BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

April 21, 2001

Research Interests

Complex Systems: Properties of dissipative systems with a large flow, i.e.
a large flow of information (communication, knowledge
management, teaching),  a large flow energy (lightnings), a large flow of
matter (turbulence).

Education

Institution and Location              Degree Conferred  Year  Field of Study
Max-Planck-Gymnasium, Munich, Germany     Abitur        1977  Natural Sciences
Technical University of Munich, Germany   Diplom        1983  Nuclear Solid State Phys.
Technical University of Munich, Germany   Ph.D.         1987  Nonlinear Dynamics

Employment and Experience

• Research Fellow, Messerschmidt-Bölkow-Blohm Company, Munich, Germany (1/83 - 12/87)
• Lecturer, Fachhochschule München, Munich, Germany(11/87 - 1/89)
• Post Doctoral Position, Inst. for Theor. Physics and Synergetics, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany (1/88 - 1/89)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UIUC (1/89 - 12/89)
• Senior Researcher, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC (1/91 - present)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UIUC (1/90 - 8/96)
• Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute of UIUC (1/90 - 8/96)
• Visiting Maxwell Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, NM (5/91 - 7/91)
• External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute, NM (3/91 - 3/97, 3/97 - 3/00, 3/00 - 3/03)
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, (8/91-5/92)
• Associate Director, Center for Complex Systems Research, UIUC (9/90 - 8/98)
• Toshiba Chair Professor, Keio University, Japan (8/93 - 8/94)
• Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Physics, UIUC (9/96 - present)
• Associate Professor, Beckman Institute of UIUC (9/96 - 8/98)
• Director, Center for Complex Systems Research, UIUC (9/98 - present)

Editorial Work

• Executive Editor, Complexity
• Editorial Board, Journal of Complex Systems
• Editorial Board, Advances in Complex Systems

Honors and Awards

• 1983, Diplom thesis: summa cum laude, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 1987, Ph.D.: summa cum laude, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 1990, Summer Fellowship, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Torino, Italy
• 1991, Robert Maxwell Fellow, Visiting, Santa Fe Institute, NM, USA
• 1991-92, Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, USA
• 1993-94, Toshiba Chair Professor, Keio University, Japan
• 1996, Amoco Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, USA
• 1999-2001, 2001-2003 elected UIUC Senator
• 2000, Links2Go Key Resource Award

Conferences Co-organized

• "Understanding Complex Systems" Symposium, May 15, 2001, at the Department of Physics, UIUC
• "Fractal 2002", March 17-20, 2002 in Granada, Spain.

Colloquia, Invited Talks at Major Conferences

• Physics Colloquium at the University Bremen, Germany

• Physics Colloquium at the University Darmstadt, Germany
• Colloquium of the SFB Nonlinear Dynamics at the Univ. Frankfurt, Germany
• Evening Talk at Bolzano, Italy, organized by the Univ. Trentino, Italy

• Evening Talk at the Kranert Art Museum, org. by the School of Art and Design of the UIUC
• Colloquium of the Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Germany

• Invited Talk and org. of a mini-symp., SIAM-conf. Nonlinear Dynamics at Orlando, FL, May 7 - 11
• Invited Talk at the CNLS-conf. Nonlinear Dynamics: The Next Decade, Los Alamos, NM, May 21 - 25
• Invited Talk at ISI-conference Complexity and Evolution at Torino, Italy, June 15 - July 15
• Invited Talk at the NATO-conference Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting, Santa Fe, NM, Sep. 17 - 21
• Invited Talk at the ONR-conference Twelfth Symposium on Turbulence, Rolla, MO, Sep. 24 - 26
• Physics Colloquium of the Universities and the Max-Planck-Instituts at Munich, Germany
• Physics Theory Colloquium of the Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Colloquium of the Drittes Physikalisches Institut, University of Göttingen, Germany

• Invited Talk at 1991 Dynamics Days Texas, Houston TX, Jan 6 - 9
• Physics Colloquium at UIUC, Feb. 7
• Invited Talk at Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 26 - 29
• Invited Talk at Woodward conf. Modeling Complex Phenomena, San Jose, CA, April 12 - 13
• Invited Talk at Nonlinear Control Theory, CNLS, Los Alamos National Lab, NM July 15 - 19
• Colloquium of the Santa Fe Institute, NM, July 19
• Invited Talk at Pulse Shapes and Quantum Control in External Fields, Telluride Res. Akad.,CO, July 21-28
• Invited Talk at Nato conf. Interpretation of Time Series, Warwick, England, Aug. 26 - 30

• Invited Talk at Theoretical Computation in Economics, Santa Fe, NM, April 16-19
• Keynote Talk at Annual Chaos Network Conference, Santa Cruz, CA, June 24-27
• Invited Talk at Common Themes in Complex Adaptive Systems, Santa Fe, NM, July 6-15
• Invited Talk at Russian-Ukrainian-American Conference on Chaos Kiev, Ukraine, July 20 - 24
• Colloquium of the Ilya Prigogine Center, University of Texas, TX, October 8
• Invited Talk at NSF conf. Large Scale Computation in Economics, UIUC, IL, October 12 - 13

• Invited Talk at Nonlinear Problems of Hydrodynamik Stability Theory, Moscow, Russia, February-March
• Physics Colloquium at Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, March
• Invited Talk at Oji conf. From Complex Systems to Virtual Reality Sciences, Numazu, Japan, April 5-9
• Invited Talk at Annual Conference of the Pharmaceutical Management Science Association, Phoenician Resort, AZ, May 16 - 19
• Invited Talk at Biannual Meeting of the Japanese Physical Society, Okayama, Japan, October 12-15.
• Invited Talk at 7. Toyota Conference: Toward the Harnessing of Chaos, Hizuoka, Japan, Oct. 30 - Nov.3.

