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Christopher M. Danforth Curriculum Vitae
Appointments Flint Professor of Mathematical, Natural, and Technical Sciences, Endowed Chair 2013-presentAssociate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics 2012-presentDirector of the Graduate Program, Department of Mathematics & Statistics 2014-presentCollege of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont Asst. Prof. 2006-2012
Co-Director, Computational Story Lab, Burlington, VTCo-Founder, Hedonometer.orgAssociate Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Burlington, VTSecondary Appointment, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Vermont Advanced Computing Center, Burlington, VTVisiting Associate Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
Mathematics & Climate Research Network Node PI
Contact website: http://uvm.edu/~cdanfort blog: http://compstorylab.org
email: [email protected] twitter: @chrisdanforth
Education University of Maryland, College Park, MarylandPh.D., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation (AMSC) May 2006Advisors: James Yorke & Eugenia Kalnay of US-News & World Report #1 Ranked Chaos Group
M.S., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation December 2004
Bates College, Lewiston, ME. BS, Magna Cum Laude, Honors in Math & Physics May 2001
Consulting The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA. 2009-2011
Recent
Funding
• NSF-DMS grant Collaborative Research: Mathematics and Climate Change Research Network.September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2015, $328,374, 5% academic year effort for UVM-PI Danforth.Established a Virtual Department of Climate Mathematics http://mathclimate.org
• MITRE grant titled Construction of hedonometer.org: An Instrument for Measuring Population-
Level Sentiment in Real Time. January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013. $380,000, 1/8 academicyear + 1.5 summer months effort for Danforth, Joint PI w/Peter Dodds.
• MITRE grant titled The Impact of Hi-Frequency Trading on Financial Market Instability.January 1, 2014 - September 30, 2014, $20,000, 1 week summer effort for PI Danforth.
• DARPA grant titled Continually Plastic Modeling of Non-Stationary Systems.September 1, 2011 - March 31, 2015, $614,830, 1/8 academic year + 1/2 summer month effortfor Co-PI Danforth. PI: Josh Bongard.
• NASA-EPSCoR grant titled Prediction and monitoring of ablation of thermal protective systems
under atmospheric reentry conditions. September 1, 2011 - December 31, 2014, $750,000, 5%academic year effort for Co-PI Danforth. PI: Yves Dubief
• NASA grant NNX-09AR18G titledUVM Complex Systems Center for Informed Decision-Making
and Design. August 1, 2010 - July 31, 2013, $500,000, 1 summer month effort for Co-PI Dan-forth. PI: Peter Dodds
• DOE grant titled Estimating and Mitigating Cascading Risk Failure in Power Systems with
Smart Grid Technology. August 1, 2010 - July 31, 2013, $580,000, 1 summer month effort forCo-PI Danforth. PI: Paul Hines
Publications:
Highlights
English: Google Books
Portuguese: Twitter
Portuguese: Google Web Crawl
Spanish: Twitter
Spanish: Google Books
Spanish: Google Web Crawl
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 20104.5
5
5.5
6
6.5
7
year
Gospel/Soul (6.91)
Pop (6.69)
Reggae (6.40)
Rock (6.27)
Rap/Hip−Hop (6.01)
Punk (5.61)
Metal/Industrial (5.10)
P. S. Dodds, E. ClarkK, S. DesuK, M. R. FrankK, A. ReaganK, J. R. WilliamsK, L. Mitchell†, K. D.HarrisK, I. M. KloumannK, J. P. Bagrow, K. Megerdoomian, M. T. McMahon, B. F. Tivnan,C. M. Danforth.Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015.
L. Mitchell†, K. D. HarrisK, M. R. FrankK, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter sentiment and expression, demographics, and ob-
jective characteristics of place.PLoS ONE. 8(5): e64417. 2013.
P.S. Dodds, K.D. HarrisK, I.M. Kloumann#, C.A. BlissK, C.M. Danforth.Temporal Patterns of Happiness in a Global-Scale Social Network: Hedonometrics & Twitter .PLoS ONE 6(12): e26752. 2011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026752
P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Measuring the Happiness of Large-Scale Written Expression: Songs, Blogs, and Presidents.Journal of Happiness Studies. 2009. doi:10.1007/s10902-009-9150-9
C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi.Estimating and Correcting Global Weather Model Error .Monthly Weather Review, 135, No. 2, 281299 (2007).
