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Christopher M. Danforth Curriculum Vitae Appointments Flint Professor of Mathematical, Natural, and Technical Sciences, Endowed Chair 2013-present Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics 2012-present Director of the Graduate Program, Department of Mathematics & Statistics 2014-present College of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont Asst. Prof. 2006-2012 Co-Director, Computational Story Lab, Burlington, VT Co-Founder, Hedonometer.org Associate Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Burlington, VT Secondary Appointment, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont Visiting Faculty Fellow, Vermont Advanced Computing Center, Burlington, VT Visiting Associate Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland Mathematics & Climate Research Network Node PI Contact website: http://uvm.edu/ ~ cdanfort blog: http://compstorylab.org email: [email protected] twitter: @chrisdanforth Education University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation (AMSC) May 2006 Advisors: James Yorke & Eugenia Kalnay M.S., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation December 2004 Bates College, Lewiston, ME. BS, Magna Cum Laude, Honors in Math & Physics May 2001 Consulting The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA. 2009-2011 Quokka Labs, Burlington, VT. 2015- Social Sentinel, Burlington, VT. 2017- Recent Funding • MassMutual pilot partnership in support of our new MS & PhD in Complex Systems & Data Science, 2017-2018, $500,000. • NSF-DMS grant Collaborative Research: Mathematics and Climate Change Research Network. September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2015, $328,374, 5% academic year effort for UVM-PI Danforth. Established a Virtual Department of Climate Mathematics http://mathclimate.org • MITRE grant titled Construction of hedonometer.org: An Instrument for Measuring Population- Level Sentiment in Real Time. January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013. $380,000, 1/8 academic year + 1.5 summer months effort for Danforth, Joint PI w/Peter Dodds. • DARPA grant titled Continually Plastic Modeling of Non-Stationary Systems. September 1, 2011 - March 31, 2015, $614,830, 1/8 academic year + 1/2 summer month effort for Co-PI Danforth. PI: Josh Bongard. • NASA grant NNX-09AR18G titled UVM Complex Systems Center for Informed Decision-Making and Design. August 1, 2010 - July 31, 2013, $500,000, 1 summer month effort for Co-PI Dan- forth. PI: Peter Dodds • DOE grant titled Estimating and Mitigating Cascading Risk Failure in Power Systems with Smart Grid Technology. August 1, 2010 - July 31, 2013, $580,000, 1 summer month effort for Co-PI Danforth. PI: Paul Hines Publications: Citations My co-authors and I have published 56 studies. An additional 7 are in review, and 6 are in preparation for a total of 69. According to Google Scholar I have a total of 2575 citations and my h-index is 24. Updated August 2018
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Christopher M. Danforth Curriculum Vitae
Appointments Flint Professor of Mathematical, Natural, and Technical Sciences, Endowed Chair 2013-presentAssociate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics 2012-presentDirector of the Graduate Program, Department of Mathematics & Statistics 2014-presentCollege of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont Asst. Prof. 2006-2012
Co-Director, Computational Story Lab, Burlington, VTCo-Founder, Hedonometer.orgAssociate Director, Vermont Complex Systems Center, Burlington, VTSecondary Appointment, Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Vermont Advanced Computing Center, Burlington, VTVisiting Associate Scientist, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland
Mathematics & Climate Research Network Node PI
Contact website: http://uvm.edu/~cdanfort blog: http://compstorylab.org
email: [email protected] twitter: @chrisdanforth
Education University of Maryland, College Park, MarylandPh.D., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation (AMSC) May 2006Advisors: James Yorke & Eugenia Kalnay
M.S., Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation December 2004
Bates College, Lewiston, ME. BS, Magna Cum Laude, Honors in Math & Physics May 2001
Consulting The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA. 2009-2011Quokka Labs, Burlington, VT. 2015-Social Sentinel, Burlington, VT. 2017-
Recent
Funding
• MassMutual pilot partnership in support of our new MS & PhD in Complex Systems & DataScience, 2017-2018, $500,000.
