Assistant Professor Mark Hoefer Continues Work with His NSF Career Award
Hoefer received in 2013 and continues to receive funding. Thus far, three publications have been produced as a result of the research. Hoefer said that, 鈥淚 received the Career award in 2013 to study nonlinear wave dynamics theoretically and experimentally.听 The grant led to the formation of the , housed in Duane Physics, where undergraduate, graduate students and I investigate soliton and dispersive shock wave dynamics in fluid experiments.
Another aspect of the grant is to investigate a new kind of soliton, recently observed by multiple experimental groups, in magnetic materials called the magnetic droplet soliton.听 I was a coauthor on a听Science听paper for听the first experimental observation of droplets.听 As a result of this international collaboration, a postdoc, funded by the Swedish government, will be coming to APPM in March to work with me on computational problems involving magnetic droplet solitons.鈥
鈥擡va Lambek
