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John Lindner

Moore Professor of Astronomy

Headshot Portrait of 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).

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