WEB PAGE
http://chaos.ph.utexas.edu/~marder
BIOGRAPHY
Michael Marder is a member of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, internationally known for its experiments on chaos and pattern formation, and for the last four years ranked #1 in the nation by US News and World Report. He 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 has recently developed numerical methods allowing fracture computations on the atomic scale to be compared directly with laboratory experiments on a macroscopic scale. He has been checking these methods through experiments and computations on single crystal silicon, and is preparing for low-temperature experiments. He has also recently published a graduate text on Condensed Matter Physics. Michael Marder is director of the Special Projects Office in the College of Natural Sciences and co-director of UTeach, the University program for preparation of secondary math and science teachers. He is helping to introduce inquiry techniques into undergraduate teaching, and is helping implement a new series of undergraduate degree plans involving computation.
