RÉSUMÉ ALFONSO M. ALBANO EDUCATION Ph.D. (Physics ...

(August 2011)
RÉSUMÉ
ALFONSO M. ALBANO
aalbano@brynmawr.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Physics), State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1969;
M.S. (Physics), University of Iowa, 1964
B.S. (Physics), University of the Philippines, 1959
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE APPOINTMENT HISTORY
2005 to date Marion Reilly Professor Emeritus
Spring 2006 Katherine McBride Professor
1985-2005 Marion Reilly Professor (1989-1991, 1996-1999 Chairman;
Fall 1990 Acting Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
1984-85 Professor
1977-84 Associate Professor (1979-80 Acting Chairman, 1980-84
Chairman
1971-77 Assistant Professor
1970-71 Lecturer
OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2008, 2009 “Balik Scientist,” Department of Science and Technology, Republic
of the Philippines
2007 - 2010 Extramural Review Panel on Blast Physics and Traumatic Brain
Injury, American Institute of Biological Sciences
2007 - 2010 Scientific Advisory Board, Blast Lethality and Injury Program,
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
1999 - 2005 Editorial Board, Physical Review E
1996 -2001 Occasional Acting Associate Editor, Physical Review E
2000 Ad Hoc Review Committee, National Institutes of Health.
1999, 2000 Graduate Fellowhips Panel, National Science Foundation
1994 -1998 Editor, Physica D
Dec, 1996 Consultant, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at
Centre for Fluid Dynamics, University of the Philippines at Los
Baños and University of the Philippines College Baguio
1995 - 1999 National Institutes of Health Reviewers Reserve
1992-1995 Committee on Cognitive Functional Neuroscinece, National
Institute of Mental Health, .
1989, 1991 Ad Hoc Review Committee for Computational Neuroscience,
National Institute of Mental Health.
1990, 1991, 1992
Special Review Committee, National Institute on Drug Abuse.
1992 Special Review Committee, National Institutes of Health.

1992 - 1993. U.S Navy - American Society for Engineering Education
Sabbatical Program, NAWC, Warminster, PA.
Summer 89, 90
U.S Navy - American Society for Engineering Education Summer
Faculty Research Program, NADC, Warminster, PA.
July, 1988 Consultant, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at
the National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines.
Summer '85, '87,'88, '89
Sloan Visiting Fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Princeton
University.
1978-79 Wetenschappelijk Medewerker, Lorentz Institute for Theoretical
Physics, University of Leiden.
1974-75 Visitor, Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of
Leiden.
1969-70 Instructor, State University of New York at Stony Brook
1960-62 Assistant Instructor, University of the Philippines
MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED AND HONOR SOCIETIES
AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Physical Society, American Association of Physics Teachers, Sigma
Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, Philippine-American Academy of Science
and Engineering
AWARDS
Mary Patterson McPherson Award for Excellence (2005)
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering
Mentoring (1998; awarded to Bryn Mawr College Physics Department).
Christian F. and Mary S.Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching
(1996)
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
1996 Pennsylvania Professor of the Year
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
TEXTBOOK
W. C. Michels, A. M. Albano, S. R. Smith, and R. C. Hoyt, Physics: Principles
and Applications, (Houghton-Mifflin, Boston: 1977).
MONOGRAPHS
1. D. P. Billington and A. M. Albano, Episodes in American Invention: The
Steamboat and the Telegraph, (Research Foundation of the State University
of New York, Stony Brook, 1990).
2. A.M. Albano, W. Case, and N.H. Copp, Forces and Forms in Large
Structures, (Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Stony
Brook, 1990).
EDITED VOLUMES
1. N. B. Abraham, A. M. Albano, A. Passamante, and P. E. Rapp, Measures of
Complexity and Chaos (Plenum, New York, 1989).

2. N. B. Abraham, A. M. Albano, A. Passamante, P. E. Rapp, and R. Gilmore,
editors, International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, Special Issue:
Complexity and Chaos, Vol. 3, No. 3, (June, 1993).
Published separately as N. B. Abraham, A. M. Albano, A. Passamante, P.
E. Rapp, and R. Gilmore, Complexity and Chaos (Proceedings of the Second
Bryn Mawr Workshop on Measures of Complexity and Chaos), World
Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series B, vol. 2 (World Scientific,
Singapore, 1994).
3 A. M. Albano, P. E. Rapp, N. B. Abraham, and A. Passamante. editors,
Physica D, Special Issue: Measures of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, Vol. 96,
Nos. 1-4 (15 Sept 1996)
Published spearately as A. M. Albano, P. E. Rapp, N. B. Abraham, and A.
Passamante, Measures of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (Proceedings of the
Bryn Mawr Workshop on Measures of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics) (North-
Holland, Amsterdam, 1996).
ARTICLES
1. M. Dresden and A. M. Albano, "Nonlinear Space-Time Transformations
Related to the Lorentz Group," Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (USA), 58 (1967) 916-922.
2. M. Dresden and A. Albano, "A Class of Nonlinear Realizlations of the
Poincaré Group," Journal of Mathematical Physics, 13 (1972) 275-282.
3. A M. Albano," Cole-Moore Superposition and Kinetic Models for the
Potassium Conductance of Nerve Fiber Membranes," Journal of Theoretical
Biology, 45 (1974) 341-350.
4. A M. Albano, "Conditions for Quasistatic Relaxation," Physica, 73 (1974)
341-350.
5. A.M. Albano, D. Bedeaux, and P. Mazur, "On the Motion of a Sphere with
Arbitrary Slip in a Viscous Incompressible Fluid," Physica, 80A (1975) 89-97.
6. D. Bedeaux, A.M. Albano, and P. Mazur, "Boundary Conditions and Non-
Equilibrium Thermodynamics", Physica, 82A (1976) 438-462.
7. D. Bedeaux, A.M. Albano, and P. Mazur, "Brownian Motion and Fluctuating
Hydrodynamics II; A Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for the Slip
Coefficient", Physica, 88A (1977) 574-582.
8. A.M. Albano," On the Symmetry of Friction Coefficients for Particles Moving
in Fluids with Spin," Physics Letters, 67A (1978) 251-252.
9. P.A. Wolff and A.M. Albano, "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of
Interfaces Including Electromagnetic Effects," Physica 98A (1979) 491-508.
10. A.M. Albano, D. Bedeaux, and J. Vlieger, "On the Description of Interfacial
Properties Using Singular Densities and Currents at a Dividing Surface,"
Physica, 99A (1980) 293-304.
11. A.M. Albano, D. Bedeaux, and J. Vlieger, "On the Description of Interfacial
Electromagnetic Properties Using Singular Fields, Charge Density and
Currents at a Dividing Surface," Physica, 102A (1980) 105-119.

