Luis A.N. Amaral (ChBE)	Keith Burns (M)	Stephen Davis (ESAM)
Sandip Ghosal (ME)	Alexander Golovin (ESAM)	Bartosz Grzybowski (ChBE)
Vassily Hatzimanikatis (ChBE)	Jim Houk (Physiol)	Mark Johnson (BME)
William Kath (ESAM)	Prem Kumar (ECE)	Seth Lichter (ME)
Richard Lueptow (ME)	Bernie Matkowsky (ESAM)	Lee Miller (Physiol)
Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi (Physiol)	Monica Olvera de la Cruz (MS&E)	Julio Ottino (ChBE)
Michael Peshkin (ME)	Fred Rasio (P&A)	Hermann Riecke (ESAM)
Clark Robinson (M)	Mary Silber (ESAM)	Sara Solla (Physiology)
Nelson Spruston (N&P)	Melody Swartz (BME)	Paul Umbanhowar (P&A)
Peter Voorhees (MS&E)	Amie Wilkinson (M)

McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science:

  Biomedical Engineering

	Mark Johnson Associate Professor E-mail: Professor Johnson Research Area: Diffusion and Entropy Generation in Chaotic, Deterministic Processes
	Melody Swartz Assistant Professor E-mail: Professor Swartz Research Area: Mechanical Coupling of the Cell and its Extracellular Environment Research Group: Integrative Cell and Tissue Mechanics Laboratory

  Chemical and Biological Engineering

	Luis A.N. Amaral Associate Professor E-mail: Professor Amaral Research Area: Complex Systems Research Group: Amaral Research Group
	Bartosz A. Grzybowski Assistant Professor E-mail: Professor Grzybowski Research Area: Dissipative Self-Assembling Systems Research Group: Dynamics Self-Assembly
	Vassily Hatzimanikatis AssistantProfessor E-mail: Professor Hatzimanikatis Research Area: Systems Biology and Biological Networks Research Group: Computational & Mathematical Biotechnology Laboratory
	Julio M. Ottino Professor E-mail: Professor Ottino Research Area: Self-Organization in Granular Matter Research Group: Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics in Fluid and Granular Materials

  Electrical & Computer Engineering

Prem Kumar Professor E-mail: Professor Kumar Research Area: Nonlinear Optics

  Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

	Stephen H. Davis Professor E-mail: Professor Davis Research Area: Freezing of Foams, Particle Encapsulation
	Alexander A. Golovin Assistant Professor E-mail: Professor Golovin Research Area: Self-Organization of Nano-Scale Patterns
	William L. Kath Professor E-mail: Professor Kath Research Area: Fiber Optics, Computational Neuroscience
	Bernard J. Matkowsky Professor E-mail: Professor Matkowsky Research Area: Patterns and Dynamics in Combustion
	Hermann Riecke Professor E-mail: Professor Riecke Research Area: Pattern Formation and Spatio-Temporal Chaos
	Mary Silber Associate Professor E-mail: Professor Silber Research Area: Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation

  Materials Science and Engineering

	Monica Olvera de la Cruz Professor E-mail: Professor Olvera de la Cruz Research Area: Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Complex Macromolecules Research Group: Olvera de la Cruz Research Group
	Peter W. Voorhees Professor E-mail:Professor Voorhees Research Area: Dendrites Solidification Research Group: Voorhees Research Group

  Mechanical Engineering

	Sandip Ghosal Professor E-mail: Professor Ghosal Research Area: Electrokinetic Flows
	Seth Lichter Professor E-mail: Professor Lichter Research Area: Nanoscale and Molecular-scale Dynamics
	Richard M. Lueptow Professor E-mail: Professor Lueptow Research Area: Granular Flows
	Michael Peshkin Professor E-mail: Professor Peshkin Research Area: Human/Machine Interaction

Northwestern University Medical School:

  Physiology

	James C. Houk Professor E-mail: Professor Houk Research Area: Nonlinear Dynamics of the Brain
	Lee Miller Associate Professor E-mail:Professor Miller Research Area: Brain Machine Interfaces Research Group: The Miller Laboratory of Limb Motor Control
	Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi Professor E-mail: Professor Mussa-Ivaldi Research Area: Learning in the Motor System and in Brain-Machine Interfaces Research Group: Robotics Laboratory
	Sara A. Solla Professor (joint with Physics & Astronomy, WCAS) E-mail: Professor Solla Research Area: Computational Neuroscience

