education:
PhD in Physics, 1992:
University of Maryland at College Park.
Dissertation: "Controlling Chaos: Directing Trajectories to Targets
in Chaotic Systems."
Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics, 1982-3: Cornell University.
BA&S in Physics, 1982: Reed College.
Thesis: "On Salient Phenomena of Stationary Waves in Water."
research
experience :
Associate Professor, 2002-present: Dept of Biomedical Eng., Rutgers
U.
Associate Research Professor, 1998-present: Chem. & Biochem.
Eng., Rutgers U.
Research Assistant Professor, 1995-8: Dept. of Chemical Eng.,
Northwestern U.
Postdoctoral Fellow,
1992-5: Dept. of Chemical Eng., Northwestern U.
Research Assistant,
1988-9: NASA, Greenbelt, MD.
Senior Scientist, 1986-7:
Arthur D. Little, Inc, Washington, DC.
Research Physicist,
1983-6: Xerox Corp., Webster,
NY.
teaching
experience :
"Self-Assembly &
Pattern Formation" 2003(sched.): Biomedical Eng, Rutgers U.
"Biomed. Survival Skills"
2003(sched.): Biomedical Eng, Rutgers U.
"Biomed. Kinetics,
Transport & Thermodynamics" 2002: Biomedical Eng, Rutgers U.
"Biomed. Journal Club"
2002: Biomedical Eng, Rutgers U.
"Bifurcations and Chaos"
2001: Dept. of Chem. & Biochem. Eng., Rutgers U.
"Nonlin. Dynam.in Sci.
& Eng'g" 1999: Dept. of Chem. & Biochem. Eng., Rutgers U.
"Eng'g Appl's of Nonlinear Dynamics"
1997: Dept. of Chem. Eng., Northwestern U.
"Granular Flow" 1996: Dept. of Chem.
Eng., Northwestern U.
"Process Control "1994: Dept. of Chem.
Eng., Northwestern U.
Teaching Assistant, 1987-8: Physics Dept., U.
Maryland at College Park.
Teaching Assistant,
1982-3: Dept. of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell U.
honors:
Founding Organizer, Gordon conference on Granular flow, 2002; Org. Cmte.
member, 2004
Inducted
into Who's Who in America, 2002..
Award winner,
Gallery of Fluid Motion 1995, 2003.
Ralph D. Myers Teaching Award for outstanding
teaching, U. Maryland, 1988
Software
Design Award for innovative dynamics software, STSC,
Inc., 1987
Nominated
Technologist of the Year for page turners & related patents,
Xerox, 1985
citations:
>1000 citations as of July 2001.
reviewer
for:
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AAAS Wom. Intl Sci. Collab. Pgm ASME J. of Heat Transfer Amer. Inst. Chem. Eng. Journal American Journal of Physics Annals of Biomedical Engineering Applied Mechanics Reviews CHAOS Europhysics Letters IEEE T. Auto Ctrl & T. C&S Int. J. Expt'l Th.. & Fl. Phys. FONDECYT (Chile) |
Journal of Applied Physics Journal of Chemical Physics Journal of Fluid Mechanics Journal of Rheology Journal of Statistical Physics Journal of Vibration and Control Latin American Applied Research Nature Nature Reviews Mol. Cell Biology NASA |
NSF Nonlinearity Physica D Physical Review E Physical Review Letters Physics of Fluids A Physics Letters A Proceedings of the Royal Society A Reviews of Modern Physics SCIENCE SIAM J. Applied Mathematics |
Invited Publications:
T. Shinbrot, "The brazil nut effect in reverse"
(News & Views) Nature 429
(2004) 352-3
H. Jaeger, T.
Shinbrot & P. Umbanhowar "Does the Granular Matter?" Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sciences 97 (2000)
12959-60.
S. Maskery & T. Shinbrot, Stochastic and Deterministic
Elements of Neuronal Outgrowth" Annual Reviews of Biomed. Eng. In
preparation
T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, "Noise to Order"
Nature 410 (2001), 251 - 8
T. Shinbrot, E. Ott, C. Grebogi & JA Yorke, "Using
Small Perturbations to Control Chaos," Nature, 363 (1993) 411-7.
