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EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT

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STUDENTS
 

Education

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics Arizona State University, May 1995
Specialization: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Bifurcation Theory in Systems with Symmetry, Mathematical Biology
M.S. Computer Science Arizona State University, May 1994
Specialization: Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics
M.S. Computational Science Arizona State University, May 1990
Specialization: Numerical Methods, Mathematical Modeling
B.S. Computer Science La Salle University, June 1986
Summa Cum Laude


Employment History

Professor Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University, 2008-Present
Associate Professor Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University, 2004-2008
Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University, 1999-2004
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, 05/1998 - 07/1999
Under Marty Golubitsky
Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Physics, University of Houston, 05/1996 - 04/1998
Under Michael Gorman
Research Scientist Computer Graphics Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Co., 05/95 - 05/96



Grants

Agency
Date
Project Title
Amount
ONR 8/09 - 9/10 2nd International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics
September 2010, Lake Louise, CANADA 		$30,000
DoD - SPAWAR Command N66001-08-D-0154 6/09 - 05/10 Bifurcation Analysis of Coupled Gyroscopes $64,962
NSF-CMMI-09223803 8/09 - 7/12 Coupled Inertial Navigation System $250,000
DoD - SPAWAR Command N66001-08-D-0154 6/09 - 12/09 Modeling and Simulation of SQIF Devices $93,683
DoD - SPAWAR Command N66001-03-D-0042 6/08 - 12/08 Theoretical Analysis of Coupled Gyroscope Sensors $49,889
DoD Office of Naval Research - N00014-07-1-0605 4/07 - 5/08 International Conference on Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics
October 2007, Kauai, Hawaii 		$25,000
NSF-CMS-0625427 8/06 - 8/08 Intelligent Magnetic Sensor Networks for Surveillance and Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices $247,621
NSF-CMS-0638814 8/06 - 8/09 A Dynamical Systems Paradigm to Design and Operate Intelligent Magnetic Sensor Networks $239,875
DoD - SPAWAR Command N66001-06-M-1008 1/05 - 8/05 Advanced Dynamical Magnetic sensors for Defense Applications $35,000
NSF-DMS-0504150 08/05-07/08 A Dynamical Systems Approach to Study Cellular Flame Instability $225,000
SDSU/Grant-in-Aid 1/17/05 - 7/17/06 Advanced Dynamic Magnetic Sensors $2,100
The San Diego Foundation C-2003-00307 07/03-08/04 Frequency switching in communications for homeland security. PI: A. Palacios $60,000
DOE DE-PS26-00FT40759 9/00-8/03 Reduced order models of heat transfer in fluidized beds $323,279
Control Dynamics, Inc. 05/03-05/04 Multi-frequency synthesis by symmetry-based methods. PI: A. Palacios $40,000
SPAWAR 05/02-05/03 Student grant contract. PI’s: A. Palacios and J. Neff (SPAWAR) $17,000
SPAWAR 10/02 Computer equipment contract for nonlinear dynamics laboratory. PI’s: A. Palacios $20,000
SDSU/Faculty Development Program 12/01 Modulated rotating wave patterns. Invited talk presented in Sorrento, Italy, 2002. PI: A. Palacios. $2,000
SDSU/RSCA 11/99 Analysis and visualization of flame patterns $4,000
SDSU/Grant-in-Aid 12/99 Analysis of networks of coupled neurons $2,400

Milk Splash


Patents

  1. Multi-Frequency Synthesis Using Symmetry Methods in Arrays of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators. U.S. Patent # 7196590, 2007.
  1. Coupled Nonlinear Sensor System. U.S. Patent # 7420366, 2008.
  1. Coupled Nonlinear Sensor System for Sensing a Time-Dependent Target Signal and Method of Assembling the System. U.S. Patent # 7528606, 2009.
  1. Coupled Fluxgate Magnetometers for DC and Time-Dependent (AC) Target Magnetic Field Detection. Navy Case No. 97071. Submitted.
  1. Coupled Electric Field Sensors for DC Target Electric Field Detection. Navy Case No. 97455. Submitted.
  1. Coupled Bistable Circuit for Ultra-Sensitive Electric Field Sensing. In preparation.
 