• Invited Talk at International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Chaos, Tokyo Metropolitan University, May 23-27
• Invited Talk at Fluctuations in Physics and Biology: Stochastic Resonance, Signal Processing and Related Phenomena, EIPC, Elba International Physics Center Italy, June 5-10
• Invited Talk at Interdisciplinary Autumn School on Nonlinear Analysis of Physiological Time Series, University of Würzburg, September 26-30.
• Invited Talk at International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics, Fractality, and Selforganization of Complex Systems, University of Würzburg, October 1-3.
• Invited Talk at 31st Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Texas A+M University, October 10-12

• Physics Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, April 5.
• Invited Talk at the conference Chaos Theory, Evg. Akademie Hofgeismar, Germany, July 7-9.
• Invited Talk at workshop Control of Flow Instabilities and Unsteady Flows International Center for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, September 18-22.
• Invited Talk at Managing Complexity: Applications of Self-OrganizationIII International Symposium of SFB 230, University of Stuttgart, Germany, September 20-22.
• Invited Talk at Self-Organization of Complex Structures: From Individual to Collective Dynamics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, September 24-28.
• Invited Talk at ASME Winter Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 12-17.

• Invited Talk at Control Mechanisms for Complex Systems, Las Cruzes, NM, Dec 8-12
• Invited Talk at Intelligent Computer Assisted Learning and Distance Teaching, Chiayi, Taiwan, Dec 10 - 12

• Invited Talk and Guest of Honor at ROCMELIA conference on Education in China, Taiwan, June 5-10
• Invited Talk at Communication Forum, organzed by the International Enginering Consortium, Chicago, IL, USA, Oct. 21-25
• Invited Workshops at Supercomputing 97, San Jose, CA, USA, Nov. 15-21

• Invited Talk at Statistical Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamic & Turbulence, Marburg, Germany, Feb. 9-11, 1998
• Invited Talk at Advanced Technology for Engineering, Hampton, VA, Feb. 24-25, 1998
• Invited Talk at APS/AAPT Conference, Muncie, IN, May 1-2, 1998
• Invited Talk at Flowcon, Organized by IUTAM, Göttingen, Germany, Sept. 7-11, 1998

• Invited Keynote Talk at International Conference for Complex System ICCS, New Hampshire,USA, May
• Invited Talk at Annual Conference of Academy for Human Resources, Santa Fe, NM, USA, June

• Invited Talk at IUTAM Turbulence Symposium, Göttingen, Germany, April

• Invited Talk at Robustness Symposium, Santa Fe Institute, NM, March
• UIUC Physics Colloquium, Urbana, IL, March
• After Dinner Keynote at Leadership Retreat of US Department for Veteran Affairs, Portland, OR, April
• Talk at International Comference in Computer Science, San Fracisco, CA, June
• Invited Talk at 1. MIT Conference on Fluid Flow, Boston, MA, June

Committees

• Computer Committee, Beckman Institute, UIUC (1/90-5/93)
• Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committee, Department of Physics, UIUC (10/91 - 8/92, 10/94-8/95, 10/97-8/98, 10/00-8/01)
• UIUC Fluid Dynamics Coordinating Committee (11/91-5/93)
• Advisory Committee of the Department of Physics (9/95 - 8/97)

Recent Publications

• Resonances of Nonlinear Oscillators, Phys. Rev. E 51, 1508-1519(1995), with C. Wargitsch.
• Dynamics of Couples Oscillators Near Resonance, Phys.Rev. E 3561-3571(1995), with L. Arsenault.
• Parametric Entrainment Control, Phys.Rev. E 4065-4075(1995), with R. Mettin, A. Scheeline, and W. Lauterborn.
• Sudden Drop of Dissipation in Field-Coupled Quantum Dot Transistors, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 34, L105-108(1995), with F. Yamaguchi, and K. Kawamura.
• Self-assembling Electrical Connections Based on the Principle of Minimum Resistance, Phys.Rev. E 54, 496 (1996), with U. Dierker and M. Dueweke.
• Sharp Diffraction Peaks from Chaotic Structures, CHAOS 7, 577-589(1997), with U. Stoffregen, R. Wittmann, and T. Nagata.
• CyberProf(TM) - An Intelligent Human-Computer Interface for Interactive Instruction on the World Wide Web., JALN 1, 20(1997), with D. Raineri, and B. Mehrtens.
• Hebbian Learning Rule in the Agglomeration of Conducting Particles, Phys.Rev. E 59, 3165-3168(1999), with M. Sperl and N. Weber
• Scaling of Knowledge in Random Conceptual Networks accepted in Springer Notes in Compuer Science.
• Adaptation to the Edge of Chaos in the Self-Adjusting Logistic Map, Phys.Rev.Lett. 84, 5991-5993(2000).