12. A.M. Albano, N.B. Abraham, D.E. Chyba, and M. Martelli, "Bifurcations and
Non-Equilibrium Phase Transitions in a Chemical Reaction with Diffusion,"
Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico e Fisico di Milano, LII (1982) 261-281.
13. A.M. Albano, P.A. Beckmann, M.E. Carrington, F.A. Fusco, A.E. ONeill, and
M.E. Scott, "A General NMR Spectral Density and its Experimental
Verification," Journal of Physics C, 16 (1983) L979-983.
14. A.M. Albano, N.B. Abraham, D.E. Chyba, and M. Martelli, "Bifurcations,
Propagating Solutions and Phase Transitions in a Chemical Reaction with
Diffusion", American Journal of Physics, 52 (1984) 161-167.
15. A.M.Albano, P.A. Beckmann, M.E. Carrington, E.E. Fisch, F.A. Fusco, A.E.
ONeill and M E. Scott, "A Nuclear Spin Relaxation Study of Internal Motion
in Two Organic Molecular Solids," Physical Review B, 30 (1984) 2334-2339.
16. A.M. Albano, J. Abounadi, T.C. Chyba, S. Yong, R.S. Gioggia, and N.B.
Abraham," Low-Dimensional Chaotic Attractor for an Unstable, Single-
Mode, Xe-Ne Laser," Journal of the Optical Society of America, B2 (1985)
47-57.
17. P.E. Rapp, I.D. Zimmerman, A.M. Albano, G.C. de Guzman, and N.N.
Greenbaun, "Dynamics of Spontaneous Neural Activity in the Simian Motor
Cortex: The Dimension of Chaotic Neurons," Physics Letters, 110A (1985)
335-338.
18. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, B. Das, G. de Guzman, S. Yong, R.S. Gioggia,
G.P. Puccioni, and J.R. Tredicce, "Calculating the Dimensions of Attractors
from Small Data Sets", Physics Letters 114A (1986) 217-221.
19. N.B. Tufillaro and A.M. Albano, "Chaotic Dynamics of a Bouncing Ball",
American Journal of Physics, 54 (1986) 939-944.
20. N.B. Tufillaro, T.M. Mello, Y.M Choi, and A.M. Albano, "Period-Doubling
Boundaries of a Bouncing Ball", Journal de Physique (Paris), 47 (1986) 1477-
1482.
21. D.E. Chyba, N.B. Abraham, and A.M. Albano, "Semiclassical Analysis of a
Detuned Ring Laser with a Saturable Absorber: New Results for the Steady
States", Physical Review A, 35 (1987) 2936-2950.
22. A.M. Albano and D. Bedeaux, "Non-equilibrium Electro-thermodynamics of
Polarizable Multicomponent Fluids with an Interface", Physica 147A (1987)
407-435.
23. A.M. Albano, J. Muench, C. Schwartz, A.I. Mees, and P.E. Rapp, "Singular
Value Decomposition and the Grassberger-Procaccia Algorithm", Physical
Review A, 38 (1988) 3017-3026. (Reprinted in E. Ott, T. Sauer, and J.A.
Yorke, Coping with Chaos, Wiley, New York, 1994).
24. P.E. Rapp, T.R. Bashore, J.M. Martinerie, A.M. Albano, I.D. Zimmerman,
and A.I. Mees, "Dynamics of Brain Electrical Activity", Brain Topography, 2,
(1989) 99-118.
25. B. Das, A.M. Albano, and N.B. Abraham, "Correlation-dimension
calculations from broadband intensity fluctuations in emission from a heavily

saturated source of amplified spontaneous emission", Physical Review A 41,
(1990) 6162-6175.
26. A.M. Albano, A. Passamante and M.E. Farrell, "Using higher-order
correlations to define an embedding window", Physica D 54 (1991) 85-87 .
27. J. Martinerie, A.M. Albano, A.I. Mees, and P.E. Rapp, "Mutual Information,
strange attractors and optimal estimation of dimension", Physical Review A
45 (1992) 7058-7064.
28. A.M. Albano, A. Passamante, T. Hediger and M.E. Farrell, "Using Neural
Nets to Look for Chaos", Physica D 58 (1992) 1-9.
29. P.E. Rapp, A.M. Albano, T.I. Schmah, and L.A. Farwell, "Acausally filtered
noise can mimic low dimensional chaotic attractors", Physical Review E 47
(1993) 2289-2297.
30. C. Palmer, A.M. Albano and P.A. Beckmann, "Dipole-dipole spin relaxation
in solids: The unrestricted hopping model and the methyl proton -- nonmethyl
proton interaction," Physica B 190 (1993) 267-284.
31. Wang Kaige, N.B. Abraham and A.M. Albano, "Chaotic behavior in
transverse-mode laser dynamics," Chaos 3 (1993) 287-294.
32. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, A. Passamante, P.E. Rapp, and R. Gilmore,
"Complexity and Chaos II," International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 3
(1993) 485-490.
33. P.E. Rapp, G. Goldberg, A.M. Albano, M.B. Janicki, D. Murphy, E.
Niemeyer, and M.A. Jiménez-Montaño, "Using coarse-grained measures to
characterize electromyographic signals," International Journal of Bifurcation
and Chaos 3 (1993) 525-541.
34. P.E. Rapp, I.D. Zimmerman, E.P. Vining, N. Cohen, A.M. Albano and M.A.
Jiménez-Montaño, “The algorithmic complexity of neural spike trains
increases during focal seizures,” Journal of Neuroscience 14 (1994) 4731-
4736.
35. P.E. Rapp, A.M. Albano, I.D. Zimmerman and M.A. Jiménez-Montaño,
“Phase-randomized surrogates can produce spurious identifications of nonrandom
structure,” Physics Letters A 192 (1994) 27-33
36. A. M. Albano, P. E. Rapp and A. Passamante, “Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
distinguishes attractors with similar dimensions,” Physical Review E 52
(1995) 196-206.
37. R. J. Storela, Y. Shi, H. W. Wood, M. A. Jiménez-Montaño, A. M. Albano
and P. E. Rapp, “The variance and the algorithmic complexity of heart rate
variability display different responses to anesthesia,” International Journal of
Bifurcation and Chaos 9 (1996) 2169-2172.
38. C. J. Cellucci, A. M. Albano, P. E. Rapp, R. A. Pittenger, and R. C. Josiassen,
“Detecting noise in a time series,” Chaos 7 (1997) 414-422
39. S. M. Hess and A. M. Albano, “Minimum requirements for stochastic
resonance in threshold systems,” International Journal of Bifurcation and
Chaos, 8 (1998) 395-400.

