Edward Ott Distinguished University Professor Joint Academic Appointment: Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics Research Appointment: Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics Mailing Address: Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics A.V. Williams Bldg., Room 3329 University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742-3511

Phone: (301) 405-5033 Email: edott at umd.edu FAX: (301) 405-1678

Edward Ott earned his bachelor's degree from Cooper Union in the field of electrical engineering. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in electrophysics from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. After a postdoctoral year at Cambridge University, he became a professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University. In 1979, Professor Ott became a faculty member of the University of Maryland at College Park.

Professor Ott is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

Professor Ott's research interests include basic theory of chaotic dynamical systems and applications of chaos theory to problems in science and engineering.

Related web pages:
Chaos Group, University of Maryland
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ott Webpage -- Chaos Group