Professor Michael Marder-- Center for Nonlinear Dynamics

Michael P. Marder
Department of Physics
	marder@chaos.ph.utexas.edu	RLM 14.212 Phone: (512)-471-3612 (Physics) Phone: (512) 232-2770 (Special Projects)
	Fracture Phase transitions Nonlinear dynamics Pattern formation

Experience:

Associate Dean for Science and Mathematics Education
College of Natural Sciences
University of Texas at Austin(2007--)

Director, Special Projects Office
College of Natural Sciences
University of Texas at Austin(1998--2007)

Professor of Physics
University of Texas at Austin (2000--)
Associate Professor of Physics
University of Texas at Austin (1994)
Assistant Professor of Physics
University of Texas at Austin (1988)
Research Associate
James Franck Institute
University of Chicago (1986)

Research Assistant
UC Santa Barbara (1983)

Education:

Ph.D. (Physics)
U C Santa Barbara (1986)

A. B., Summa cum Laude (Physics and Mathematics)
Cornell University (1982)
Resident of Telluride House

Uni High, Urbana IL (1978)

Honors:
Elizabeth Shatto Massey Award for Excellence in Teacher Education (2008)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2006)
Exxon Education Foundation (1996)
Alcoa Foundation (1993)
Sloan Foundation Fellow (1989)

Affiliations:

Center for Nonlinear Dynamics

Department of Physics

Computational and Applied Mathematics

Texas Materials Institute

Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures, and Materials

UTeach

Research:

Michael Marder is involved in a wide variety of theoretical, numerical, and experimental investigations, ranging from studies of plasticity and phase transformations to experiments on sand ripples at the sea bottom.

He specializes in the mechanics of solids, particularly the fracture of brittle materials. He carried out experiments in Plexiglas with Fineberg and Swinney that uncovered a dynamic instability in fracture. He then developed analytical methods that explained the origin of this instability in crystals. He has recently developed numerical methods allowing fracture computations on the atomic scale to be compared directly with laboratory experiments on a macroscopic scale.

Teaching:

Michael Marder has completed a graduate textbook on Condensed Matter Physics. He is currently teaching Research Methods

Service:

As director of the Special Projects Office in the College of Natural Sciences, Michael Marder is co-director UTeach, the University program for preparation of secondary math and science teachers, and he is helping to introduce inquiry techniques into undergraduate teaching through the Discovery Learning Project . He is a a divisional editor for the International Journal of Fracture. From 2006-2008 he was Chair of the American Physical Society Committee on Education.

Publications:

R Thompson-Flagg and Maria Moura and M Marder, “Rippling of Graphene” Europhysics Letters 85 46002-46006 (2009)
Z Yang and H Zhang and M Marder, “Dynamics of Static Friction between Steel and Silicon,” PNAS 105 13264-13268 (2008)
M. Marder, “Dynamics of Epidemics on Random Networks,” 75, 066103 (2007)
M. Marder, M., E. Sharon, E. and R D Deegan, “Crumpling, Buckling and Cracking: Elasticity of thin sheets” Physics Today, February 2007, pp. 33-38
M Marder “Supersonic Rupture of Rubber,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 54 491-532 (2006)
M Marder and N Papanicolaou, “Elasticity and Geometry of Leaves and Flowers” Journal of Statistical Physics 126 1065-1092 (2006)
M Marder, “Shock wave theory for rupture of rubber,” Physical Review Letters 94, 048001 (2005)
Artem M. Dudarev, M. Marder, Qian Niu, Nathaniel J. Fisch and Mark G. Raizen “Statistical Mechanics of an Optical Phase Space Compressor” Europhysics Letters 70 (2005)
M Marder “Review of Rubber and Rubber Balloons,” Physics Today August, 54, (2005)
M Marder, “Multiple Paths for Hard Problems”(Journal Club) Nature 436 , 155 (2005)
M Marder, “Effect of atoms on brittle fracture,” International Journal of Fracture, 130, 517-555 (2004)
Marder, “Cracks cleave crystals,” Europhysics Letters, 63, 364-370 (2004)
E Sharon, M Marder and H L Swinney, “Leaves, flowers and garbage bags: making waves,” American Scientist, 92, 254-261 (2004)
P Petersan and R D Deegan and M Marder and H L Swinney, “Cracks in rubber under tension exceed the shear wave speed,” Physical Review Letters, 93 015504/1-4 (2004)
M Marder, “Terms of detachment,” Nature Materials, (2004)
M Marder, “The shape of the edge of a leaf,” Foundations of Physics, 33, 1743-1768 (2003)
M Marder and Eran Sharon and Spencer Smith and Benoit Roman, “Theory of the Edges of Leaves,” Europhysics Letters, 62 498-504 (2003)
E Sharon and B Roman and and M Marder and G--S Shin and H L Swinney, “Buckling Cascades in Free Sheets,” Nature 419 579 (2002)
Robert D. Deegan, Shilpa Chheda, Lisa Patel, M. Marder, Harry L. Swinney, Jeehoon Kim, and Alex de Lozanne “Wavy and Rough Cracks in Silicon,” Physical Review E 67, 066209 (2003)
E Gerde and M. Marder “Friction and Fracture” Nature 413 285--288 (2001)
S V Franklin and F Mertens and M Marder, “Reply to ``Comment on `The Portevin--LeChatelier effect'' Physical Review E 65, 053502 (2002)
R D Deegan and P Petersan and M Marder and H L Swinney“Oscillating Fracture Paths in Rubber,”Physical Review Letters 014304 (2002)
M. Marder, Solutions Manual for Condensed Matter Physics (2001)
S. V. Franklin, F. Mertens, and M Marder, The Portevin Le-Chatelier Effect, Physical Review 6 8195 (2000)
M. Marder and Eric Gerde, "Continuum theory of self-healing cracks," Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic conference on Mechanics (Thessaloniki, 2001)
M. Marder, Condensed Matter Physics. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. Corrected printing, February, 2001.
S. V. Franklin, F. Mertens, and M. Marder ``The Portevin-LeChatelier Effect," Physical Review E, vol. 62, pp 8196--8206 (2000)
D. Holland and M. Marder, ``Cracks and atoms,'' Advanced Materials, vol. 11, pp. 793-806, 1999.
M. Marder, ``Molecular dynamics of cracks,'' Computers in Science and Engineering, p. 2, 1999.
J. Hauch, D. Holland, M. Marder, and H. L. Swinney, ``Dynamic fracture in single-crystal silicon,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, pp. 3823-3826, 1999.
J. Fineberg and M. Marder, ``Instability in dynamic fracture,'' Physics Reports, vol. 313, pp. 1-108, 1999.
M. A. Scherer, F. Melo, and M. Marder, ``Sand ripples in an oscillating annular sand-water cell,'' Physics of Fluids,, vol. 11, pp. 58-67, 1999.
M. Marder, ``Energies of a kinked crack line,'' Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 93, pp. 511-525, 1998.
J. Hauch and M. Marder, ``Energy balance in dynamic fracture, investigated by a potential drop technique,'' International Journal of Fracture, vol. 90, pp. 133-151, 1998.
D. Brydon, J. Pearson, and M. Marder, ``Solving stiff differential equations with the method of patches,'' Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 144, pp. 280-298, 1998.
M. Marder, ``Adiabatic equation for cracks,'' Philosophical Magazine B, vol. 78, pp. 203-214, 1998.
D. Holland and M. Marder, ``Ideal brittle fracture of silicon studied with molecular dynamics,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 80, pp. 746-749, 1998.
