradley at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
  • Dynamics of Complex Systems, by Yaneer Bar-Yam, online book.
  • Nonlinear dynamics and chaos by Eli Tziperman at Harvard.
  • Physics 413 by Len Sanders at the University of Michigan.

Duke Links:

• Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics Seminar.
• Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems Seminars (CNCS).

• CNCS/Physics 201 : Discussion Seminar on Nonlinear and Complex Systems.
• Physics 313 : Advanced Topics in Nonlinear and Complex Systems

• Physics Department.

Journals:

• arXiv nonlinear dynamics preprint database. American Journal of Physiology
• Annals of Biomedical Engineering
• Chaos
• Journal of Fluid Dynamics.
• Journal of Theoretical Biology.
• Nature
• Nonlinear Science Today.
• Mathematica Journal
• Nonlinear Science Today.
• Physica D.
• Physics Focus    Easy-to-read brief summaries of recent Physical Review Letters.
• Physics News Update    Easy-to-read brief summaries of general advances in Physics, often with nice graphics.
• Physical Review E Online.
• Physical Review Letters Online.    The premier physics journal for new important results.
• Physics Today    Monthly magazine of the American Physical Society.
• Science    The premier American journal for important results in all areas of science.

Miscellaneous:

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) in nonlinear dynamics.
• Giving a talk
  • APS Guidelines for talks and posters.
• Java demos
  • Chaos control (Ott-Grebogi-Yorke algorithm) of the Henon map, by T. Vincent.
  • Fractals in Music, Java applets to study 1/f music, Brown music, etc.
  • Exploring Chaos, Java applets and book by Brian Davies.
  • Mike Cross's Java demos.
  • Time series of the logistic map.
• Millenium Prize Problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute.
• New England Complex Systems Institute.
• Nonlinear art:
  • 3D strange attractors of Tim Stilson.
  • Fractal art.
• Visualization of Complex Dynamical Systems.
• Software tools
  • Singular Spectrum Analysis - MultiTaper Method (SSA-MTM) Toolkit, program to analyze short, noisy time series as well as multivariate data
• Time series data
  • PhysioNet, public collection of physiological time series.
  • Sunspot data from the Mt. Wilson Observatory 150-ft solar tower.

Some Duke nonlinear researchers:

1. Bob Behringer, granular flow, convection experiments.
2. Earl Dowell, theory of nonlinear fluid and structural systems with engineering applications.
3. Dan Gauthier, nonlinear dynamics, control of lasers and hearts.
4. Henry Greenside, spatiotemporal chaos, dynamics of convecting fluids, theoretical neurobiology.
5. Peter Haff, pattern formation in geological systems.
6. Craig Henriquez, computational biomedical engineering of heart and brain tissue.
7. Gabriel Katul, transport near the land-atmosphere interface.
8. Anna Lin, pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems and biological systems.
9. Brad Murray, terrestrial and coastal morphology.
10. Fred Nijhout, pattern formation in butterfly wings, genetic pathways.
11. Richard Palmer, spin glasses, evolutionary economics, genetic algorithms, emergence of structure.
12. Josh Socolar, granular flow, control of dynamical systems, genetic networks.
13. Hua Wang, intelligent and nonlinear control.
14. Lawrence Virgin.
15. Will Wilson, theoretical ecology.