40. A. D. Krystal, H. S. Greenside, P. E. Rapp, A. M. Albano, C. J. Cellucci, and
R. D. Weiner, “Partial Least Squares Analysis of Multichannel EEG Data,”
Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 15 (1998) 274.
41. A.M Albano, C.J.Cellucci, and P.E.Rapp, "Nonlinear Analysis of the EEG,"
Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Special Issue on
Nonlinear Dynamics, Section I Biological Sciences (2000) 283-321.
42. C. J. Cellucci, P. D. Brodfuehrer, R. Acera-Pozzi, H. Dobrovolny, E. Engler,
J. Los, R. Thompson and A. M. Albano, "Linear and nonlinear measures
predict swimming in the leech," Physical Review E, 62 (2000) 4826-4834).
43. P. E. Rapp, C. J. Cellucci, T. A. A. Watanabe, A. M. Albano and T. I.
Schmah,, "Surrogate data pathologies and the false-positive rejection of the
null hypothesis," International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 11 (2001),
983-997.
44. R. B. Duckrow and A. M. Albano, Comment on “Performance of different
synchronization measures in real data: A case study on
electroencephalographic signals,” Physical Review E 67 (2003), 063901.
45. C. J. Cellucci, A. M. Albano and P. E. Rapp, “Comparative study of
embedding methods,” Physical Review E 67 (2003), 066210
46. C. J. Cellucci, A. M. Albano, P. E. Rapp, and A. D. Krystal, “Quantitataive
determination of abrupt changes in dynamical systems: Illustration via
identification of seizure termination in generalized tonic-clonic seizure EEG
data,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 13 (2003) 2641-2655.
47. P. E. Rapp, C. J. Cellucci, T. A. A. Watanabe, and A. M. Albano, Quantitative
characterization of the complexity of multichannel human EEGs,”
International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 15 (2004), 1737-1744.
48. S. M. Hess, A. M. Albano, and J. P. Gaertner, “Development of A Dynamical
Systems Model of Plant Programmatic Performance on Nuclear Power Plant
Safety Risk,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 90 (2005), 62-74.
49. C. J. Cellucci, A. M. Albano and P. E. Rapp, “Statistical validation of mutual
information calculations: Comparison of alternative numerical algorithms,”
Physical Review E 71, (2005), 066208.
50. A. M. Albano, P. D. Brodfuehrer, L. Tapyrik, and S. Sunder, “Linear and
nonlinear properties of prestimulus ventral cord signals distinguish swimming
response of the leech to intracellular stimulation,” International Journal of
Bifurcations and Chaos, 16 (2006), 145-155
51. S. M. Hess, A. M. Albano, and J. P. Gaertner, “Analysis and insights from a
dynamical model of nuclear plant safety risk ,” Reliability Engineering and
System Safety, 92 (2007), 15-29.
52. P. Getreuer, A. M. Albano and A. Muriel, “Possibility of turbulence from a
post-Navier-Stokes equation,” Physics Letters A, 366 (2007) 101–104.
53. Peter D. Brodfuehrer, Kathryn McCormick, Lauren Tapyrik, Alfonso M.
Albano, Carolyn Graybeal, “Activation of two forms of locomotion by a
previously identified trigger interneuron for swimming in the medicinal
leech,” Invertebrate Neuroscience, 8 (2008) 31-39.

54. X. T. Tigno, B. C. Hansen and A. M. Albano, “Vasomotion spectra and
principal components of pooled measures predict diabetes in monkeys,”
International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, 19 (2009) 2439-2446
55. X. T. Tigno, B. C. Hansen, S. Nawang, R. Shamekh and A. M. Albano,
“Vasomotion becomes less random as diabetes progresses in monkeys,”
Microcirculation (to appear).
CONTRIBUTED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. P.E. Rapp, I.D. Zimmerman, A.M. Albano, G.C. de Guzman, N.N.
Greenbaun, and T.R. Bashore, "Experimental Studies of Chaotic Neural
Behavior: Cellular Activity and Electroencephalographic Signals", in
Nonlinear Oscillations in Biology and Chemistry, H.G. Othmer, ed. (Springer-
Verlag, Berlin, 1985).
2. A.M. Albano, N.B. Abraham, G.C. de Guzmn, M.F.H. Tarroja, D.K. Bandy,
R.S. Gioggia, P.E. Rapp, I.D. Zimmerman, N.N. Greenbaun, and T.R.
Bashore," Lasers and Brains: Complex Systems with Low-Dimensional
Attractors," in Dimensions and Entropies in Chaotic Systems, G. Mayer-
Kress, ed. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986) 231-240.
3. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, B. Das, T.M. Mello, M.F.H. Tarroja, N.
Tufillaro, and R.S. Gioggia, "Definitions of Chaos and Measuring its
Characteristics", in Optical Chaos, J.R. Chjrostowski and N.B. Abraham, eds.,
SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 667 (Bellingham, 1986).
4. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, B. Das, and M.F.H. Tarroja,"Coherences and
Correlations in Chaotic Optical Signals", in Fundamentals of Quantum Optics
II (Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 282) F. Ehlotzky, ed. (Springer, Berlin,
1987).
5. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, T.C. Chyba, L.M. Hoffer, M.F.H. Tarroja, S.P.
Adams, and R.S. Gioggia, "Experimental Measurements of Transitions to
Pulsations in a Single Mode, Unidirectional Ring Laser with an
Inhomogeneously Broadened Medium," in Instabilities and Chaos in
Quantum Optics (Springer Series in Synergetics, Vol. 34) , R. G. Harrison and
F. T. Arecchi, eds. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987).
6. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, and N.B. Tufillaro, "Complexity and Chaos", in
Measures of Complexity and Chaos, N. B. Abraham et al., editors,(Plenum,
New York, 1989).
7. P.E. Rapp, T.R. Bashore, I.D. Zimmerman, J.M. Martinerie, A.M. Albano and
A.I. Mees, "Dynamical Characterization of Brain Electrical Activity", in The
Ubiquity of Chaos, S. Krasner, editor, (AAAS, Washington, 1990).
8. "Telegraphy: The Beginnings," in N. Copp and A. Zanella, Discovery,
Innovation, and Risk, (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1993).
9. A.M. Albano and P.E. Rapp, "On the reliability of dynamical measures of the
EEG," in: Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop on the Nonlinear

