Student Research Opportunities in the Pritchard Lab:

Fluid Mixing due to Rising Bubble Swarms

High-Speed Impact in Liquids and Fragmentation in Solids

There are still openings for Fall 2009 - contact me if you are interested!

    Undergraduates Currently in the Group        (Fall 2009)

• Steven Full, Physics major (Summer 2009 - ):   buckling - Honor's Thesis

• Joseph Roberts:  Modeling the Oscillations of Acoustically Coupled Bubbles (Spring 2007, Mathematics)
• Michael S. Willis:  Moving A String (Fall 2004, Mathematics)
• Andrea N. Young:  Flapping Flags and Conformal Mappings (Fall 2001, Mathematics)

• Dan Spencer, Mathematics major (Summer 2008 - Spring 2009):   modeling tumor growth
• Ashley Szlachta, Science major (Spring 2009):   geothermal energy
• Nathan Schubert, Economics major (Summer 2008 - Fall 2008):   game theory
• Stella (Chu Yue) Dong, MASS Program (Fall 2008):   folding paper
• Theresa Tauscher, Astronomy major (Fall 2007- Fall 2008):   organic reactions in micellar fluids
• David Ottesen, Aerospace major at UTexas Austin, Astrobiology REU student (Summer 2008):   organic reactions in micellar fluids
• Miranda Hitchcock, Eng Sci & Mechanics major (Fall 2007- Spring 2008):   gel point of liquid biofuels
• Matthew Stein, Mathematics major (Fall 2007- Spring 2008):   electric properties of ice
• Joel Grim, Biotech/Mathematics major (2006-2007):   reactions in micellar fluids
• Ralph Sandoval, Chemical Engineering major (Summer 2007):   biodiesel reactions
• Kristina Colladay, Physics major (Summer 2006 - Spring 2007):   biodiesel reactions
• Brenda Bitel, Physics major (Spring 2005 - Spring 2006):   impact dynamics in fluids
• Kimberly Staib, Chemical Engineering major (Spring - Fall 2005):   viscoelastic rheology
• Miles Frampton, Physics major (Summer 2005-Summer 2006):   buckling instabilities
• Andrew Metcalf, Meteorology major (2004):   viscoelastic spindown
• Austin Semerad, Mathematics major (2003):   toroidal viscoelastic drops
• Benjamin Akers:  (impact, splashes, and non-Newtonian free surfaces)
-published in the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (2006)
• Sharon (Chuba) Garthwaite: 2D Euler's equation
-presented at the 4th Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (2/2002)
• Shaden T. Eldakar:  instabilites of a hanging chain
  -published in Physical Review Letters (2001)
• Edward Griebel, Electrical Eng.~major (2000-2001):  noise in semiconductor circuits
• Andrea Young   (spindown of an elastic fluid)
  -presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, APS (11/2000)
  -presented at the 3rd Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (2/2001)
• Megan C. O'Connell:  membrane-fixed catalysts in chemical reaction diffusion systems
  -published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2000)
• Jessica Corrado, Math major (1999-2000):  chemical reactions

  REU Program at Harvard University's MRSEC - Summer 2007 (during my sabbatical)

• Angela M. Jimenez, City College of New York (interfacial effects of surfactants and oleic acid)
-presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, APS (11/2007)

  REU Program at Penn State's MASS Program - Summer 2000

• Jason Callahan, Univ. Texas Austin (integrodifferential equations)
• Jennifer Franko, Indiana Univ Pennsylvania (fluid filaments)
• Andrea Young, Penn State (elastic fluids)

    Additional Opportunities

   in algorithmic or other mathematical approaches to music: check this link for some ideas

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