Senior Theses Advised

• Free-Fall Spinning-Planet Tunnel Transportation Network
  Yuchen Gan
  2021

• Propellant-less Space Travel with Tethers: Swimming in Space using an Asteroid’s Gravity Gradient
  Gentaro Nakata
  2021

• Alien Sunsets on Tumbling Asteroids
  Yang (Fish) Yu
  2021

• Exoplanets Sunsets
  Xinchen (Ariel) Xie
  2021

• Watching Sunsets in Exoplanet Skies
  Hwan (Michelle) Bae
  2019

• Orbital Debris Proliferation and the Evolution of the Space Sustainability
  Carson Bullock
  2019

• Spacetime Engineering: Time-Slowing Space-Expanding Lunchbox
  Haidar Esseili
  2019

• Sliding on a Massive Spinning Asteroid: Order and Chaos
  Hannah E. Peltz Smalley
  Wellesley College
  2018

• Studying Universality with Physics Engines: Accelerating Granular Flow on GPUs with OpenCL & CUDA
  Avi Vajpeyi
  2018

• Dancing Our Way to the Cosmos: A Study in How Extraterrestrial Travel Will Change the Mechanics of Dance
  Justine Walker
  2018

• Chaos in the Moons of Pluto
  Alex Gould
  2017

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  Roy Hadfield
  2017

• Simulating Turbulent Wind Flow in Vertical Axis Windmills
  Dylan Hamilton
  2017

• Top-Down Causation in Physics
  Ziyi Sang
  2017

• Nonlinear Analysis of Variable Stars
  Colm Hall
  2016

• Stochastic Resonance in a Mechanical Bistable System
  Noah Megregian
  2016

• Strange Nonchaotic Pendulum
  Calvin Milligan
  2016

• Air-Powered One-way Arrays
  Graham Schattgen
  2016

• Establishing Methods to Track Surface Avalanches on a Bead Pile
  Benjamin Harris
  2014

• Go with the Flow: Developing Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations According to the Navier-Stokes Equations
  Danielle Shepherd
  2014

• Universe From Scratch: Exploring Quantum Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions using the Causal Dynamical Triangulation Method
  Prakrit Shrestha
  2014

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  Andrew Blaikie
  2013

• The Motion of a Flapping Flag: Chaos or Noise?
  Sam Mermall
  2013

• Spacetime: Engineering and Metaphysics
  Syne Selem
  2013

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  Phil Wales
  2013

• Quantum Gravity: Exploring the Causal Dynamical Triangulation Approach
  Norman Israel
  2012

• Perturbing Spacetime
  Larry Markley
  2012

• The Rocket Science Behind the Political Science: Comparing Space Visions fo the Presidents from 1993-2011 and the Rocket Technology That Helped Characterize Them
  Alyse Marquinez
  2012

• A Cyclic Aero-mechanical Array of One-way Coupled Oscillators
  Katsuo Maxted
  2012

• Tighten Up: A Preliminary Study of Knots
  Louisa Catalano
  2011

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  Order and Chaos in the Rotation and Revolution of Two Line Segments
  Alex Saines
  2011

• The Brain vs. Rule 137: Using Spacetime Patterns to Classify the Complexity of Cellular Automata
  Averell Gatton
  2009

• The Consistent Histories Interpretation as a Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem
  Matt Gorski
  2009

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  Frank King
  2009

• Foundations of Quantum Decoherence
  John Gamble
  2008

• Experimental Observation of Solitons Propagating in a Hydro-Mechanical Array of One-Way Coupled Oscillators
  Kelly Patton
  2008

• Bayesian Source Direction Determination for Gravitational-Wave Bursts
  Stephen Poprocki
  2007

• Monte Carlo Studies of the Globally-Coupled Ising Model
  Danny Shai
  2007

• Good to the Last Drop: Percolation Through Hypercubic and Random Lattices for Integer, Fractional, and Fractal Dimensions
  Sarah Suddendorf
  2007