In Review
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59. P. S. Dodds, D. Dewhurst#, F. F. Hazelhurst#, C. Van Oort#, L. Mitchell, A. J. ReaganK, J. R.Williams, C. M. Danforth. 2016.Simons fundamental rich-gets-richer model entails a dominant first-mover advantage.
58. A. G. Reece, A. J. ReaganK, K. L. M. Lix, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth, E. J. Langer. 2016.Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data.
57. A. G. Reece, C. M. Danforth. 2016.Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression.
56. E. CodyK, A. J. ReaganK, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth. 2016.Public Opinion Polling with Twitter .
55. A. J. ReaganK, L. Mitchell†, D. KileyK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2016.The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes.
54. R. GallagherK, A. J. ReaganK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2016. Divergent Discourse Between
Protests and Counter-Protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter .
53. M. IbrahimK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2016.Connecting every bit of knowledge: The structure of Wikipedia’s First Link Network .
52. A. J. ReaganK, B. Tivnan, J. R. WilliamsK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2016.Benchmarking sentiment analysis methods for large-scale texts: A case for using continuum-scored
words and word shift graphs.
51. J. R. WilliamsK, J. P. Bagrow, A. J. ReaganK, S. E. AlajajianK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Zipfs law is a consequence of coherent language production. 2016.
50. N. A. Allgaier K, J. Bongard, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth, H. Garavan et al. 2016.Data-driven Functional Mapping of the Human Brain.
49. S. E. AlajajianK, J. R. WilliamsK, A. J. ReaganK, S. C. Alajajian, M. R. FrankK, L. Mitchell†,J. LahneK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2016.The Lexicocalorimeter: Gauging public health through caloric input and output on social media.
48. M. R. FrankK, J. R. WilliamsK, L. Mitchell†, J. P. Bagrow, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth. 2016.Constructing a taxonomy of fine-grained human movement and activity motifs through social media.
47. E. A. PechenickK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2016.Is language evolution grinding to a halt? Exploring the life and death of words in English fiction.
46. J. P. Bagrow, S. DesuK, M. R. FrankK, N. ManukyanK, L. Mitchell†, A. ReaganK, E. E. Bloedorn,L. B. Booker, L. K. Branting, M. J. Smith, B. F. Tivnan, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds, J. C. Bongard.Shadow networks: Discovering hidden nodes with models of information flow. 2016.
# Undergraduate Student K Graduate Student † Postdoc Updated Aug 2016
Publications:
Continued
English: Google Books
Portuguese: Twitter
Portuguese: Google Web Crawl
Spanish: Twitter
Spanish: Google Books
Spanish: Google Web Crawl
45. T. C. McAndrewK, J. C. Bongard, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds, P. D. H. Hines., J. P. Bagrow.What we write about when we write about causality: Features of causal statements across large-scale
social discourse.2016 IEEE/ACM Int Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis & Mining.
44. D. P. KileyK, A. J. ReaganK, L. Mitchell, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.The game story space of professional sports: Australian Rules Football .Physical Review E. 2016.
43. P. S. Dodds, L. Mitchell†, A. J. ReaganK, C. M. Danforth.Tracking Climate Change through the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Teletherms, the Statistically
Hottest and Coldest Days of the Year.
PLoS ONE. 2016.
42. E. ClarkK, C. A. Jones, J. R. WilliamsK, A. N. Kurti, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Vaporous Marketing: Uncovering Pervasive Electronic Cigarette Advertisements on Twitter .PLoS ONE. 2016.
41. E. ClarkK, J.R. WilliamsK, R.A. Galbraith, C.A. Jones, C.M. Danforth, P.S. Dodds.Sifting Robotic from Organic Text,
A Natural Language Approach for Detecting Automation on Twitter
Journal of Computational Science. 2016.
40. E. CodyK, J. P. Bagrow, P. S. Dodds, J. Stephens, C. M. Danforth.Transitions in climate change awareness between Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 2016.
39. A. J. ReaganK, Y. Dubief, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Predicting Flow Reversals in a Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulated Thermosyphon using Data
Assimilation. PLoS ONE. 2016.
38. E. A. PechenickK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Characterizing the Google Books corpus: Strong limits to inferences of socio-cultural & linguistic
evolution. PLoS ONE. 2015.
37. W. F. Louisos, D. L. Hitt, C. M. Danforth. 2015.Chaotic Natural Convection in a Toroidal Thermosyphon with Heat Flux Boundaries .International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer. Vol 88, pg. 492-507.