Analysis of the EEG, B.H. Jansen and M.E. Brandt, editors, (World Scientific,
Singapore,1993).
10. A. M. Albano, C. J. Cellucci, and P. E. Rapp, "Nonlinear analysis of the
EEG," (invited review) in Proceedings of the Indian National Science
Academy, Special Issue on Nonlinear Phenomena in the Physical and
Biological Sciences (Section 1: Biological Sciences), N. Pradhan and S. K.
Malik, editors., (New Delhi, 2000), 283-321.
11. A. M. Albano, C. J. Cellucci, R. N. Harner and P. E. Rapp, "Optimization of
Embedding Parameners for Prediction of Seizure Onset with Mutual
Information," in Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistics, A. I. Mees, editor
(Birkhauser, Boston, 2001).
12. A. M. Albano, “Termite Computers: Entropy Is What You Don't Know,” in
Emergence Theory, Anne Dalke and Jan Trembley, editorss, Soundings
(Special issue), 90 (1-2), 2008.
ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
1. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, T C. Chyba, R.S. Gioggia, L M. Hoffer, and
C.M. Searle, "Instabilities and Chaos in Single-Mode Lasers with
Inhomogeneously-Broadened Gain Lines," Atti del IV Congresso Nazionale di
Elettronica Quantistica e Plasmi. Certosa, Capri, 21-24 May 1984. ENEA
Serie Simposi (1984) 235-241.
2. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, D.K. Bandy, B. Das, G. de Guzman, T. Isaacs,
M.F.H. Tarroja, S. Yong, S.P. Adams and R.S. Gioggia," Low Dimensional
Attractors for a Single-Mode He-Xe Ring Laser," in Optical Instabilities
(Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics), R. W. Boyd, M. G. Raymer, and L.
M. Narducci, eds. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986).
3. A.M. Albano, N.B. Abraham, G.C. de Guzman, M.F.H. Tarroja, S. Yong, S.P.
Adams and R.S. Gioggia,"Low-Dimensional Attractor for a Single-Mode Xe-
He Ring Laser", in Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics, M. F. Schlesinger, R.
Cawley, A. W. Senz, W. Zachary, eds. (World Scientific Publishers,
Singapore, 1986).
4. A.M. Albano, L. Smilowitz, P.E.Rapp, G.C. de Guzman and T.R. Bashore,
"Dimension Calculations in a Minimal Embedding Space: Low-Dimensional
Attractors for Human Electroencephalograms", in The Physics of Phase Space
(Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 278), Y.S. Kim and W.W. Zachary, eds.
(Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987).
5. A.M. Albano, A.I. Mees, G.C. de Guzman, and P.E. Rapp, "Data
Requirements for Reliable Estimation of Correlation Dimensions", in Chaos
in Biological Systems, H. Degn, A.V. Holden and L.F. Olsen, eds., (Plenum,
Oxford, 1987).
6. Albano, A. M., Bedonie, C., Cellucci, C. J., Halkides, D. J., Miller, V., Ree, J.,
Torruella, A., Harner, R. N., and Rapp, P. E. (1999), in Nonlinear Dynamics
& Brain Functioning, (Eds: N. Pradhan, R. Sreenivasan, and P. E. Rapp),
NovaScience, NY, (1999).

A. M. Albano and R. B. Duckrow , “Chaos, Boltzmann, Shannon and
Electroencephalography,” in STOCHASTIC AND QUANTUM DYNAMICS
OF BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS: Proceedings of the 5th Jagna
International Workshop, Jagna, Bohol (Philippines), 3–5 January 2008,
American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Volume 1021. (Eds:
C. C. Bernido and M. V. Carpio-Bernido) American Institute of Physics, NY
(2008) 79 – 90.
ABSTRACTS
1. A.M. Albano and M. Dresden, "Consistency of the Algebra of Fields and
Current Algebra," Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 12 (1967) 1076.
2. A.M. Albano, "Cole-Moore Superposition and Kinetic Models for the K+
Conductance of Nerve Fiber Membranes," Bulletin of the American Physical
Society, 18 (1973) 61.
3. D. Bedeaux, A.M. Albano, and P. Mazur, "Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
of Boundaries, Boundary Conditions as Linear Constitutive Relations. A
Fluctuatuion-Dissipation Theorem for the Slip and Temperature Jump
Coefficients," International Conference on Statistical Physics of the
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Budapest, 1975.
4. P.A. Wolff and A.M. Albano,"Non-Equilibrium Theormodynamics of
Polarizable Interfaces," Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 1978 Fluid
Dynamics Division Meeting.
5. N.B. Abraham, A.M. Albano, R.S. Gioggia, T.C. Chyba, and C.E. Searle,
"Dimensionality of Dynamical Chaos in an Unstable Single-Mode Laser,
"International Quantum Electronics Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 1984.
6. P E. Rapp, I.D. Zimmerman, A.M. Albano, M. Martelli, G. de Guzman, and
N.N. Greenbaun, "Topological Analysis of Electrophysiological Signals,"
Proceedings of the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology, 44
(1985) 805.
7. D.E. Chyba, N.B. Abraham, and A.M. Albano, "Semiclassical Analysis of the
Detuned Ring Laser with a Saturable Absorber," International Meeting on
Instabilities and Dynamics of Lasers and Nonlinear Optical Systems,
Rochester, NY, June, 1985.
8. A.M. Albano, B. Das, N.B. Abraham, R.S. Gioggia, G. de Guzman, N.B.
Tufillaro, and M.F.H. Tarroja, "Tests for Dynamical Behavior Underlying
Amplified Spontaneous Emission Fluctuations," 1985 Annual Meeting of the
Optical Society of America, Washington, DC.
9. D.E. Chyba, N.B. Abraham, and A.M. Albano, "Time-Dependent Behavior of
the Detuned Ring Laser with a Saturable Absorber in the Vicinity of Multiple
Steady State Solutions," 1985 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of
America, Washington, DC.
10. S.J. Evans, S.S. Khan, A. Garfinkel, R.M. Kass, A.M. Albano, and G.A.
Diamond, "Is Ventricular Fibrillation Random or Chaotic?", 62d Scientific
Sessions, American Heart Association, New Orleans, November, 1989.

