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Mark Graybill

Mark Graybill

BS Physics
MS Physics student
Data Analysis of spiking neurons




Jacopo Lafranceschina

Jacopo Lafranceschina

BS Physics
MS Computational Physics student
Transient neuron dynamics







Keegan Keplinger

Keegan Keplinger

MS Interdisciplinary Studies (2012, UAF)
Transient spatiotemporal chaos in a Morris-Lecar neuronal ring network


PhD program for Computational Neuroscience, Waterloo University

Marc Mueller-Stoffels

Marc Mueller-Stoffels

PhD Physics (2012, UAF)
Reversibility of Arctic sea ice retreat - a conceptual multi-scale modeling approach

M Mueller-Stoffels and R Wackerbauer, Albedo parameterization and reversibility of sea ice decay, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 19, 81 (2012)
M Mueller-Stoffels and R Wackerbauer, Regular network model for the sea ice-albedo feedback in the Arctic, Chaos 21, 013111 (2011)

Postdoc at Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP)

Kit Dawson

Kit Dawson

BS Applied Physics (2011, UAF)
Undergraduate research student (2011)
Adding snow cover to a network model for the ice-albedo feedback in the Arctic






Dan Stahlke

Dan Stahlke

MS Physics (2010, UAF)
Extensivity and information scrambling in transient spatiotemporal chaos

D Stahlke and R Wackerbauer, Length scale of interaction in spatiotemporal chaos, Phys. Rev. E 83, 046204 (2011)
D Stahlke and R Wackerbauer, Transient spatiotemporal chaos is extensive in three reaction-diffusion networks, Phys. Rev. E 80, 056211 (2009)

Physics PhD program at Carnegie Mellon University

Justin Oldham

Justin Oldham

BS Physics (2009, UAF)
Undergraduate research student (2008/09)
Transient spatiotemporal chaos with dynamical impurities


Physics PhD program at UAF


Blakesly Burkhardt

REU summer student (2006)
Coupled FitzHugh Nagumo neurons
Safia Yonker

Safia Yonker

MS Computational Physics (2004, UAF)
Transient spatiotemporal chaos in complex networks

S Yonker and R Wackerbauer, Nonlocal coupling can prevent the collapse of spatiotemporal chaos, Phys. Rev. E 73, 026218 (2006)

Physics PhD program at Virginia Tech


Jon Klaas

Jon Klaas

MS Physics (2004, UAF)
Synchronization of circadian oscillators


Software engineer



Sumire Kobayashi

Sumire Kobayashi

BS Physics (2003, UAF)
Undergraduate research student (2002/03)
The influence of noise on transient spatiotemporal chaos

R Wackerbauer and S Kobayashi, Noise can delay and advance the collapse of spatiotemporal chaos, Phys. Rev. E 75, 066209 (2007)

Physics PhD program at Dartmouth College