36. E. CodyK, A. J. ReaganK, L. Mitchell†, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Climate Change sentiment on Twitter: An unsolicited public opinion poll.
PLoS ONE. 2015.
35. J. R. WilliamsK, E. ClarkK, J. P. Bagrow, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2015.Identifying missing dictionary entries with frequency-conserving context models.
Physical Review E. 2016.
34. J. R. WilliamsK, S. DesuK, E. ClarkK, P. R. LessardK, J. P. Bagrow, C. M. Danforth, P. S.Dodds. Zipfs law holds for phrases, not words.
Scientific Reports. 2015.
33. J. R. WilliamsK, J. P. Bagrow, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Text mixing shapes the anatomy of rank-frequency distributions:
A modern Zipfian mechanics for natural language. Physical Review E. 2015.
32. T. C. McAndrewK, C. M. Danforth, J. P. Bagrow. 2015.Robustness of Spatial Micronetworks.
Physical Review E.
31. P. S. Dodds, E. ClarkK, S. DesuK, M. R. FrankK, A. ReaganK, J. R. WilliamsK, L. Mitchell†, K.D. HarrisK, I. M. KloumannK, J. P. Bagrow, K. Megerdoomian, M. T. McMahon, B. F. Tivnan,C. M. Danforth.Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015.
# Undergraduate Student K Graduate Student † Postdoc
Publications:
Continued
30. M. R. FrankK, L. Mitchell†, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Standing Swells Surveyed Showing Surprisingly Stable Solutions for the Lorenz ’96 Model
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. Vol. 24, No. 10. 2014.
29. C. A. BlissK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Estimation of Global Network Statistics from Incomplete Data.
PLoS ONE. 2014.
28. O. MyersK, J. Wu, J. S. Marshall, C. M. Danforth.Computational Studies of Multiple-particle Nonlinear Dynamics in a Spatio-Temporally Periodic
Potential.
Journal of Applied Physics. Vol. 115, 244908. 2014.
27. C. A. BlissK, M. R. FrankK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Link Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks.
Journal of Computational Science. 2014.
26. M. R. FrankK, L. Mitchell†, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Happiness and the Patterns of Life: A Study of Geolocated Tweets .Scientific Reports 2013. Vol. 3, No: 2625, doi:10.1038/srep02625.
25. K. D. HarrisK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Dynamics of influence processes on networks: Complete mean-field theory; the roles of response
functions, connectivity, and synchrony; and applications to social contagion.
Physical Review E. 2013.
24. L. Mitchell†, K. D. HarrisK, M. R. FrankK, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter sentiment and expression, demographics, and
objective characteristics of place.PLoS ONE. 8(5): e64417. 2013.
23. P. S. Dodds, K. D. HarrisK, C. M. Danforth.Limited Imitation Contagion on Random Networks: Chaos, Universality, and Unpredictability .Physical Review Letters. 110, 158701. 2013.
22. W. F. Louisos, D. L. Hitt, C. M. Danforth.Chaotic Flow in a 2D Natural Convection Loop with Heat Flux Boundaries.International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer.Vol. 61, June 2013, Pages 565-576.
21. J. Molofsky, C. M. Danforth, E. E. Crone.Nutrient Enrichment Alters Weedy Plant Population Dynamics.Population Ecology. 2013.
20. E. Cotilla-SanchezK, P. Hines, C. M. Danforth.Estimating Distance to Critical Transitions from Time-series Synchrophasor Data.IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 2012.
19. C. A. BlissK, I. M. Kloumann#, K. D. HarrisK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Twitter Reciprocal Reply Networks Exhibit Assortativity with respect to Happiness.Journal of Computational Science. 3, No 5, Pg. 388 - 397, 2012.
18. K. D. HarrisK, E.-H. Ridouane†, D. L. Hitt, C. M. Danforth.Predicting Flow Reversals in Chaotic Natural Convection using Data Assimilation.Tellus A 2012, 64, 17598.
17. C. M. Danforth, T. Orfeo, S.J. Everse, K.G. Mann, K. Brummel-Ziedins.Defining the Boundaries of Normal Thrombin Generation: Investigations into Hemostasis.PLoS ONE 7(2): e30385. 2012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030385
16. N. AllgaierK, K. D. HarrisK, C. M. Danforth.Empirical Correction of a Toy Climate Model .Physical Review E. 85, 026201. 2012.
