EDUCATION

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law/Yeshiva University, New York, NY
J.D., May 1994
Magna Cum Laude
C.J.S. Prize for Excellence in Contracts
Law Review Invitee
Jacob Burns Scholarship - 1992-1994
Alexander Fellow - Spring 1993

University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Ph.D., Physics, August 1983
M.A., Physics, December 1980
University of Texas Fellow, 1979, 1980, 1982
Richard N. Lane Prize in Classical Physics, 1981

State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
B.S., Physics, May 1978
Departmental Honors in Physics

SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE

The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Professor of Physics, 1999-present.
Associate Professor of Physics, 1993-1998.
Assistant Professor of Physics, 1984-1992.
Research in nonlinear dynamics. Developed and marketed physics software andvideotape.
Produced public exhibitions in science and technology.
Peer review for Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters, Physica D, Chaos.
Recipient, Edwin Sharp Burdell Award - The Cooper Union, 1990
Recipient, Menschel Research grant - The Cooper Union, 2000
Member - Academic Standards Committee

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Physics, 1983

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

• "Universal power spectra for the reverse bifurcation sequence" (withJ. Swift), Phys. Lett. 83A, 184, 1981.
• "Impracticality of box-counting algorithms for calculating the dimensionality of strange attractors" (with H.S. Greenside, J. Swift, T. Pignaturo), Phys. Rev. A 25, 3453, 1982.
• "One-dimensional dynamics in a multicomponent chemical reaction" (with R.H. Simoyi, H.L. Swinney), Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 245, 1982.
• "Low-dimensional chaos in a hydrodynamic system" (with A. Brandstater, H.L. Swinney, J.D. Farmer, E. Jen, J.P. Crutchfield), Phys. Rev. Lett. 51,1442, 1983.
• "A strange attractor in a Couette-Taylor experiment" (with A. Brandstater, J. Swift, H.L. Swinney) Turbulence and Chaotic Phenomena in Fluids, ed. T.Tatsumi, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1983.
• "Simplicity and universality in the transition to chaos", Nature,315, 182, 1983.
• "Progress in computing Lyapunov exponents from experimental data"(with J. Swift), Statistical Physics and Chaos in Fusion Plasmas, ed. W.Horton and L. Reichl, Wiley, New York, 1984.
• "Detecting and Quantifying Chaos in Experimental Data", 16mm filmwith sound, University of Texas/Department of Energy production, 1984.
• "Quantifying Chaos with Lyapunov Exponents" textbook chapter in Nonlinear Science: Theory and Applications, Vol. 1, ed. Arun Holden, Manchester University Press, 1986.
• "Computing Lyapunov exponents from experimental data" (with J. Swift,H.L. Swinney, J.A. Vastano), Physica 16D, 285,1985.
• "Intermediate length scale effects in Lyapunov exponent estimation"(with J.A. Vastano), Los Alamos conference on dimensions and entropies, Springer Verlag, 1985.
• "Chaos and the Solar Cycle" (with E. Spiegel), Chaotic Phenomena inAstrophysics - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 497, 1987.
• "Diagnosing Chaos in the Space Circle" (with T. Bessoir), Physica50D, 1991.
• "Electric Field Line Diagrams Don't Work" (with S. Van Hook, E. Weeks), Am. J. Phys. 64(6), 714, 1996.

Admitted to the Southern District of New York, December 30, 2003
Bar # AW8186

Passed April, 2001 exam to practice before the US Patent & TrademarkOffice
Registration Number 48,411.


Adjunct Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1997-present
Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Elements of Law, Science in the Courtroom

Special Master in the Silicone Breast Implant Litigation
Appointed in the New York cases, April 3, 1996 - Judges Baer, Weinstein, Lobis
Appointed in multidistrict litigation 926, May 30, 1996 - Judge Pointer

Honorable Lawrence M. McKenna, Southern District of NY, September 1994-August 1995
Served a one year term as Law Clerk while on academic leave from Cooper Union.

Admitted to the New York Bar, February 6, 1995

Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, Eastern District of NY, Spring 1993
Alexander Fellow - served as a full-time (40 hour/week) legal intern.

          Debevoise & Plimpton, Summer 1993
          Summer Associate - corporate and international tax, mental health law.

• "Shepard's and KeyCite Are Flawed (or Maybe It's You)" (with Lynn Wishart), NYS Bar Ass'n J., September, 2003, p. 24.