FJ Muzzio, BJ Glasser & T. Shinbrot, Powder technology
in the pharmaceutical industry: the need to catch up fast," Powder
Technology 124 (2002) 1-7
T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, "Mixing and segregation
in tumbling blenders," Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology
(Marcel-Dekker, 2002) 1805-20.
T. Shinbrot, Controlling Chaos," Encyclopedia
of Nonlinear Science (Taylor & Francis, NY 2004);
T. Shinbrot, M. Zeggio & FJ Muzzio, "Computational
approaches to granular segregation in tumbling blenders," Powder Technology
116 (2001)
224-31
Shinbrot, T., "Perspectives on the Control of Chaos,"
Advances of Physics, 44:2
(1995) 73-111.
Shinbrot, T., "Chaos: Unpredictable yet Controllable?"
Nonlin. Sciences Today, 3:2 (1993) 1-8.
Ottino, JM & Shinbrot, T. "Comparing Extremes:
Mixing of Fluids, Mixing of Solids," Mixing: Chaos and Turbulence,
Chat et al., ed's, (Kluwer Academic/Plenum, NY 1999) 163-86.
Shinbrot, T. "Chaos, Coherence & Control,"
Flow Control -- Fundamentals and Practices, M. Gad-el-Hak et al., ed's (Springer, Berlin, 1998)
501-27
Shinbrot, T. "Using Chaotic Sensitivity," Handbook
of Chaos Control, HG Schuster, ed. in press.
Moakher, M., Shinbrot, T. & Muzzio, F.J. "Experimentally
validated computations of flow, mixing and segregation of non-cohesive grains
in 3D tumbling blenders", Powder Technology 109
(2000) 58--71
Shinbrot, T., Alexander, A., Moakher, M. & Muzzio,
FJ, "Chaotic Granular Mixing," CHAOS 9
(1999) 611-620
Publications:
NH Duong, A. Hosoi & T. Shinbrot Periodic knolls
and valleys: Coexistence of Solid and Liquid States in Granular Suspensions"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 224502.
T. Shinbrot, NH Duong, L. Kwan & MM Alvarez, "Dry
granular flows can resemble some Martian geological features attributed to
liquid flow" Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sciences
101 (2004) 8542-6.
S. Maskery, HM Buettner & T. Shinbrot, Growth cone
pathfinding: a competition between deterministic and stochastic events"
BCE. Neurosci.
SL Conway, T. Shinbrot, BJ Glasser A Taylor Vortex Analogy
in Granular Flows" in review, Nature
T. Shinbrot & W. Young, Why decussate? - Topological constraints on neuronal
wiring, development, and regeneration" in review: Biophys. J.
NH Duong, E. Shen, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio, Segregation
in granular materials and the direct measurement of surface forces using atomic
force microscopy," in press: Powder Technol.
A. Alexander, T. Shinbrot, B. Johnson & FJ Muzzio
V-blender segregation patterns for free-flowing materials: effects of blender
capacity and fill level," Int. J. Pharmaceutics 269 (2004) 19-28
A. Alexander, FJ Muzzio & T. Shinbrot Effects of
Scale and Inertia on Granular Banding Segregation" Granular Matter
5 (2004) 171-5.
MM Alvarez, M. Elas, P. Arratia, LJ Galn Wong, T. Shinbrot,
& FJ Muzzio, Experimental Visualization of Mixing Pathologies in Tank
Bioreactors," Proc. 2003 AIChE Annual Meeting.
SL Conway,
DJ Goldfarb, T. Shinbrot & BJ Glasser, Free Surface Waves in Wall-Bounded
Convection," Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2002) 074301-1-4
A. Alexander, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio "Scaling surface velocities in rotating cylinders
as a function of vessel radius, rotation rate & particle size,"
Powder Technol. 126 (2002) 174-90
D. Goldfarb, BJ Glasser & T. Shinbrot, "Shear
Instabilites in a Granular Flow", Nature
415 (2002) 302-5.