M. Marder, ``Cracking up,'' New Scientist, pp. 32-35, August 30 1997.
M. Marder, ``Breaking in computers,'' Nature, vol. 386, pp. 219-220, 1997.
M. Marder, ``Roughing it,'' Science, vol. 227, p. 647, 1997.
F. Mertens, S. V. Franklin, and M. Marder, ``Dynamics of plastic deformation fronts in an aluminum alloy,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 78, pp. 4502-4205, 1997.
M. Marder, ``Statistical mechanics of cracks.,'' Physical Review E, vol. 54, pp. 3442-3454, 1996.
M. Marder and J. Fineberg, ``How things break,'' Physics Today, vol. 49, pp. 24-29, 1996.
M. Marder, ``Energetic developments in fracture,'' Nature, vol. 381, p. 275, 1996.
M. Marder, ``Small-scale simulations of fracture,'' in Fracture - Instability Dynamics, Scaling, and Ductile/Brittle Behavior (R. L. B. Selinger, J. J. Mecholsky, A. E. Carlsson, and E. R. Fuller, eds.), (Pittsburgh), pp. 289-296, Materials Research Society, 1996.
M. Marder, ``Fluctuations and fracture.,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 74, pp. 4547-50, 1995.
M. Marder, ``Atomic effects in brittle fracture,'' in Plastic and Fracture Instabilities in Materials (N. Ghoniem, ed.), pp. 31-44, ASME, 1995.
S. Franklin and M. Marder, ``Theories of the PLC effect,'' in Plastic and Fracture Instabilities in Materials (N. Ghoniem, ed.), pp. 133-142, ASME, 1995.
M. Marder and S. Gross, ``Origin of crack tip instabilities,'' Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 43, pp. 1-48, 1995.
M. Marder, ``Instability of a crack in a heated strip,'' Physical Review E, vol. 49, pp. R51-R54, 1994.
M. Marder, ``Order versus symmetry in pinwheel tilings of the plane,'' Physical Review B, vol. 48, pp. 13971-13973, 1993.
S. Gross, J. Fineberg, M. Marder, M. W D, and H. L. Swinney, ``Acoustic emissions from rapidly moving cracks,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 71, pp. 3162-3165, 1993.
M. Marder and X. Liu, ``Instability in lattice fracture,'' Physical Review Letters,, vol. 71, pp. 2417-20, 1993.
M. Marder, ``Simple models of rapid fracture,'' Physica D, vol. 66, pp. 125-34, 1993.
M. Marder, ``Cracks take a new turn,'' Nature, vol. 362, p. 295, 1993.
J. Fineberg, S. Gross, M. Marder, and H. L. Swinney, ``Instability in the propagation of fast cracks,'' Physical Review B-Condensed Matter, vol. 45, pp. 5146-54, 1992.
M. Marder, R. C. Ball, and R. Blumenfeld, ``Comment on 'Universal scaling of the stress field at the vicinity of a wedge crack in two dimensions and oscillatory self-similar corrections to scaling' (with reply),'' Physical Review Letters,, vol. 68, pp. 2253-4, 1992.
S. Kramer and M. Marder, ``Evolution of river networks,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 68, pp. 205-208, 1992.
M. Marder, ``Solidification fronts with unusual long-time behavior,'' Physical Review E, vol. 45, pp. R2158-60, 1992.
K. Sieradzki, R. Li, and M. Marder, ``Comment on 'new dynamical equation for cracks' (and reply),'' Physical Review Letters,, vol. 67, pp. 3042-3, 1991.
X. Liu and M. Marder, ``The energy of a steady-state crack in a strip,'' Journal of the Mechanics and dysics of Solids, vol. 39, pp. 947-61, 1991.
J. Fineberg, S. P. Gross, M. Marder, and H. L. Swinney, ``Instability in dynamic fracture,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 67, pp. 457-60, 1991.
M. Marder, ``New dynamical equation for cracks,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 66, pp. 2484-7, 1991.
M. Marder, N. Papanicolaou, and G. C. Psaltakis, ``Phase separation in a - model,'' Physical Review B, vol. 41, pp. 6920-32, 1990.
M. Marder, ``Crystals with a twist,'' Physical Review A, vol. 40, pp. 4824-7, 1989.
K. G, M. Marder, and Z. Hatzopoulos, ``Role of hydrogen in the preparation of sputtered microcrystalline silicon (c-Si),'' Solar Energy Materials, vol. 17, pp. 25-36, 1988.
M. Marder, ``Correlations and Ostwald ripening,'' Physical Review A, vol. 36, pp. 858-74, 1987.
M. Marder, ``Soap-bubble growth,'' Physical Review A, vol. 36, pp. 438-40, 1987.
M. Marder and J. S. Langer, ``The growth of precipitates in a supersaturated melt,'' in Coherence, Cooperation, and Fluctuations, (Cambridge), Cambridge University Press, 1986.
M. Marder, ``Correlations and droplet growth,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 55, pp. 2953-6, 1985.
M. Marder, H. L. Frisch, J. S. Langer, and H. M. McConnell, ``Theory of the intermediate rippled phase of phospholipid bilayers,'' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, vol. 81, pp. 6559-6563, 1984.