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Michael P. Marder is the Executive Director of UTeach and the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Director of UTeach-Natural Sciences, a program focused on the preparation of secondary math and science teachers. With a distinguished career, Marder has made significant contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics and has been recognized for his internationally known experiments in chaos and pattern formation. He has engaged in a variety of theoretical, numerical, and experimental investigations, including studies on plasticity, phase transformations, and the physics of granular materials like sand ripples on the sea floor. Marder specializes in the mechanics of solids, particularly in the fracture of brittle materials. He has developed numerical methods that allow for the computation of fracture at atomic scales and has applied these methods to study the production of natural gas from hydrofractured shale. Additionally, he has authored two textbooks: a graduate text on Condensed Matter Physics and an undergraduate text on Research Methods in Science.
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