Pinyu Thrasher
GRA
pwu at chaos.utexas.edu
Office: RLM 14.310
512-471-5425
Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, The University of Texas at Austin (Summer 2006 -Present)
Teaching Assistant, PHY 301
Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin (Spring 2006)
Teaching Assistant, homework service
Physics Department, The University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2005)
Education
Pursuing MA & Ph.D. in Physics
University of Texas at Austin (2005 – present)
B.S. in Physics
University of Sicence & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui China (1999-2003)
Honors
Faculty For The Future Fellowship from Schlumberger ( 2006 – 2009)
Dept. of Physics Graduate Fellowship (2007-2009)
David Bruton Jr. Fellowship (2006)
Research Interests
- Three-dimensional thermal noise imaging
Publication
- Direct measurement of the nonconservative force field generated by optical tweezers, Pinyu Wu, Rongxin Huang, Christian Tischer, Alexandr Jonas, and Ernst- Ludwig Florin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 108101 (2009).
- Comment on Influence of non-conservative optical forces on the dynamics of optically trapped colloidal spheres: The fountain of probability, arXiv:0804.0730v1, , Rongxin Huang, Pinyu Wu, Ernst-Ludwig Florin, arXiv:0806.4632
Conferences
- Direct measurement of the nonconservative force field generated by optical tweezers
2009 APS March Meeting, Pittsburg, PA
- Measurement Of The Non-conservative Force Generated By Optical Tweezers
2009 Biophysical Society Meeting, Boston, MA