John Lindner

Department/Affiliation: Physics
Phone: 330-263-2120
Email: JLindner@Wooster.edu
Web Site: John Lindner

Degrees

• B.S., University of Vermont 1982
• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology 1988

Courses Taught

• Astronomy of Stars & Galaxies
• Astronomy of the Solar System
• Modern Physics Lab
• Electricity & Magnetism
• Astrophysics
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Computational Physics
• General Relativity
• Particle Physics
• First Year Seminar
• Thermal Physics
• Foundations of Physics
• Junior Independent Study

Recently Advised Senior Theses

• Norman Israel, Quantum Gravity: Exploring the Causal Dynamical Triangulation Approach, 2012
• Katsuo Maxted, A Cyclic Aero-mechanical Array of One-way Coupled Oscillators, 2012
• Larry Markley, Perturbing Spacetime, 2012
• Alyse Marquinez, The Rocket Science Behind the Political Science: Comparing Space Visions fo the Presidents from 1993-2011 and the Rocket Technology That Helped Characterize Them, 2012
• Louisa Catalano, Tighten Up: A Preliminary Study of Knots, 2011
• Alex Saines, // Order and Chaos in the Rotation and Revolution of Two Line Segments, 2011
• Matthew T. Gorski, The Consistent Histories Interpretation as a Solution to the Quantum Measurement Problem, 2009
• Kelly M. Patton, Experimental Observation of Solitons Propagating in a Hydro-Mechanical Array of One-Way Coupled Oscillators, 2008
• Lisa May Walker, Spacetime Whirlpools, 2007

Awards and Professional Memberships

• The Planetary Society
• American Physical Society
• Nature Conservancy

Recent Publications (*student co-author)

• Electronic and mechanical realizations of one-way coupling in one and two dimensions, B. J. Breen, A. B. Doud, J. R. Grimm, A. H. Tanasse, S. J. Tanasse, J F. Lindner, K. J. Maxted*, Physical Review E, volume 83, pages 037601(1-4) (2011)
• Tracking Stars, Sun, and Moon to Connect with the Universe, T. C. McAlpine, C. Atwood-Stone*, T. Brown*, J. F. Lindner, American Journal of Physics, volume 78, pages 1128 - 1131 (2010)
• Order and choas in the rotation and revolution of a line segment and a point mass, John F. Lindner, Jacob Lynn*, Frank W. King*, Amanda Logue*, Physical Review E, volume 81, pages 036208(1-10) (2010)
• Demystifying decoherence and the master equation of quantum Brownian motion, J. K. Gamble*, J. F. Lindner, American Journal of Physics, volume 77, pages 244-252 (March 2009)
• Experimental observation of soliton propagation and annihilation in a hydromechanical array of one-way coupled oscillators, J. F. Lindner, K. M. Patton*, P. M. Odenthal*, J. C. Gallagher*, B. J. Breen, Physical Review E, volume 78, pages 066604(1-5) (2008)
• Invitation to embarrassingly parallel computing, B. J. Breen, C. E. Weidert, J. F. Lindner, L. M. Walker*, K. Kelly*, E. Heidtmann*, American Journal of Physics, volume 76, pages 347-352 (April/May 2008)
• Precession and Chaos in the Classical Two-Body Problem in a Spherical Universe, J. Lindner, M. Roseberry*, D. Shai*, N. Harmon*, K. Olaksen*, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 18, No. 2, pages 455-464 (February 2008)
• One-way coupling enables noise-mediated spatiotemporal patterns in media of otherwise quiescent multistable elements, J. Lindner, A. Bulsara, Physical Review E, volume 74, 020105(R)(1-4) (2006)
• Coupling-induced cooperative behavior in dynamic ferromagnetic cores in the presence of a noise floor, A. Bulsara, J. Lindner, V. In, A. Kho, S. Baglio, V. Sacco, B. Ando, P. Longhini, A. Palacios, W. Rappel, Physics Letters A, volume 353, pages 4-10 (2006)
• Potential energy landscape and finite-state models of array-enhanced stochastic resonance, J. Lindner, M. Bennett, K. Wiesenfeld, Physical Review E, volume 73, 031107(1-8) (2006)
• Stochastic Resonance in the Mechanoelectrical Transduction of Hair Cells, J. Lindner, M. Bennett, K. Wiesenfeld, Physical Review E, volume 72, 051911(1-4) (2005).