• NSF-DMS grant Collaborative Research: Mathematics and Climate Change Research Network.September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2015, $328,374, 5% academic year effort for UVM-PI Danforth.Established a Virtual Department of Climate Mathematics http://mathclimate.org
• MITRE grant titled Construction of hedonometer.org: An Instrument for Measuring Population-
Level Sentiment in Real Time. January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013. $380,000, 1/8 academicyear + 1.5 summer months effort for Danforth, Joint PI w/Peter Dodds.
• DARPA grant titled Continually Plastic Modeling of Non-Stationary Systems.September 1, 2011 - March 31, 2015, $614,830, 1/8 academic year + 1/2 summer month effortfor Co-PI Danforth. PI: Josh Bongard.
• NASA grant NNX-09AR18G titledUVM Complex Systems Center for Informed Decision-Making
and Design. August 1, 2010 - July 31, 2013, $500,000, 1 summer month effort for Co-PI Dan-forth. PI: Peter Dodds
• DOE grant titled Estimating and Mitigating Cascading Risk Failure in Power Systems with
Smart Grid Technology. August 1, 2010 - July 31, 2013, $580,000, 1 summer month effort forCo-PI Danforth. PI: Paul Hines
Publications:Citations
My co-authors and I have published 56 studies.An additional 7 are in review, and 6 are in preparation for a total of 69.According to Google ScholarI have a total of 2575 citations and my h-index is 24.
Updated August 2018
Publications:Highlights
English: Google Books
Portuguese: Twitter
Portuguese: Google Web Crawl
Spanish: Twitter
Spanish: Google Books
Spanish: Google Web Crawl
1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 20104.5
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Gospel/Soul (6.91)
Pop (6.69)
Reggae (6.40)
Rock (6.27)
Rap/Hip−Hop (6.01)
Punk (5.61)
Metal/Industrial (5.10)
A. G. Reece, C. M. Danforth.Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression.EPJ Data Science. 2017.Among top 20 most discussed studies in 2017 (out of 2M), as measured by Altmetric.
P. S. Dodds, E. ClarkK, S. DesuK, M. R. FrankK, A. ReaganK, J. R. WilliamsK, L. Mitchell†, K. D.HarrisK, I. M. KloumannK, J. P. Bagrow, K. Megerdoomian, M. T. McMahon, B. F. Tivnan,C. M. Danforth. Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015.
L. Mitchell†, K. D. HarrisK, M. R. FrankK, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter sentiment and expression, demographics, and ob-
jective characteristics of place.PLoS ONE. 8(5): e64417. 2013.
P.S. Dodds, K.D. HarrisK, I.M. Kloumann#, C.A. BlissK, C. M. Danforth.Temporal Patterns of Happiness in a Global-Scale Social Network: Hedonometrics & Twitter .PLoS ONE 6(12): e26752. 2011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026752
P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Measuring the Happiness of Large-Scale Written Expression: Songs, Blogs, and Presidents.Journal of Happiness Studies. 2009. doi:10.1007/s10902-009-9150-9
C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi.Estimating and Correcting Global Weather Model Error .Monthly Weather Review, 135, No. 2, 281299 (2007).
Publications:In Preparation
69. D. Dewhurst, M. Arnold, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2018.A universal equipartitioning principle. In preparation.
68. F. Hazlehurst, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2018.The growth and evolution of the meaning space spanned by the English language over the last thousand
years. In preparation.
67. C. M. Danforth, I. Desjardins, W. Cats-Baril, E. M. Clark, R. Gallagher, S. Hodson, P. S.Dodds. 2018. A ground truth social media dataset for individuals who have died by suicide.
In preparation.
66. A. Schwartz, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds, T. Ricketts. 2018.Exposure to urban parks improves affect and reduces negativity on Twitter.
In Review.