Books
  1. V. In, P. Longhini, and A. Palacios. Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics. Springer-Verlag 2009.
  1. V. In and A. Palacios. Symmetry in Complex Systems: A Unifying Approach to Developing Novel Sensor Devices. Under contract with Springer-Verlag.


Publications
  1. S. Baglio, B. Ando, S. Malfa, V. Marletta, C. Trigona, A. Bulsara, P. Longhini, A. Kho, V. In, J. Neff, G. Anderson, C. Obra, N. Liu, B. Meadows, A. Palacios. . Exploiting nonlinear dynamics in novel measurement strategies and devices: From theoretical models to experiments and applications. Submitted to IEEE (2010).
  1. V. In, P. Longhini, A. Kho, N. Liu, S. Naik, A. Palacios, and J. Neff . Frequency down-conversion using arrays of coupled nonlinear oscillators. Submitted to Physica D (2010).
  1. D. Lyons, J. Mahaffy, A. Palacios, V. In, P. Longhini, A. Kho . Basins of Attraction in a Ring of Overdamped Bistable Systems with Delayed Coupling. Submitted to Physics Letters A (2010).
  1. H. Vu, A. Palacios, V. In, P. Longhini, J. Neff. Two-time scale analysis of a ring of coupled vibratory gyroscopes. Submitted to Physical Review E (2010).
  1. V. In, P. Longhini, N. Liu, A. Kho, J. Neff, A. Palacios, A. Bulsara. A bistable microelectronic circuit for sensing extremely low electric field. Journal of Applied Physics 107, 014506 (2010).
  1. A. Bulsara, V. In, A. Kho, G. Anderson, C. Obra, P. Longhini, J. Neff, S. Baglio, B. Ando, A. Palacios. . Time domain quantification of the performance of a nonlinear dynamic device in the presence of a noise floor. Eur. Phys. J. B 69, 109-118 (2009).
  1. H. Vu, A. Palacios, V. In, P. Longhini, J. Neff. Exploiting Two-time scale analysis of a ring of coupled vibratory gyroscopes. Submitted to Physical Review E (2008).
  1. M. Hernandez, V. In, P. Longhini, A. Palacios, A. Bulsara, and A. Kho . Coupling-induced Oscillations in Nonhomogeneous, Overdamped, Bistable Systems. Physics Letters A, 372, no. 24, 4381-4387 (2008).
  1. A. Bulsara, V. In, A. Kho, A. Palacios, P. Longhini, S. Baglio, and B. Ando. Exploiting nonlinear dynamics in a coupled core fluxgate magnetometer. Measurement Science and Technology 19, 075203 (2008).
  1. P. Longhini, A. Palacios, V. In, J. Neff, A. Kho, and A. Bulsara. Exploiting dynamical symmetry in coupled nonlinear elements for efficient frequency down-conversion Physical Review E 76, 026201 (2007).
  1. A. Palacios, P. Blomgren, and S. Gasner. Bifurcation analysis of hopping behavior in cellular pattern-forming systems. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 17, no. 2, 509-520 (2007).
  1. A. Palacios, J. Aven,V. In, P. Longhini, A. Kho, J. Neff, and A. Bulsara. Coupled-core fluxgate magnetometer: Novel configuration scheme and the effects of a noise-contaminated external signal. Physics Letters A 367, 25-34 (2007)
  1. P. Blomgren, A. Palacios, B. Zhu, S. Daw, C. Finney, J. Halow, and S. Pannala. Bifurcation analysis of bubble dynamics in fluidized beds. Chaos 17, 013120 (2007).
  1. P. Blomgren, A. Palacios, and S. Gasner. Recent Advances in 2+1 Dimensional Simulations of the
    Pattern-Forming Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation. Mathematics and Computers in Simulations (Submitted 2006)
  1. S. Gasner, P. Blomgren, and A. Palacios. Noise-induced intermittency in cellular pattern-forming systems. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 17, no. 8, 1-15 (2007).
  1. A. Palacios. Heteroclinic cycles. Scholarpedia, 8163 (2007).
  1. V. In, A. Bulsara, A. Kho, A. Palacios, S. Baglio, B. Ando and V. Sacco. Exploiting dynamic cooperative behavior in a coupled-core fluxgate magnetometer. Proceedings of the first Conference of Device Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics. Catania, Italy, 67-82 (2006).
