The recent March APS meeting in Denver provided an excellent forum for seven undergraduates who have been working in the Behringer lab over the past year or more. Yaqi Hou, Melody Lim, Audrey Melville, Alec Petersen, Jenny Su and Jeremy Ward had talks in this meeting. Melody, Audrey, Alec and Jenny are Duke undergrads. And Melody, Audrey and Alec presented talks at the APS March 2014 meeting, in person. Yaqi is a visiting student from Shandong University, and Jeremy is from UNC. Two other undergrads, Yiqiu Zhao and Yuchen Zhao, also visiting from Shandong University, and Julia Rowe, visiting from Tufts University have carried out novel and independent research, and their work will be featured in future talks at APS meetings and elsewhere.
The March Meeting also featured work by Ph.D. students Abe Clark and Dong Wang, Duke post-docs Nicolas Brodu, Joshua Dijksman, and Jonathan Brodu, and recent Duke Ph.D. grads Somayeh Farhadi, Shomeek Mukhopadhyay, Jie Ren, Junyao Tang, as well as visiting Ph.D. scholar Hu Zheng. Lou Kondic, now professor of mathematics at NJIT, but formerly a post-doc at Duke was an important contributer to parts of this work, as were Duke Math professor, Tom Witelski and UNC faculty Richard Maclaughlin and Roberto Camassa. Jenny Su also had the opportunity to present her work at Dynamics Days, 2014 in Atlanta.
Collectively, there were nine talks at the March Meeting by these students, post-docs and former Duke students or postdocs, which include: