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Physics
Center for Computational Science and Engineering


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Emailchaos@cse.ucdavis.edu
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Research Interests

Nonlinear dynamics, condensed matter physics, physics of computation, evolutionary dynamics, pattern discovery, dynamics of learning, and distributed robotics.

Career History

  • Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983
  • Postdoc Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1983-1986
  • Visiting Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1982-1994
  • External Associate Professor, Santa Fe Institute, 1990-1997
  • Research Physicist, University of California, Berkeley, 1987-1997
  • Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute, 1997-2004
  • Professor, University of California, Davis, 2004-Present

Honors

  • Bernard Osher Foundation Fellow, San Francisco Exploratorium
  • Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowships: IBM Thomas J. Watson and Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California Regents Graduate Fellowships
  • Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy