Our group

Stefan Awender

PhD Physics (2023, UAF)

PhD Thesis: Generalized modeling of complex dynamical systems - an application to the stability of ecological networks

S Awender, R Wackerbauer, and G Breed, How realistic features affect the stability of an Arctic marine food web model, submitted
S Awender, R Wackerbauer, and G Breed, Combining generalized modeling and specific modeling in the analysis of ecological networks, CHAOS 33, 033130 (2023)
Avery Thomas, Generalized modeling elucidates complex ecossytem networks, AIP Scilight 2023, 111106 (2023)
S Awender, R Wackerbauer, and G Breed, Stability of generalized ecological-network models, CHAOS 31, 023106 (2021)

Postdoctoral Researcher at Wilson Alaska Technical Center, UAF Geophysical Institute

James McKay

BS Physics, BS Biology (2021, UAF)

Undergraduate research project: Modeling SHE (sleep related hypermotor epilepsy) implicated nAChRs (nicotinic acetylcholine receptors)

Jeremy Thomas

BS Physics (2019, UAF)

Undergraduate research project: Complex transient dynamics in layers of neurons

Vitaliy Kaminker

PhD Physics student

Thesis: Transient neuron dynamics

V Kaminker and R Wackerbauer, Alternating activity patterns and a chimeralike state in a network of globally coupled excitlable Morris-Lecar neurons, CHAOS 29, 053121 (2019)

Harrison Hartle

BS Physics (2017, UAF)

Undergraduate Research Project: Complex transients in neuron networks

H Hartle and R Wackerbauer, Transient chaos and associated system-intrinsic switching of spacetime patterns in two synaptically coupled layers of Morris-Lecar neurons, Phys. Rev. E 96, 032223 (2017)

Physics PhD program, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University

Mark Graybill

MS Physics (2014, UAF)

MS Thesis: Recurrence Analysis methods for classification of nonlinear systems

Math and Physics High School Teacher

Jacopo Lafranceschina

MS Computational Physics (2014, UAF)

MS Thesis: Transient neuron dynamics

J Lafranceschina and R Wackerbauer, Impact of weak excitatory synapses on chaotic transients in a diffusively coupled Morris-Lecar neuronal network, CHAOS 25, 013119 (2015)

Software Analyst

Keegan Keplinger

MS Interdisciplinary Studies (2012, UAF)

MS Thesis: Transient chaos in a neuron network

K Keplinger and R Wackerbauer, Transient spatiotemporal chaos in a Morris-Lecar neuronal network, CHAOS 24, 013126 (2014)

PhD program for Computational Neuroscience, Waterloo University

Marc Mueller-Stoffels

PhD Physics (2012, UAF)

PhD Thesis: 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, UAF Institute of Northern Engineering

Kit Dawson

BS Applied Physics (2011, UAF)

Undergraduate research project: Adding snow cover to a network model for the ice-albedo feedback in the Arctic

Research Associate, Wilson Infrasound Group, Geophysical Institute

Dan Stahlke

MS Physics (2010, UAF)

MS Thesis: 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

BS Physics (2009, UAF)

Undergraduate research project: Transient spatiotemporal chaos with dynamical impurities

Physics PhD program at UAF

Blakesly Burkhardt

REU summer student (2006)
Coupled FitzHugh Nagumo neurons

Safia Yonker

MS Computational Physics (2004, UAF)

MS Thesis: 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

MS Physics (2004, UAF)

MS Thesis: Synchronization of circadian oscillators

Software engineer

Sumire Kobayashi

BS Physics (2003, UAF)

Undergraduate research project: 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