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I am a 2004 graduate of Drexel University where I received my Bachelor of Science in Physics. In October 2004, I was hired by Arete Associates to work on a variety of exciting projects in the "special projects group" which consists of a diverse team of physicists and engineers. In the future, I plan to pursue my physics education as a graduate student while continuing to do research in Nonlinear Dynamics.
Contact Info
Arete Associates, Arlington, VA
Emails: gbyrne@arete.com, gb27@drexel.edu
Co-op Research Projects
1. "Global Relationships between Symmetric and Non-symmetric Chaotic Strange Attractors" (2003)-
Nonlinear Dynamics Group, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
ATOMOSYD Group, Universite de Rouen, France
2. "The Frinkiac Supercomputing Cluster" (2002)- Astrophysics Group
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
3. "The Retinal Prosthesis Project" (2001)- Optics Group
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
Research Interests
Understanding how the basic mechanisms responsible for chaotic behavior in strange attractors change under symmetry transformation and control parameter variation.
Topological analysis methods for chaotic dynamical systems.
Dynamical systems theory and time series analysis.
Undergraduate Thesis: "First Return Maps and Bounding Tori as Tools for Topological Analysis of Chaotic Data in R^3"
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Publications
Greg Byrne, Robert Gilmore, and Christophe Letellier, Distinguishing between folding and tearing mechanisms in strange attractors, Phys. Rev. E 70, 056214 (2004)
Christophe Letellier, Tsvetelin Tsankov, Greg Byrne, and Robert Gilmore, Large-scale structural reorganization of strange
attractors, (In Press Phys. Rev. E)
Research Presentations
GRC Nonlinear Dynamics Conference- South Hadley, Massachusetts, June 2004
APS- Montreal, Canada, March 2004
Spatial and Temporal Chaos Conference- Rouen, France, December 2003
Fun Stuff
Simple, real world nonlinear systems
Animations
Various Pictures
Colleagues and Friends
Robert Gilmore, Tsvetelin Tsankov, Christophe Letellier, Marc Lefranc, Henry Winterbottom, Greg McIvor
Some Links
NLD Group at Drexel
NLD Group at GMU