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Hong-Yan
Shih (Academia Sinica, Taiwan). Transition to
turbulence, collective effects in evolutionary ecology,
rapid evolution. Thesis: Spatial-temporal patterns in
evolutionary ecology and fluid turbulence. [PDF] |
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Minhui
Zhu (Argonne National Laboratory) Bacterial colony
growth; dynamic scaling in charge-density wave systems. |
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Sang
Hyun Choi (University of Chicago) Models of
collective networks; active biological matter. |
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Purba
Chatterjee (University of Pennsylvania) Chemotaxis,
active matter. |
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Dmytro
Bandak Turbulence and spontaneous stochasticity. |
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Xueying
Wang (National Institute for Theory and Mathematics
in Biology) Transition to turbulence; neuroscience. |
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Chi
Xue (Population dynamics of transposons, diversity
in ecology). Thesis: Diversity and evolution of
ecosystems: from genomes to the biosphere. [PDF].
After graduating, working in finance. |
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Vikyath
Rao (Social interactions in honeybees, microbiome
metagenomics) . Thesis: Multiscale dynamics in honeybee
societies. [PDF].
After graduation, working for Quantum Black. |
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Zhiru
Liu (neural networks, scaling laws in evolution and
ecology) |
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K.
Michael Martini (Regime shifts in spatially-extended
ecosystems, quasi-Turing patterns in biofilms, evolution
at the molecular level in living cells). Thesis:
Fluctuation and response in complex biological systems. [PDF].
After graduating, postdoc with Ilya Nemenman. |
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Farshid
Jafarpour Thesis: Dislocation dynamics, stochastic
pattern formation, homochirality) . [PDF].
After graduation, postdoc at Purdue with Srividya
Iyer-Biswas. |
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Tommaso
Biancalani. Stochastic processes, evolution of
homochirality, patterns in ecosystems. Currently postdoc
at MIT in Jeff Gore's lab. |
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Maksim
Sipos Thesis: Phase transitions in fluids and
biological systems. [PDF].
After graduation, quantitative analyst at Edgestream
Partners. |
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Luiza
Angheluta (University of Oslo, Norway).
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, plasticity and
avalanches statistics, fluid dynamics, geological pattern
formation. |
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Michael
Assaf (postdoc; rare events, turbulence, evolution,
stochastic processes in biology). After graduation,
assistant professor of physics, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel after Oct 2012. |
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Nicholas
Lee-Ping Chia (postdoc) Professor, Theoretical
biology group at the Center for Individualized Medicine at
Mayo Clinic. |
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Andreas
Menzel (postdoc) Research associate in the group of
Professor H. Löwen at the Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf. |
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Pinaki
Chakraborty (postdoc) Associate Professor of Fluid
Mechanics, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. |
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Lanying
Zeng (postdoc co-mentored with Ido Golding).
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas
A&M University. |
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Zhenyu
Wang Thesis: Collective dynamics of evolving
populations and their strategies with applications to
medicine. [PDF].
Now a financial analyst at RGM
Advisors |
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Patricio
Jeraldo Thesis: Computational approaches to
stochastic systems in physics and ecology [PDF].
Postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Individualized
Medicine, Mayo Clinic. |
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Tuan
Tran Thesis: Experiments in turbulent soap films:
Marangoni shocks, frictional drag and energy spectra [PDF]
Now at Physics
of Fluids group, University of Twente |
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Tom
Butler Thesis: Stochastic many-body problems in
ecology, evolution, neuroscience and systems biology [PDF]
Joined MIT as a postdoctoral fellow after graduation. |
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Nicholas
Guttenberg Thesis: Scale invariant cascades in
turbulence and evolution [PDF]
Joined James
Franck Institute, University of Chicago after
graduating; now at University of Oregon/IBM.
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Patrick
Chan Thesis: Scaling and pattern formation in
condensed matter systems [PDF]
Joined HSBC model validation group, New York after
graduation. Now at Goldman Sachs, Hong Kong.
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John
Veysey Thesis: Complex fluid dynamics: from
laminar to geophysical flows. [PDF]
Graduated to be APS Congressional Fellow, in the office
of Senator Robert Menendez. Served as Legislative
Director for Congressman Daniel Lipinksi, now at National
Science Board.
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Badri
Athreya Thesis: Phase fields and the
renormalization group: a continuum approach to
multiscale modeling of materials [PDF]
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Now at Caterpillar.
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Hector
Garcia Martin. Thesis: Statistical analysis of
highly-correlated systems in biology and physics [PDF]
Postdoc at the Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley; now
Deputy Director of Host Engineering at DOE Lawrence
Berkeley, Joint BioEnergy Institute, working on metabolic
engineering.
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Kalin
Vetsigian. Thesis: Collective evolution of
biological and physical systems [PDF]
Graduated to Dept.
of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University. Now Assistant Professor of
Bacteriology at Univ. Wisconsin.
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Tae
Kim
A skateboarder, videographer, scientist, and teacher in
the Chicago area. |
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Earlier students
(Theses available here,
or by contacting Nigel)
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Vivek
Aji
Qing Hou
Lin-Yuan (Patrick) Chan
John
Stewart
Maurizio Mondello
Fong Liu
An-Chang
Shi
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| Earlier Postdocs |
David Reynolds
Navot Israeli
Jun-Jo Jeong
George
Bonheyo
Greg Bauer
Nik
Provatas
Ken
Elder
Shin-ichi
Sasa
Hisao
Hayakawa
Greg Eyink
Tim
Newman
Sergei Esipov
Scott
Renn
James
Annett
Olivier
Martin
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