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences:

  Mathematics

	Keith Burns Professor E-mail:Professor Burns Research Area: Dynamical Systems
	Clark Robinson Professor E-mail:Prof Robinson Research Area: Mathematical Aspects of Dynamical Systems
	Amie Wilkinson Assistant Professor E-mail:Professor Wilkinson Research Area: Dynamical Foliation

  Neurobiology and Physiology

Nelson Spruston Associate Professor E-mail: Professor Spruston Research Area: Computational Neuroscience Research Group: The Spruston Lab

  Physics and Astronomy

	Paul Umbanhowar Assistant Professor E-mail: Professor Umbanhowar Research Area: Granular Materials and Non-Equilibrium Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
	Frederic Rasio Associate Professor E-mail:Professor Rasio Research Area: Nonlinear Dynamics in Stellar and Planetary Systems

Students

Current IGERT Students
Former IGERT Students

New IGERT-fellows are mentored by senior IGERT fellows.
Mentoring group from 2003-2004 academic year
Mentoring group from 2002-2003 academic year

Current IGERT Students:

Jay Bernheisel Mechanical Engineering Advisor: K. Lynch E-mail: bernhejd@northwestern.edu Research Topic:topic..
Kyle Bishop Chemical and Biological Engineering Advisor: B. Grzybowski Evanston Campus; Tech D115; Phone: 491-3969 E-mail: kjmb@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Dynamic Self-Assembly
Carol Braun Physics and Astronomy Advisor: S. Solla / J. Pierrehumbert Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: 491-3685 E-mail: c-braun@northwestern.edu Research Topic:Applications of Statistical Physics to Lossy Data Compression
Christopher Campbell Chemical Engineering Advisor: B. Grzybowsky Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: 491-3685 E-mail: campbell@northwestern.edu Research Topic:Non-Equilibrium Self-Organization
Anne Catllá Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: M. Silber / P. Umbanhowar Evanston Campus, Tech M426; Dept. Phone: 491-3345 E-mail: a-catlla@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Pattern Formation in Faraday Waves
Preetpaul Devgan Electrical & Computer Engineering Advisor: P. Kumar Evanston Campus, Tech M348; Dept. Phone: 491-5729 E-mail: p-devgan@northwestern.edu Research Topic: topic..
Justin Kao Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: S. Davis Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: justin@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Interface Dynamics
Yael Katz Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Advisor: N. Spruston / W. Kath Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: y-katz@northwestern.edu Research Topic:
Jason Kozmic Mechanical Engineering Advisor: K. Lynch Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: j-kozmic@northwestern.edu Research Topic: topic..
Sharon Loverde Materials Science and Engineering Advisor: M. Olvera de la Cruz / K. Shull Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: s-loverde@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Computer Simulation of Polymeric Systems
Steven Meier Chemical Engineering Advisor: J.M. Ottino / M. Silber Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: smeier@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Dynamics and Kinematics of Three-Dimensional Time-Periodic Granular Flows
Martin Melhus Physics and Astronomy Advisor: P. Umbanhowar Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: 491-3685 E-mail: melhus@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Granular Matter
John Pedersen Biomedical Engineering Advisor: M. Swartz Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: 491-5195 E-mail: j-pedersen@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Cell-Matrix Interaction
Nicholas Pohlman Mechanical Engineering Advisor: R. Lueptow / J. Ottino Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: n-pohlman@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Velocity Profiles of Granular Flow
Eric Pohlmeyer Biomedical Engineering Advisor: L. Miller / S. Solla Chicago Campus; Dept. Phone: 503-7353 E-mail: e-pohlmeyer@northwestern.edu Research Topic: EMG Prediction from Intracortical Recordings in Primates
Nicholas Poole Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: M. Matalon Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: 491-3345 E-mail: n-poole@northwestern.edu Research Topic: topic..
Tiffany Psemeneki Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Evanston Campus; Tech M455, ESAM, Dept phone: 491-3345 E-mail: tpsem@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Michael Rempe Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: D. Chopp / N. Spruston Evanston Campus, Tech M447; Dept. Phone: 491-3345 E-mail: mjrempe@northwestern.edu Research Topic: topic..
Jocelyn Renner Mechanical Engineering Advisor: S. Ghosal Evanston Campus; Tech L386; Dept. Phone: 491-3663 E-mail: j-renner@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Combustion
Theodore Rieger Chemical Engineering Advisor: V. Hatzimanikatis / R. Morimoto Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: 467-6720 E-mail: t-rieger1@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Mathematical modeling of the eukaryotic stress response
Gogi Singh Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: A. Golovin Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics E-mail: gks@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Nanoscale pattern formation in electrochemically produced materials.
Thomas Sisan Physics Advisor: B. Grzybowski Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: tbsisan@northwestern.edu Research Topic: topic..
Ashley Smart Chemical Engineering Advisor: J.M. Ottino Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: 491-3555 E-mail: a-smart@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Force Networks in Jammed Granular Systems
Daniel Stouffer Chemical Engineering Advisor: L. Amaral Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: d-stouffer@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Characterization and modeling of natural ecosystems.
Rachel Trana Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: W.L. Kath / N. Spruston Evanston Campus; Dept. Phone: E-mail: trana@northwestern.edu Research Topic: topic..
David Weir Mechanical Engineering Advisor: M. Peshkin Evanston Campus, Tech B237; Dept. Phone: 491-7470 E-mail: d-weir@northwestern.edu Research Topic: Human/Machine Interaction

