Former Grad Student Earns Postdoctoral Fellowship
October 26, 2012
Former UC Merced graduate student Korana Burke has been selected as one of the two 2012 UC Davis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellows.
Burke's research aims to understand and exploit the chaotic behavior of real-life systems in order to offer novel solutions to long standing problems, according to UC Davis. She is working with UC Davis Professor James P. Crutchfield on developing chaos-based atomic computing that is inherently secure and hack-proof.
Burke was an inaugural graduate student at UC Merced, where she obtained her Ph.D. in physics and chemistry and learned valuable interdisciplinary skills. Her dissertation focused on chaotic transport in phase space with applications to atomic physics. During her graduate career, she developed new mathematical theory for understanding chaotic ionization. She then used the theoretical results to design novel atomic experiments for probing the chaotic nature of the ionization process.