  1. A. Palacios, J. Aven, P. Longhini, V. In, A. Bulsara. Cooperative dynamics in coupled noisy dynamical systems near a critical point; the dc SQUID as a case study. Physical Review E 74, 021122 (2006).
  1. V. In, A. Palacios, A. Bulsara, P. Longhini, A. Kho, Joseph Neff, Salvatore Baglio, and Bruno Ando . Complex behavior in driven unidirectionally coupled overdamped Duffing elements. Physical Review E 73, no. 6, 066121 (2006).
  1. P. Blomgren, S. Gasner, and A. Palacios. Noise-induced intermittent cellular patterns on circular domains.Physical Review E (Rapid. Comm) 74, 045202(R) (2006).
  1. V. In, A. Bulsara, A. Kho, A. Palacios, S. Baglio, B. Ando and V. Sacco. Reconfigurable pattern generators using nonlinear electronic circuits. Proceedings of the first Conference of Device Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics. Catania, Italy, 245-252 (2006).
  1. V. In, A. Kho, A. Bulsara, J. Neff, S. Baglio, V. Sacco, A. Palacios, and P. Longhini. Coupling nonlinear sensors for enhanced sensitivity: A prototype using the three coupled-core fluxgate magnetometer. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Sensors. Irvine, CA, March (2006) 57-60
  1. A. Bulsara, J.F. Lindner, V. In, A. Kho, S. Baglio, V. Sacco, B. Ando, P. Longhini, A. Palacios, and W.J. Rappel. Coupling-Induced cooperative behavior in dynamic ferromagnetic cores in the presence of noise. Phsyics Letters A 353 (2006) 4-10.
  1. V. In, A. Bulsara, A. Palacios, P. Longhini, and A. Kho. Complex dynamics in unidirectionally coupled overdamped bistable systems subject to a time-periodic external signalt. Physical Review E 72, no. 4, Rapid Communications 045104 (2005).
  1. P. Blomgren, S. Gasner, and A. Palacios. Stable second-order scheme for integrating the Kuramoto-Sivashinky equation in polar coordinates. Physical Review E 72, no. 3, 036701 (2005).
  1. A. Palacios, R. Carretero-Gonzalez, P. Longhini, N. Renz, V. In, A. Kho, J. Neff, B. Meadows, and A. Bulsara. Multifrequency synthesis using two coupled nonlinear oscillator arrays. Physical Review E 72, 026211 (2005).
  1. P. Blomgren, S. Gasner, and A. Palacios. Hopping behavior in the kuramoto-sivashinsky equation. Chaos 15, 013706 (2005).
  1. V. In, A. Bulsara, A. Placios, S. Baglio, B. Ando, P. Longhini, J. Neff, B. Meadows, and A. Bulsara. Self-induced oscillations in coupled fluxgate magnetometers: a novel approach to operating the magnetic sensors. Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Circuit and Systems, 4, (2004) 736-739.
  1. A. Bulsara, V. In, A. Kho, P. Longhini, A. Palacios, W-J. Rappel, J. Acebron, S. Baglio, and B. Ando. Emergent oscillations in unidirectionally coupled overdamped bistable systems. Phys. Rev. E 70, 036103-1-12 (2004).
  1. V. In, A. Bulsara, A. Kho, A. Palacios, P. Longhini, J. Acebron, S. Baglio, and B. Ando. Self-induced oscillations in electronically coupled fluxgate magnetometers. Proceedings of the 8th Experimental Chaos Conference, Florence, Italy (2004) 57-62.
  1. A. Palacios, C. Finney, P. Cizmas, S. Daw, T. O'Brien. Experimental analysis and visualization of spatio-temporal bubble patterns in fluidized beds. Chaos 14, no. 2, (2004).499-509.
  1. V. In, A. Kho, A. Bulsara, A. Palacios, S. Baglio, P. Longhini, J. Neff, and B. Meadows. Self-induced oscillations in coupled overdamped bistable systems. APS Conference Proceedings, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 2004.
  1. P.-L. Buono and A. Palacios. A mathematical model of motorneuron dynamics in the heartbeat of the leech. Physica D 188 (2004) 292-313.
  1. V. In, A. Kho, J. Neff, A. Palacios, P. Longhini, and B. Meadows. Experimental observation of multi-frequency patterns in arrays of coupled nonlinear oscillators. Physical Review Letters 91, no. 24, (2003) 244101-244101-4.