65. M. Niles, A. J. Reagan, B. Emery, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2018.During natural disasters, average individuals increase tweet output substantially more than highly
connected users, reflecting an ideal mechanism for social contagion.
In Review.
64. M. Seib, B. Emery, A. Fugere, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2018.Emojropy: An information theoretic approach to investigating Emojis on Twitter.
In preparation.
63. E. M. Clark, T. James, C. A. Jones, A. Alapati, P. Ukandu, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.A Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Treatment Experiences and Healthcare Perceptions Across
Twitter. In review. 2018.
62. T. Gray, A. J. Reagan, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth. 2018.English Verb Regularization in Books and Tweets,
In review.
61. J. P. Bagrow, C. M. Danforth, L. Mitchell. 2018.Which friends are more popular than you?
Contact strength and the friendship paradox in social networks.
In review.
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60. E. CodyK, A. J. ReaganK, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth. 2018.Public Opinion Polling with Twitter .In review.
59. J. R. WilliamsK, J. P. Bagrow, A. J. ReaganK, S. E. AlajajianK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Zipfs law is a consequence of coherent language production. 2018.In review.
58. R. GallagherK, A. J. ReaganK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Divergent Discourse Between Protests and Counter-Protests: #BlackLivesMatter & #AllLivesMatter .PLoS ONE. 13(4): e0195644. 2018.
57. N. A. Allgaier K, J. Bongard, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth, H. Garavan et al. 2017.Data-driven Functional Mapping of the Human Brain.
56. M. R. FrankK, J. R. WilliamsK, L. Mitchell†, J. P. Bagrow, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth. 2017.Constructing a taxonomy of fine-grained human movement and activity motifs through social media.
55. D. R. Dewhurst, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Continuum rich-get-richer processes: Mean field analysis with an application to firm size.
Physical Review E. 2018.
54. A. J. ReaganK, B. Tivnan, J. R. WilliamsK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Sentiment analysis methods for understanding large-scale texts:
a case for using continuum-scored words and word shift graphs.EPJ Data Science. 2017.
53. A. G. Reece, A. J. ReaganK, K. L. M. Lix, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth, E. J. Langer.Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data.Scientific Reports. 2017.
52. A. G. Reece, C. M. Danforth.Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression.EPJ Data Science. 2017.Among top 20 most discussed studies in 2017 (out of 2M), as measured by Altmetric.
51. E. A. PechenickK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Is language evolution grinding to a halt?
The scaling of lexical turbulence in English fiction suggests it is not.
Journal of Computational Science. 2017.
50. P. S. Dodds, D. Dewhurst#, F. F. Hazelhurst#, C. Van Oort#, L. Mitchell, A. J. ReaganK,J. R. Williams, C. M. Danforth.Simons fundamental rich-get-richer model entails a dominant first-mover advantage.Physical Review E. 2017.
49. S. E. AlajajianK, J. R. WilliamsK, A. J. ReaganK, S. C. Alajajian, M. R. FrankK, L. Mitchell†,J. LahneK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.The Lexicocalorimeter: Gauging public health through caloric input and output on social media.
PLoS ONE. 2017.
48. M. IbrahimK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Connecting every bit of knowledge: The structure of Wikipedia’s First Link Network .Journal of Computational Science. 2017.
47. A. J. ReaganK, L. Mitchell†, D. KileyK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes.EPJ Data Science. 2016.
46. J. P. Bagrow, S. DesuK, M. R. FrankK, N. ManukyanK, L. Mitchell†, A. ReaganK, E. E. Bloedorn,L. B. Booker, L. K. Branting, M. J. Smith, B. F. Tivnan, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds, J. C.Bongard.Shadow networks: Discovering hidden nodes with models of information flow. 2016.
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Publications:Continued
English: Google Books
Portuguese: Twitter
Portuguese: Google Web Crawl
Spanish: Twitter
Spanish: Google Books
Spanish: Google Web Crawl
45. T. C. McAndrewK, J. C. Bongard, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds, P. D. H. Hines., J. P.Bagrow. What we write about when we write about causality: Features of causal statements across
large-scale social discourse.2016 IEEE/ACM Int Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis & Mining.
