Science and Technology Advisor
Office of the Deputy Director for Science Programs
Office of Science
US Department of Energy
Please use email to contact me
lbiven_at_mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
Research Interests:
Intermittency in weak wave turbulence: random, bursty events in an
otherwise self-similar turbulent sea;
Risk Analysis and science policy.
Teaching:
These courses were given during the 2004-5 academic year at
Bard High School Early College (BHSEC)
525 East Houston St
New York, NY, 10002
Weak-Wave Turbulence: A Tragic Super-hero of Turbulence Theory
(postscript
or
pdf)
Chapter 3 from
Highlights of Mathematical Physics Eds. A.Fokas,
J.Halliwell, T.Kibble and B.Zegarlinski, CUP, UK 2002 (This essay
won first prize in a competition organized by the International Congress
on Mathematical Physics 2000 held at Imperial College, UK)
Intermittency in Weakly Turbulent Surface Waves
(poster--2003) (This is an A4 version of the A0 poster)
Adding Functions. Here's a link to an A4 version of the A0 poster and here is a link to a more printer-friendly version of the material. This lesson, aimed at 5th/6th grade students, won a prize from the 2004 AAAS/Subaru Lesson Writing Competition. Here are some photos from the poster session at the conference.
Writing Theorems is a lesson aimed at 10th graders and won the 2005 AAAS/Subaru Lesson Writing Competition. Click on the name for a .pdf version of the lesson.
The Gift of Teaching. This lesson demonstrates the powers of
teaching as a learning tool to students of calculus. This poster won the
2006 AAAS/Subaru Lesson Writing Competition. Special thanks go to my
collaborator Dr. Mary Ellen Lennon.
See the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany get its final touches.
For other photos, go to
www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~lbiven/XXX.html
where XXX is my mother's name with all capital letters (this makes the
page semi-private at least)
Places I have been:
As a post-doc:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme
Nöthnitzer Str. 38
01187 Dresden, Germany
MPIPKS Homepage
As a visitor:
Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera 11
34014 Trieste, Italy
ICTP Homepage
Department of Mathematics
University of Arizona
617 N. Santa Rita Ave.
P.O. Box 2100089
Tuscon, AZ, 85721-0089, USA
Math Homepage
As a graduate student:
Mathematics Institute
Warwick University
Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Maths Homepage
As an undergraduate student:
Departments of Mathematics and Physics
University of Bristol
Bristol, UK
University Homepage
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-- W. Churchill
