Jeff Moehlis Home Page

Many of you are probably here for 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

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2011-present

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2007-Spring 2011

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2003-Spring 2007

Affiliated with:

Program Director, SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems, 2008-2009

Editorial Committee for Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S, 2007-2010

Visiting Research Associate, Department of Engineering Mathematics at University of Bristol , Fall 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 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

control of neural populations

natural and artificial swarms: schooling fish, flocking birds, etc

territorial behavior

coupled oscillators

Fluid Dynamics

shear flow turbulence

Mechanical Systems

theoretical analysis of individual and coupled microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

vibrational energy harvesting

Networks

information propagation through social networks

collective decision making

Dynamical Systems

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

canards

Past and present support from the following agencies is gratefully acknowledged:

Research Group:

	Past Postdoc
	Gabor Orosz , 2008-2010 Research topics: Traffic dynamics, coupled oscillators Faculty in Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan, started Fall 2010
Current Graduate Students	Past Graduate Students
Brian Paden Research topic: Controlling heteroclinic cycles	Mike Schaus, MS 2005 Research topic: Response dynamics of neurons (thesis) Product Development Engineer at Starfire Industries	Joey Durham, MS 2007 Research topic: Controlling canards (thesis) Continuing for PhD with Francesco Bullo
Michael Busch Research topic: Social networks	Barry DeMartini, PhD 2008 (co-advised with Kimberly Turner) Research topic: Dynamics of MEMS devices (dissertation) Semiconductor Fab Process Engineer at Agilent Technologies	Allison Kolpas, PhD 2008 Research topic: Collective motion (dissertation) Faculty in Department of Mathematics at West Chester University, starting Fall 2010
Louis Van Blarigan Research topic: Vibrational energy harvesting	Lina Kim, MS 2005, PhD 2009 Research topic: Shear flow turbulence (thesis, dissertation), Junior Specialist, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, UCSB	Per Danzl, PhD 2010 Research topic: Controlling neurons (dissertation). Received Best PhD Thesis Award, UCSB Dept Mech Eng Controls Engineer at Eaton Corporation
Dan Wilson Research topic: Controlling populations of neurons	Margot Kimura, MS 2007 (thesis, dissertation), PhD 2011 Research topic: Collective motion and decision making Sandia National Laboratory	Ali Nabi, PhD 2012 (dissertation) Research topic: Controlling neurons Postdoc with Steve Schiff
Current Undergraduate Researcher	Past Undergraduate Researchers
Vishaal Varahamurthy Research topic: Dynamical systems software	Jess Theilmann Research topic: Response dynamics of neurons	Bob Hansen Research topic: Response dynamics of neurons
	Ronny Votel Research topic: Territorial behavior	Tomasz Jagoda Research topic: Territorial behavior
	Suzanne Iwanicki Research topic: Territorial behavior	Ashley Zavagno Research topic: Territorial behavior
	Keith Allen Research topic: Vibrational energy harvesting	Lily Li Research topic: Vibrational energy harvesting

Teaching

Engr 3, Introduction to Programming, Spring Quarter 2010

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, Spring 2013, also taught Spring 2012, Winter 2009, 2007, 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.