T. Shinbrot, MM Alvarez, JM Zalc & FJ Muzzio, "Attraction
of Minute Particles to Invariant Regions of Volume Preserving Flows by Transients,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86
(2001) 1207-10.
Shinbrot, T. & Muzzio, FJ, "Nonequilibrium Patterns
in Granular Mixing and Segregation," Physics
Today (March, 2000) 25-30.
Shinbrot, T., Alexander, A. & Muzzio, FJ, "Spontaneous
Chaotic Granular Mixing" Nature,
397 (1999) 675-8.
Shinbrot, T., Lomelo, L. & Muzzio, FJ, "Harmonic
Patterns in Fine Granular Vibrated Beds" Granular Matter 2
(2000) 65-9
FJ Muzzio, AW Alexander, C. Goodridge, E. Shen &
T. Shinbrot Part A: Fundamentals of Solids Mixing" Chapter 15, Handbook
of Industrial Mixing, Kresta, Paul, Atiemo-Obeng eds (John Wiley &
Sons, NY 2003)
RM Lueptow, A. Akonur & T. Shinbrot, "PIV for
Granular Flows," Experiments in Fluids 28 (2000), 183-186
Shinbrot, T. & Scarbrough, K. "Using Variability
to Regulate Long Term Biological Rhythms," J. Theor. Biol. 196 (1999) 455-71.
Alvarez, MM, Shinbrot, T., Zalc, J, Muzzio, FJ Practical
Chaotic Mixing," Chem. Eng. Sci. 57 (2002)
3749-53
P. Arratia, M. Alvarez, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio,
Spontaneous chaos in non-Newtonian fluids," Phys. Rev. Lett. In review
P. Arratia, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzio, Mixing of non-Newtonian
fluids, Part 1: Elastic fluids," J. Fluid Mech. In review
P. Arratia, T. Shinbrot & FJ Muzio, Mixing of non-Newtonian
fluids, Part 2: Inelastic fluids," J. Fluid Mech. In review
Shinbrot, T. Commentary Nature 399 (1999) 521.
Shinbrot, T., "Granular Coarsening," Granular Matter, 1 (1998) 145-8
Shinbrot, T. & Muzzio, FJ, "Reverse Buoyancy
in Shaken Granular Beds," Phys. Rev. Letters 81 (1998) 4365-8
M. Rudolph, T. Shinbrot & RM Lueptow, "A Model
of Mixing and Transport in Wavy Taylor-Couette Flow," Physica D, 121 (1998) 163-174
Shinbrot, T., "Granular Pattern Formation,"
in The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature, by P. Ball
(Oxford U. Press, 1998)
Shinbrot,
T. "Competition Between Randomizing Impacts and Inelastic Collisions
in Granular Pattern Formation" Nature
389 (1997) 574-6
Shinbrot, T., Khakhar, DV & Ottino, JM, "A Simple
Model for Granular Convection," Phys. Rev. Letters 79 (1997) 829-32
Shinbrot, T. , Bresler, L., & Ottino, JM, "Manipulation
of isolated structures in experimental chaotic fluid flows," Experimental
Thermal & Fluid Science 16 (1998) 76-83
Shinbrot, T., Khakhar, DV, McCarthy, JJ & Ottino,
JM, "A Role for Voids in Granular Convection," Phys. Rev. E 55 (1997) 6121-33.
Bresler, L., Shinbrot, T. Metcalfe G. & Ottino, JM
"Isolated Mixing Regions: Origin, Robustness and Control" Chem.
Eng. Sci. 52 (1997) 1623-36.
Khakhar, DV, McCarthy, JJ Shinbrot, T., & Ottino,
JM, "Transverse Flow & Mixing of Granular Materials in a Rotating
Cylinder" Phys. Fluids 9
(1997) 31-43.
McCarthy, JJ, Wolf, EJ Shinbrot, T., Metcalfe G. &
Ottino, JM, "Mixing of Granular Materials in Slowly Rotated Containers,"
AIChE Jnl. 42 (1996)
3351-53.