Former IGERT Students:

Yvonne Aratyn Mechanical Engineering Advisor: S. Lichter Current Position:
Lisa Bagurdes NUIN Advisor: Current Position:
Jeffrey Beck Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: Current Position:
Sandeep Bhatt Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: Kath/Kumar Current Position: Lincoln Labs, MIT
Aaron Gruber Physiology Advisor: J.C. Houk/S. Solla Research Topic: topic.. Current Position:
Jon Horek Mechanical Engineering Advisor: S. Ghosal/Barron Research Topic: topic.. Current Position:
Kim Montgomery Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: M. Silber/S. Solla Research Topic: topic.. Current Position:
Scott Norris Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: S.H. Davis Current Position:
Jang Park Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: Current Position:
A.P. Patil TGSG Advisor: Current Position:
Alexander Roxin Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: H. Riecke/S. Solla Current Position: An NSF postdoc fellow at U. Paris 5
Bryan Smith Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: D. Chopp Research Topic: topic.. Current Position:
Kurt Smith Chemical Engineering Advisor: Current Position: Chemical Engineering, U. Pittsburgh
Chad Topaz Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics Advisor: M. Silber/P. Umbanhowar Current Position: Postdoc at UCLA on a NSF-VIGRE postdoc
Carolyn Yong Biomedical Engineering Dept Advisor: M. Swartz Current Position: PhD Candidate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mentoring group from 2003-2004 academic year:

	MENTORING GROUP:
I	Justin Kao, Gogi Singh, Anne Catlla
II	Jay Bernheisel, Jason Kozmic, David Weir
III	Christopher Campbell, Ashley Smart, Bryan Smith
IV	Eric Pohlmeyer, John Pedersen, Aaron Gruber
V	Sharon Loverde, Preetpaul Devgan, Kim Montgomery
VI	Jocelyn Renner, Jon Horek, Nicholas Pohlman
VII	Thomas Sisan, Carol Braun, Martin Melhus
VIII	Daniel Stouffer, Steven Meier, Ted Rieger
IX	Rachel Trana, Michael Rempe, Nicholas Poole

If you have questions regarding the mentoring please contact Preetpaul Devgan, Hermann Riecke, or Sara Solla.

Mentoring group from 2002-2003 academic year:

STUDENTS:	MENTORS:
Carol Braun	Martin Melhus, Alex Roxin
Jon Horek	David Weir, Yvonne Aratyn
Eric Pohlmeyer	John Pedersen, Aaron Gruber
Ashley Smart	Ted Rieger, Kurt Smith
Nicholas Poole	Scott Norris, Anne Catlla
Bryan Smith	Michael Rempe, Kim Montgomery

If you havequestions regarding the mentoring please contact PreetpaulDevgan, Hermann Riecke, or Sara Solla.

IGERT Photo Gallery

IGERT welcoming meeting - October 1, 2004

IGERT orientation/welcoming party - October 1, 2003