• Spacetime Whirlpools
  Lisa May Walker
  2007

• Physics and Free Will: Models of Top-Down Causation in Physics
  Katherine Olaksen
  2006

• Chaos on S²:The Newtonian Two-Body Problem on the 2-Sphere
  Nick Harmon
  2004
• Experimental Studies of Signal Noise in Gene Regulation in the Inducible Antibiotic Resistance Pathway of Escherichia coli
  Katie Frato
  2004
  

• A Mechanical System Designed to Exhibit Bistable Stochastic Resonance
  Dan Brubaker
  2003
• Kaluza-Klein Theory
  Christie Egnatuk
  2003
• Decoherence, the Classical Appearance of the Quantum World, and Quantum Evolution
  Brad Lignoski
  2003
• Self-Erasing Perturbations of the Abelian Sandpile Automata
  Jeff Moffitt
  2003
  

• The Flux Creep Automaton
  Dave Miller
  2002
  

• Cosmological Nucleosynthesis
  Lauren Ault
  2001
• Visual Appearance of Objects in the Vicinity Black Holes
  Rachel Mary Costello
  2001
• An Investigation Using Cellular Automata and Differential Equations to Model Magnetic Flux Creep Through a Type II Superconductor, Represented by an Array of Coupled Josephson Junctions, Using a Standard Square Lattice, as Well as a Non-traditional 6-Fold Symmetric Lattice
  Scott Hughes
  2001
  

• Chaos in the Brain: A Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Electroencephalograms
  Zakir Thaver
  2000
  

• Noise Enhanced Propagation in an Electronic Array
  Josh Bozeday
  1999
• Noise Enhanced Propagation
  Andy Kuck
  1999
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  Manon Grugel
  1999
  

• Classical Electron Theory for a Non-Point Charge
  Jon Keim
  1998
• Nonlinearity and Computation: Implementing Logic as a Nonlinear Dynamical System
  Bryan Prusha
  1998
• Taming Chaos in an Array of Pendulums
  Woody Shew
  1998
  

• An Exploration of the Ueda Oscillator Using Analog Computers to Map the Three Dimensional Phase Space to Two Dimensions: A Look Into the Future Using the Techniques of the Past
  Noah Johnston
  1997
• Hearing the Shape of a Sound: The Physics of Colliding Bars
  Francesca Mascarenhas
  1997
  

• The Chaotic Tumbling of Hyperion, Moon of Saturn
  Cy Screwvala
  1996
  

• Chaotic Dynamics on Rippled Surfaces
  Bill Antel
  1994
• Spatiotemporal Chaos on a Sphere of Duffing Oscillators
  Mike Hunter
  1994
  

• The Fourth Dimension Unveiled: A Preliminary Reconnaissance of Four-Dimensional Objects From Mathematics and Physics
  Josh Fagans
  1993
• Quantum Metaphysics: A Dialogue in Search of Knowledge
  Taka Kumashiro
  1993
  

• The Venus Puzzle: Tectonics and Terrestrial Planets
  Dave Kime
  1992
  

• Multiple Time Dimensions
  Andrew Mellinger
  1991
• The Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction: A Computer Simulated Study of Bromate Oscillators and Autocatalysis
  Thane Norton
  1991
• Bumper Pool: A New Region for Chaotic Billiards
  Tom Taczak
  1991
  

• Avalanches in an Hourglass
  Karen McEwen
  1990
• Electrical Properties of an Infinite Grid of Identical Resistors
  Naseem Rahman
  1990
  

• Calculating a Dimension of a Strange Attractor
  Bryan Johnson
  1989
• Escape! A Computer Solution to the Restricted Three-Body Problem
  John Scudder
  1989
  

PhD Thesis Advised

• Computational Nonlinear Dynamics: Monostable Stochastic Resonance and a Bursting Neuron Model
  Barbara Breen
  School of Physics
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  2003