44. D. P. KileyK, A. J. ReaganK, L. Mitchell, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.The game story space of professional sports: Australian Rules Football .Physical Review E. 2016.
43. P. S. Dodds, L. Mitchell†, A. J. ReaganK, C. M. Danforth.Tracking Climate Change through the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Teletherms, the Statistically
Hottest and Coldest Days of the Year.
PLoS ONE. 2016.
42. E. ClarkK, C. A. Jones, J. R. WilliamsK, A. N. Kurti, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Vaporous Marketing: Uncovering Pervasive Electronic Cigarette Advertisements on Twitter .PLoS ONE. 2016.
41. E. ClarkK, J.R. WilliamsK, R.A. Galbraith, C.A. Jones, C. M. Danforth, P.S. Dodds.Sifting Robotic from Organic Text,
A Natural Language Approach for Detecting Automation on Twitter
Journal of Computational Science. 2016.
40. E. CodyK, J. P. Bagrow, P. S. Dodds, J. Stephens, C. M. Danforth.Transitions in climate change awareness between Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 2016.
39. A. J. ReaganK, Y. Dubief, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Predicting Flow Reversals in a Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulated Thermosyphon using Data
Assimilation. PLoS ONE. 2016.
38. E. A. PechenickK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Characterizing the Google Books corpus: Strong limits to inferences of socio-cultural & linguistic
evolution. PLoS ONE. 2015.
37. W. F. Louisos, D. L. Hitt, C. M. Danforth. 2015.Chaotic Natural Convection in a Toroidal Thermosyphon with Heat Flux Boundaries .International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer. Vol 88, pg. 492-507.
36. E. CodyK, A. J. ReaganK, L. Mitchell†, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Climate Change sentiment on Twitter: An unsolicited public opinion poll.
PLoS ONE. 2015.
35. J. R. WilliamsK, E. ClarkK, J. P. Bagrow, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds. 2015.Identifying missing dictionary entries with frequency-conserving context models.
Physical Review E. 2016.
34. J. R. WilliamsK, S. DesuK, E. ClarkK, P. R. LessardK, J. P. Bagrow, C. M. Danforth, P. S.Dodds. Zipfs law holds for phrases, not words.
Scientific Reports. 2015.
33. J. R. WilliamsK, J. P. Bagrow, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Text mixing shapes the anatomy of rank-frequency distributions:
A modern Zipfian mechanics for natural language. Physical Review E. 2015.
32. T. C. McAndrewK, C. M. Danforth, J. P. Bagrow. 2015.Robustness of Spatial Micronetworks.
Physical Review E.
31. P. S. Dodds, E. ClarkK, S. DesuK, M. R. FrankK, A. ReaganK, J. R. WilliamsK, L. Mitchell†, K.D. HarrisK, I. M. KloumannK, J. P. Bagrow, K. Megerdoomian, M. T. McMahon, B. F. Tivnan,C. M. Danforth.Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015.
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Publications:Continued
30. M. R. FrankK, L. Mitchell†, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Standing Swells Surveyed Showing Surprisingly Stable Solutions for the Lorenz ’96 Model
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. Vol. 24, No. 10. 2014.
29. C. A. BlissK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Estimation of Global Network Statistics from Incomplete Data.
PLoS ONE. 2014.
28. O. MyersK, J. Wu, J. S. Marshall, C. M. Danforth.Computational Studies of Multiple-particle Nonlinear Dynamics in a Spatio-Temporally Periodic
Potential.
Journal of Applied Physics. Vol. 115, 244908. 2014.
27. C. A. BlissK, M. R. FrankK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Link Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks.
Journal of Computational Science. 2014.
