News in the Lab

• 06/19/2009 Adam and Wen have been selected for the Invited Student Status award for Summer School in Biophysics at ORNL.
• 03/30/2009 Susan successfully defensed her Master thesis.
• 03/27/2009 Henian has been awarded a College of Engineering Fellowship in the amount of $1500 in recognition of his high potential for success. Congratulations, Henian!
• 03/27/2009 Susan Basile's abstract has been accepted for a Poster Presentation in the Student Paper Competition at the 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference, June 17 to 21th at the Resort at Squaw Creek, Lake Tahoe, CA.
• 02/20/2009 Susan Basile's abstract entitled Modeling and Analysis of Proximal Tibial Growth Plate Fractures in Adolescents has been selected as a poster presentation at the First Annual Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference at ORNL on March 18-19, 2009. Congratulations, Susan!
• 02/20/2009 Henian Xia's abstract entitled Diagnosis of Heart Rhythm Disorders Based on ECG Signal Analysis has been selected as a poster presentation at the First Annual Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference at ORNL on March 18-19, 2009. Congratulations, Henian!
• 02/19/2009 X. Zhao is granted an NSF CAREER Award.
• 02/16/2009 X. Zhao is selected to participate in the Faculty First 2009 program to create a Web-based Interactive Teaching and Learning Module for Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Systems.
• 01/28/2009 Our presentation, titled Bifurcation analysis of spatially discordant alternans, is accepted by the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS09), May 17-21, 2009 at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, in Snowbird, Utah.
• 12/10/2008 Dr. Yu Wu (Walton) joined our group as a postdoc. Walton received his Ph.D in Engineering Mechanics at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Walton is jointly supported by the Nonlinear Dynamics Lab and the Nano Bio-systems and Nano Bio-mimetics Lab. Walton will work on mechanics of nanoparticles and its influences on ivy secreting mechanism.
• 08/20/2008 Mr. Henian Xia joined our group as a Ph.D. student. Henian received his BS in Electronic Information at the University of Science and Technology of China. Henian's research will focus on mathematical modeling and nonlinear data analysis of cardiac rhythms.
• 08/04/2008 Our article, "Indeterminacy of spatiotemporal cardiac alternans," published in Physical Review E 78, 011902 (2008), has been selected for the July 15, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. The Virtual Journal is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of frontier research.
• 06/03/2008 Our article, "Indeterminacy of spatiotemporal cardiac alternans," has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E.