Publications 90 - 95

• Periodic Entrainment of Chaotic Logistic Map Dynamics, Physica D44, 407-420(1990), with E.A. Jackson.
• Description of Transient States of Karman Vortex Streets by Low Dimensional Differential Equations, Phys. Fluids A2, 479-481(1990), with F. Ohle, P. Lehmann, H. Eckelmann
• Noise in the Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems, Phys.Rev. A42, 5827-5836(1990), with J. Breeden, F.Dinkelacker.
• Reconstructing Equations of Motion from Experimental Data with Unobserved Variables, Phys.Rev. A42, 5817-5826(1990), with J. Breeden.
• Suppression of Chaos and Nonlinear Resonances in the rf-Biased Josephson Junction, Phys.Rev.Lett. 65, 2302-2306(1990), with B. Plapp.
• Scaling Behavior of the Maximum Energy Exchange between Coupled Anharmonic Oscillators, Phys. Rev. A41, 3332-3342(1990), with T. Eisenhammer, T. Geisel, E. Lüscher.
• Modeling of Experimental Time Series with Ordinary Differential Equations, Biological Cybernetics 65, 107-112(1991), with T. Eisenhammer, N. Packard, J.S.C. Kelso.
• Nonlinear Control of Burgers Equation, Phys.Rev. A43, 5642-5654(1991), with R. Shermer, N. Packard.
• General Resonance Spectroscopy, Physica D51, 99-108(1991), with K. Chang, S. Kodogeoriou, E.A. Jackson.
• A Simple Experiment for the Examination of Dendritic River Systems, Naturwissenschaften 78, 23-25(1991), with R.Wittmann, T. Kautzky, E. Lüscher.
• Resonant Stimulation of a Conservative Nonlinear Oscillator: Classical and Quantum-Mechanical Calculations, Phys.Rev.Lett. 69, 430-434(1992), with S. Krempl, T. Eisenhammer, G. Mayer-Kress, P.W. Milonni.
• Algebraic Calculation of Stroboscopic Maps of Ordinary, Nonlinear, Differential Equations, Physica D60, 335-357(1992), with R. Wackerbauer, G. Mayer-Kress.
• Modeling and Control of Complex Systems: Paradigms and Applications, in Modeling Complex Phenomena, L.Lam, A. Naroditsky (eds.), Springer, New York, 1992, pp. 5-65.
• A Theory for Adaptation and Prediction Applied to Evolving Logistic Map Dynamics, Physica D 75, 343-360(1994), with D. Pierre.
• Musical Signals from Chua's circuit, IEEE transactions on Circuits and Systems 40, 688-695(1993), with G. Mayer-Kress, I. Choi, R. Bargar.
• Prediction and Adaptation in an Evolving Chaotic Environment, in Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Reality, pp. 343-382, eds. G. Cowan, D. Pines, and G. Meltzer, Addisin-Wesley, 1994, with D. Pines.

Selected Publications (89 and earlier)

• The Tantalum Hyperfine Interaction in the Charge Density State of 2H-TaS2, Mat.Res.Bull. 16, 541-545(1981), with T. Butz, A. Lerf, W. Biberacher.
• On the Preparation and Characterization of NaOH-TaS2, Mat.Res.Bull. 17, 633-637(1982), with W. Biberacher, A.Lerf, F. Buheitl, T. Butz.
• Nuclear Quadrupole Doubling in HfS2, Phys.Rev B26, 3973-3975(1982), with T. Butz, A.Lerf.
• Analytical Representation of Stroboscopic Maps of Ordinary Nonlinear Differential Equations, Z. für Physik B68, 253-258(1987), with W. Eberl, M. Kuchler, E. Lüscher.
• Construction of Differential Equations from Experimental Data, Z. Naturforsch. 42a, 797-802(1987), with J. Cremers.
• Algorithm for the Determination of the Resonances of Anharmonic Damped Oscillators, Z. Naturforsch. 42a, 803-807(1987), with G. Reiser, E. Lüscher.
• Skalengesetze für den maximalen Energieaustausch nichtlinearer gekoppelter Systeme, Naturwissenschaften 74, 336-338(1987), with T. Eisenhammer, T. Hecht, E. Lüscher.
• Pattern Formation of Powder on a Vibrating Disc, Biol. Cybern. 56, 51-56(1987), with F. Dinkelacker, E. Lüscher.
• Dendritic Structures in Fluids of High Viscosity, Biol. Cybern. 56, 57-59(1987), with G. Feuerecker, E. Lüscher.
• Conservative Patterns, Biol. Cybern. 56, 269-278(1987), with E. Lüscher.
• Resonant Stimulation and Control of Nonlinear Oscillators, Naturwissenschaften 76, 67-69(1989), with E. Lüscher.