Jean-Luc Thiffeault

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics

Department of Mathematics
Van Vleck Hall, Room 503
480 Lincoln Drive
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
USA

Office: 1-608-263-4089
Fax: 1-608-263-8891

Drop-in Office Hours: M 10:45–11:45, Th 1:20–2:20

News

• Marko Budišić will begin a postdoc at UW Madison in the Fall of 2013, to work with me and Tom Peacock.
• Sarah Tumasz won the John Nohel Prize in Applied Mathematics for her thesis. Congratulations, Sarah!
• Review article on Using multiscale norms to quantify mixing and transport has appeared in Nonlinearity.
• Article in SIAM Review with cover picture of a Lego silver mixer.

Research interests

• Biogenic mixing (See Physics World, Technology Review and University of Wisconsin News.)
• Chaotic and turbulent mixing in fluids (See Physics World and Sciences et Avenir.)
• Topological dynamics and topological chaos (see Dynamical Systems Magazine article)
• Fluid dynamics
• Microfluid mixing
• Multiphase flows
• Dynamical systems and Hamiltonian mechanics
• Plasma physics and dynamo theory

I am a regular participant in

The GFD Summer Program at Woods Hole