Strogatz, Steven H

research

co investigator of

CDI TYPE II: COMPLEX DYNAMICS IN THE INTERNET: A COMPUTATIONAL ANALYTIC APPROACH | Research Grant
EMSW21-MCTP: THE SUMMER MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE AT CORNELL | Research Grant

research areas

applied and bio mathematics | research concentration area (TAM)
complex systems and networks | strategic research area (Engineering)
dynamics and nonlinear systems | research concentration area (TAM)
interdisciplinary mathematics | research concentration area (Mathematics)

affiliations

teaching

teaches

MAE 4291 - Supervised Senior Design Experience (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
MAE 4900 - Special Investigations in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
MAE 6900 - Special Investigations in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
MAE 8900 - Research in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
MAE 9900 - Research in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
MATH 7170 - Applied Dynamical Systems (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2009 class
MATH 7900 - Supervised Reading & Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
TAM 6130 - Asymptotics and Perturbation Methods (MW 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2009 class
TAM 7760 - Applied Dynamical Systems (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | fall 2009 class
TAM 3100 - Introduction to Applied Mathematics I (MW 08:40:AM-09:55:AM) | spring 2009 class
TAM 5780 - Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (TR 11:40:AM-12:55:PM) | spring 2009 class

service

event host

Dynamics of transition and turbulence in fluid flows | Friday, October 26, 2007 3:30 PM
High Performance Mathematics and its Management | Friday, November 16, 2007 3:30 PM
TBA - Center of Applied Mathematics Seminar | Friday, April 4, 2008 3:30 PM
TBA - Center of Applied Mathematics Seminar | Friday, February 22, 2008 3:30 PM
The Indian Clerk: Creating Fiction from the Lives of Great Mathematicians | Thursday, November 1, 2007 3:30 PM

background

educational background

A.B. 1980 (Princeton); B.A. 1982 and M.A. 1986 (Cambridge); Ph.D. 1986 (Harvard)

professional background

After receiving his bachelor's degree, Strogatz spent two years as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University. He did his doctoral work in applied mathematics at Harvard, and then stayed for three years as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow. From 1989 to 1994, Strogatz taught in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. He has received awards for both his teaching and his research, including MIT's highest teaching prize, the E. M. Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Strogatz joined the Cornell faculty in 1994. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Society for Mathematical Biology.

featured in

Eight on faculty named fellows of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Cornell Chronicle feature
Kavli symposium looks at the future of computing | Cornell Chronicle feature
Modeling the Internet from the top down, but keeping sight of small details | Cornell Chronicle feature
Research Without Boundaries, College of Engineering | magazine
Welcome to Chaos: Strogatz course featured on DVD | Cornell Chronicle feature

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

R. E. Mirollo and S. H. Strogatz. Synchronization of pulse-coupled biological oscillators. SIAM J. Appl. Math. 50: 1645-1662 (1990). (PDF, 4.1MB)
S. H. Strogatz and I. Stewart. Coupled oscillators and biological synchronization. Scientific American 269 (6): 102-09 (1993). (PDF, 15.0MB)
S. H. Strogatz. Nonlinear dynamics and chaos: With applications to physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering (Perseus Books, Cambridge, 1994).(Buy at Amazon.com)
D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz. Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks. Nature 393: 440-42 (1998). (PDF, 273KB)
S. H. Strogatz. Exploring complex networks. Nature 410: 268-276 (2001). (PDF, 588KB)
S. Strogatz. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. (Hyperion, New York, 2003). (Buy at Amazon.com)
D. M. Abrams and S. H. Strogatz. Modelling the dynamics of language death. Nature 424: 900 (2003). (PDF)
J. Garcia-Ojalvo, M. B. Elowitz, and S. H. Strogatz. Modeling a synthetic multicellular clock: Repressilators coupled by quorum sensing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 101: 10955-10960 (2004).(PDF)
S. H. Strogatz, D.M. Abrams, A. McRobie, B. Eckhardt, and E. Ott. Crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge. Nature 438: 43-44 (2005).(PDF)
D.M. Abrams and S.H. Strogatz. 2006. Chimera states in rings of nonlocally coupled oscillators. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 16: 21-37 (2006).(PDF)
R. Mirollo and S. H. Strogatz. The spectrum of the partially locked state for the Kuramoto model. Journal of Nonlinear Science 17, 309-347 (2007).(PDF)