Todd Timberlake's Publications and Presentations

Publications

• "The Statistical Interpretation of Entropy: An Activity"
  by Todd Timberlake
  submitted to The Physics Teacher.
  Preprint and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Quantum signatures of non-Newtonian orbits in the asymmetric infinite square well"
  by Todd Timberlake and Molly Nelson
  Physical Review E 79, 036213 (2009).
  Reprint available: PDF (1.4 MB).
  
  
• "Computation in Classical Mechanics"
  by Todd Timberlake and Javier E. Hasbun
  American Journal of Physics 76, 334-339 (2008).
  Reprint and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Tearing Plastic: A laboratory exercise on fractals and hyperbolic geometry"
  by Ron Taylor and Todd Timberlake
  PRIMUS 17, 316-324 (2007).
  Preprint and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Random numbers and random matrices: Quantum chaos meets number theory"
  by Todd Timberlake
  American Journal of Physics 74, 547-553 (2006).
  Reprint and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Localization of Floquet states along a continuous line of periodic orbits"
  by T. Timberlake, F. Petruzielo, and L. E. Reichl
  Physical Review E 72, 016208 (2005).
  Reprint available: PDF (612 kB)
  
  
• "A computational approach to teaching conservative chaos"
  by Todd Timberlake
  American Journal of Physics 72, 1002-1007 (2004).
  Reprint and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Correlation of the Photodetachment Rate of a Scarred Resonance State with the Classical Lyapunov Exponent"
  by T. Timberlake and J. V. Foreman
  Physical Review Letters 90, 103001 (2003).
  Reprint available: PDF (128 kB)
  
  
• "Phase-space picture of resonance creation and avoided crossings"
  by T. Timberlake and L. E. Reichl
  Physical Review A 64, 033404 (2001).
  Reprint available: PDF (560 kB)
  
  
• "Changes in Floquet-state structure at avoided crossings: Delocalization and harmonic generation"
  by T. Timberlake and L. E. Reichl
  Physical Review A 59, 2886 (1999)
  
  Reprint available: PDF (304 kB)
  
  
• "High harmonic generation in systems with bounded chaos"
  by W. Chism, T. Timberlake, and L. E. Reichl
  Physical Review E 58, 1713 (1998)
  
  Reprint available: PDF (3.6 MB)
  
  
• Dissertation: Quantum signatures of chaos in periodically driven systems
  by Todd K. Timberlake
  
  This is my Ph.D. dissertation and it runs about 200 pages. It contains a fairly complete description of my research as a graduate student at the University of Texas. Feel free to download the file if you want all the details, but if you only want the highlights you might want to stick to the published articles listed above. Print copies are available from University Microfilm, Inc.
  
  Online version: PDF (7.5 MB)
  
  This dissertation, and the papers that are derived from it, were completed under the supervision of Dr. Linda E. Reichl while I was a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.

Presentations

• "Using Computer Simulations to Explore the History of Astronomy" workshop presented at the 2009 Meeting of the European Science Education Research Association, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2009.
  PDF of slides and other materials available here.
  
  
• "An active introduction to entropy and irreversibility for liberal arts students" poster presented at the 2009 Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, University of Michigan, July 2009.
  PDF of poster and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Exploring the Copernican Revolution through computer simulations" poster presented at the 2009 Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, University of Michigan, July 2009.
  PDF of poster and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Exploring the Copernican Revolution through computer simulations" talk given at the Internatinal History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group Biennial Conference, University of Notre Dame, June 2009.
  Slides and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Incorporating Philosophy of Science in Physics for Nonscience Majors"
  talk given at the 2007 Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Greensboro, NC, July 2007.
  Slides and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Religion and the Copernican Revolution" talk given at Berry College as part of the Interfaith Council Series on Science and Religion, March 25, 2009.
  Transcript available: PDF (60 kB)
  
  
• "Eigenvalues Spacings in the Asymmetric Infinite Square Well" talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Raleigh, NC, October 2008.
  Slides available: PDF (740 kB)
  
  
• "Active Learning at Berry College" talk given at the 11th Annual Legacy of R. L. Moore Conference, Austin, TX, July 2008.
  Slides from my part of the talk are available: PDF (52 kB)
  
  
• "Is there quantum chaos in the prime numbers?" talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Nashville, TN, November 2007.
  Slides available: PDF (740 kB)
  
  
• "Incorporating Philosophy of Science in Physics for Nonscience Majors"
  talk given at the 2007 Summer Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Greensboro, NC, July 2007.
  Slides and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Computational Physics at Berry College: In and Out of the Classroom"
  poster presentation given at the AAPT Topical Conference on Computational Physics for Upper-Level Physics Programs, Davidson, NC, July 2007.
  Poster and other materials available here.
  
  
• "Choosing the Right Mixture of Techniques and Technologies"
  poster presentation given at the 2007 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Seattle, WA, January 2007.
  Poster available: PDF (136 kB).
  
  
• "Inquiry-based physics for non-science students"
  talk given at the Ninth Legacy of R. L. Moore Conference, Austin, TX, May 2006.
  Slides available: PDF (40 kB)
  
  
• "How big is the Cantor set?"
  invited talk given at Lee University, Cleveland, TN, March 2006.
  Slides available: PDF (184 kB)
  Movie available: QuickTime (12 kB)
  
  
• "Writing-Intensive Quantum Mechanics"
  talk given at the 2006 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Anchorage, AL, January 2006.
  Slides and other materials available here.
  
  
• "A computational approach to teaching conservative chaos"
  poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Physics Education and Research, Mount Holyoke, MA, June 2004.
  Slides available: PDF (240 kB).
  
  
• "Schrodinger's Cat and Quantum Reality"
  talk given to the Berry College Religion and Philosophy Club, Mount Berry, GA, April 2004.
  Slides available: PDF (236 kB).
  
  
• "Teaching chaos theory to undergraduate physics majors"
  talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Georgia Academy of Science, Mount Berry, GA, March 2004.
  Slides available: QuickTime (2.3 MB).
  
  
• "Quantum-classical correspondence in driven open quantum systems"
  invited talk given at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, January 2004.
  Slides available: PDF (320 kB).
  
  
• "Correlation of photodetachment rate and Lyapunov exponent for a scarred resonance state"
  poster and talk given at the International Conference on Dynamical Chaos in Classical and Quantum Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia, August 2003.
  Slides available: PDF (244 kB).
  Poster available: PDF (308 kB).
  
  
• "Correlation of photodetachment rate and Lyapunov exponent for a scarred resonance state"
  talk given at the Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, Auburn, AL, November 2002.
  Slides available: PDF (316 kB).
  
  
• "Resonance creation and periodic orbits"
  poster presented at the International Conference on Quantum Chaos, Cocoyoc, Mexico, July 2001.
  Poster currently unavailable.
  
  
• "Delocalization and superscars in the driven square well"
  poster presented at the International Conference on Quantum Chaos, Cocoyoc, Mexico, July 2001.
  Poster currently unavailable.
  
  
• "Resonance creation and periodic orbits"
  talk given at the Meeting of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, Houston, TX, October 2000.
  Slides available: PDF (256 kB).
  
  
• "Delocalization and harmonic generation in the driven square well"
  poster presented at the Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, March 1999.
  Poster available: PDF (944 kB).