# Undergraduate Student K Graduate Student † Postdoc
Publications:
Continued
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 20104.5
5
5.5
6
6.5
7
year
Gospel/Soul (6.91)
Pop (6.69)
Reggae (6.40)
Rock (6.27)
Rap/Hip−Hop (6.01)
Punk (5.61)
Metal/Industrial (5.10)
15. R. Lieb-LappenK, C. M. Danforth.Aggressive Shadowing of a Low-Dimensional Model of Atmospheric Dynamics.Physica D. Volume 241, Issue 6, 637-648. 2012.
14. I. M. Kloumann#, C. M. Danforth, K. D. HarrisK, C. A. BlissK, P. S. Dodds.Positivity of the English Language.PLoS ONE 7(1): e29484. 2012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029484
13. P.S. Dodds, K.D. HarrisK, I.M. Kloumann#, C.A. BlissK, C.M. Danforth.Temporal Patterns of Happiness in a Global-Scale Social Network: Hedonometrics & Twitter .PLoS ONE 6(12): e26752. 2011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026752
12. E.-H. Ridouane†, C. M. Danforth, D. L. Hitt.A Numerical Investigation of 3-D Flow Regimes in a Toroidal Natural Convection Loop.Int Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer. 2011.
11. W. Hayes, A. MalykhK, C. M. Danforth.The Interplay of Chaos between the Terrestrial and Giant Planets.Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2010.
10. E.-H. Ridouane†, C. M. Danforth, D. L. Hitt.A 2-D Numerical Study Of Chaotic Flow In a Natural Convection Loop.Int Jrn Heat & Mass Transfer. 2009. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.10.003
9. H. Li, E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi, C. M. Danforth.Accounting for Model Errors in Ensemble Data Assimilation.Monthly Weather Review. 137, No. 10, 3407-3419 (2009) doi:10.1175/2009MWR2766.1
8. J. Yu, L. K. Gross, C. M. Danforth.Complex Dynamic Behavior During Transition in a Solid Combustion Model .Complexity.14, No. 6. 2009.
7. P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Measuring the Happiness of Large-Scale Written Expression: Songs, Blogs, and Presidents.Journal of Happiness Studies. 2009. doi:10.1007/s10902-009-9150-9
6. K. L. Morrow#, T. Rowland, C. M. Danforth.Dynamic Structure of Networks Updated According to Simple, Local Rules .Physical Review E. 80, 016103. 2009.
5. C. M. Danforth, T. Orfeo, K.G. Mann, K. Brummel-Ziedins, S.J. Everse.The Impact of Uncertainty in a Blood Coagulation Model .Mathematical Medicine & Biology. 2009. doi:10.1093/imammb/dqp011
4. C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay.Impact of Empirical Model Correction on Nonlinear Error Growth.Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L24805. 2008.
3. C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay.Using Singular Value Decomposition to Parameterize State-Dependent Model Errors.Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, No. 4, 1467-1478 (2008).
2. C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi.Estimating and Correcting Global Weather Model Error .Monthly Weather Review, 135, No. 2, 281299 (2007).
1. C. M. Danforth, J. A. Yorke.Making Forecasts for Chaotic Physical Processes.Physical Review Letters, 96, 144102 (2006).
# Undergraduate Student K Graduate Student † Postdoc
Research
Students:
Current
Degree Student Degree Student
PhD Andy Reagan*@ MS Ryan Gallagher*PhD Eric Clark*$ MS Chris Fusting*PhD Aaron Schwartz*! MS David Dewhurst*
MS Colin Van Oort*
Former
Degree Student Year Current Employment
Postdoc Lewis Mitchell* 2014 Lecturer at University of AdelaidePostdoc El Hassan Ridouane & 2011 United Technologies Research CenterPhD Emily Cody* (IGERT) 2016 Software Engineer at AdobePhD Tom McAndrew*% (IGERT) 2016 Sr Biostatistician, Cardiovascular Research FoundationPhD Jake Williams* 2015 Information Sciences Faculty at DrexelPhD Catherine Bliss* 2014 Lecturer at UVMPhD Nicholas Allgaier*+△ 2014 Postdoc at UVMPhD Eitan Pechenick* 2015 Smart guy, hire him!MS Dilan Kiley* 2016 Data Scientist at Chobanian GroupMS Sharon Alajajian* 2015 Research Scientist at U of PennsylvaniaMS Morgan Frank* 2014 PhD student at MITMS Mike Foley*# 2014 PhD student at NortheasternMS Kayla Horak* 2014 Statistician, Forest Products LabMS Kameron D. Harris* 2012 PhD student at WashingtonMS Ross Lieb-Lappen 2011 PhD student at DartmouthMS Dan Brown 2008 Actuary at Prudential FinancialUG Suma Desu* 2013 Data Scientist at AppleUG Darcy Glenn & 2013 MS student at Univ College LondonUG Ashley McKhann 2012 MS student at HarvardUG Isabel Kloumann* 2010 PhD Cornell, Data Scientist FacebookUG Kate Morrow* 2008 Engineering manager at New Relic
Jointly advised with:Peter Dodds * Josh Bongard +
Brian Tivnan #, James Bagrow %Taylor Ricketts !, Yves Dubief @
Darren Hitt &, Chris Jones $Hugh Garavan △
Blog Computational Story Lab research blog received more than 100,000 unique visitors in 2013.
