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I do research at Columbia University on problems in geomorphology, biology and ecology.

Using many words:
I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia Earth Institute with ties to Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

I'm a former member of Dan Rothman's group in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and a graduate student in the Applied Math Program in the Mathematics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Curriculum Vitae:
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Resume:
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Press:
New York Times  (Nov 23, 1999)
Physicists invading geologists' turf.
(Requires free registration).

Science  (Jun 4, 1999)
New clues to why size equals destiny.
(Requires online subscription).

Geotimes  (Jun, 1999)
What tangled networks they weave.

MIT News  (Mar 23, 1999)
MIT researcher seeks to unravel the physics of landscape erosion.

Papers:

"Unified view of scaling laws for river networks."
P.S. Dodds and D.H. Rothman.
Phys. Rev. E 59(5), 4865--4877, May 1999.
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[In press]

"Scaling, universality and geomorphology."
P.S. Dodds and D.H. Rothman.
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 28, chapter 18, 571610, 2000.
[ps]   [ps (gzipped)]   [pdf]   [abstract]

[In preparation]

"Reexamining Universal Scaling Laws of Biology."
P.S. Dodds, D.H. Rothman, and J.S. Weitz.

"Packing of growing spheres."
P.S. Dodds and J.S. Weitz.

"A connection between landscape correlations and river network scaling laws."
P.S. Dodds and D.H. Rothman.

"Inertial river networks."
P.S. Dodds and D.H. Rothman.

"Fluctuations in scaling laws for river networks."
P.S. Dodds, R. Pastor-Satorras and D.H. Rothman.

"River networks: a generalization of the Horton and Tokunaga laws."
P.S. Dodds and D.H. Rothman.

"Restricted partitions and the area-displacement distribution for random walks."
P.S. Dodds.

Seminars:

Physical networks: a general study of networks in geomorphology, biology and evolution.

SPAMs, the Simple Person's Applied Math Seminar.

Research Journal:

Here you can download a very rough template of my research journal. It's a LaTeX document and the idea is to put down thoughts, observations and so on every day. Indexes for authors, citations, people, notation and subjects are all incorporated with useful macros. The first full year of journal keeping (1998) turned up 400+ pages of questionable science for the year that, if nothing else, will look good on the shelf.

I will keep updating this and hopefully smooth out the package. Check out the README for the sticky details. At the moment the package won't run through LaTeX without a little coercion.

Oh yeah, I have the page dimensions set to that of B5. You'll probably want to change it. It's just a nice medium-size book metric thing. Right, wrong country. And I had to get the paper cut for me...