The Team

PhD Students

Robert Argus
Sophia Wiedmann

Undergraduate and Masters Students

Sanchita Chakraborty

Past Students and Postdocs

Bryan Oakley (PhD, 2022) [Analysis with the mix-norm]
Gage Bonner (PhD, 2022) [Random entanglement] (co-supervised with Benedek Valko)
Carrie Hongfei Chen (PhD, 2022) [Stochastic models for microswimmers]
Yu Feng (PhD, 2021) [Bounds on mixing of complex fluids]
Pumeng Lyu (B.Sc.) [Vortices and percolation]
Ruifu Li (B.Sc.) [Products of random matrices]
Meng Tian (B.Sc.) [Stefan problem]
Ao Zhang (B.Sc.) [Stefan problem]
Kunlin Ma (B.Sc., 2020) [Vortex interactions]
Kelsey Kitowski [Microswimmer in a lattice]
Jiajia Guo (2019) [Winding of needle]
Wangping Ren (B.Sc., 2019) [Entanglement models]
Ruojun Wang (B.Sc., 2019) [IDLA and drift]
John Lynch (PhD, 2019) [pseudo-Anosov maps with large entropy]
Thomas Morrell (PhD, 2019) [Transport by vortices] (co-supervised with Saverio Spagnolie)
Hans Zhang [Optimization of running]
Jacob Gloe (PhD student, now at Michigan State) [Exit times for microswimmers]
Huanyu Wen (PhD, 2017) [Random entanglement]
Peter Mueller (PhD, 2016) [Drift by an unsteady swimmer]
Marko Budišić (Postdoc, 2013–2016)
Colin Wahl (B.Sc. Math and Physics, 2016) [Microswimmer billiards] (co-supervised with Saverio Spagnolie)
Alex Flanagan (B.Sc. Eng. Physics, 2015) [Magnetic braids]
Jay Johnson (B.Sc. Physics, 2014) [Infotaxis / splashing jets]
Joseph Lukasik (B.Sc. Math and Comp. Sci., 2016) [Microorganism billiards] (co-supervised with Saverio Spagnolie)
Claire Blackman (M.A., 2013) [Braids and coherent structures]
Sarah Tumasz (PhD, 2012) [Topological mixing] (Winner of the John Nohel Prize in Applied Mathematics for her thesis.)
Natalie Cook (B.Sc. Math, 2013) [Biomixing experiments]
Andrew Kirby (B.Sc. Math, 2012) [Jet striking an inclined plane]
Tedman Martinez-Roja (URS Scholar, 2011) [Cryptography]
Matt Harrington (B.Sc. AMEP, 2010) [How Tangled are Random Braids?]
Khalid Kamhawi (PhD, 2009) [Mixing in thin films]
Lennon O'Naraigh (PhD, 2008): Multiphase flows
Emmanuelle Gouillart (PhD, 2007; co-supervised with Olivier Dauchot): Topological mixing, role of walls in mixing. (Winner of the Daniel Guinier Prize from the French Physics Society for her thesis.)
Matthew Finn (Postdoc, 2004–2007)
Douglas Murdoch (MSci, 2007): Bounds on Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Stanislas Pamela (MSci, 2007): Thin-film Flows
Sapna Hars (MSc, 2006): Falling Ants
Ophir Samson (MSci, 2006): Change in the Angle of Incidence of a Wing
Andrew Wong (MSci, 2006): Fluid Dynamics of Marbling
Joseph Kibui (MSci, 2005): Evolution of Curvature of Material Lines
Rhodri Nelson (MSc, 2005): Mixing of Plankton
Trishna Patel (MSci, 2005): Thin Ideal Flow over Curved Substrates
Stefan Sadokierski (MSc, 2005): Heat Transfer Between the Air and Surrounding Soil in Underground Rail Tunnels
Martin Ewart (MSci, 2004): Mixing in Microchannels
Thomas Brickell (MSc, 2004): Unsteady Flow Over an Aerofoil