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My interdisciplinary research in complexity and pattern formation has applied similar techniques to some relatively disparate areas of biophysics, foams, climate and stochastic processes. The first category includes a range of systems — from single bacteria to tissue morphogenesis in vertebrates — and a range of methods from analytical perturbation analysis to Monte Carlo simulation. The last category encompasses work on the theoretical basis of nonequilibrium Monte Carlo simulations as well as work on nonlinear time series, unusual probability distributions and other aspects of stochastic processes. I have done analytical modeling of bacterial motility and computational modeling of tissue morphogenesis. I study foam rheology both experimentally and numerically.
I participate in many outreach activities. I am active in the annual Indiana University Physics Department Open House. I assist in design, construction and repair of museum exhibits at WonderLab: the museum of science health and technology. I have hosted high school groups to tour my foam experiment.