People
Faculty Collaborations
- Jim Langer
- Department of Physics
- Deformation in amorphous materials, glassy dynamics, non equilibrium systems
- Broida 6125

- Ralph Archuleta
- Institute for Crustal Studies
- Seismic source studies, strong motion seismology

- John Doyle
- Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech
- Theoretical foundations for complex networks in engineering and biology, as well as multiscale physics
- Jean Pierre Foque
- Probability and Statistics Department, UCSB
- Financial mathematics, interacting particle systems and their hydrodynamic limits, waves in random media

- Dar Roberts
- Department of Geography, UCSB
- Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
- Ellison 3611
- VIPER Lab
- Scott Grafton
- Department of Psychology, UCSB
- Psychology East, Room 3837
- Current Research
- grafton@psych.ucsb.edu
- Dave Alderson
- Naval Postgraduate School
- Operations Research Department
- dlalders@nps.edu
Former Faculty Affiliate
- Max Moritz
- Department of Physics, UCSB
- Fire Regime Dynamics and Complexity
- mmoritz@physics.ucsb.edu
Postdocs
- Kevin Brown
- Neuroscience
- Broida 6213
- 805-893-7059

- Dani Bassett
- Network Science
- Broida 6213
- 805-893-7059
- dbassett@physics.ucsb.edu
- Ahmed Ettaf Elbanna
- STZ theory – Dynamics of Earthquake Ruptures - Nonlinear dynamics - Friction and Fracture in amorphous materials
- Broida 6139
- 805-893-3250
- aettaf@physics.ucsb.edu
Graduate Students
- Winslow Strong
- Econophysics:Stochastic Portfolio Theory
- Broida 6122

- Matt J Lorig
- Econophysics
- Broida 6122
- 805 259 5598
- Co-Advisor: Jean-Pierre Fouque

- Seth Peterson
- Ph.D. Candidate geography
- research interests: fire fuels, fire modeling
- 805 893 4434

- Ann Hermundstad
- Broida 6014
- 805 893 4544
- ann@physics.ucsb.edu
- Nada Petrovic
- Broida 6122
- 805 893 2115
- petrovic@physics.ucsb.edu
- Daniel Malinow
- UCSB Physics Dept
- Broida 6224
- 805 893 8245
- dmalinow@physics.ucsb.edu
- Charles Lieou
- UCSB Physics Dept
- Broida 6224
- 805 893 8245
- c_lieou@physics.ucsb.edu
Alumni
- Sean Stromberg
- Theoretical Immunology
- Broida 6014
- 805-893-4544

- Dr. David E. Reynolds
- Department of Physics and Institute for Genomic Biology
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- reynolds@guava.physics.uiuc.edu
- Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2005
- Eric Dunham
- Earthquake rupture dynamics and supershear seismic waves
- Research Associate in Geophysics, Harvard University

- Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2005
- Gregg Lois
- Deformation and constitutive laws for granular materials
- Postdoctoral researcher, Mechanical Enginneeing, Yale University
- gregg.lois@yale.edu
- Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2006
- Ted Brookings
- Neuroscience
- Postdoctoral fellow at Volen Center, Brandeis University
- Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2007
- Morgan Page
- Earthquake rupture dynamics and seismic hazard analysis
- Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship, US Geological Survery, Pasadena, CA

- Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2007
- Lisa Manning
- Deformation in amorphous materials and constitutive laws for friction
- Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics Postdoctoral fellowship
- Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2008

- Gregor Hillers
- Sources of complexity in earthquake multi-cycle simulations; Evolution of friction
- Postdoctoral Scholar in Geophysics
- Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
- Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique (LGIT)
- Ph.D. ETH Zurich 2006
- hillersg@ujf-grenoble.fr
- Eric Daub
- Constitutive laws for friction and dynamic earthquake ruptures
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Ph.D. UCSB Physics 2009
