26. M. R. FrankK, L. Mitchell†, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Happiness and the Patterns of Life: A Study of Geolocated Tweets .Scientific Reports 2013. Vol. 3, No: 2625, doi:10.1038/srep02625.
25. K. D. HarrisK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Dynamics of influence processes on networks: Complete mean-field theory; the roles of response
functions, connectivity, and synchrony; and applications to social contagion.
Physical Review E. 2013.
24. L. Mitchell†, K. D. HarrisK, M. R. FrankK, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter sentiment and expression, demographics, and
objective characteristics of place.PLoS ONE. 8(5): e64417. 2013.
23. P. S. Dodds, K. D. HarrisK, C. M. Danforth.Limited Imitation Contagion on Random Networks: Chaos, Universality, and Unpredictability .Physical Review Letters. 110, 158701. 2013.
22. W. F. Louisos, D. L. Hitt, C. M. Danforth.Chaotic Flow in a 2D Natural Convection Loop with Heat Flux Boundaries.International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer.Vol. 61, June 2013, Pages 565-576.
21. J. Molofsky, C. M. Danforth, E. E. Crone.Nutrient Enrichment Alters Weedy Plant Population Dynamics.Population Ecology. 2013.
20. E. Cotilla-SanchezK, P. Hines, C. M. Danforth.Estimating Distance to Critical Transitions from Time-series Synchrophasor Data.IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 2012.
19. C. A. BlissK, I. M. Kloumann#, K. D. HarrisK, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.Twitter Reciprocal Reply Networks Exhibit Assortativity with respect to Happiness.Journal of Computational Science. 3, No 5, Pg. 388 - 397, 2012.
18. K. D. HarrisK, E.-H. Ridouane†, D. L. Hitt, C. M. Danforth.Predicting Flow Reversals in Chaotic Natural Convection using Data Assimilation.Tellus A 2012, 64, 17598.
17. C. M. Danforth, T. Orfeo, S.J. Everse, K.G. Mann, K. Brummel-Ziedins.Defining the Boundaries of Normal Thrombin Generation: Investigations into Hemostasis.PLoS ONE 7(2): e30385. 2012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030385
16. N. AllgaierK, K. D. HarrisK, C. M. Danforth.Empirical Correction of a Toy Climate Model .Physical Review E. 85, 026201. 2012.
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1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 20104.5
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5.5
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6.5
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year
Gospel/Soul (6.91)
Pop (6.69)
Reggae (6.40)
Rock (6.27)
Rap/Hip−Hop (6.01)
Punk (5.61)
Metal/Industrial (5.10)
15. R. Lieb-LappenK, C. M. Danforth.Aggressive Shadowing of a Low-Dimensional Model of Atmospheric Dynamics.Physica D. Volume 241, Issue 6, 637-648. 2012.
14. I. M. Kloumann#, C. M. Danforth, K. D. HarrisK, C. A. BlissK, P. S. Dodds.Positivity of the English Language.PLoS ONE 7(1): e29484. 2012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029484
13. P.S. Dodds, K.D. HarrisK, I.M. Kloumann#, C.A. BlissK, C. M. Danforth.Temporal Patterns of Happiness in a Global-Scale Social Network: Hedonometrics & Twitter .PLoS ONE 6(12): e26752. 2011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026752Top 1% most cited PLoS ONE articles.
12. E.-H. Ridouane†, C. M. Danforth, D. L. Hitt.A Numerical Investigation of 3-D Flow Regimes in a Toroidal Natural Convection Loop.Int Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer. 2011.
11. W. Hayes, A. MalykhK, C. M. Danforth.The Interplay of Chaos between the Terrestrial and Giant Planets.Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2010.
10. E.-H. Ridouane†, C. M. Danforth, D. L. Hitt.A 2-D Numerical Study Of Chaotic Flow In a Natural Convection Loop.Int Jrn Heat & Mass Transfer. 2009. doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2009.10.003
9. H. Li, E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi, C. M. Danforth.Accounting for Model Errors in Ensemble Data Assimilation.Monthly Weather Review. 137, No. 10, 3407-3419 (2009) doi:10.1175/2009MWR2766.1
8. J. Yu, L. K. Gross, C. M. Danforth.Complex Dynamic Behavior During Transition in a Solid Combustion Model .Complexity.14, No. 6. 2009.
