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I am an Associate Professor at the
Physics Department of
Drexel University. My
research interests are the
study of: (a) the loss of spatial organization of neurons in the aged brain using
density maps, (b) the folding of the Alzheimer amyloid beta protein using
all-atom molecular dynamics, (c) growth of plaques in Alzheimer's disease using
cellular automata models, and (d) fluid flow through porous media using lattice
models.
Because this page is in the process of being updated, some of the links and the
information contained in them might not be accurate. However, please feel free
to browse the contents of this web page. I welcome any feedback that you may have
regarding the contents, organization, and design of this page.
Vitae [PDF] - short
Research Highlights
Programs that take advantage of Graphical User
Interfaces (GUI) as a means for research
- VIS Program: Tcl/Tk front-end for the Vtk
visualization toolkit.
- PN Program: Tcl/Tk, C++, and OpenGL program for
the study of the correlation between senile plaques and neurons in the
Alzheimer brain.
- CW Program: C++, wxWindows, and OpenGL program
for the study of the morphological effects of senile plaques on
surrounding neurons in the Alzheimer brain.
- Distort Program: C++, FLTK, and OpenGL program
for the study of warping brain tissue images for the anatomical study
of the brain.
- LATG Program: C++, FLTK, and OpenGL program for
the study of the lattice gas cellular automata model for fluids in two
dimensions.
- CRUSH Program: Tcl/Tk and C++ program for the
study of close-packed disks and the
deformations in their arrangement from a growing space-occupying
central disk. Intended for the study of the interactions between a
growing senile plaque and neurons in its neighborhood.
- CAS
Program: Tcl/Tk, C++, and OpenGL program
for the study of an interactive growing DLA.
Miscellaneous programs and reference pages
- A Javascript reference page.
- A little GUI
frontend for the POV
- povray program.
- Ticlets
in Physics. Little Tcl/Tk "applets"
for demonstrations of physics concepts. (To see the ticlets you need at least Tcl/Tk Plugin
Version 3 and Netscape, Internet Explorer, Konqueror, or Firefox).
- 3d
Spheres Ticlet. Presents a little Tcl/Tk "applet"
with a rotating sphere around a fixed central one. You can set variable
elevation angle as well as rotational speed.
All original text and
graphics
Copyright ©
1999-2005
by Luis Cruz Cruz.
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