Stephen Wiggins

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Stephen R. Wiggins
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US
NationalityAmerican, British, Cherokee
Alma mater Pittsburg State University - BSc
University of Wisconsin - MA, MSc
Cornell University - PhD
Known for Fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in classical mechanics and mechanics applied to atomic systems
Scientific career
Fields Physics, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics
Institutions University of Bristol
California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor Philip Holmes
Doctoral students Tasso J. Kaper, Igor Mezić [1]

Stephen Ray Wiggins (born 1959) is a Cherokee-American applied mathematics researcher and distinguished educator, also of British heritage, best known for his contributions in nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory and nonlinear phenomena. His wide contributions include Lagrangian aspects of fluid dynamics and reaction dynamics in theoretical chemistry.

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Early life and education

Wiggins was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1959, and has two younger siblings.[ citation needed ] He is enrolled as a member of the Cherokee Nation.[ citation needed ] He received a BSc in physics and mathematics from Pittsburg State University in 1980, an MA in mathematics and an MSc in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983, and a PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University in 1985. He also attended the Open University in Great Britain, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws, with honors, in 2005. [2] [3]

Academic career and field of study

Wiggins was influenced heavily by his PhD advisor Philip Holmes. His dissertation was on "Slowly Varying Oscillators." [4] From 1987 to 2001, he was a professor at Caltech. [5] [6] He is actively working on the advancement of computational applied mathematics at the University of Bristol, [7] where he was the head of the mathematics department from 2004 until 2008, and was the school research director. [8] As of August 2020 Wiggins had 12 PhD students and 60 academic descendants. [4]

Wiggins has contributed in many different areas of applied mathematics, science, and engineering using applied and computational dynamics as the framework for his approach and analysis. [8]

His current focus is on developing the phase space approach to chemical reaction dynamics in the setting of the CHAMPS (Chemistry and Mathematics in Phase Space) project. [3] [8] Previously he has established quite successful US-UK-Spain research network in building novel foundational connection between applied mathematics and theoretical chemistry. [9]

Honors

Wiggins received the Presidential Young Investigators Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in August 1989. [10] [8]

He was a Stanislaw M. Ulam Visiting Scholar at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, from 1989 to 1990. [11]

He received the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in Applied Analysis in 1989. [12]

Selected publications

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References

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  2. ↑ ORCID. "Stephen Wiggins (0000-0002-0780-0911)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2020-09-13.
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  5. ↑ Kovačič, Gregor; Wiggins, Stephen (1992-06-15). "Orbits homoclinic to resonances, with an application to chaos in a model of the forced and damped sine-Gordon equation". Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 57 (1): 185–225. doi:10.1016/0167-2789(92)90092-2. ISSN   0167-2789.
  6. ↑ Smith, Douglas L. (2002). "Next Exit 0.5 Million Kilometers" (PDF). Engineering & Science. 4: 12. …Steve Wiggins [a Caltech professor from 1987 to2001].
  7. ↑ Bristol, University of. "People Profiler navigation". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
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  9. ↑ Uzer, Turgay; Jaffé, C.; Palacián, J.; Yanguas Palacián, P.; Wiggins, Stephen. "The geometry of reaction dynamics". Nonlinearity. 15 (4): 957.
  10. ↑ "NSF 92-55 Directory of Awards, Engineering Directorate". NSF.gov. 27 May 1992. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  11. ↑ "Center for Nonlinear Studies". cnls.lanl.gov. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  12. ↑ Duan, Jinqiao (29 March 2019). "Big Data and the Dynamical Systems Approach: New Directions and Applications (chemistry, geophysical fluid dynamics) in Applied Mathematics" . Retrieved 2020-10-01.[ permanent dead link ]
  13. ↑ García-Garrido, V. J.; Katsanikas, M.; Agaoglou, M.; Wiggins, S. (2020-09-01). "Tuning the branching ratio in a symmetric potential energy surface with a post-transition state bifurcation using external time dependence". Chemical Physics Letters. 754: 137714. arXiv: 2006.05969 . doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2020.137714. ISSN   0009-2614. S2CID   219558466.
  14. ↑ Yang, Fang; Zheng, Yayun; Duan, Jinqiao; Fu, Ling; Wiggins, Stephen (2020-06-01). "The tipping times in an Arctic sea ice system under influence of extreme events". Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 30 (6): 063125. arXiv: 2003.02407 . doi:10.1063/5.0006626. ISSN   1054-1500. PMID   32611094. S2CID   212415032.
  15. ↑ Wiggins, Stephen (2017-08-14). "Elementary Classical Mechanics". Figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5309851.v3.
  16. ↑ Wiggins, Stephen (2017-08-15). "Ordinary Differential Equations". Figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5311612.v1.
  17. ↑ Wiggins, Stephen (2018-09-02). "Solutions to the Exercises in Elementary Classical Mechanics". Figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.7038578.v1.
  18. ↑ "Authors — Lagrangian Descriptors". champsproject.github.io. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  19. ↑ Agaoglou, Makrina; Aguilar-Sanjuan, Broncio; García-Garrido, Victor Jose; García-Meseguer, Rafael; González-Montoya, Francisco; Katsanikas, Matthaios; Krajňák, Vladimír; Naik, Shibabrat; Wiggins, Stephen (2019). "Chemical Reactions: A Journey into Phase Space". www.chemicalreactions.io. Retrieved 2020-10-12.
  20. ↑ Wiggins, Stephen (2020-09-08). "Elementary Quantum Mechanics". Figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12928595.v1.
  21. ↑ Wiggins, Stephen (2020-09-08). "Solutions to the Exercises in Elementary Quantum Mechanics". Figshare. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12928673.v1.
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