7. P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.Measuring the Happiness of Large-Scale Written Expression: Songs, Blogs, and Presidents.Journal of Happiness Studies. 2009. doi:10.1007/s10902-009-9150-9
6. K. L. Morrow#, T. Rowland, C. M. Danforth.Dynamic Structure of Networks Updated According to Simple, Local Rules .Physical Review E. 80, 016103. 2009.
5. C. M. Danforth, T. Orfeo, K.G. Mann, K. Brummel-Ziedins, S.J. Everse.The Impact of Uncertainty in a Blood Coagulation Model .Mathematical Medicine & Biology. 2009. doi:10.1093/imammb/dqp011
4. C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay.Impact of Empirical Model Correction on Nonlinear Error Growth.Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L24805. 2008.
3. C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay.Using Singular Value Decomposition to Parameterize State-Dependent Model Errors.Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, No. 4, 1467-1478 (2008).
2. C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi.Estimating and Correcting Global Weather Model Error .Monthly Weather Review, 135, No. 2, 281299 (2007).
1. C. M. Danforth, J. A. Yorke.Making Forecasts for Chaotic Physical Processes.Physical Review Letters, 96, 144102 (2006).
# Undergraduate Student K Graduate Student † Postdoc
Research
Students:
Current
Degree Student Degree StudentPhD Aaron Schwartz*! PhD Eric Clark*$PhD Tyler Gray* MS Sandhya Gopchandani*MS Ben Emery* MS David Dewhurst*#MS John Ring*# MS Colin Van Oort*#
Former
Degree Student Year Current EmploymentPostdoc Lewis Mitchell* 2014 Lecturer at University of AdelaidePostdoc El Hassan Ridouane & 2011 United Technologies Research CenterPhD Andy Reagan* 2017 Data Scientist at MassMutualPhD Emily Cody* (IGERT) 2016 Software Engineer at AdobePhD Tom McAndrew*% (IGERT) 2016 Sr Biostatistician, Cardiovascular Research FoundationPhD Jake Williams* 2015 Information Sciences Faculty at DrexelPhD Catherine Bliss* 2014 Lecturer at UVMPhD Nicholas Allgaier*+△ 2014 Postdoc at UVMPhD Eitan Pechenick* 2015 Maine School of Science & MathematicsMS Abby Ross* 2017 Northfield Mount Hermon SchoolMS Ryan Gallagher* 2017 PhD student at NortheasternMS Dilan Kiley* 2016 Data Scientist at Chobanian GroupMS Sharon Alajajian* 2015 Research Scientist at U of PennsylvaniaMS Morgan Frank* 2014 PhD student at MITMS Mike Foley*# 2014 PhD student at NortheasternMS Kayla Horak* 2014 Statistician, Forest Products LabMS Kameron D. Harris* 2012 Postdoc at U of WashingtonMS Ross Lieb-Lappen 2011 Faculty at Vermont Technical CollegeMS Dan Brown 2008 Actuary at Prudential FinancialUG Suma Desu* 2013 Data Scientist at AppleUG Darcy Glenn & 2013 MS student at Univ College LondonUG Ashley McKhann 2012 MS student at HarvardUG Isabel Kloumann* 2010 PhD Cornell, Data Scientist FacebookUG Kate Morrow* 2008 Engineering manager at New Relic
Jointly advised with:Peter Dodds * Josh Bongard +
Brian Tivnan #, James Bagrow %Taylor Ricketts !, Hugh Garavan △
Darren Hitt &, Chris Jones $
Blog Computational Story Lab research blog received more than 100,000 unique visitors in 2013.
