Daniel M. Abrams

Assistant Professor

Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Room M444
Evanston, IL 60208

Phone:  847-491-5346
Fax:  847-491-2178
Email:  dmabrams@northwestern.edu

Education

B.S., Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 2000

Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 2006

Research Interests

Nonlinear dynamics, mathematical geoscience, physics of social systems, pattern formation, coupled oscillators

Research Website

http://dmabrams.esam.northwestern.edu

Honors and Awards

Fulbright Foundation Fellow, 2010

NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT, 2006-2009

East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Fellow, 2006

NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 2003-2006

US Foreign Language Area Study Grantee, 2003

NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Trainee, 2001-2003

Teagle Foundation Scholar, 1999, 2000, 2002

Eagle Scout, 1996

Selected Publications

1) D.M. Abrams and S.H. Strogatz, “Modelling the dynamics of language death,” Nature 424, 900 (2003).

[http://nature.com/nature/journal/v424/n6951/abs/424900a.html]

2) D.M. Abrams and S.H. Strogatz, “Chimera states for coupled oscillators,” Physical Review Letters 93, 174102 (2004).

[http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v93/e174102]

3) S.H. Strogatz, D.M. Abrams, F.A. McRobie, B. Eckhardt, E. Ott, “Crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge,” Nature 438, 43 (2005).

[http://nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7064/abs/438043a.html]

4) D.M. Abrams, R.E. Mirollo, S.H. Strogatz, and D.A. Wiley, “Solvablemodel for chimera states of coupled oscillators,” Physical Review Letters 101, 084103 (2008).

[http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v101/e084103]

5) D.M. Abrams, A.E. Lobkovsky, B.J. McElroy, D. Mohrig, A.P. Petroff, D.H. Rothman, K.M. Straub, “Growth laws for channel networks incised by groundwater flow,” Nature Geoscience 10.1038 (2009).

Other Activities

Member of: American Physical Society, Society for Industrial and Applied Math, American Geophysical Union