S.A. Hill, Melissa A. Borla, Jorge V. José, and Donald M. O’Malley.
Neurocomputing 65-66: 61-68 (2005).
As a post-doc at Northeastern University, I collaborated with a Biology group on the motions of larval zebrafish. I played a largely supporting role, constructing a visual simulation of a simple model of the fish’s motion in Tcl/Tk, and contributing several figures to the 2005 paper.
Granular Materials
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Granular clustering in a hydrodynamic simulation
S.A. Hill and G.F. Mazenko.
Physical Review E 67: 061302 (2003).
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Nonlinear hydrodynamical approach to granular materials
S.A. Hill & G.F. Mazenko.
Physical Review E 63: 031303 (2001).
My doctoral research at the University of Chicago involved the study of a hydrodynamic model of granular materials such as sand, which can behave as both a solid or a liquid at various times. The research involved running multi-day calculations in C, analysis of large data files, and generation of the figures shown in the papers, some (e.g. Fig.5–6 in the 2003 paper) generated directly in Postscript.
- Quantum Information Theory
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Entanglement of a pair of quantum bits
Sam A. Hill and William K. Wootters.
Physical Review Letters 78: 5022 (1997).
As an undergraduate, my advisor and I derived a formula for the entanglement of formation of a pair of bits. My part of the task was running gradient descent calculations in Mathematica on multiple computers in the physics lab at night.