  1. V. In, A. Bulsara, A. Palacios, P. Longhini, A. Kho, and J. Neff. Coupling-induced oscillations in overdamped bistable systems. Physical Review E 68, Rapid Communication (2003) 045102-1.
  1. A. Palacios, P. Longhini. Cycling behavior in near-identical cell systems. International. Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 13, no. 9 (2003) 2719-2732. (PDF / Postscript)
  1. P. Cizmas, A. Palacios, T. O'Brien, M. Syamlal. Proper orthogonal decomposition of spatio-temporal patterns in fluidized beds. Chemical Engineering Science 58, no. 19, (2003) 4417-4427.
  1. P.-L. Buono and A. Palacios. Heart Motorneuron Dynamics of Leeches. Proceedings of the 7th Experimental Chaos Conference, vol. 676, Melville, NY, (2003) 257-262.
  1. P. Cizmas, A. Palacios. Proper orthogonal decomposition of turbine rotor-stator interaction. Journal of Propulsion and Power 19, no. 2, (2003) 268-281.
  1. A. Palacios, H. Juarez. Cryptography with cycling chaos. Physics Letters A, 303, (2002) 345-351. (PDF / Postscript)
  1. A. Palacios. Heteroclinic cycles in coupled systems of diference equations. Special issue of Journal of Difference Equations and Applications 9, no. 7, (2002) 671-686. (PDF / Postscript)
  1. A. Palacios. Cycling chaos in one-dimensional coupled iterated maps. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 12, no. 8, (2002) 1859-1868. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. A. Palacios. Symmetry-breaking bifurcations in simulations of the Kuramoto-Sivashinky equation, (2000). Proceedings of the First Compaq-Sponsored Conference on Computational Science. San Diego, CA.
  1. A. Palacios. Identification of modulated rotating waves in pattern-forming systems with O(2) symmetry. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B 2, no. 1, (2002) 129-47. (PDF / Postscript)
  1. L. Buono, M. Golubitsky, A. Palacios. Heteroclinic cycles in rings of coupled cells. Physica D 143 (2000) 74-108. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. A. Palacios, G. Gunaratne, M. Gorman. Modal decomposition of hopping motion in cellular flame patterns, Chaos 9, (1999) 755-767. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. D. Zhang, G. Wei, D. Kouri, D. Hoffmann, M. Gorman, G. Gunaratne, A. Palacios. Integrating the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation in a circular domain, Phys. Rev. E. 60, no. 3, (1999) 3353-3360. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. L. Buono, M. Golubitsky, A. Palacios. Heteroclinic cycles in mode interactions with Dn symmetry, (1998). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Bifurcation Theory and its Numerical Analysis, Xi'an. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. A. Palacios, G. Gunaratne, M. Gorman, K. Robbins. A Karhunen-Loève analysis of spatiotemporal flame patterns, Physical Review E. 57, no. 5, (1998) 5958-5971. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. K. Robbins, A. Palacios, M. Gorman, K. Robbins. Visualization, animation and KL decomposition of spatiotemporal dynamics in a pattern-forming system, Proc. 4th Experimental Chaos Conference, (1997) 31-36. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. A. Palacios, G. Gunaratne, M. Gorman, K. Robbins. Cellular pattern formation in circular domains, Chaos 7, no. 3, (1997) 463-475. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. A. Palacios, L. Gross, A. Rockwood. Dynamics and chaos: the spherical pendulum, Comp. Graphics Forum 15, no. 4, (1996) 263-270. ( PDF / Postscript )
  1. A. Palacios, D. Armbruster, E. Kostelich, E. Stone. Analyzing the dynamics of cellular flames, Physica D 60 (1996) 132-161. ( PDF / Postscript )

