Michael Gorman's Personel Page

Michael Gorman Department of Physics University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-5506 Office: 713-743-3558 Laboratory: 713-743-3565

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Associate Professor, University of Houston 1987-present, Department of Physics
Assistant Professor, University of Houston 1981 -1987, Department of Physics
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Austin Fall 1980, Department of Physics
Postdoctoral Position (with Harry Swinney) University of Texas-Austin 1978-80, Department of Physics
City College of New York 1976-78, Department of Physics

ACADEMIC TRAINING
Ph.D. University of Chicago (with Stuart Solin) 1972-76, Department of Physics
M. S. Purdue University 1970-72, Department of Physics
B. S. Boston College 1966-70, Department of Physics

RECENT INVITED TALKS (Chemistry)
8/94 Gordon Conference, Oscillations and Dynamical Instabilities in Chemical Systems
2/95 University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry
3/95 University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Chemistry
1 2/95 Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics Symposium, American Chemical Society Southwest Section Meeting

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Experimental Observation of Ordered States in Cellular Flames, M. Gorman, M. el-Hamdi and K. A. Robbins, Comb. Sci. and Technol. 98, 37-45 (1994).
Chaotic Dynamics Near the Extinction Limit of a Pulsating Mode of a Premixed Flame on a Porous Plug Burner, M. Gorman. E. el-Hamdi and K. A. Robbins. Comb. Sci. and Technol. 98, 47-56 (1994).
Rotating and Modulated Rotating States in Cellular Flames, M. Gorman, C. F. Hamill, M. el-Hamdi and K. A. Robbins, Comb. Sci. and Technol. 98, 25-35 (1994).
Four Types of Chaotic Dynamics in Cellular Flames, M. Gorman, M. el-Hamdi and K. A. Robbins, Comb. Sci. and Technol. 98, 79-93 (1994).
Hopping Motion in Ordered States in Cellular Flames, M. Gorman, M. el-Hamdi and K. A. Robbins. Comb. Sci. and Technol. 98, 71-78 (1994).
Deterministic Chaos in Laminar Premixed Flames: E xperimental Classification of Chaotic Dynamics. M. el-Hamdi, M. Gorman and K. A. Robbins, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Pulsating Combustion, Comb. Sci. and Technol. 94, 87-1 01 (1 993).
Classification of High-Dimensional Chaotic Dynamics Using Power Spectra, M. Gorman in Second Annual Conference on Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of the EEG, edited by B. Jansen and M. Brandt, (World Scientific, 1993), 3.
Dynamics of Twelve Representative Modes of Premixed Flames on Flat Circular Burners, K. A. Robbins, M. el-Hamdi and M. Gorman, University of Houston Technical Report Number 1, (November, 1992).
Spatiotemporal Chaotic Dynamics of Premixed Flames, M. Gorman, M. el-Hamdi, Proc. First Experimental Chaos Conference (World Scientific Publishing, 1992), 4n.