Invited
Essays
Chaos in an Atmosphere Hanging on a WallMathematics of Planet Earth, 2013.
Cascading Failures: Extreme Properties of Large Blackouts in the Electric GridMath Awareness Month 2011, Complexity Essay, with Paul Hines
Chaotic Convection in a Toy ClimateMath Awareness Month 2009, Climate Change Essay.
Recent
Invited
Lectures
Limits to Socio-Cultural Inference, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, 2016.3.1416 Hey, It’s π Day , Vermont Edition, Vermont Public Radio, 2016.Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations, MIT Media Lab, 2015.Invocation, UVM College of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Graduation Ceremony, 2014.
Improving Numerical Weather Predictions using Ideas from Nonlinear Dynamics,· University of Chicago, Scientific & Statistical Computing Seminar, 2013.· Invited Address, MAA MATHFEST, Hartford, CT 2013.· SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT 2013.
Taming Atmospheric Chaos with Big Data, UVM TEDx 2011, Big Data: Big Stories.
The Hedonometer: A Remote-Sensor of Population-Level Happiness,· University of Montreal, CRM, Grande Conference Publique, invited public lecture, 2014.· BYU, Mathematics Colloquium, 2014.· Northwestern University, Network Frontiers Workshop, invited evening talk, 2013.· University of Chicago, Computations in Science Seminar, 2013.· Dartmouth College, SIAM Chapter Lecture, 2012.· Clarkson University, 2012, · Bates College, Lewiston, ME, 2009.· ECHO Cafe Scientifique, Burlington, VT 2011.· Language and Technology Linguistics Symposium, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 2012.
Forecasting Chaotic Physical Systems
· NCAR Mathematics & Climate Summer School, Boulder, CO, 2010.· Dartmouth College, Mathematics Colloquium, Hanover, NH, 2009.· Cornell University, Institute for Computational Sustainability, Math & Climate, 2009.· UC Berkeley Climate Change Summer School, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, 2008.
Selected Press According to the Words, the News Is Actually Good
New York Times. February 23, 2015.
If you’re happy and you know it, write a tweet
NPR. February 10, 2015.
Languages Are Mostly Made of Happy Words
The Atlantic. February 11, 2015.
Tweets may show way to saddest city in the U.S.
CBS News. May 30, 2013.
Where are the Happiest Tweeters?
Wall Street Journal. May 30, 2013.
Amy Drinks in Napa
The Ellen Degeneres Show. February 28, 2013.
Happiest Cities on Twitter
NBC’s Today Show. February 21, 2013.
Can a Computer Measure Your Happiness?
National Geographic. February 20, 2013.
Study of the Day:
English Is an Overwhelmingly Positive Language
The Atlantic. January 23, 2012.
The Sentiments of Cities
Wired Magazine. January 5, 2012.
Is Twitter a valid tool for measuring happiness?
Boston Globe. December 22, 2011.
Science Proves Twitter Really Has
Become More Sad Since 2009
Time Magazine, December 22, 2011.
Happy Words Trump Negativity
in the English Language
Wired Science, August 30, 2011.
Social Science for Pennies
Science Magazine. October 21, 2011.
Lexicon: Hedonometer
Time Magazine. August 24, 2009.
Using Twitter as a Collective Mood Ring
New York Times. August 11, 2009.
Blogs: Happiness Barometers?
Science Magazine. August 7, 2009.
Does a Nation’s Mood Lurk
in its Songs and Blogs?
New York Times. August 3, 2009.
How Happy is the Internet?
Science Magazine. August 3, 2009.
The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling,
as Identified by an A.I.
The Atlantic. July 12, 2016.
