P. J. Morrison
Professor of Physics
Research Scientist
Institute for Fusion Studies

Mailing Address:		Campus Address:
	The University of Texas at Austin		Robert Lee Moore Bldg. (RLM) 11.314
	Institute for Fusion Studies	Telephone Contact Information:
	1 University Station, C1500		Office: (512) 471-1527
	Austin, Texas 78712-0262		Fax: (512) 471-6715
Email: morrison@physics.utexas.edu

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I am a mathematical/theoretical physicist with broad interests. I am a skeptic by nature and find the most satisfaction with science that tends toward mathematical rigor or proximity to experimental data. As a member of the Institute for Fusion Studies, I have worked on basic and applied plasma physics problems. I have been associated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program for twenty years, and as a member of its faculty have worked on basic and applied fluid mechanics problems. I have investigated the nonlinear Hamiltonian dynamics of few and infinite degree-of-freedom systems for many years. It is this brand of theoretical nonlinear dynamics, Hamiltonian chaos theory, that I find most interesting. I have also worked on developing and applying advanced computational algorithms, in part through my affiliation with the ICES Applied Mathematics Group.

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