John Wettlaufer Professor (Joint with Physics) Email Me Office: 109 KGL Phone: (203) 432-0892 Fax: (203) 432-3134 My Webpage Research Interests: Condensed matter, materials and statistical physics, applied mathematics, ice and climate, and geophysical fluid dynamics Current Courses: G&G666b, Statistical Thermodynamics for Astrophysics & Geophysics G&G560a, Theory of Viscous Flow Phys/G&G 342a Earth & Environmental Physics. Ice Seminar (Physics 667a/GG 767a, Special Topics in Condensed Matter Physics) Students and Postdocs: Hendrik Hansen-Goos Woosok Moon Melissa Spannuth Erik Thomson Andrew Wells Selected Publication(s): Light scattering from an isotropic layer between uniaxial crystals, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 195407 (2009), with E.S. Thomson and L.A. Wilen. Explaining the patterns formed by ice floe interactions, J. Geophys. Res. 113, C11011, doi:10.1029/2008JC004781(2008), with D. Vella. Nonlinear threshold behavior during the loss of Arctic sea ice, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 28-32 (2009), with I. Eisenman Axisymmetric viscous gravity currents flowing over a porous medium J. Fluid Mech. 622, 135-144 (2009), with M.J. Spannuth, J.A. Neufeld and M.G. Worster. Onsager reciprocity in premelting solids, J. Stat. Phys. 134, 701-708 (2009), with S.S.L. Peppin and M.J. Spannuth.