(needs updating)

 

News last updated 03/24/2010

The latest news is that Dr. Olafsen’s edited volume should be published by the end of the summer by Cambridge University Press.

---

There’s been a lot of news since Dr. Olafsen’s Nonlinear Dynamics Lab moved to Baylor University.

At some point, we’ll try and reconstruct a news archive for the last few years.

The most significant piece of news is that the lab changed names when it arrived at Baylor University.

The Dynamics and Imaging Analysis Lab (DIAL) is the new name for what was previously the Imaging Systems Laboratory Experiments (ISLE) group.

12/27/05
• The new MRI machine has arrived and we’ve started producing images in 3D granular packings and 3D foams

 

06/20/05
• Anisotropic dynamics in a shaken dimer gas experiment
  by J. Atwell and J. S. Olafsen
  has appeared in Physical Review E.

 

06/15/05
• Kansas NSF EPSCoR has funded our equipment proposal
  Portable Magnetic Resonance Imaging Resource for Basic Research
  in Biomechanical and Living Systems
  to fund purchase of a portable MRI resource.

 

06/07/05
• Inelastic Gravitational Billiards
  by S. Feldt and J. S. Olafsen
  has appeared in Physical Review Letters.

 

12/03/04
• Polymer-like folding of a two-dimensional granular chain in water
  by B. Bammes and J. S. Olafsen
  has appeared in Chaos.

 

11/26/04
• Eric Sorrentino, a junior majoring in journalism, focused his multimedia project on the work of Jesse Atwell, G. W. Baxter and J. S. Olafsen. The end result can be seen here.

 

08/29/04
• Ben Bammes’ video to the APS March Meeting received 3rd place in the 1st Annual Gallery of Images sponsored by the GSNP group of the APS. As part of the award, Ben will be submitting a paper and video to the journal Chaos.

 

07/14/04
• Sarah Feldt and Kevin Kohlstedt have graduated. Sarah will be attending graduate school at the University of Michigan on a Regents Fellowship. Kevin will be attending graduate school at Northwestern University on a McCormick Fellowship.

 

03/29/04
• Sarah Feldt has received one of the Class of 1913 Chancellor’s Awards. The news release is here

 

03/17/04
• The new lab in 6073 Malott has been finished. The ISLE lab will be moving over the next couple of weeks.

 

12/19/03
• Congratulations to Dana Maher for being one of two winners
  of the Department’s Prosser Scholarship.

 

10/16/03
• Gaussian Statistics in Granular Gases
  by G. W. Baxter and J. S. Olafsen
  has appeared in the October 16, 2003 issue of Nature
  For more information, click here

 

05/20/03
• The ISLE Lab has received a Planning Grant from Kansas
  NASA EPSCoR for collaborative work with Chris Sorensen at KSU.

 

05/01/03
• Effects of Slope and Particle Size on Ant Locomotion:
  Implications for Choice of Substrate by Antlions
  by Jason T. Botz, Catherine Loudon, J. Bradley Barger,
  Jeffrey S. Olafsen, and Don W. Steeples has been published in
  The Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol 76, Issue 3 (2003).

 

04/10/03
• Congratulations to Ryan Kinser who has been awarded
  an NSF Graduate Fellowship to begin graduate school next fall!

 

04/02/03
• Congratulations to Sarah Feldt and William Cross who have been awarded
  Undergraduate Research Awards for Summer 2003 from the KU UGRA Program!

 

03/26/03
• Congratulations to Kevin Kohlstedt who will be participating in
  the Summer 2003 Student Research Participation Program
  at Argonne National Laboratory this summer!

 

03/19/03
• Congratulations to Sarah Feldt for being named a Goldwater Scholar from KU.

 

01/21/03
• M. V. Sapozhnikov, I. S. Aranson, and J. S. Olafsen
  Coarsening of granular clusters: Two types of scaling behaviors
  has been published in Physical Review E.

 

12/11/02
• I. S. Aranson and J. S. Olafsen
  Velocity Fluctuations in Electrostatically Driven Granular Media
  has been published in Physical Review E.
• 03/29/02
  • Congratulations to the following students:
    • Jesse Atwell, Cory Doolittle, Sara Feldt and Kevin Kohlstedt

    for being awarded Summer UGRAs from KU for 2002!

  03/28/02
  • Congratulations to:
    • Ryan Kinser and Adam Kraus

    for being named Goldwater Scholarship winners!

  02/21/02
  • The ISLE lab has received funding for a Summer Research Fellowship
    • Prof G. William Baxter, Behrend College

    will be spending 8 weeks this summer working on a project with us.