Shinbrot, T., Bresler, L. & Ottino, JM "Control
of Transport in a Chaotic Lattice," Physica D 93 (1996) 191-209.
Shinbrot, T. & Ottino, JM Review of: Chaos & Nonlinear Dynamics (Hilborn) and
Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos (Strogatz) AIChE Journal 1831-2 (July 1995).
Metcalfe, G., Shinbrot, T., McCarthy, J. & Ottino,
JM, "Avalanche Mixing of Granular Solids," Nature 374 (1995)
39-41 (+ cover)
Metcalfe, G., Shinbrot, T., McCarthy, J. & Ottino,
JM, "Mixing Patterns for Surface Dominated Granular Flows" Gallery
of Fluid Motion Phys. Fluids A7 (9/95) S8
Shinbrot, T. & Ottino, JM, "Maps, PDE's and Solitary Waves," Int.
J. Bif. & Chaos, 5:4
(1995) 955-70
Shinbrot, T. "Synchronization
of Coupled Maps and Stable Windows," Phys. Rev. E. 50 (1994) 3230-3.
Shinbrot, T. Commentary Science 263
(1994) 455.
Shinbrot, T. & Ottino, JM "A Geometric Method
to Create Coherent Structures in Chaotic Flows" Phys. Rev. Lett. 71 (1993) 843-847.
Shinbrot, T., Grebogi, C., Ott, E. & Yorke, JA "Using
Chaos to Target Stationary States of Flows," Phys. Lett. A, 169 (1992) 349-54.
Shinbrot, T., Ditto, W., Grebogi, C., Ott, E., Spano
M. & Yorke, JA "Using the Sensitive Dependence of Chaos (the 'Butterfly
Effect') to Direct Orbits to Targets in an Experimental Chaotic System,"
Phys. Rev. Lett., 68 (1992)
2863-6
Shinbrot, T. Commentary Physics Today
(March, 1992) 102.
Shinbrot, T. et al. "Control: Targeting and Goal Dynamics," Chap.
11 Coping with Chaos, ed's. E. Ott, T. Sauer & JA Yorke (Wiley,
NY 1994)
Shinbrot, T., Grebogi, C., Wisdom J. & Yorke, JA
"Chaos in a Double Pendulum", Am. J. Phys., 60 (1992) 491-9
Shinbrot, T., Ott, E., Grebogi, C. & Yorke, JA "Using
Chaos to Direct Orbits to Targets in Systems Describable by a 1D Map,"
Phys. Rev. A, 45 (1992)
4165-8
Shinbrot, T., Ott, E., Grebogi, C. & Yorke, JA "Using
Chaos to Direct Trajectories to Targets", Phys. Rev. Lett., 65 (1990) 3215-8
Harding, A., Shinbrot, T. & Cordes, J. "A Chaotic
Attractor in the Vela Pulsar?", Astrophysical J. 353 (1990) 588-96
Shinbrot, T. "A Novel Model of Contact Charging,"
J. Electrostatics (May 1983).
AW Alexander, T Shinbrot & FJ Muzzio "Granular
Segregation in the Double Cone Blender: Transitions and Mechanisms,"
Phys. Fluids A 13 (2001) 578
Patents:
Shinbrot, "Page Flipper for Book Copying,"
US Patent 4,663,873
Shinbrot, "Frictionless Feeder for Book Copying,"
US Patent 4,673,286
Garavuso & Shinbrot, "Platen Transport and Vacuum
Plenum for Book Copying," US Patent 4,693,594,
Shinbrot & Kuo, "Document Feeder for Moving
Platen Copiers," US Patent 4,707,133
Shinbrot & Kuo, "Document Feeder," European
patent pending
Shinbrot, "Page Flipper," Canadian and European
patents pending
(My
research has also been the subject of feature articles in: Science, Nature,
Scientific American, Discover, Science News, New Scientist, The Scientist,
Reuters, BBC, NY Times, Washington Post, Albuquerque Journal, Chicago Tribune
etc.) Latest: Science News 164 July 26, 2003 cover article Mastering the Mixer"
by Peter Weiss 56-8; Dust rocks
martian river theory," by Phil Ball, Nature Science Update May 25, 2004.
