Fellow
Center for Integrated Plasma Studies
and Professor of Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado
Ph.D. 1980, University of California, Berkeley

Office: Engineering Center ECOT 236
Phone: 303-492-3731

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Research

Professor Meiss studies the dynamics of low dimensional systems, especially those arising from conservative or Hamiltonian dynamics. Recently his work has concentrated on volume-preserving mappings which are appropriate for the study of mixing in incompressible fluids as well as the structure of magnetic fields, and on the effects of the breakdown in shear or twist in symplectic mappings. His research continues to be in the area of bifurcations and normal forms for low dimensional Hamiltonian and volume preserving systems.

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Selected Publications

Wysham, D.B., and J.D. Meiss, Iterative Techniques for Computing Linearized of QuasiperiodicTori, Chaos 16 023129 (2006).

Wysham, D.B. and J.D. Meiss, “Global Invariants for Variable Mass Systems,”Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 164302 (2006).

Gonchenko, S.V., J.D. Meiss, and I.I. Ovsyannikov, “Chaotic dynamics of three-dimensional Henon maps that originate from a homoclinic bifurcation, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics,” 11(2) 191-212 (2006).

Dullin, H.R., A.V Ivanov, and J.D. Meiss, “Normal forms for 4D Symplectic Maps with Twist Singularities,” Physica D 215 175-190 (2006).

R.D. Hazeltine and J.D. Meiss, Plasma Confinement, 2nd Edition (Dover Press, 2003), 480 pp. ISBN 0486432424.

H.R. Dullin, and J. D. Meiss, “Twist Singularities for Symplectic Maps,” Chaos 13 1-16 (2003).

A. Gomez and J.D. Meiss, “Reversible Polynomial Automorphisms in the Plane: the Involutory Case," Physics Letters A, 312 49-58 (2003).

H. E. Lomelí and J.D. Meiss, “Heteroclinic Orbits between Invariant Circles in Volume Preserving Mappings,” Nonlinearity 16, 1573-1595 (2003).