Seinfeld, Big Data & Measuring the
Internet’s Emotional Landscape
PBS Mediashift. March 16, 2015.
Spanish is the happiest language
Science Magazine. February 9, 2015.
Tomorrow’s cities:
How big data is changing the world .BBC News. August 27, 2013.
Study: geotagged tweets show
we’re happiest further from home
Wired Magazine. April 12, 2013.
Twitter study: Happiness rises
the further you travel
BBC News. April 11, 2013.
New Study Uses Tweets To
Rank Americas Happiest Cities, States
Time Magazine. February 25, 2013.
The Geography of Happiness.The Atlantic. February 19, 2013.
Langlais, une langue optimiste?
Le Monde. January 18, 2012.
Measuring Happiness Tweet by Tweet
National Geographic. December 29, 2011.
Is Happiness Declining? Twitter Analysis Says It Is
ABC News, December 21, 2011.
Trending: Tweets show global happiness down
USA Today, December 21, 2011.
The Design of Science: 10 Great Research Graphics
Wired Magazine. December 13, 2011.
Social Scientists Wade Into The Tweet Stream.Science Magazine, September 30, 2011.
How do we Find Life’s Benchmark?
CNN, August 24, 2009.
Hedonometer: Schotts Vocab Blog .New York Times. August 12, 2009.
Pop Music & Blogs as Indicators of Gross National Happiness
Discover Magazine, August 4, 2009.
Taking the Pulse of Twitter
Wired Magazine, August 3, 2009.
Courses
Taught
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Term Course # UG GR Q6* Q14+
S ’09 Fundamentals of Calculus 19 35 0 4.41 3.50F ’09 Linear Algebra 124 33 0 4.86 3.55F ’10 Linear Algebra 124 33 0 4.74 3.78F ’11 Linear Algebra 124 37 0 4.76 3.55S ’14 Linear Algebra 124 48 0 4.89 3.60F ’14 Linear Algebra 124 47 1 4.83 3.86F ’06 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 22 5 4.59 3.71S ’07 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 13 2 4.73 4.00F ’08 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 20 12 4.74 4.20F ’09 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 20 11 4.83 3.83F ’10 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 28 6 4.52 3.90F ’11 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 31 9 4.80 4.20F ’13 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 21 7 4.74 3.63S ’07 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 14 1 4.82 4.00S ’08 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 23 2 4.79 4.11S ’09 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 16 11 4.83 4.22S ’10 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 31 6 4.62 4.62S ’11 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 24 8 4.83 4.39S ’13 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 24 9 4.44 4.40S ’14 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 18 10 5.00 4.37S ’15 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 24 10 4.91 4.65S ’16 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 30 7 4.71 4.83F ’15 Graduate Ordinary Differential Equations 330 2 4 5.00 3.50S ’16 Graduate Seminar 382 4 11 4.50 3.58
*Question 6: Overall rating of instructor (5-excellent)+Question 14: Rate the difficulty of the course (5-very difficult)
Governor’s Institute of VermontWeek long courses on chaos, synchronization, modeling human behavior. Summer 2008-13, 16
Honors and
Awards
Flint Professor of Mathematical, Natural, and Technical Science, Endowed Chair 2013-presentNASA Goddard Space Flight Center ESSIC Graduate Research Fellowship 2002-2006Spotlight on Graduate Research, First Prize, U of Maryland 2003Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Pi Mu Epsilon 2001
Service Examination Committees University Committees
10 PhD Thesis Complex Systems Transdisciplinary Research Initiative10 Masters Thesis Institute for the Environment University-Wide Task Committee15 Undergraduate honors thesis Mathematics Graduate Program
Referee for academic journals:
Geophysical Research Letters Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesMonthly Weather Review Physica DTellus Proceedings of the Royal Society ANature Scientific Reports Cognition & EmotionChaos Climate DynamicsDigital Scholarship in the Humanities
Miscellaneous:· PLoS ONE Editorial Board, Proposal review panelist for NSF, NASA.· Captain of nationally ranked men’s tennis team, Bates College, 2000/2001.
Workshops Network Frontier Workshop Northwestern, 2013.Power Grids as Complex Networks Santa Fe Institute, 2012.Data Assimilation and Climate Research NCAR, 2010.The Mathematics of Terrorism Santa Fe Institute, 2009.Connecting Weather and Climate in Theory, Models, & Observations NCAR, 2009.Small Scales and Extreme Events: The Hurricane IPAM, UCLA, 2007.
