Stephen Wiggins

Stephen R. Wiggins
Born	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Residence	Bristol, England
Alma mater	Cornell, Caltech
Known for	Fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in classical mechanics and mechanics applied to atomic systems
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Chemistry, Applied Mathematics
Institutions	University of Bristol
Doctoral advisor	Philip Holmes
Doctoral students	Tasso J. Kaper, Igor Mezić

Stephen Ray Wiggins is an American applied mathematician, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and best known for his contributions in nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory and nonlinear phenomena, influenced heavily by his PhD advisor Philip Holmes, whom he studied under at Cornell University. He is actively working on the advancement of computational applied mathematics at the University of Bristol, where he was the head of the Mathematics Department until 2008. Previously he was a professor at Caltech in Pasadena, California.

Stephen Wiggins contributed in many different areas of mathematical physics from classical dynamical systems point of view.

His book Applied nonlinear dynamical systems and Chaos cited more than 3000 times.

His recent works on chaotic mixing attract considerable interest, with the leading expert in the area, Julio Ottino.

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