Invited
Essays
Chaos in an Atmosphere Hanging on a Wall, Mathematics of Planet Earth, 2013.
Cascading Failures: Extreme Properties of Large Blackouts in the Electric GridMath Awareness Month 2011, Complexity Essay, with Paul Hines
Chaotic Convection in a Toy Climate, Math Awareness Month 2009, Climate Change Essay.
Recent
Invited
Lectures
Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations, Brown University, 2017.Limits to Socio-Cultural Inference, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, 2016.3.1416 Hey, It’s π Day , Vermont Edition, Vermont Public Radio, 2016.Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations, MIT Media Lab, 2015.Invocation, UVM College of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Graduation Ceremony, 2014.
Improving Numerical Weather Predictions using Ideas from Nonlinear Dynamics,· University of Chicago, Scientific & Statistical Computing Seminar, 2013.· Invited Address, MAA MATHFEST, Hartford, CT 2013.· SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT 2013.
Taming Atmospheric Chaos with Big Data, UVM TEDx 2011, Big Data: Big Stories.
The Hedonometer: A Remote-Sensor of Population-Level Happiness,· University of Montreal, CRM, Grande Conference Publique, invited public lecture, 2014.· Northwestern University, Network Frontiers Workshop, invited evening talk, 2013.· University of Chicago, Computations in Science Seminar, 2013.· Dartmouth College, SIAM Chapter Lecture, 2012.· ECHO Cafe Scientifique, Burlington, VT 2011.· Language and Technology Linguistics Symposium, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 2012.
Forecasting Chaotic Physical Systems
· NCAR Mathematics & Climate Summer School, Boulder, CO, 2010.· Dartmouth College, Mathematics Colloquium, Hanover, NH, 2009.· Cornell University, Institute for Computational Sustainability, Math & Climate, 2009.· UC Berkeley Climate Change Summer School, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, 2008.
Selected Press Your Instagram Posts May Hold Clues
to Your Mental Health
New York Times. August 10, 2017.
Researchers have quantified what
makes us love Harry Potter
Washington Post. November 25, 2016.
According to the Words, the News Is Actually Good
New York Times. February 23, 2015.
If you’re happy and you know it, write a tweet
NPR. February 10, 2015.
Languages Are Mostly Made of Happy Words
The Atlantic. February 11, 2015.
Where are the Happiest Tweeters?
Wall Street Journal. May 30, 2013.
Amy Drinks in Napa
The Ellen Degeneres Show. February 28, 2013.
Happiest Cities on Twitter
NBC’s Today Show. February 21, 2013.
Can a Computer Measure Your Happiness?
National Geographic. February 20, 2013.
Study of the Day:
English Is an Overwhelmingly Positive Language
The Atlantic. January 23, 2012.
The Sentiments of Cities
Wired Magazine. January 5, 2012.
Is Twitter a valid tool for measuring happiness?
Boston Globe. December 22, 2011.
Happy Words Trump Negativity
in the English Language
Wired Science, August 30, 2011.
Social Science for Pennies
Science Magazine. October 21, 2011.
Lexicon: Hedonometer
Time Magazine. August 24, 2009.
Using Twitter as a Collective Mood Ring
New York Times. August 11, 2009.
Blogs: Happiness Barometers?
Science Magazine. August 7, 2009.
Does a Nation’s Mood Lurk
in its Songs and Blogs?
New York Times. August 3, 2009.
How Happy is the Internet?
Science Magazine. August 3, 2009.
Inside the Lab That’s Quantifying Happiness
Outside Magazine. August 11, 2017.
Your Instagram feed can tell us if you’re depressed
Washington Post. August 22, 2016.
The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling,
as Identified by an A.I.
The Atlantic. July 12, 2016.
Seinfeld, Big Data & Measuring the
Internet’s Emotional Landscape
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Spanish is the happiest language
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Tomorrow’s cities:
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Study: geotagged tweets show
we’re happiest further from home
Wired Magazine. April 12, 2013.
