Author: Niklas Manz

  • Sabbatical trip to Europe – Part 3 (Otto Rössler)

    Niklas Manz

    After the conference in Switzerland, I stopped in Tübingen, Germany to visit Otto Rössler. Nearly everyone who learned about nonlinear systems knows the nowadays named Rössler attractor and his work in chaos theory in the 1970s. For the last four years we were in contact for my science history project and this year, I finally…

  • Sabbatical trip to Europe – Part 2 (Switzerland)

    Niklas Manz

    The second stop of my Europe trip was Switzerland. In Zürich, I visited places where Boris Belousov (the discoverer of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction I am using in my lab) lived and studied during his time in exile (1910-1915). But the theme of that part of my science history project keeps validating “Searching for a ghost”.…

  • Sabbatical trip to Europe – Part 1 (Lviv, Ukraine)

    Niklas Manz

    Since about 2018, I was interested in the work of Julian Hirniak, who published an article on periodic chemical systems in 1908 (and a follow-up in 1911), before Alfred Lotka’s famous theoretical 1910 paper and William Bray’s experimental work in 1921.The article had been published in a journal of the Shevchenko Society in Lviv (Austria-Hungarian…

  • Science, serendipity, and coincidence

    Niklas Manz

    As part of my science history project, the article “Science, serendipity, coincidence, and the Oregonator at the University of Oregon, 1969–1974” has been published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. It’s especially exciting because it’s the Feature article in the Focus Issue, From Chemical Oscillations to Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics: Dedicated to Richard…

  • 50 years later

    Niklas Manz

    After MANY months of not traveling, I scheduled a meeting with Robert (Bob) M. Mazo, Professor emeritus from the University of Oregon, now living outside Philadelphia. In 1971/1972 he helped developing the key model to describe chemical reaction-diffusion systems. But, as he stated, he was “only the catalyst” and only accepted to be recognized in…

  • Meeting 100+ years of experience in nonlinear dynamics

    Niklas Manz

    I met two scientists for my BZ-history project with a combined age of 177 years. It was a great pleasure and honor to talk to them.

  • Hiking to conference

    Niklas Manz

    Last weekend, I attended a conference in Germany. I used the opportunity during my sabbatical to return to this conference series, which I attended the last time in 2002. The conference takes place in a small village in the Harz, a Mittelgebirge (I didn’t know that this is an English word!) in Northern Germany. Because I…

  • Standard Model at 50

    Niklas Manz

    From Haidar Essili: All I can think of to describe my experience in the Standard model’s 50th anniversary conference is to repeatedly yell the word wow, until I have lost the will to do so. I am at a loss of words, but I will attempt to put my flustered speech in perspective. Imagine Albert…

  • Posters on the Hill 2017

    Niklas Manz

    Robin Morillo presented his I.S. research at Posters on the Hill   The Council on Undergraduate Research chose Robin’s poster A Hill on fire: Using matches, 3D printing, and code as a forest fire analog to represent Ohio at the 21st Annual Posters on the Hill on April 26, 2017 in the Rayburn House Office…

  • Thermal exam on the plane

    Niklas Manz

    Robin missed his Thermal exam – because he presented his research on ‘Posters on the Hill’ in Washington, DC. But Wooster offers exceptional experiences as, for example, taking your make-up exam on the plane back from DC to Cleveland.

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