11. G. Goldberg and A.M. Albano, "The Geometrical Characterization of Patterns
in the Electromyographic Signal," Third IBRO Congress of Neuroscience,
Montreal, August, 1991.
12. A.M. Albano, A. Passamante, T. Hediger, and M.E. Farrell, "Using neural
nets to look for chaos", Workshop on the Interpretation of Time Series from
Nonlinear Mechanical Systems, University of Warwick, (UK), August, 1991.
13. G.Goldberg, M.B. Janicki, D. Murphy, E. Niemeyer, A.M. Albano, and P.E.
Rapp, "Using a coarse-grained entropy to characterize electromyographic
signals," Second Bryn Mawr Workshop on Measures of Complexity and
Chaos, Bryn Mawr College, August, 1992.
14. A.M. Albano and A. Vicens, "Computer algebra software: friend or foe?,"
Americal Association of Physics Teachers Announcer, 23 (1993) 99.
15. P. E. Rapp and A. M. Albano, “Dynamical Characterization of Brain
Electrical Activity,” Third International Congress of Behavioral Medicine,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6-9 July 1994.
16. A. M. Albano, C. Bedonie, C. J. Cellucci, D. Halkides, V. Miller, J. Ree, A.
Toruella, R. N. Harner, P. E. Rapp, “Spatiotemporal EEG information transfer
in an episode of epilepsy,” International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics
and Brain Functioning, Bangalore, India, 5-11 February, 1998.
17. A. M. Albano, P. D. Brodfuehrer, L. Tapyrik and S. Sunder, “To swim or not
to swim, or does a leech have free will?” Shanghai International Conference
on Nonlinear Science and Applications 2003, Shanghai, 9-13 November 2003
18. Kathryn McCormick, Carolyn Graybeal, Lauren Tapyrik, Peter Brodfuehrer
and Alfonso Albano,”Initiation of Swimming and Crawling by a Trigger
Interneuron in the Leech,” East Coast Neural Net Meeting, Woods Hole, MA,
April 1-3, 2005.
BOOK REVIEWS
1. A. M. Albano, J. Arrison and T. M. Mello, “Post-Use Review: Principles of
Physics. Raymond A. Serway,” American Journal of Physics 63 (1995) 1154.
2. A. M. Albano, review of “Mathematical Methods: For Students of Physics and
Related Fields, Sadri Hasani,” Physics Today, 54 (2001) 62-63.
MISCELLANEOUS
1. A. M. Albano, "Structures for the Introductory Physics Laboratory", The NLA
News, vol. 4 no. 5, January, 1988.
2. A. M. Albano, "Student Activities for Study of the Telegraph, The NLA
News, vol. 6 No. 2, October, 1989.
3. A. M. Albano, “Comets, chaos, brains and the human heart,” The Philippine
Star, Nov. 11, 2004.
4. A. M. Albano, “Do leeches have free will?,” The Philippine Star, Oct 12,
2006.
5. A. M. Albano, “Maxwell‟s demon, entropy and the destruction of
information,” The Philippine Star, Aug. 16, 2007.

6. A. M. Albano and E. A. Padlan, “The „Grandmother Hypothesis‟ – How Lola
helps ensure the survival of her apos, but what about the Lolo?,” The
Philippine Star, Feb 18, 2010.
7. A. M. Albano and E. A. Padlan, “Can Plants Count?,” The Philippine Star,
Mar 11, 2010.
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED
1. Peter A. Wolff, 1980
"Studies in the Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Interfacial Systems"
(Wolff was awarded a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship tenable at the Lorentz
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leiden in 1981)
2. David E. Chyba, 1986
"Nonlinear Dynamics of a Homogeneously Broadened Ring Laser with a
Saturable Absorber"
(co-supervised by N. B. Abraham. Chyba was awarded a Swiss Federal
Postdoctoral Fellowship tenable at the Department of Physics, University of
Zürich in 1986)
3. Nicholas B. Tufillaro, 1990
"Chaotic Themes from Strings"
(co-supervised by N. B. Abraham. Tufillaro was awarded a predoctoral
Fulbright fellowship to the University of Otago in New Zealand in 1988-89,
and a NATO postdoctoral fellowship tenable at the Nonlinear Sytems
Laboratory, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick for 1990-91).
4. Christopher A. Palmer, 1991
"Theory of NMR in Solids"
(co-supervised by P. A. Beckmann. Upon graduation, Palmer continued as a
diffraction grating designer for a manufacturer of optical research equipment).
5. Christopher J. Cellucci, 1998
“On Nonlinear Time Series Analysis”
Upon graduation, Cellucci took a teaching position in physics at Ursinus
College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
6. Stephen J. Hess, 2004
“A Dynamical Systems Model for Nuclear Power Plant Risk,” Hess was a
part-time student with a full-time engineering job at Sensortex, Inc.
EXTERNAL Ph.D. DISSERTATIONS REVIEWED
1. B. Mensour, "Delay differential equations and the control of chaos,"
University of Ottawa (1997)
2. D. M. Walker, "Reconstruction and noise reduction of nonlinear dynamics
using nonlinear filters," University of Western Australia (1998)
3. K. Narayanan, "Study of non-linear dynamical systems from time series with
applications to electrocardiography and a nonlinear chemical reaction," Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras (1999)
4. D. Allingham, "Wavelet and Tomographic Reconstruction of Nonlinear
Dynamics," University of Western Australia (2001)