Invited Talks:
American Physical Society general meeting,
Minneapolis, MN, 2000
American Physical Society general meeting,
Austin, TX 2003
American Physical Society general meeting,
Pittsburgh, PA, 1994
American Association of Physics Teachers,
Rochester, NY 2001
Argonne National Laboratory, Granular
Flow Workshop, 2003
Argonne National Laboratory, Granular
Flow Workshop, 1998
Boston University, Dept. of Biomedical
Engineering, 2003
Cornell University, Dept. of Mech. Engineering,
1994
Center for Discrete Mathematics &
Theoretical Computer Science, 1998
Delaware State University, 2004
Duke University, Dept. of Physics, 1992
Dynamics Days, Temp, AZ, 1997
Experimental Chaos Conference, Crystal
City, VA, 1991
Fields Institute, Waterloo, Ontario,
1993
GI Taylor Symposium, ASME, ASCE, SES
joint mechanics meeting, 1997
Dynamical Processes in Granular Materials
Conference, U. Chicago, 1995
Haverford College, Physics Colloquium,
2003
Illinois Institute of Technology, Dept.
Mechanical & Aerospace Eng'g, 1994
Institute d'Etudes Scientifiques de
Cargse, Corsica, France, 1996
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
2003 declined
Land'O'Lakes Pharmaceutical Engineering
Workshop, 1998
London Mathematical Society, 2 keynote
speeches; 2002
Los Alamos National Labs, Center for
Nonlinear Studies, 1994
MIT, Dept. of Mathematics, 1992
MIT, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,
1995
National Academy of Sciences, "Frontiers
of Science", 1999
National Institutes of Health, Mathematical
Modeling Branch, 1992
NASA Glenn Research Center, Granular
Flow minicourse, 2000
NATO ASI
Short Course, Cargse, France, 1996
Naval Research Labs., Nonlinear Dynamics
Seminar, 1992
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Nonlinear
Dynamics Seminar, 1990
Northwestern University, Dept. of Eng.
Sci. & Applied Mathematics, 1993 & 1994
Northwestern University, Dept. of Mathematics,
1992
Northwestern University, Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering, 1993
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1994
Ohio University, Dept. of Physics and
Astronomy, 1997
Penn. State University, Dept. of Physics,
2001
Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics,
Chennai India 12-15 July 2004 (declined)
Princeton University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
2000
Pfizer, Inc., 2001
Segregation in Granular Flows workshop,
Cape May, NJ 1999
SIAM Dynamical Systems Conference, Snowbird, Utah, 1995
University of California at Berkeley,
Dept. of Physics, 2002
University of California at Santa Barbara,
Dept. of Mathematics, 1995
University of California at San Diego,
Inst. for Nonlinear Science, 2000
University of Chicago, James Franck
Inst., 1994, 1996
University of Colorado at Boulder, Dept.
of Applied Mathematics, 1995
University of Connecticut, Dept. of
Chemical Engineering, 2000
University of Florida, Dept. of Chemical
Engineering, 1997
University of Illinois, Chicago, Dept.
of Chemical Engineering, 1997
University of Illinois, Urbana, Beckmann
Inst., 1992
University of Illinois, Urbana, Dept.
of Physics, 1993
University of Maryland, Dynamics Seminar,
1990, 1991, 1992, 1999
University of Minnesota, Electrical
Engineering Dept., 1996
University of Minnesota, Aerospace Engineering
& Mechanics Dept., 1996
University of Missouri, Dept. of Physics,
1993
Universit de Montral, Qubec, Centre
de Rechrches Mathematiques, 1993
University of Notre Dame, Dept. of Aerospace
Engineering, 1996
University of Toronto, Ontario, Dept.
of Physics, 1994
University of Victoria, British Columbia,
Dept. of Mathematics, 1995
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dept.
of Physics, 1996
West Virginia University, Dept. of Physics, 2000