with Teagan

Jeff Moehlis

Associate Professor

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.

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 )

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

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 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)	Allison Kolpas, PhD 2008 (dissertation), now a postdoc with Roger Nisbet , UCSB
Margot Kimura, MS 2007 (thesis), continuing for PhD
Current Undergraduate Researchers	Past Undergraduate Researchers
Suzanne Iwanicki	Jess Theilmann	Bob Hansen
	Ronny Votel

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 2006, also taught Fall 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.