Scholarship Focus Areas and 研究 Labs
HEATlab
人类的经验 & Agent Teamwork lab (HEATlab) creates new techniques for human-robot teaming—the flexible navigation and coordination of complex, inter-related activities in shared spaces. Current projects include human-robot trust and planning fluid human-robot interactions.
Don-Labs
The Donnelly laser physics lab studies the interaction of high-intensity laser light with novel microstuctured targets. Topics include laser-driven nuclear fusion and the heating mechanisms which allow laser energy to be absorbed on short timescales by solid-density materials.
蜜蜂实验室
The 蜜蜂实验室 studies how groups of animals evolve to coordinate behavior. 使用数学模型, 基于主体的仿真, computer vision and lab and field experiments with bees and ants, the lab explores how communication shapes collective behavior.
巢穴
The Lab for Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics (巢穴) focuses on multi-robot systems and their applications in the field. 当前的主题包括鲨鱼追踪, 沉船探测和测绘, multi-robot population tracking and pollution mapping.
PoSM实验室
The 物理 of Soft Matter Lab studies the physical principles of soft material deformation. Current projects include green technologies that use soft materials to address our environmental footprint, such as water-processible polymers and the elastodynamics of mechanical batteries.
Tryp实验室
The Schulz Lab uses the African trypanosome as a model system to understand how organisms reprogram themselves in response to changes in their environment. With African trypanosomes being the causative agent of sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle, we aim to understand how the parasites adapt to different environments in the fly and mammalian bloodstream, with an eye toward manipulating this adaption to help fight disease.
布什实验室
The 布什实验室 works within the area of microbial genome evolution and has developed an approach to reconstructing the history of genomic island insertions in clades of closely related microbes. They are currently working on improving various aspects of this method.
电影实验室
The Flow Imaging Lab at Mudd (FILM) experimentally studies biological and bioinspired fluid mechanics, and mechanically recreates swimming behaviors seen in nature to identify new strategies for underwater vehicle propulsion.
Vosburg实验室
The Vosburg lab aims to make molecules in good, beautiful, green, and clever ways. A current example is the formation of seven bonds and two rings in a single operation. Many of our target molecules have medicinal applications.
作曲
Bill Alves is a composer known for his work with computer animation, 电声音乐, 备用调优, 和佳美兰. He has also published on world music traditions and the music of Lou Harrison.
太空实验室
The Analog Circuit 工程 (ACE) lab studies the integration of quantum, mechanical and chemical devices into modern integrated circuits.
Fandell实验室
在范德尔实验室, 我拍照片, 视频, 拼贴画, 雕塑, 听起来, 图纸, 表演和文本作品, and have had the opportunity to exhibit nationally and internationally at diverse venues, from artist run galleries to major museums. I have taken part in residencies in Austria, 爱尔兰, 和美国, and have received awards from the Tiffany Foundation and Artadia.
Mayeri实验室
My process for making art begins with researching a new field. 一个多年的项目, 灵长类动物的电影, I interviewed a bunch of primatologists including Jane Goodall, trained people in Los Angeles to act like baboons, made films for a chimpanzee audience in Scotland, and observed squirrel monkeys at a breeding center in France.
分子工程实验室
分子工程实验室 at Harvey Mudd College designs engineered systems at the molecular level to address emerging challenges in the water crisis and human health at a global scale.