Alfred Hubler's Blog

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Alfred Hubler's Blog

Director of the Center for Complex Systems Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Professor at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and tenured faculty member at the Department of at the of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Executive Editor of the Wiley journal Complexity
Chair of the organizing committee of the annual conference Understanding Complex Systems
External faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute , SFI REU advisor and in charge of the lab of the annual Complex Systems Summer School
Founder of How-Why.com, Inc.
Hobbies: adventure travel (hiking, long walks, bicycling, canoeing at cool places around the world); building an energy efficient home out of untreated adobe bricks and staw bails; volunteer teaching in alternative schools; playing keyboard instruments; giving massages; going to gallery openings; listening to any kind of live music; going out to any kind of Pulitzer-Prize-winning play, classical play, or musical; photography; cooking elaborate meals & preparing elegant dinners; readings books on philosophy, human relationship, art and culture; survival studies, including alligator wrestling - an alligator wrestling episode with my daughters Ines and Merla aired in the premier of the Discovery Channel's Wreckreation Nation on 1/6/09 at 10pm Eastern (YouTube clip, Preview, pics).

Research: 50% Physics/Engineering/Biology experiments, 30% Discrete-Math/Computer Science/Information Science, 20% Natural Philosophy - Concepts governing the dynamics and structure of emergent patterns in open dissipative systems; mixed reality; prediction and control of fractal network dynamics; entrainment of cancer cells; energy conversion, storage, and distribution; dissipate wave-particle systems; solitons; flames and shock waves; turbulence; reverse osmosis and filtration with fractal absorbers; conceptual networks; quantitative measures for knowledge and intelligence; natural language parsing.

Teaching: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos - A Toolbox for Complex Systems Research (for UIUC graduate students) , Behavior of Complex Systems (for UIUC undergraduate feshmens), Physics 123 (introductory Physics course for UIUC undergraduates), Logic and Reasoning (NSF funded, for students at Campus Middle School for Girls).
For the past five years I was every semester on the list of excellent teachers (Complete Spring 2007 Teaching Evaluation).

Contact: hubler.alfred@gmail.com, USA-217-552-0728 (cell) Address (June 1 - August 15): Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, U.S.A., USA-505-984-8800 (work), USA-505-984-0698 (home) Address (August 15- May 15): Department of Physics, UIUC, 1110 W Green Street, Urbana, IL, 61801, U.S.A., USA-217-244-5892 (work), USA-217-328-7701 (home) Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00am-11:50am Central Time 4-125 ESB, UIUC

Offical Webpage

Funding

Research: National Science Foundation Grant DMS 03-25939 ITR.
Educational: National Science Foundation Award DGE 03-38215, Entrepreneurial Leadership in STEM Teaching & learning (EnLiST), National Science Foundation Grant 0831820
Conference: Office of Naval Research (Dr. M. Shlesinger), Division of Physics, NSF (Dr. F. Cooper), and the Division of Biological Physics, NSF (Dr. K. Blagoev).

New sponsored research projects

Yes, I am always open to new collaborations, and I am ready to contribute to collaborative research proposals.
Yes, I am ready to take a lead in proposal writing.
Yes, I enjoy consulting.

Recent Papers, Talks, Posters, Conferences, etc:

