May 2013 Come to my session at Snowbird and hear my talk.

May 2013 Congratulations to Binbin Lin and A.J. Prussin, who just passed their Ph.D. defenses! Congratulations also to Shibabrat Naik for passing his preliminary exam!

May 2013 Congratulations to my former student Dr. Phanindra Tallapragada (EM PhD '10), who will join Clemson University as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in Fall 2013!

Apr 2013 We found a new faculty member! Congratulations to James Hanna, currently of U Mass, who will be joining ESM in August 2013.

Dec 2012 New paper on Topological chaos, braiding and bifurcation of almost-cyclic sets published in Chaos (content includes movies under multimedia)

Oct 2012 My former ESM masters student Jeff Twigg is featured in a press release of the Army Research Lab, Army researchers link ground robots for collaborative autonomy

Oct 2012 New paper on Capturing near-Earth asteroids around Earth has appeared in Acta Astronautica

Sep 2012 New paper on A set oriented definition of the finite-time Lyapunov exponents and coherent sets accepted to Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

July 2012 Ross receives 2011-12 Liviu Librescu Prize

July 2012 Tentative schedule of speakers at International Conference on Flow Dynamics (ICFD), September 19-21, 2012 in Sendai, Japan is available here.

June 2012 Ross to participate in Focus Program on Geometry, Mechanics, and Dynamics: the Legacy of Jerry Marsden, my PhD advisor and friend; at the Fields Insititute, Toronto, in July. The abstracts of my talks are here

June 2012 ESM news story on ESM seniors Aleksandr Andreyev, Andy Borum, James Burns, and Peter Wentzel who won the Dan Pletta Award for the best design project and the Howard Sword Award for the best computational design project, for thier report on Capturing Near-Earth Asteroids Using A Binary Exchange Mechanism

June 2012 Ross promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

June 2012 Ross to speak at the International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Beijing, August 19-24

May 2012 New paper on 'Small fluctuations in the recovery of fusaria across consecutive sampling intervals with unmanned aircraft 100 m above ground level'. See journal link

May 2012 Ross is organizing a session on Geometric and probabilistic methods in flow dynamics to be held at the upcoming International Conference on Flow Dynamics (ICFD), September 19-21, 2012 in Sendai, Japan. **LIST OF SESSION SPEAKERS**

May 2012 Congratulations to Asteroid Capture Senior Design team Aleks, Andy, James, and Peter on winning both ESM Senior Project Awards!

May 2012 Ross named a Virginia Tech College of Engineering Faculty Fellow and wins Certificate of Teaching Excellence

April 2012 Near-Earth asteroid retrieval: See our new academic study on Asteroid capture using a binary exchange mechanism, there is also a shorter conference paper version. See videos here: [1], [2], [3]. A captured asteroid could provide additional natural resources to supplement Earth's, and spur a space-based economy beyond the Earth. See an online slide show of the idea.

April 2012 New paper on "Small fluctuations in the recovery of fusaria across consecutive sampling intervals with unmanned aircraft 100 m above ground level" accepted to Aerobiologia

April 2012 Slides from talk at BIRS posted here

March 2012 New MultiSTEPS website launched

February 2012 VT news story on CAREER award. Also at TMC Net with 400,000 unique visitors

January 2012 Ross receives NSF CAREER Award through the Dynamical Systems program. Read the press release.