Fabian Waleffe Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Engineering Physics 819 Van Vleck Hall 480 Lincoln Drive Madison, WI 53706-1388 Telephone: (608) 263-3269, Dept Fax: (608) 263-8891 E-mail: waleffe at math point wisc point edu
That was then...(1998)

Research

• Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence: Exact Coherent Structures and the Self-Sustaining Process
• Recent publications

• Physics Today (Feb 2004) "Search and Discovery" article
• PhysicsWeb news story (Sept 9, 2004)
• Science article (Sept 10, 2004) and Perspective by Fritz Busse.
  • Frans Nieuwstadt obituary
• "Piped-in Turbulence", Scientific American, News Scan Briefs, p. 28, Nov. 2004
• PhysicsWorld article December 2004.

• Society of Rheology, 79th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 7-11, 2007
• Kimfest Stanford, CA, Sept 14, 2007
• Computational homology and fluid dynamics worskshop Georgia Tech Mar 1-3, 2007
• Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems December 16-18, 2006, Edinburg, Texas, USA
• `Nonlinearities - from Turbulent to Magic' Niels Bohr Institute May 17-20. 2006.
• Conference on Turbulence and Interactions TI2006 Porquerolles, May 29-June 2, 2006
• `Non-Uniqueness of Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations and their Connection with Laminar-Turbulent Transition'
  Bristol, August 9-11, 2004.

Applied Math/PDE seminar

Graduate Students

• Marios Charalambides: done! (June 2005) and now at Frederick Institute of Technology in Cyprus.
• Joy Wang who has more flying pictures among many other things!

Teaching

Previous research and teaching at MIT

Course related links:

OBSOLETE as of Fall 2003: Calculus syllabi (221-222-234) and miscellaneous information (primarily intended for instructors)
• a priori, i.e., e.g., a.m., p.m., etc. what the heck does this all mean?
• The Periodic Table of Elements
• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
• Animated Proof of Pythagoras' Theorem
• Famous curves (collection of Java applets)
• Period doubling route to chaos (nice applet!)
• How stuff works
• Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
• Sun, Ecliptic
• Seasons of the year
• The Pi pages (a bit too much, and with an annoying applet...)
• National Atlas Map Browser (interactive Map browser).
• Geographic Names Information Server
• Earth facts and data

Miscellaneous

Another unique higher education opportunity in the Madison area

Destruction of downtown Chicago airport 2003/04/01