MASTER'S THESES SUPERVISED
1. Despo Louca, 1992, "An exploration of back-propagation algorithm using
directed movement of the frog." (co-supervised by P. Grobstein).
2. Jeanne DiGrazio, 1992, "Correlation dimension and order-2 Kolmogorov
entropy calculations for electrocorticograms."
3. Christopher Cellucci, 1994, "Using simulted annealing to train artificial neural
networks."
4. John Dullea, 1994, "Unstable transfer functions for artificial neural networks."
5. Stephen Hess, 1996, “An investigation into the minimum necessary
requirements for stochastic resonance.”
6. Hanah Dobrovolny, 2000, "On nonlinear time series analysis"
7. Jun Bonita (Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology, 2010),
“Quantitative Characterization of Correlation Patterns of Multichannel Human
EEG.”
8. Pearl Angel Francisco (Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of
Technology, 2010), “Optimization of the Transfer Entropy Algorithm using
human EEG as test bed.”
9. Maryjane Madulara (Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of
Technology, 2010), ”Study of the Patterns of Information Transfer in Human
EEG”
10. Lotis Racines (Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology,
2011), “Transfer Entropy of Digitally Filtered Human EEG under Eyes
Closed and Eyes Open Conditions”
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH WORK SUPERVISED
1. Mita Gupta, 1978, "The Navier-Stokes Equation: Some Solutions Using An
Electrostatic Analogy."
2. Wei-Chun Goh, 1980, "A Hamiltonian Approach To Some Nonlinear
Problems."
3. Margaret Carrington, 1983, "The Use Of Correlation Functions And Spectral
Densities In The Interpretation of NMR Data" (co-supervised by P.
Beckmann)
4. Catherine Searle, 1984, "Pointwise Dimension Calculations for the Strange
Attractor in a Chaotic Single-Mode Xenon-Neon Laser" (co-supervised by M.
Martelli)
5. Jinane Abounadi, Summer 1984, "Dimension And Entropy Calculations For
an Unstable, Single-Mode Fabry-Perot Laser."
6. Stella Yong, Summer 1984; 1985, "Dimension and Entropy Calculations aor
Unstable Single-Mode Fabry-Perot and Ring Lasers."
7. Laura Smilowitz, Summer 1985; 1986, "The Effect of Fourier Smoothing on
the Dimensions of Aperiodic Data.,” “Deterministic Chaos In Human
Electroencephalograms."

8. Jingqi Yang, Summer 1985, "The Effect of Random Noise On The
Dimensions of Aperiodic Data."
9. Yung-Mi Choi, Summer 1985, "Study Of A Simple Mechanical System
Displaying Deterministic Chaos." (co-suprvised by N. Tufillaro)
10. Tina Mello, 1986 (post-A.B., extra-curricular), "The Chaotic Dynamics Of A
Bouncing Ball." (co-supervised by N. Tufillaro)
11. Joanna Muench, 1987, "The Dimensions of Chaotic Attractors." (cosupervised
by M. Martelli)
12. Maggie Y. M. Lee, 1988, "Correlation Dimensions of Event-Related
Potentials."
13. Ellie Kohler, 1989, "Correlation Dimensions of Human
Electroencephalograms."
14. Senti Thobejane, Haverford College, 1989, "Correlation Dimensions of
Human Electroencephalograms."
15. Jean Schulz, 1989 (as a post-bacc), "Experimental Studies of Rat Cortical
Activity: Evidence for Chaotic Neural Dynamics."
16. Despo Louca, 1990, "A Study of Heart Electrical Activity, Ventricular
Fibrillation, Using the Mathematical Theory of Dynamical Systems and
Chaos."
17. Deborah Murphy, 1992, "Dynamical analysis of electromyographic signals."
18. Mary Beth Janicki, Summer, 1992, "Dynamical analysis of electromyographic
signals."
19. Elizabeth Niemeyer, Summer, 1992; 1994, "Dynamical analysis of
electromyographic signals."
20. Gary Garber, 1993, "Neural Nets"
21. Jennifer Eve Grossman, Summer and Fall, 1993, "Using the Kolmogorov-
Smirnov test to compare EEG's."
22. Eliza Stefaniw, 1994, "Using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to compare
EMG's."
23. Heather White, Summer, 1994, “Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of
Electromyograms”
24. Kyoko Ohashi, Summer, 1994; 1995, “Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of
Electomyograms”
25. Rochelle Lao, 1995, “Kolmogorov-Smirnov Analysis of
Electroencephalograms”
26. Joli Rightmyer, 1995, “Kolmogorov-Smirnov Analysis of
Electroencephalograms”
27. Darya Halkides, Summer, 1995, “Temporal correlations of multi-channel
EEG data.”
28. Chastity Bedonie, Summer, 1995, “Spatial correlations of multi-channel EEG
data.”
29. Heather Fleming, Summer 1996, “Spectral studies of EEG recordings during
ECT”

