2008 Research Symposium

The 2008 Keynote Speaker

and Recipient of the Christopher Clavius, S.J. Award is Jerry P. Gollub, Professor of Physics at Haverford College

Keynote Address - 5:00 pm, Friday April 18
"Stretching and Curving in Fluid Flows: Mixing, Chemical Reactions, and Chaos"
Wolfington Teletorium, Mandeville Hall

Prof. Gollub's Biography:

Gollub was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1993, and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He was awarded the Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society in 2003, and was the first recipient of the APS Award for Research in an Undergraduate Institution in 1985. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1984-85, won an international "Science for Art" Award in 1994, and earlier held Danforth and Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. Gollub was a Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics at Harvard University in 1990, a Sigma Xi National Lecturer in 1983-85, and a Visiting Professor at Ecole Normale in 1985, and 1991. He previously served as Provost (Chief Academic Officer) at Haverford. Gollu received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics at Harvard University in 1971.

Jerry Gollub is Professor of Physics (and also the John and Barbara Bush Professor in the Natural Sciences) at Haverford. He does experiments on nonlinear and non-equilibrium phenomena, including studies of chaotic mixing phenomena in ordinary and polymeric fluids, granular materials, instabilities, and pattern formation. Previous work includes studies of chaotic dynamics and turbulence, crystal growth instabilities, and nonlinear waves. He has co-authored Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction, an undergraduate textbook, and he teaches courses for a broad audience such as "Fluids in Nature", "About Time", and "Predictability in Science." He is also affiliated with the Physics Department of the University of Pennsylvania.