Degrees

Ned Corron

Adjunct Assistant Professor Office: Rm. 238, Bldg. 7804, Redstone Arsenal Phone: 256-876-1860 Email: ned.corron@us.army.mil

Research Areas

• My research interests are centered on the interesting nonlinear dynamics
  of chaotic oscillators.  My interest is motivated by the opportunity
  chaotic oscillators may offer in providing a new class of wide bandwidth
  waveforms for communication, radar, and ladar applications.  As opposed
  to conventional signal generation using explicit modulation of stable
  narrow-band oscillators, chaotic sources are unstable (but controllable
  and synchronizable!) devices that naturally generate very wide bandwidth
  waveforms.  Once viewed as something to be avoided, the inherent
  instability of chaos enables simple devices to generate many complex
  waveforms suitable for high-resolution, unambiguous ranging or
  high-speed data transmission.

  Specific research interests include...

  - Role of symbolic dynamics, information, and entropy in chaotic systems

  - Methods for synchronization and control of nonlinear oscillators

  - Investigation of instances of exactly solvable chaos in switching systems

  - Development and characterization of novel electronic chaotic oscillators

Education

• B.S., Mathematics and Physics, North Central College (1983)

• Ph.D., Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University (1989)