 

Students


Ph.D. Students
  1. Patrick Longhini
    Computational Science and Engineering Program, May 2005
    Thesis: Emergent Oscillations in Coupled Fluxgate Magnetometer
    (Current Position: Research Scientist at the Space and Naval
    Warfare Center, San Diego).

  2. Bing Zhu
    Computational Science and Engineering Program, May 2008
    Thesis: Dynamics of Gas-Fluid Bubbles
    (Current Position: Research Scientist at San Diego Supercomputer Center)

  3. Scott Gasner
    Computational Science and Engineering Program, June 2006
    Co-chaired with Peter Blomgren
    Thesis: Noise-Induced Cellular Flame Patterns
    (Current Position: Research Associate, Financial Firm)

  4. Huy Vu
    Computational Science Program, Fall 2006 – Present
    Dynamics of Coupled Gyroscopes

  5. John Aven
    Computational Science and Engineering Program, Fall 2009
    Thesis: Effects of Noise on Coupled Sensor Systems
    (Current Position: Research Scientist at the Cielo Institute, NIH).

  6. Joan Manuel Martinez
    Computational Science and Engineering Program, Fall 2006 - Present
    Thesis: Cellular Flame Analysis

  7. Susan Guyler
    Computational Science and Engineering Program, Fall 2009 - Present
    Thesis: SQIF Devices
 
M.S. Students
  1. John Aven
    Nonlinear Dynamics Program/Applied Mathematics, Fall 2006
    Thesis: Advanced Magnetic SQUID Sensors

  2. Scott Gasner              
    Computational Science and Engineering Program, Summer 2004
    Co-chaired with Peter Blomgren
    Thesis: A Novel Algorithm for High-Dimensional Simulations of Cellular Flames

  3. Norbert Renz                           
    Applied Mathematics, Summer 2004
    Thesis: Bifurcation Analysis of Multi-Frequency Rhythms

  4. Kichol Lee                  
    Computational Science and Engineering Program, Spring 2003
    Thesis: Reduced Order Models for Fluidized Beds

  5. Patrick Longhini                     
    Applied Mathematics, Summer 2002
    Thesis: Coupled Cell Systems

  6. Mayra Hernandez
    Applied Mathematics, Summer 2008
    Thesis: Non-homogeneous Coupled Fluxgate Sensors

  7. Susan Guyler
    Applied Mathematics, Fall 2007 - Present
    Thesis: Stochastic Networks of SQUID Sensors

 

Presentations
  • Coupled Cell Systems: A Paradigm for Designing Advanced Magnetic Sensors. International Congress on Industrial And Applied Mathematics. Zurich, Switzerland, 2007.
  • Coupled Cell Systems: A Paradigm for Designing Advanced Magnetic Sensors. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems. Snowbird, Utah, 2007.
  • Self-induced Oscillations in Electronically-Coupled Fluxgate Magnetometers, Florence, ITALY. June 2004.
  • Description of fluidized beds using proper orthogonal decomposition. SIAM
    Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, San Diego, California, USA, 2003.
  • Motorneuron dynamics in the heartbeat of leeches. 7th Experimental Chaos Conference, San Diego, California, USA, August 2002.
  • A. Palacios, Presentation: Modulated Rotating Wave Patterns in Combustion Experiments with Circular Symmetry, SIAM Conference on Numerical Combustion, Sorrento, Italy, April 2002.
  • Symmetry-breaking bifurcations in cellular flame patterns, PIMS-MITACS Workshop on Computational Fuel Cell Dynamics, Vancouver, CANADA, June 2001.
  • A. Palacios, Presentation: Heteroclinic cycles in coupled cell systems, Univ. of California at Irvine Day of Applied Mathematics, Irvine, California, January 2001.
  • A. Palacios, Presentation: Analysis and visualization of symmetry-breaking bifurcations in cellular flame patterns, SIAM Conference on Numerical Combustion, Amelia Island, Florida, March 2000.
  • A. Palacios, G. Gunaratne, M. Gorman, Presentation: Modal decomposition of hopping motion in cellular flame patterns, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird Utah, May 1999.
  • A. Palacios, G. Gunaratne, M. Gorman, K. Robbins, Presentation: A Karhunen-Loève decomposition analysis of low-dimensional dynamics of patterns in cellular flames, Dynamics Days, North Carolina, January 1998.
  • A. Palacios, G. Gunaratne, M. Gorman, K. Robbins, Poster: A Karhunen-Loève analysis of spatiotemporal flame patterns, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird Utah, May 1997.
  • A. Palacios, D. Armbruster, E. Kostelich, E. Stone, Poster: Dynamics of Flames, DOE Applied Mathematics Workshop, Sandia National Laboratory, February 1995