Education

B.S., Physics, Georgia Instutite of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1997
Ph.D., Physics, Georgia Instutite of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2003
FIRST Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physiology, Emory University School of Medicine, 2004-2006.

Research Statement

Barbara Breen joined the department of physics in the fall of 2006 as the Clare Boothe Luce professor. Her research interests are computational physics and biophysics.

Recent Publications

Lindner, J.F., Patton, K.M., Odenthal, P.M., Gallagher, J.C., Breen, B.J. (2008) Experimental observation of soliton propagation and annihilation in a hydromechanical array of one-way coupled oscillators. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 78(6 Pt 2):066604. Epub 2008 Dec 12.

Breen, B.J., Weidert, C.E., Lindner, J.F., Walker, L.M.,  Kelly, K., and Heidtmann, E. (2008) Invitation to embarrassingly parallel computing. Am. J. Phys. 76:347-352.

Breen, B.J., Gerken, W.C., Butera, R.J. Jr. (2003) Hybrid integrate-and-fire model of a bursting neuron. Neural Comput.15(12):2843-62.

Lindner, J.F., Breen, B.J., Wills, M.E., Bulsara, A.R., Ditto, W.L. (2001) Monostable array-enhanced stochastic resonance. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 63(5 Pt 1):051107.

Lindner, J.F., Mason, J., Neff, J., Breen, B.J., Ditto, W.L, Bulsara, A.R. (2001) Noninvasive control of stochastic resonance. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 63(4 Pt 1):041107.

University of Portland
Department of Physics
5000 N. Willamette Boulevard
Portland, OR 97203-5798
Tel: 503.943.7263
Email: breen@up.edu
Link: http://college.up.edu/physics/default.aspx?cid=5946&pid=914