30. Kari Horney, Summer 1996, “Spectral studies of EEG recordings during
ECT”
31. Heather Fleming, 1998, "Synchronization in a system of coupled Rössler
units"
32. Kari Horney, 1998, "Coupled behavior of coupled Chay neurons"
33. Rocio Acera-Pozzi, Summer, 1998, " Nonlinear analysis of
electrophysiological data from the leech"
34. Rebecca Thompson, Summer, 1999, "" Nonlinear analysis of
electrophysiological data from the leech"
35. Emily Engler, Summer, 1999, " Nonlinear analysis of electrophysiological
data from the leech"
36. Jennifer Los, Summer, 1999, " Nonlinear analysis of electrophysiological
data from the leech"
37. Kendra Burbank, 1999, " Chaos in coupled logistic maps"
38. Jennifer Schnur, 1999, " Covariance analysis of multichannel EEG signals"
39. Tamara Metz, 2000, "Coupled Logistic Maps"
40. Emily Belzer, 2001, "Cross-correlation analysis of sleep EEG"
41. Erin Schwamb, 2002, "Mutual Information"
42. Shubha Sunder, 2005 , " Nonlinear analysis of electrophysiological data from
the leech"
LECTURES (1985 to date)
1. "Chaos: The Science of Deterministic Unpredictability", Bryn Mawr College
Parents' Day, October 26, 1985.
2. "Fractals, Strange Attractors, Chaos, and all that", Bryn Mawr College Math
Week, 1986
3. "Dimension Calculations in a Minimal Embedding Space", Nonlinear
Dynamics Seminar, Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak, MD, 1987.
4. "Fractals, Strange Attractors, Chaos, and all that", Millersville University
Physics Colloquium, Feb 18, 1987.
5. "Chaos", Dickinson College Physics Colloquium, February, 1987
6. "Singular Value Decomposition and the Correlation Dimension", Drexel
University Physics Colloquium, April, 1987.
7. "Dynamical Analysis of Cognitive Activity: Chaos, Fractals, and the Frontal
Lobes", joint presentation with P.E.Rapp (Medical College of Pennsylvania),
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society, Drexel University, July 23, 1987.
8. "Singular Value Decompositions and the Grassberger-Procaccia Algorithm",
Bryn Mawr College Physics Colloquium, September, 1987.
9. "Chaos", Bryn Mawr College Parents' Day, October 24, 1987
10. "Is it art or is it a bridge?", Spring Seminar on Science, Technology and
Human Values, Duke University, January 28, 1988.
11. Six lectures on chaos and chaotic behavior in lasers and neural systems.
National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines, July 1988.
12. "Chaos: The science of deterministic unpredictability"

West Chester University, Department of Physics , March 7, 1989 .
Villanova University, Department of Electrical Engineering,
September 22, 1989.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics,
October 13, 1989.
University of Minnesota, Biomedical Engineering Colloquium,
May 22, 1990.
Spelman College, Division of Natural Sciences Seminar,
October 15, 1990.
13. "Chaos and Applications to Physiological Systems", Hennepin County
Medical Center (Minneapolis, MN). Special Program on Chaos and Fractals,
May 23, 1990.
14. "Truth and Beauty: The Intersection of Science and Art," Campaign Kickoff,
Bryn Mawr College, March 2, 1991 (with L. Caruso-Haviland and V.
Donnay).
15. "Looking for Chaos with Neural Nets," (invited talk) Southeastern
Pennsylvania section meeting, Americal Association of Physics Teachers,
April 27, 1991.
16. "On the reliability of dynamical measures of EEG signals" (Invited talk),
Second Annual Conference on the Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of the EEG,
University of Houston, April, 1992.
17. "Chaos"
Radnor High School, 1991
Conestoga High School, 1992
Upper Darby High School, 1992
Philadelphia Science Teachers' Association, 1992
18. "Using neural networks to filter noise-corrupted broadband non-stochastic
signals" Naval Air Warfare Center Technical Seminar Series, April 28, 1993.
19. "Stalking Strange Attractors with Kolmogorov and Smirnov", Drexel
University Physics Colloquium, May 13, 1993
20. “Dynamical Tools: Handle with Care,” (invited talk) Third International
Congress of Behavioral Medicine. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 8, 1994
21. “Chaos and Fractals in Medicine,” Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and
Science, September 29, 1994
22. “Chaos and Fractals: Geometrizing the Description of Motion,” Indiana
University of Pennsylvania Physics Colloquium, October 21, 1994
23. “Fluid dynamical simulation strategies that may be applicable to the lahar
problem,” Centre for Fluid Dynamics, University of the Philippines at Los
Baños, July 21, 1996.
24. “Nonlinear dynamics and biomedical engineering,” College of Engineering
and Agricultural Technology, University of the Philippines at Los Baños, July
30, 1996.

25. “Three lectures on nonlinear dynamics and its applications to physics,
physiology and medicine,” University of the Philippines College Baguio,
August 5-7 1996.
26. “The Bryn Mawr Conspiracy,” First Asian Regional Bryn Mawr College
Alumnae/i Conference, (Manila, Philippines, Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 1996. Talk
given at Malacañang, at a dinner hosted by Philippine President and Mrs.
Fidel V. Ramos)
27. "Disease or Noise?: Nonlinear Analysis of Biomedical Data," Widener
University Science Colloquium, March 24, 1997.
28. “Spatiotemporal EEG information transfer in an episode of epilepsy,”
(invited talk). International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Brain
Functioning, Bangalore, India, 5-11 February, 1998.
29. "Mutual information and multichannel EEG's," (invited talk) Newton Institute
Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistics, Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, 20-26 September 1998.
30. “Chaos, Boltzmann, Shannon and Electrophysiology,” Juniata College
Physics Colloquium, March 3, 2002
30. A. M. Albano, P. D. Brodfuehrer, L. Tapyrik and S. Sunder, “ Variance and
spatial mutual information patterns distinguish swimming response of the
leech to intracellular stimulation,” (invited talk) Shanghai International
Symposium on Nonlinear Science and Applications, Shanghai, 9-13
November 2003.
31. “Chaos, Boltzmann, Shannon, Information, and the Medicinal Leech,”
Towson University Physics Seminar, April 13, 2004.
32. “Boltzmann, Shannon, Entropy, and Information,”
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, February 2, 2005
University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, February 11, 2005
33. “Comparing Time Series,” University of the Philippines, Quezon City,
Philippines, February 9, 2005
33. “ Fractals, Chaos and all that,” De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines,
February 10, 2005.
34. “Mutual Information tracks changes in sleep EEG,” Hongkong Polytechnic
University, Hongkong, February 25, 2005.
35. “Boltzmann, Shannon and the Medicinal Leech,” Ateneo de Manila
University, Quezon City, Philippines, March 8, 2005.
36. “Stories physicists tell, or what do they mean when they talk about the nature
of reality?,” Emergence Seminar, Bryn Mawr College, March 9, 2006
37. “Coincidence, Correlation or Causality: How can we tell?,” Ateneo de Manila
University, Quezon City, Philippines, February 19, 2007.
38. “Thirty Years of Chaos,”
University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, February 21, 2007
University of the East, Manila, Philippines, March 6, 2007.

