On leave, 2012-2013

Courses, Spring '12

• Physics 204, Phenomena of Physics
• Math 160, Seminar on Galileo and the History of Mathematics

Book, Oct. 2011

• Galileo's Muse
• Galileo's Muse podcast
• Review of Galileo's Muse
• Galileo's Muse Video Interview

Recent Papers

• The Geometry of Ciliary Dynamics, Phys. Rev. E80 (2009), 011923.
• Lagrangian Crumpling Equations, Phys. Rev. E80 (2009), 021602.
• The Geometry of Paradise, The Mathematical Intelligencer 30 (Fall, 2008), pp. 14-19.
• Elliptic Function Representation of Doubly Periodic Stokes Flows", (preprint, August, 2006) with Danti Chen '09 and Becky Ding '09.
• Galileo's Discovery of Scaling Laws, American Journal of Physics 70 (2002), p.575.
• Turbulence on a Desktop, Computers in Science and Engineering, May/June 2001.
• "Mathematical Meristems," Ecoles des Houches No. 14, Branching in Nature ed. V. Fleury, J.-F. Gouyet, and M. Leonetti, EDP Sciences, Les Ulis 2001.
• Nonuniqueness and Turbulence , preprint.
• Singular Laplacian Growth , Physical Review E57 (1998), 3221.
• The Geometry of Piero della Francesca, The Mathematical Intelligencer, vol 19 (Summer, '97), 33-40.
• `` Theory of Deformable Substrates for Cell Motility Studies," Biophysical Journal 71, (1996), 657-669.
• `` Membrane Hydrodynamics at Low Reynolds Number," Physical Review E53, (1996), 731.
• Laboratories in mathematical experimentation (Springer, 1997. Projects for a sophomore course in mathematical investigation; written by the members of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mount Holyoke College)

Book Reviews

• The Invention of Infinity, by J.V. Field, Nexus Network Journal April 1999.
• The Architectonics of Humanism, by Lionel March, Nexus Network Journal, April 2000.
• The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question?, by Annibale Fantoli, Notre Dame University Press, 2012.
• Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe: Finding Heaven, by Christiane Joost-Gaugier, Cambridge University Press, 2009, reviewed in The Mathematical Intelligencer, 2012.
• Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy, by Alexander Marr, University of Chicago Press, 2011, reviewed in the Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Projects

• Evolution of Planar Domains (1988)
• The Red Blood Cell Shape (1989)
• Laplacian Growth (1992)
• Models of Turbulence (1999)
• Dynamics of Cilia (2010)

Applets

• Mod P Calculator

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