Twitter study: Happiness rises
the further you travel
BBC News. April 11, 2013.
New Study Uses Tweets To
Rank Americas Happiest Cities, States
Time Magazine. February 25, 2013.
The Geography of Happiness.The Atlantic. February 19, 2013.
Langlais, une langue optimiste?
Le Monde. January 18, 2012.
Measuring Happiness Tweet by Tweet
National Geographic. December 29, 2011.
Trending: Tweets show global happiness down
USA Today, December 21, 2011.
The Design of Science: 10 Great Research Graphics
Wired Magazine. December 13, 2011.
Social Scientists Wade Into The Tweet Stream.Science Magazine, September 30, 2011.
Hedonometer: Schotts Vocab Blog .New York Times. August 12, 2009.
Pop Music & Blogs as Indicators of Gross National Happiness
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Taking the Pulse of Twitter
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Courses
Taught
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Term Course # UG GR Q6* Q14+
F ’09 Linear Algebra 124 33 0 4.86 3.55F ’10 Linear Algebra 124 33 0 4.74 3.78F ’11 Linear Algebra 124 37 0 4.76 3.55S ’14 Linear Algebra 124 48 0 4.89 3.60F ’14 Linear Algebra 124 47 1 4.83 3.86F ’16 Applied Linear Algebra 122 57 0 4.58 3.94F ’09 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 20 11 4.83 3.83F ’10 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 28 6 4.52 3.90F ’11 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 31 9 4.80 4.20F ’13 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 21 7 4.74 3.63F ’17 Intro to Numerical Analysis 237 43 7 4.35 4.55S ’09 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 16 11 4.83 4.22S ’10 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 31 6 4.62 4.62S ’11 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 24 8 4.83 4.39S ’13 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 24 9 4.44 4.40S ’14 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 18 10 5.00 4.37S ’15 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 24 10 4.91 4.65S ’16 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 30 7 4.71 4.83S ’17 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 32 4 4.50 4.69S ’18 Chaos, Fractals, & Dynamical Syst. 266 28 4 4.45 4.91F ’15 Graduate Ordinary Differential Equations 330 2 4 5.00 3.50F ’16 Graduate Ordinary Differential Equations 330 1 8 4.50 4.50S ’16 Graduate Seminar 382 4 11 4.50 3.58
*Question 6: Overall rating of instructor (5-excellent)+Question 14: Rate the difficulty of the course (5-very difficult)
Governor’s Institute of VermontWeek long courses on chaos, synchronization, modeling human behavior. Summer 2008-13, 16
Honors and
Awards
Flint Professor of Mathematical, Natural, and Technical Science, Endowed Chair 2013-presentNASA Goddard Space Flight Center ESSIC Graduate Research Fellowship 2002-2006Spotlight on Graduate Research, First Prize, U of Maryland 2003Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Pi Mu Epsilon 2001
Service Examination Committees University Committees10 PhD Thesis Complex Systems Transdisciplinary Research Initiative10 Masters Thesis Institute for the Environment University-Wide Task Committee15 Undergraduate honors thesis Mathematics Graduate Program
Referee for academic journals:Geophysical Research Letters Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesMonthly Weather Review Physica DTellus Proceedings of the Royal Society ANature Scientific Reports Cognition & EmotionChaos Climate DynamicsDigital Scholarship in the Humanities
Miscellaneous:· PLoS ONE Editorial Board, Proposal review panelist for NSF, NASA.· Captain of nationally ranked men’s tennis team, Bates College, 2000/2001.
Workshops Network Frontier Workshop Northwestern, 2013.Power Grids as Complex Networks Santa Fe Institute, 2012.Data Assimilation and Climate Research NCAR, 2010.The Mathematics of Terrorism Santa Fe Institute, 2009.Connecting Weather and Climate in Theory, Models, & Observations NCAR, 2009.Small Scales and Extreme Events: The Hurricane IPAM, UCLA, 2007.
