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Biography

Born in Ames, Iowa; graduated high school in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Education: B.S., Physics/English, Willamette University, Salem, Ore., 1989. Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Dec. 1997.

Research Interests: special relativistic many-body dynamics, chaos, the three-body problem, astrophysics and orbital dynamics, econophysics.

Hobbies: city planning, architecture of public places, japanese poetry, cryptography and encrypticon, java web programming, semantic web design, longhorn cattle competitions

Physics Web Projects

• What is Chaos?
• Solar System Clock
• Chaotic Standard Map
• Planetizer Orbitarium

Classical Relativistic Many-Body Dynamics with W.C.Schieve Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht, The Neth., 1999 details

"Perihelion Precession in the Special Relativistic Two-Body Problem" with W.C.Schieve Foundations of Physics28, p. 1433 1998 details

"Classical Scattering in an Invariant Coulomb Potential" with W.C.Schieve Foundations of Physics28, p. 1211 1998 details

"Off-Shell Dynamics in Flat Spacetime" with W.C.Schieve Foundations of Physics 27, p.1, 1997 details

"The Off-Shell Theory of Covariant Relativistic Hamiltonian Mechanics.", Ph.D. dissertation Univ. of Texas at Austin, Dec. 1997. details

Conferences

International Association of Relativistic Dynamics Feb. 1998, Houston, Tex. talk: "The Classical Coulomb Potential in Relativistic Many-Body Dynamics"

Research Positions

Postdoctoral Visitor: Ilya Prigogine Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems Univ. of Texas at Austin Jan. 1998-Jan. 1999

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant: Ilya Prigogine Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems Univ. of Texas at Austin June 1996-Dec.1997 pi: W.C.Schieve

Assitant Instructor: Dept. of Physics Univ. of Texas at Austin Aug.1991-May 1996

Graduate Teaching Assitant: Dept. of Physicss Univ. of Texas at Austin Aug. 1989-July 1991

Research Assistant: Intense Pulsed Neutron Source Argonne National Laboratories, Argonne, Ill. Aug. 1987-Dec.1987 pi: Daniel G. Montague

Research Assistant: Geophysical Institute University of Alaska-Fairbanks Aug. 1987-Dec.1987 pi: Glen Shaw

Research Assistant: Dept. of Radiation Biologyi Colorado State University May 1986-Aug. 1986

Teaching Experience

Physical Science: University of Texas at Austin 10 semesters, Aug. 1991-May 1996

Health Physics Laboratory: University of Texas at Austin 1 semester, Jan. 1991-May 1991

Optics Laboratory: University of Texas at Austin 3 semesters, Jan. 1990-May 1991

Electromagnetism Laboratory: University of Texas at Austin 2 semesters, Sept. 1989-May 1990