6/8/2009 - 6/12/2009 fund raising in Washington for the Digital Batteries project
6/9/2009 G. Gintautas, A. Hubler, "A simple, low-cost, data-logging pendulum built from a computer mouse" accepted by Physics Education preprint
5/22/2009 received good teaching evaluations by the students, as every semester :) large Physics Introductory course, Physics freshman discovery course, Physics graduate course
4/15/2009 A. Hubler, "Digital wires", Complexity 14(5), 7-9 (2009). preprint
3/20/2009 two talks at the APS March Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA: Digital Wires slides, Digital Batteries slides
3/1/2009 Glenn Foster, Alfred W. Hubler and Karin Dahmen, Resonance Curves of Multidimensional Chaotic Systems. V. In, P. Longhini, A. Palacios (eds) Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics, Understanding Complex Systems (Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 2009), pp. 263-272. preprint
2/6/2009 Poster on my current educational research at the UIUC faculty retreat slides
1/15/2009 A. Hubler, "Self-adjusting systems avoid chaos", Complexity 14(4), 8-11 (2009).preprint
11/22/2008 Overview talk over my current research at the faculty retreat of the UIUC Physics department slides
12/15/2008 A. Hubler, "Digital batteries", Complexity 14(3), 7-9 (2008).preprint
11/10/2008 - 11/13/2008 Talk on e-learning at Nanotechnology Conference, Amman, Jordan, slides, Chairman of the Nano Energy Discussion Group summary, photos
11/7/2008 - 11/9/2008 Participate at the Business Network and Board of Trustees� Symposium of the Santa Fe Institute, NM.
10/15/2008 - 10/17/2008 Invited talk at 3rd Network Science Workshop, United States Military Academy, Westpoint, NY.
9/12/08 T. Wotherspoon and A. Hubler,"Adaption to the Edge of Chaos with Random-Wavelet Feedback" is accepted by the Journal of Physical Chemistry prepint
8/26/08 My graduate student Glenn Foster defends his Ph.D. thesis successfully.
7/31/2008 - 8/1/2008 Participate at the at the MECS workshop at MITRE in Washington.
7/7/2008 V. Gintautas and A. Hubler, "Resonant forcing of nonlinear systems of differential equations", Chaos 18, 033118 (2008)preprint
6/13/2008 Gave a lecture to 50 Middle Schools students (GUTS program)
6/1/2008 - 6/30/2008 Gave the labs at the Complex Systems Summer School of the Santa Fe Institute
5/12/2008 Gave a presentation on mixed reality at UCS2008
Slides
5/10/2008 My graduate student Vadas Gintautas defends his Ph.D. thesis successfully.
4/4/2008 Wrote editorial on mixed reality, out-of-body experiences, and time-travel for Complexity, Preprint
3/10/2008 Speaker at the APS press conference at 11AM in the press room in the New Orleans Convention Center in room B2-2 at the APS March Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana (slides)
3/10/2008-3/14/2008 APS March Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana (slides)
Joined the editorial board of Research Letters in Physics
J. Xu, A. Hubler Detecting quasiperiodic structures with double diffraction. Europhysics Letters 81, 16002 (2008). Preprint
1/3/2008-1/6/2008 Dynamics Days 2008/, Knoxville, TN
A. Hubler Homeopathic Dynamical Systems, to appear in Complexity. Preprint
11/30/2007 Multicultural Youth Conference Talk with many lecture demos in 141 Loomis, UIUC, 1:10pm-1:45pm. Slides
V. Gintautas, G. Foster, and A. W. Hubler Resonant forcing of select degrees of freedom of multidimensional chaotic map dynamics , J. Stat. Phys. 130 (3), 617-629 (2008) Preprint
10/28/2007-10/31/2007, ICCS 2007/, Boston. Slides of the overview talk for the opening session.
10/31/2007-11/4/2007, Annual Business Network and Board of Trustees' Symposium "Diversity Collapse: When, Where, and What are the Consequences?" of the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
10/22/2007-10/25/2007, Network Science Workshop, West Point, NY. Slides of invited talk.
10/11/2007-10/13/2007, Wolfram Technology Conference 2007, Champaign, IL.
9/24/2007-9/27/2007, International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics, Office of Naval Research, held at Poipu Beach, Koloa (Kauai), Hawaii. Slides of invited talk, poster1, poster2, paper.
W C. Strelioff, J. Crutchfield, A. Hubler k-th Order Markov Chains: Bayesian Inference, Model Comparison, Entropy Rate, and Out-of-class Modeling. Phys. Rev. E 76, 011106 (2007). Reprint
A. Hubler and K. C. Phelps Guiding a self-adjusting system through chaos. Complexity 13(2) 10 (2007). Preprint
7/13/2007-7/15/2007 NKS 2007 conference, Burlington, VT, invited talk, Slides
6/1/2007-/6/30/2007 Complex Systems Summer School 2007, 2 plenary lectures and 13 labs
A. Hubler Understanding Complex Systems: Defining an abstract concept. Complexity 12(5), 5-9(2007). Preprint
A. Gerig and A. Hubler Chaos in a one-dimensional compressible flow. Phys. Rev. E 75, 045202 (2007). Reprint
UCS2007, chairman of the organizing committee
V. Gintautas and A. Hubler Experimental evidence for mixed reality states in an interreality system. Phys. Rev. E 75, 057201 (2007). Reprint
Invited talk APS March meeting in Denver, CO. Slides
A. Hubler, G. Foster and K. C. Phelps Managing chaos: Thinking out of the box. Complexity 12(3), 10-13 (2007). Preprint
2/22/2007-2/25/2007 Coordination Dynamics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
M. S. Singleton and A. Hubler Learning rate and attractor size of the single-layer perceptron. Phys. Rev. E 75, 026704 (2007). Reprint
G. Foster, A. Hubler, and K. Dahmen Resonant forcing of multidimensional chaotic map dynamics. Phys. Rev. E 75, 036212 (2007). Reprint
1/11/2007-1/12/2007 Complex Systems Engineering, RAND Corporation, St. Monica, CA. Preprint
1/3/2007-1/6/2007 Dynamics Days 2007, Boston University, Boston, MA
publications 2006 and earlier

In the News:

July 2008 Newsletter of the American Physical Society Letter on Mixed Reality
May 2008 Newsletter of the American Physical Society Article on Mixed Reality
News Gazette Article - "Blurring the boundary between the virtual, real"
Daily Illini Article - "Physics research blurs reality"
Mixed Reality Paper cited in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality
Mixed Reality Paper on the APS Tip Sheet

Each month the American Physical Society selects four papers from all of its journals for the APS tip sheet. The APS tip sheet is designed to attract media attention to Physics research.

In June my paper "Experimental evidence for mixed reality states in an interreality system" with my graduate student Vadas Gintautas, Phys. Rev. E 75, 057201 (2007), was selected for the APS tip sheet: http://www.aps.org/about/tipsheets/tip68.cfm

Quite a few sites have picked up the news report. Links to news sites, etc:

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