Former Students of Harry Swinney:

Masters Degree Students:

• Gordon Skinner, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989 (deceased)
  "Studies of Spiral Wave Dynamics in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reagent"
  
  
• William Holloway, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991 (now at National Instruments)
  "Experimental Studies of Steady-State and Rossby Wave Flow in Planetary Jets"
  
  
• Fred Hamill, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995 (now at IBM-Boulder)
  "Turbulent Bursting in the Couette-Taylor System"
  
  
• Ade Lee, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995
  "Pattern Formation in a Parametrically Forced Chemical System"
  
  
• Andreas Breu, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997 (now at University of Wuerzburg)
  "Onset of Fluidization in a Water Fluidized Bed"
  
  
• Richard Metzler, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997 (now at University of Wuerzburg)
  "Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy in a Liquid-Fluidized Bed"
  
  
• Matthias Bertram, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999 (now in Germany for Ph.D. studies)
  "A Numerical Study of Resonant Pattern Formation in the Brusselator Reaction-Diffusion Model"
  
  
• Reza Kharrazian, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000 (now at Wuerzburg University)
  "Resonant patterns in the FitzHugh-Nagumo model with oscillatory and excitable dynamics"
  
  
• Thomas Weber, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000 (now at Wuerzburg University)
  "2D and 3D turbulence in a rotating tank with a vertically oscillating grid"
  
  
• Bernward Mann, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 (now at Frity Haber Institute)
  "Spatial Phase-Transitions in Bacterial Growth"
  
  
• Xaver Sailer, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 (now in Germany for Ph.D. studies)
  "Simulation of Resonant Pattern Formation with the FitzHugh-Nagumo Model"
  
  
• Karl Martinez, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 (now at Duke University)
  "Resonant pattern formation in excitable chemical media"
  
  
• Beth Lewis, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
  "Spirals and oscillons in vertically oscillated granular material"
  
  

Ph.D. Students:

• T. K. Lim, The Johns Hopkins University, 1973 (now Professor at Korea University, Seoul)
  "The Rayleigh Linewidth of Simple Fluids near the Critical Point"
  
  
• Jay Newman, New York University, 1975 (now Professor at Union College)
  "Dynamic Light Scattering and Birefringence Studies of fd Virus and Its DNA"
  
  
• Dennis Wonica, City College of CUNY, 1979 (now working in aerospace industry)
  "Brillouin Scattering in Xenon Near the Critical Point"
  
  
• Randy Fenstermacher, City College of CUNY, 1979
  "Laser Doppler Velocimetry Study of the Onset of Chaos in Taylor Vortex Flow"
  
  
• Leslie Reith, The University of Texas, 1981 (now at Bell Communications Research)
  "Transition to Turbulence in a Circular Couette System"
  
  
• Gregory P. King, The University of Texas, 1983 (now Lecturer at the University of Warwick)
  "Limits of Stability and Irregular Flow Patterns in Wavy Vortex Flow"
  
  
• Anke Brandstater, Christian Albrechts Universität (Kiel), 1984 (now self-employed)
  "Low Dimensional Chaos in a Hydrodynamic System"
  
  
• Donald Allen Hirst, The University of Texas at Austin, 1987 (now at The Aerospace Corporation)
  "The Aspect Ratio Dependence of the Attractor Dimension in Taylor-Couette Flow"
  
  
• Andrew McLeod Fraser, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988 (now a Professor at Portland State University)
  "Information and Entropy in Strange Attractors"
  
  
• John Vastano, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988 (now director of Technology Assessment
  at AKAMBA, Los Gatos, CA)
  "Bifurcations in Spatiotemporal Systems"
  
  
• Peter McCarty, University of Texas at Austin, 1989 (Co-advisor: Werner Horthemke)
  (now at Applied Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin)
  "Modelling of spatially extended open chemical systems"
  
  
• Steven D. Meyers, The University of Texas at Austin, 1990 (now Professor at University of South Florida)
  "Laboratory Experiments on Coherent Structures in Quasi-geostrophic Flows"
  
  
• W. Stuart Edwards, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991
  "New Stability Analyses for the Couette-Taylor Problem"
  
  
• Michael F. Schatz, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991 (now an Assistant Professor
  of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology)
  "Transition in Plane Channel Flow with Spatially Periodic Perturbations"
  
  
• Daniel P. Lathrop, The University of Texas at Austin, 1992 (now an Associate Professor
  of Physics at University of Maryland)
  "Turbulent Drag and Transport in High Reynolds Number Couette-Taylor Flow"
  
  
• Kyoung J. Lee, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994 (now an Assistant Professor of Physics at Korea University)
  "Nonequilibrium Chemical Patterns and their Bifurcations"
  
  
• Steven P. Gross, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995 (Co-advisor: Michael Marder)
  (now an assistant professor at University of California, Irvine)
  "Dynamics of Fast Fracture"
  
  
• John M. Huth, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995 (now at Global Market Technologies, Houston, Texas)
  "Dynamics and Convective Transport in Electrochemical Deposition"
  
  
• Gregory S. Lewis, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996 (now at Calimetrics, Berkeley, California)
  "Velocity Fluctuations, Wall Shear Stress and the Transition in Torque Scaling at
  Re=13,000 in Turbulent Couette-Taylor Flow"
  
  
• Paul B. Umbanhowar, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996 (now an Assistant Professor
  of Physics at Northwestern University)
  "Pattern Formation in Vertically Vibrated Granular Materials"
  
  
• Stephen Van Hook, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996 (now at Bowling Green State University)
  "Long-Wavelength Instability in Surface-Tension-Driven Bénard Convection"
  
  
• Eric R. Weeks, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997 (now an assistant professor at Emory University)
  "Experimental Studies of Anomalous Diffusion, Blocking Phenomena, and Two-Dimensional Turbulence"
  
  
• Jens Hauch, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999 (Co-advisor: Michael Marder)
  (now at Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany)
  "Dynamic Fracture in Brittle Materials"
  
  
• John Burgess, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999 (Co-advisor: W. D. McCormick) (now at Motorola, Austin, TX)
  "Thin Film Instabilities: Rayleigh-Taylor with Thermocapillarities and Kolmogorov Flow in a Soap Film"
  
  
• Charles Baroud, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 (now in France on Chateau Briand Fellowship)
  "Transitions from three-to two-dimensional turbulence in a rotating system"