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About AME Degree Programs Admission Financial Aid Research Areas Personnel Seminars Students Books News Resources  Paul K. Newton Address: University of Southern California Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Los Angeles, California 90089-1191 Office: RRB 221 Tel. (213) 740-7782 Fax. (213) 740-7774 email: newton@usc.edu website: http://newton.usc.edu/ Academic rank: Professor Education: 1985 Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Brown University 1981 B.Sc., Applied Mathematics/Physics, Harvard University 1985-1987: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University USC Academic Positions: 1998-: Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Department of Mathematics 1993-1998: Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Department of Mathematics Other Professional Positions: 2007: Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University 2007: Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara 2000: Visiting Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), UC Santa Barbara 2000: Visiting Professor, Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech 1992-1993: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Center for Complex Systems Research, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois 1987-1992: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Center for Complex Systems Research, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois 1989: Visiting Assistant Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamics/chaotic systems, fluid mechanics, vortex dynamics, probabilistic game theory, mathematical/computational modeling of cancer metastasis, markov chain/monte carlo modeling Selected Publications: R. Tiron, E. Kanso, P.K. Newton, "Hydrodynamically coupled oscillators," J. Fluid Mech. 677, pp. 589-606, 2011. B. Oskouei, E.Kanso, P.K. Newton, "Streamline bifurcations and scaling theory for a multiple-wake model," J.of Non-linear Mechanics 46, pp. 592-601, 2011. P. K. Newton, T. Sakajo, "Point vortex equilibria and optimal packings of circles on a sphere," Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 467 no. 2129, pp. 1468-1490, 2011. A. Ysasi, E. Kanso, P.K. Newton, "Wake structure of a deformable Joukouwski airfoil," under review, Special Issue, Physica D, 2010. F. Jing, E. Kanso, P.K. Newton, "Viscous evolution of point vortex equilibria: The collinear state," Phys. Fluids, 22, 123102, 2010. P. K. Newton, S. DeSalvo, "The Shannon entropy of Sudoku matrices," Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 466, 1957--1975, 2010. A. Barriero, J. Bronski, P.K. Newton, "Spectral gradient flow and point vortex equilibria," Proc. Roy. Soc. A 466, pp. 1687--1702, 2010. More publications... Professional Societies: American Physical Society (APS) Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) American Mathematical Society (AMS) Honors and Awards: 2011: Mellon Foundation Faculty Mentoring Award, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC 1993-1994: Beckman Institute Research Fellow Award 1993: Oakely-Kund Teaching Award (University Finalist) 1981-1982: Brown University Fellowship 1978-1981: Harvard University Scholarship for Academic Achievement Courses Taught: AME 525, 526: Engineering Analysis I, II AME 530 a,b: Dynamics of Incompressible Fluids AME 511: Compressible Gas Dynamics AME 626: Singular Perturbation Methods AME 630: Transition to Chaos in Dynamical Systems Recent Professional Development Activities: Managing Editor: Journal of Nonlinear Science Editorial Board: Journal of Nonlinear Science Editorial Board: Texts in Applied Mathematics, Springer-Verlag Center Advisory Committee: The Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla CA Advisory Board: Strategic Analytics, Santa Fe, New Mexico Back to top

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