{"41259":{"#nid":"41259","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Predrag Cvitanovi\u0026#263; Tapped for Humboldt Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhysics Professor and Glen P. Robinson Chair Predrag Cvitanovi\u0026#263; is the recipient of a 2009 Alexander von Humboldt Award for his body of work in chaos and turbulence theory. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECvitanovi\u0026#263;\u0027s award was sponsored by Eberhard Bodenschatz and Theo Geisel, directors of  the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in G\u0026uml;ttingen, Germany. The Georgia Tech and Max Planck Institute groups collaborations, researching chaotic dynamics, span over two decades. Currently B\u0026oslash;rn Hof\u0027s group at the Max Planck Institute is building an experiment to test a theory of boundary shear turbulence developed at Georgia Tech by Cvitanovi\u0026#263; and J. Ford Postdoctoral Fellow John F. Gibson. The Humboldt award will enable Cvitanovi\u0026#263; to visit G\u0026uml;ttingen and collaborate on this and other turbulent fluid flow experiments.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is an important recognition of Professor Predrag Cvitanovi\u0026#263;\u0027s decades-long research to receive a Humboldt Research Award, said Gary Schuster, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. Given only to leading researchers in their fields, this honor underscores Dr. Cvitanovi\u0026#263;\u0027s long standing work in chaotic dynamics and turbulence. His international research collaborations also exemplify the global reach of scholarship at Georgia Tech. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to turbulence, Cvitanovi\u0026#263;\u0027s research interests include nonlinear dynamics, chaos, quantum chaos, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and group theory. Cvitanovi\u0026#263; is best-known for his introduction of cycle expansions, based on periodic orbit theory, to approximate chaotic dynamics in a controlled perturbative way. Practical applications include a periodic orbit theory of quantum chaos, used in atomic, nuclear and chemical physics, and a periodic orbit theory of wave chaos that can be used to test shapes of elastic objects by their acoustic spectroscopy. He is currently working on completing \u0022Chaos: Classical and Quantum,\u0022 an advanced, open source graduate online textbook (ChaosBook.org), based on his work with collaborators on classical and quantum chaos.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECvitanovi\u0026#263; earned his doctorate from Cornell University in 1973. Prior to joining the Tech faculty in 2001, he was the Carlsberg Foundation Research Professor and director of the Center for Chaos and Turbulence Studies at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. 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