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Jeff Moehlis

Associate Professor, Vice Chair

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering II Building, Room 2350
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

805-893-7513 (office)
805-893-8651 (FAX)

E-mail: moehlis@engineering.ucsb.edu


with Teagan at the beach in Santa Barbara


with Kaia

Many of you are probably here for Allison's website , Teagan's website or Kaia's website.
In my "spare time" I write concert reviews for noozhawk.com. A list of my reviews, plus interviews, etc, is available here.
Here's a webpage I created on The Mathematics of the Movie "21". This includes discussions of The Fibonacci Series, The Monty Hall Problem, and the Newton-Raphson Method. I don't say much about "card counting" for Blackjack because this is thoroughly covered elsewhere on the web.

Professional Experience (my CV )

  • Vice Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, Fall 2008-present
  • Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, Fall 2007-present

    Affiliated with:

  • Program Director, SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems , 2008-2009
  • Editor of Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S
  • Visiting Research Associate, Department of Engineering Mathematics at University of Bristol , Fall 2007
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, Fall 2003-Spring 2007
  • Visiting Researcher, Fachbereich Physik der Philipps-Universität Marburg, working with Bruno Eckhardt, Summer 2003
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. Supervisor: Phil Holmes, Fall 2000-Spring 2003; see Phil Holmes interview and story
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow and Visitor at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution , Summer 1999, 2000
  • Graduate Student in Department of Physics at University of California, Berkeley. Supervisor: Edgar Knobloch , Fall 1993-Spring 2000


    Research (Publications )

    Biological Dynamics

  • response dynamics and control of neural populations
  • natural and artificial swarms: schooling fish, flocking birds, etc
  • territorial behavior

    Fluid Dynamics

  • shear flow turbulence, especially low-dimensional models

    Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

  • theoretical analysis of individual and coupled MEMS devices

    Dynamical Systems

  • bifurcation theory, especially for systems with symmetry and effect of forced symmetry breaking
  • canards

    Support from the following agencies is gratefully acknowledged:


    Current Postdoc


  • Gabor Orosz
  • Current Graduate Students

    Past Graduate Students

  • Lina Kim, MS 2005 (thesis), continuing for PhD
  • Mike Schaus, MS 2005 (thesis),

    Product Development Engineer at Starfire Industries

  • Joey Durham, MS 2007 (thesis),
    continuing for PhD with Francesco Bullo
  • Per Danzl
  • Barry DeMartini, PhD 2008 (co-advised with Kim Turner) (dissertation)
  • Allison Kolpas, PhD 2008 (dissertation), now a postdoc with Roger Nisbet , UCSB
  • Margot Kimura, MS 2007 (thesis), continuing for PhD
  • Ali Nabi
  • Michael Busch
  • Current Undergraduate Researchers

    Past Undergraduate Researchers

  • Suzanne Iwanicki
  • Jess Theilmann
  • Bob Hansen
  • Ashley Zavagno
  • Ronny Votel
  • Tomasz Jagoda

  • Teaching

  • ME17, Mathematics of Engineering, Spring Quarter 2008, also taught Spring 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
  • ME225DS, Dynamical Systems with Symmetry, Winter Quarter 2008
  • ME215B, Applied Dynamical Systems II, Winter Quarter 2007, also taught Winter 2006, 2005
  • ME215A, Applied Dynamical Systems I, Fall Quarter 2009, also taught Fall 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004
  • ME225BC, Special Topics: Introduction to Low Dimensional Modeling, UCSB, Winter Quarter 2004
  • APC/EEB/MOL 514, Biological Dynamics, Princeton University, Fall 2002
  • APC591, Special Topics in Biological Dynamics, Princeton University Fall 2001

    Erdös and Bacon numbers

  • My Erdös number is 4: I've written a joint paper with Edgar Knobloch, who has written a joint paper with Martin Golubitsky, who has written a joint paper with Bruce Rothschild, who wrote a joint paper with Paul Erdös. There may be other paths also! For more information, see the Erdös Number Project Home Page .
  • I played two small parts in a movie called Post Concussion directed by Danny Yoon. If you get a chance, go see it!!! Or, order from Amazon.com . My Kevin Bacon number is still infinity.

    Music

  • my list of Recommended Albums
  • All Music Guide
  • Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
  • Pandora
  • My Articles About Music

    Links

  • UCSB ssh
  • Princeton ssh
  • noozhawk.com
  • Snowbird conference
  • google.com
  • yahoo.com
  • New York Times
  • wikipedia
  • dictionary.com
  • amazon.com
  • ebay.com
  • webofscience
  • scholar.google.com
  • electronic journals
  • POW
  • Scholarpedia
  • Jeff Moehlis, Kresimir Josic, Eric T. Shea-Brown. (2006) Periodic orbit. Scholarpedia, 1(7):1358
  • Kresimir Josic, Eric T. Shea-Brown, Jeff Moehlis (2006) Isochron. Scholarpedia, 1(8):1361
  • Jeff Moehlis and Edgar Knobloch (2007) Equivariant dynamical systems. Scholarpedia, 2(10):2510
  • Jeff Moehlis and Edgar Knobloch (2007) Equivariant bifurcation theory. Scholarpedia, 2(9):2511

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