Michael DenninProfessor, Physics & Astronomy |
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Research Interests |
Experimental condensed matter | |
| URL | Research Home Page | |
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Academic Distinctions |
UCI Academice Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching (2007) UCI Teaching Excellence Award, School of Physical Sciences (2006) UCI Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research (2001 - 2002) Cottrell Scholar (2000 - 2006) Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000 - 2004) Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research (2000). Outstanding/Inspirational Professor within School of Physical Sciences (1999). Research Innovation Award, presented by Research Corporation (March 1999) |
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Research Abstract |
Professor Dennin earned his A. B. from Princeton University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. (1995) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Professor Dennin's main research interest is systems that are driven out of equilibrium. Some of the questions focused on in his lab include: how do domains of patterns, such as stripes, evolve in time after a sudden change of an external driving force? Can we understand fluctuations during the flow of complex fluids in terms of an effective temperature? Can we use fluctuations in probe particles to understand the response of biologically relevant networks to external stresses? A number of model systems are studied in his lab in an attempt to answer these, and other, questions. The systems include electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals, Langmuir monolayers (single layers of molecules at the air-water interface), bubble rafts (single layers of soap bubble on the water surface), and plastic bead rafts. More recently, the lab has begun projects in biological physics that consider the interaction between proteins and monolayers. This work is done in collaboration with faculty from biology and chemistry. For a more detailed discussion of the research and fun pictures and movies, visit Professor Dennin's Home Page |
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| Publications | Some selected publications, for a complete list visit Prof. Dennin's Homepage | |
| Bubble kinematics in a sheared foam, Y. Wang, K. Krishan, and M. Dennin, Physical Review E 74, 041405 (2006). | ||
| Impact of boundaries on velocity profiles in bubble rafts, Y. Wang, K. Krishan, and M. Dennin, Phys. Rev. E. 73, 031401 (2006). | ||
| Comparison between step strains and slow steady shear in a bubble raft, M. Twardos and M. Dennin, Phys. Rev. E 71, 061402 (2005). | ||
| Annexin I A1 Interaction with a Zwitterionic Phospholipid Monolayer: A Fluorescence Microscopy Study, J. Alfredo Freites, Shahla Ali, Michael Dennin, Anja Rosengarth, and Hartmut Luecke, Langmuir, 20, 11674 (2004). | ||
| Velocity Profiles in Slowly Sheared Bubble Rafts, John Lauridsen, Gregory Chanan, and M. Dennin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 018303 (2004) | ||
| Nonlinear stress and fluctuation dynamics of sheared disordered wet foam, E. Pratt and M. Dennin, Phys. Rev. E 67, 051402 (2003). | ||
| Comparison of steady-state shear viscosity and complex shear modulus in Langmuir monolayers, M. Twardos and M. Dennin, Langmuir 19, 3542 (2003). | ||
| Domain Coarsening in Electroconvection, L. Purvis and M. Dennin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5898 (2001). | ||
| Grant | NSF-Europe: Mechanical Properties of Thin-Film Active Materials grant #DMR-0354113 | |
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Professional Societies |
American Physics Society American Association of Teachers American Association for Advancement of Science |
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| Research Centers | Member of Institute for Surface and Interfacial Science | |
| Member Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4842 | |
| Last updated | 09/13/2007 | |