39. “Chaos, Boltzmann, Shannon and Electroencephalography,” 5 th Jagna
International Workshop: STOCHASTIC AND QUANTUM DYNAMICS OF
BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS, Jagna, Bohol, Philippines, January 3, 2008.
SUPPORTED RESEARCH
Research Grants
1 National Science Foundation, "High Gain Laser Amplifiers "(as co-principal
investigator. Principal investigator: N.B. Abraham), September 1979-80,
$11,480.
2. Army Research Office, "Unstable Behavior in Lasers and Other Optical
Systems," Sub contract from Drexel University (as co-principal investigator
together with R.S. Gioggia. Principal investigator: N.B. Abraham), 1985-
1987, $102,360.
3. Whitaker Foundation, "Dynamical Systems Theory Applied to
Electromyographic Signal Processing," (Principal investigator, G. Goldberg,
M.D., Moss Rehabilitation Hospital, Philadelphia), 1991, $8,660.
11. National Institutes of Health, "Dynamical Characterization of Physiological
Signals," (as co-principal investigator. Principal investigator, P.E. Rapp,
Medical College of Pennsylvania), 1994-1997, Amount (Bryn Mawr budget):
$151,701.
12. National Science Flundation, "Dynamical Analysis of Leech Swimming," (as
co-Principal Investigator. Principal Investigator, Peter Brodfuehrer), 2001-
2003, $ 361,782.
Research Contracts
1. Naval Air Development Center, Determination of Embedding Windows by
Higher-Order Correlations (Principal investigator), 1990, $8,700.
2. Naval Air Development Center, Using Neural Networks to Identify
Dynamical Signals in the Presence of Noise (Principal Investigaor), 1991,
$12,000.
3. National Institutes of Health, "Computational characterization of
electroencephalograpic signals," (Subcontract from Duke University, Andrew
Krystal, principal investigator) 2000-2001, $10,000
OTHER
1. Co-organizer, International Workshop on Quantitative Measures of
Complexity and Chaos, a NATO Advanced Topic Workshop co-sponsored by
U.S. Navy NADC, Bryn Mawr, June 22-24, 1989. (NATO grant, $10,000; US
Navy contract, $20,000).
2. Co-organizer, Second International Workshop on Quantitative Measures of
Complexity and Chaos, Co-sponsored by U.S. Navy NAWC and Office of
Naval Research, Bryn Mawr, August 13-15, 1992. (US Navy contract,
$24,900)
3. Co-organizer, International Workshop on Measures of Spatiotemporal
Dynamics, Co-sponsored by U.S. Navy NAWC, Bryn Mawr College and
Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, Bryn Mawr, June 11-13, 1995. (US Navy
contract, $24,900)

4. Principal Investigator, NSF ILI grant, New Instrumentation for Data
Acquisiton, Data Analysis, Experimental Control, and Modelng in
Introductory Physics Laboratories, August 15, 1998 – July 31, 2000. Total
award: $75,844 ($31,844 from NSF, $44,000 matching funds from Bryn
Mawr College).
5. Principal Investigator, NSF Institution-Wide Reform of Undergraduate
Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (IRI)
grant, "Building Bridges: Science Education Reform at Bryn Mawr
College." $200,000 for 36 months starting August, 1998.
6. Project Director, Keck Teaching/Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program, $750,000 for 5 years.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
1. Development and refinement of algorithms for the calculation of quantitative
measures of complex spatial and temporal behavior and for the identification
and classification of complex systems.
2. Continuing studies of the feasibility of using measures of complex behavior as
diagnostic tools, to characterize changes in behavior induced by pathology or
changes in experimental conditions, and to compare experimentally observed
behavior with predictions of mathemtical models.
TEACHING
1. Non-physics.
Bryn Mawr-Haverford-Swarthmore pre-freshmen summer program (1983);
WISE summer program for secondary school students (1984).
Guest lecturer on elasticity, solid dynamics and wave motion for L. Platt's
Geophysics course, Fall, 1986.
Interdepartmental course on "Telecommunications in the Information Age"
(with E. Sacerio-Garí, Department of Spanish) Spring, 1988 and Spring,
1989.
Interdepartmental course on "Elements of Mathematical Biology" (with P.E.
Rapp, Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Medical College of
Pennsylvania), Spring, 1989.
College Seminar, “Changing Technology, Changing Times,” (with Linda
Susan Beard, Peter Briggs and George Pahomov), Fall, 1998.
College Seminar, " The Human Consequences of Technology: The Ethics of
Progress," (with Peter Briggs, Barbara Hall, and George Pahomov), Fall,
1999.
2. Undergraduate physics courses.
Conceptual physics, introductory physics; intermediate level mechanics,
special relativity, electromagnetism, optics; mathematical biology,
mathematical physics, quantum mechanics, advanced classical mechanics,
electrodynamics, statistical and thermal physics, plasma physics, solid state
physics, elementary particle physics.
3. Graduate courses and seminars.

Courses: Classical Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics.
Seminars: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Solid State
Physics, Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Interfacial Systems, Nonlinear
Phenomena, Dynamical Systems.
5. Chautauqua short course for college teachers. Chaotic Dynamics and
Nonlinear Phenomena in Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering (with N.B.
Abraham, G.L. Baker, V. Donnay, and G.P. Gollub), March 12-14, 1992 at
Temple University Center City Campus, Philadelphia.
6. Symposium and workshop for high school teachers (co-sponsored by
PATHS/PRISM). Chaos. (Organizer: V. Donnay; Other faculty: N.B.
Abraham and P. Grobstein), 1993.
7. Science as Exploration: Developing inquiry-based methods. A summer
workshop for Philadelphia school teachers (Organized by Paul Grobstein and
Elizabeth McCormick) 9-20 July 2001
8. Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Time Series Analysis, Mindanao State
University – Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City, Philippines,
September 2008, June 2011; San Carlos University, Cebu City, Philippines,
June 2011.