John F. Lindner


Theses Advised

Senior Theses

Free-Fall Spinning-Planet Tunnel Transportation Network
Yuchen Gan
2021

Propellant-less Space Travel with Tethers: Swimming in Space using an Asteroid’s Gravity Gradient
Gentaro Nakata
2021

Alien Sunsets on Tumbling Asteroids
Yang (Fish) Yu
2021

Exoplanets Sunsets
Xinchen (Ariel) Xie
2021


Watching Sunsets in Exoplanet Skies
Hwan (Michelle) Bae
2019

Orbital Debris Proliferation and the Evolution of the Space Sustainability
Carson Bullock
2019

Spacetime Engineering: Time-Slowing Space-Expanding Lunchbox
Haidar Esseili
2019


Sliding on a Massive Spinning Asteroid: Order and Chaos
Hannah E. Peltz Smalley
Wellesley College
2018

Studying Universality with Physics Engines: Accelerating Granular Flow on GPUs with OpenCL & CUDA
Avi Vajpeyi
2018

Dancing Our Way to the Cosmos: A Study in How Extraterrestrial Travel Will Change the Mechanics of Dance
Justine Walker
2018


Chaos in the Moons of Pluto
Alex Gould
2017

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Roy Hadfield
2017

Simulating Turbulent Wind Flow in Vertical Axis Windmills
Dylan Hamilton 
2017

Top-Down Causation in Physics
Ziyi Sang
2017


Nonlinear Analysis of Variable Stars
Colm Hall
2016

Stochastic Resonance in a Mechanical Bistable System
Noah Megregian
2016

Strange Nonchaotic Pendulum
Calvin Milligan
2016

Air-Powered One-way Arrays
Graham Schattgen
2016



Establishing Methods to Track Surface Avalanches on a Bead Pile
Benjamin Harris
2014

Go with the Flow: Developing Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations According to the Navier-Stokes Equations
Danielle Shepherd
2014

Universe From Scratch: Exploring Quantum Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions using the Causal Dynamical Triangulation Method
Prakrit Shrestha
2014


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Andrew Blaikie
2013

The Motion of a Flapping Flag: Chaos or Noise?
Sam Mermall
2013

Spacetime: Engineering and Metaphysics
Syne Selem
2013

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Phil Wales
2013


Quantum Gravity: Exploring the Causal Dynamical Triangulation Approach
Norman Israel
2012

Perturbing Spacetime
Larry Markley
2012

The Rocket Science Behind the Political Science: Comparing Space Visions fo the Presidents from 1993-2011 and the Rocket Technology That Helped Characterize Them
Alyse Marquinez
2012

A Cyclic Aero-mechanical Array of One-way Coupled Oscillators
Katsuo Maxted
2012


Tighten Up: A Preliminary Study of Knots
Louisa Catalano
2011

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Order and Chaos in the Rotation and Revolution of Two Line Segments
Alex Saines
2011



The Brain vs. Rule 137: Using Spacetime Patterns to Classify the Complexity of Cellular Automata
Averell Gatton
2009

The Consistent Histories Interpretation as a Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem
Matt Gorski
2009

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Frank King
2009


Foundations of Quantum Decoherence
John Gamble
2008

Experimental Observation of Solitons Propagating in a Hydro-Mechanical Array of One-Way Coupled Oscillators
Kelly Patton
2008


Bayesian Source Direction Determination for Gravitational-Wave Bursts
Stephen Poprocki
2007 

Monte Carlo Studies of the Globally-Coupled Ising Model
Danny Shai
2007 

Good to the Last Drop: Percolation Through Hypercubic and Random Lattices for Integer, Fractional, and Fractal Dimensions
Sarah Suddendorf
2007 

Spacetime Whirlpools
Lisa May Walker
2007 


Physics and Free Will: Models of Top-Down Causation in Physics
Katherine Olaksen
2006 



Chaos on S2:The Newtonian Two-Body Problem on the 2-Sphere
Nick Harmon
2004 

Experimental Studies of Signal Noise in Gene Regulation in the Inducible Antibiotic Resistance Pathway of Escherichia coli
Katie Frato
2004 


A Mechanical System Designed to Exhibit Bistable Stochastic Resonance
Dan Brubaker
2003 

Kaluza-Klein Theory
Christie Egnatuk
2003 

Decoherence, the Classical Appearance of the Quantum World, and Quantum Evolution
Brad Lignoski
2003 

Self-Erasing Perturbations of the Abelian Sandpile Automata
Jeff Moffitt
2003 


The Flux Creep Automaton
Dave Miller
2002 


Cosmological Nucleosynthesis
Lauren Ault
2001 

Visual Appearance of Objects in the Vicinity Black Holes
Rachel Mary Costello
2001 

An Investigation Using Cellular Automata and Differential Equations to Model Magnetic Flux Creep Through a Type II Superconductor, Represented by an Array of Coupled Josephson Junctions, Using a Standard Square Lattice, as Well as a Non-traditional 6-Fold Symmetric Lattice
Scott Hughes
2001 


Chaos in the Brain: A Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Electroencephalograms
Zakir Thaver
2000 


Noise Enhanced Propagation in an Electronic Array
Josh Bozeday
1999 

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Andy Kuck
1999 

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Manon Grugel
1999 


Classical Electron Theory for a Non-Point Charge
Jon Keim
1998 

Nonlinearity and Computation: Implementing Logic as a Nonlinear Dynamical System
Bryan Prusha
1998 

Taming Chaos in an Array of Pendulums
Woody Shew
1998 


An Exploration of the Ueda Oscillator Using Analog Computers to Map the Three Dimensional Phase Space to Two Dimensions: A Look Into the Future Using the Techniques of the Past
Noah Johnston
1997 

Hearing the Shape of a Sound: The Physics of Colliding Bars
Francesca Mascarenhas
1997 


The Chaotic Tumbling of Hyperion, Moon of Saturn
Cy Screwvala
1996 



Chaotic Dynamics on Rippled Surfaces
Bill Antel
1994 

Spatiotemporal Chaos on a Sphere of Duffing Oscillators
Mike Hunter
1994 


The Fourth Dimension Unveiled: A Preliminary Reconnaissance of Four-Dimensional Objects From Mathematics and Physics
Josh Fagans
1993 

Quantum Metaphysics: A Dialogue in Search of Knowledge
Taka Kumashiro
1993 


The Venus Puzzle: Tectonics and Terrestrial Planets
Dave Kime
1992 


Multiple Time Dimensions
Andrew Mellinger
1991 

The Belousov-Zhabotinskii Reaction: A Computer Simulated Study of Bromate Oscillators and Autocatalysis
Thane Norton
1991 

Bumper Pool: A New Region for Chaotic Billiards
Tom Taczak
1991 


Avalanches in an Hourglass
Karen McEwen
1990 

Electrical Properties of an Infinite Grid of Identical Resistors
Naseem Rahman
1990 


Calculating a Dimension of a Strange Attractor
Bryan Johnson
1989 

Escape! A Computer Solution to the Restricted Three-Body Problem
John Scudder
1989 


PhD Thesis
Computational Nonlinear Dynamics: Monostable Stochastic Resonance and a Bursting Neuron Model
Barbara Breen
School of Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
2003

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