Daniel Lathrop
Professor of Physics
and
Director, Institute for Research
in Electronics and Applied Physics
Mailing Address:
Institute for Research in
Electronics and Applied Physics
Energy Research Facility, Room 1201H
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
20742-3511Phone: (301) 405-1594
Email: dpl at complex.umd.edu
FAX: (301) 314-9437
Dr. Lathrop received the B.A. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987, and the Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He joined the University of Maryland in 1997. Dr. Lathrop was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005.
His current research interests include magnetorotational instabillity, turbulent dissipation, magnetoturbulence and dynamos, strongly nonlinear surface waves, ingassing in breaking waves, and chaotic light-scattering.
Related websites:
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory, Sodium Laboratory