Education
Undergraduate studies in engineering physics completed in 1991 at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Technical studies included courses in scientific computing and numerical analysis, physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science and chemistry.
Academic Honors
- Phi Theta Kappa National Academic Honor Society (1980-present); Vice President (1981)
- Illinois State Academy of Science Awards (ISAS) for academic excellence in physics and mathematics (1984)
- ISAS Affiliate initiation for academic excellence and leadership within the student community (1984)
- General Assembly Scholarship for community leadership and academic excellence (1986)
- Mathematics teaching position offered by the University of Colorado Upward Bound Program (1988)
- Mortar Board Senior Honor Society for academic excellence and leadership (1988)
- All-American Academic Scholar Award for leadership and academic excellence in physics (1988)
Senior Thesis Research: Chaos
KAM theorem and stochasticity in Hamiltonian systems, universality and scaling properties of one-dimensional systems, bifurcation and chaos in higher dimensional systems, the intermittent transition, the transition from quasi-periodicity to chaos, characterization of attractors (dimension and Lyapunov exponents), and experimental observation of chaotic phenomena.