Jeff Porter

Graduated spring 2001
Currently at Northwestern University
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Phone: 847-467-3451
E-mail: jport@northwestern.edu

Advisor: Professor Edgar Knobloch

Research Interests

  • Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
  • Global Bifurcations
  • Symmetry-breaking
  • Heteroclinic cycles
  • Mode Interactions

    Publications:

    Complex dynamics in the 1:3 spatial resonance, with E. Knobloch, Physica D 143 (2000) 138-168.
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    New type of complex dynamics in the 1:2 spatial resonance, with E. Knobloch, Physica D 159 (2001) 125-154.
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    Heteroclinic dynamics in the parametrically driven nonlinear Schrodinger equation, with M. Higuera and E. Knobloch, Physica D. In press.
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    My thesis
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