John Rundle
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles (1976)
Interdisciplinary Professor of Physics, Civil Engineering and Geology; Director, Center for Computational Science and Engineering

Research is focused on understanding the dynamics of earthquakes through numerical simulations; pattern analysis of complex systems; dynamics of driven nonlinear Earth systems; and adaptation in general complex systems.

Computational science and engineering is an emerging method of discovery in science and engineering that is distinct from, and complementary to, the two more traditional methods of experiment/observation and theory. The emphasis in this method is upon using the computer as a numerical laboratory to perform computational simulations to gain insight into the behavior of complex dynamical systems, to visualize complex and voluminous data sets, to perform data mining to discover hidden information within large data sets, and to assimilate data into computational simulations.

http://cse.ucdavis.edu/directory/rundle
rundle@geology.ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-6416

UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences