ECE FACULTY

Edward Ott

Title: Distinguished University Professor
Areas/Affiliations: ECE/PHY
E-mail: edott@umd.edu
Phone: (301)405-5033
Office: AV Williams Building, Room 3329

Website: http://www.chaos.umd.edu

Biography:

Edward Ott is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union in 1963, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrophysics from The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1964 and 1967. He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University from 1967-1968. In 1968 he joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, and took up his current position at the University of Maryland in 1979. Dr. Ott has also held visiting appointments at the Naval Research Laboratory and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB.

Research Interests:

Dr. Ott's current research is on the basic theory and applications of nonlinear dynamics. Some of his current research projects are in wave chaos, dynamics on large interconnected networks, chaotic dynamics of fluids, and weather prediction. Dr. Ott is an author of over 300 papers published in scientific journals, and is also the author of the book, `Chaos in Dynamical Systems' (Cambridge University Press). He has been listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the world's 100 most cited physicists.

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