Richard Wiener, Ph.D
Program Director
Education
Dr. Wiener completed a BA in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics at the University of Oregon under the direction of London Prize recipient Russell Donnelly in 1988 and 1991, respectively.
Expertise
His research interests center on nonlinear pattern formation with an emphasis on chaotic patterns in fluid flows. Recently, he has been working on the application of nonlinear dynamical models to the production of energy resources, social group competition, and conference-mediated growth of collaboration networks.
Affiliations
From 1995-2006 Dr. Wiener was a physics professor at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and Chair of the Division of Natural Sciences from 2004-2006.
He has been a National Corporation for Atmospheric Research Postdoctoral Fellow in Ocean Modeling at Oregon State University, a Visiting Professor at Lewis & Clark College, and a Visiting Scientist and Visiting Professor in Eberhard Bodenschatz' research group at Cornell University. Dr. Wiener currently holds an appointment as an adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Arizona and he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society.
Publications
Abrams D. M., H. A. Yaple, and R. J. Wiener, 2011, Dynamics of social group competition: modeling the decline of religious affiliation. Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 088701.
Daniels, K. E., R. J. Wiener, and E. Bodenschatz, 2003: Localized transverse bursts in inclined layer convection. Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 114501.
Hollerbach, R., R. J. Wiener, I. S. Sullivan*, R. J. Donnelly, and C. F. Barenghi, 2002: The flow around a torsionally oscillating sphere. Phys. of Fluids., 14, 4192.
Wiener, R. J., D. Dolby*, G. C. Gibbs*, B. Squires*, T. Olsen, and A. M. Smiley*, 1999: Control of chaotic pattern dynamics in Taylor vortex flow. Phys. Rev. Lett., 83 2340.
Wiener, R. J., G. L. Snyder*, M. P. Prange*, D. Frediani*, and P. R. Diaz*, 1997: Period-doubling cascade to chaotic phase dynamics in Taylor vortex flow with hourglass geometry. Phys. Rev. E 55, 5489.
Wiener, R. J., and D. F. McAlister*, 1992: Parity-breaking and solitary waves in axisymmetric Taylor vortex flow. Phys. Rev. Lett., 69 2915.
Wiener, R. J., P. W. Hammer, and R. Tagg, 1991: Perturbation analysis of the primary instability in Taylor-Couette flow subjected to an external Coriolis force. Phys. Rev. A 44 3653.
Wiener, R. J., P. W. Hammer, C. E. Swanson, and R. J. Donnelly, 1990: The stability of Taylor-Couette flow subject to an external Coriolis force. Phys. Rev. Lett., 64 1115.
*Undergraduate student
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