Luis H. Cisneros Contact Information Goldstein Lab Phone: (520) 621-2621 Department of Physics Fax: (520) 621-4721 University of Arizona Mobil: (520) 225-9059 1118 East 4th Street e-mail: cisneros@physics.arizona.edu Tucson AZ, 85721 USA url: http://www.physics.arizona.edu/ cisneros/ Research Interests Education Complex Systems in general: emergence of collective behavior and cooperation in extended dynamical systems. Complexity in Adaptation and Self Organization associated to Biological Evolution, Artificial Life, Ecology and Social Dynamics, Network Theory and Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena. Pattern Formation, Fluid Dynamics and condensed phenomena of Self Propelled Particles. Bio-fluid-dynamics, Cell Migration, Transport, Chemotaxis, Oceanography. Econophysics. University of Arizona. Department of Physics. Tucson, Arizona - PhD, Physics December, 2008 Topic: Fluid Dynamics and Collective Phenomena in concentrated suspensions of swimming micro-organisms. Adviser: Raymond E. Goldstein Universidad Central de Venezuela. Facultad de Ciencias. Caracas, Venezuela - M.S. Physics. December, 2002 Topic: Measure of Information Transfer and Analysis of Collective Phenomena in Chaotic Coupled Map Networks and other Complex Systems. Adviser: Juan Jiménez Universidad Simón Bolívar. Departamento de Física. Sartenejas, Miranda, Venezuela - Licenciatura (Undergraduate Degree), Physics. May, 1998 Topic: Gauge Theory of Afine-Metric Gravity; extended General Relativity. Adviser: Isbelia Martín Schools and Workshops Self-Organization in Active Biological Systems (SOABS). Argonne National Lab, Illinois. April 2007 Robustness in Coupled Natural and Human Systems. Santa Fe Institute. Santa Fe, NM May 2003 Interdisciplinary School and Workshop of Complex Systems, ETISC 2001 Isla de Margarita. Nueva Esparta, Venezuela. November, 2001 II Interdisciplinary Workshop of Complex Systems, TISC 2000 Isla de Margarita. Nueva Esparta, Venezuela. October, 2000
V Venezuelan School of Relativity, Fields and Astrophysics La Hechicera. Mérida, Venezuela. November, 1999 Workshop: Using Computers in the Educational System Centro Nacional Para el Mejoramiento de la Enseñanza de las Ciencias (National Center for Improvement of the Teaching of Sciences). Caracas, Venezuela March, 1997 II Venezuelan School of Relativity, Fields and Astrophysics La Hechicera. Mérida, Venezuela November, 1996 I Venezuelan School of Relativity and Fields La Hechicera. Mérida, Venezuela November, 1995 Honors and Awards Mensión Honorífica (Honors Award) on the title of M.S. Physics July, 2003 Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela. Scholarship Beca Nacional para Maestría April, 2001 Fondo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, FONACIT (National Science, Technology and Innovation Foundation). Caracas, Venezuela. Academic Experience University of Arizona. (Tucson, Arizona USA) - Post Doctoral Associate January, 2009 - Present Goldstein Lab: on-going research project on collective behavior, self organization, many body statistics and physics of self propelled microorganisms and associated fluid phenomena (DOE W31-109-ENG38), including experimental work, data analysis and theory. - Research Assistant August, 2005 - December 2008 Goldstein Lab: research on collective behavior and fluid mechanics of swimming bacteria, including experimental work, data analysis and theory. - Teaching Assistant August, 2003 - April 2005 Duties included office hours, grading and leading weekly lab classes for junior and senior level Physics mayors. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, D.F. Venezuela - Research Assistant September, 2001 - April 2002 Laboratorio de Fenomenos No Lineales (Non Linear Phenomena Lab): research on Collective Behavior and Synchronization of Chaotic Extended Systems, which included numerical simulations and time series analysis of real data.
- Teaching Assistant September, 1999 - June 2001 Junior and senior level problem solving classes for physics mayors. Freshmen and sophomore physics lectures for all sciences mayors. Universidad Simón Bolivar. Sartenejas, Miranda Venezuela - Instructor October, 2001 - March 2002 Lectures on Electromagnetism for sophomore and junior level Engineering and Physics mayors. - Undergraduate Teaching Assistant October, 1992 - March 1997 Duties included office hours, report grading, leading weekly problem solving and lab classes for freshmen, sophomore and junior level Engineering and Physics mayors. Publications Luis Cisneros, John O. Kessler, Ricardo Ortiz, Ricardo Cortez and Martin A. Bees. Unexpected Bipolar Flagellar Arrangements and Long-Range Flows Driven by Bacteria near Solid Boundaries Physical Review Letters (2008) 101, 168102 Luis Cisneros, Ricardo Cortez, Christopher Dombrowski, Raymond E. Goldstein and John O. Kessler. Fluid dynamics of self-propelled micro-organisms, from individuals to concentrated populations. Experiments in Fluids (2007) 43, 737-753 Luis Cisneros, Christopher Dombrowski, Raymond E. Goldstein and John O. Kessler. Reversal of Bacterial Locomotion at an Obstacle, Physical Review E: Rapid Communications (2006) 73, 030901(R) Idan Tuval, Luis Cisneros, Christopher Dombrowski, Charles W. Wolgemuth, John O. Kessler, and Raymond E. Goldstein. Bacterial Swimming and Oxygen Transport Near Contact Lines, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) (2005), 102, 2277-2282 Christopher Dombrowski, Luis Cisneros, Sunita Chatkaew, John O. Kessler, and Raymond E. Goldstein.Self-Concentration and Large-Scale Coherence in Bacterial Dynamics, Physical Review Letters (2004), 93, 098103 Thomas K Park, Mourad Mjahed and Luis Cisneros. (Forthcoming) Modeling household dynamics in Marrakech, Bamaco and Niamey: perspectives on robustness in urban enviroments. In Case Studies in the Robustness of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (edited by E. Jen, J.S. Lansing, T. Park, M.C. Stiner), edited volume to be published jointly by the Santa Fe Institute and Oxford University Press. Luis Cisneros and Juan Jiménez. Medidas del flujo de información e interdependencia no lineal (Measure of the information flux and nonlinear interdependency), Revista Mexicana de Física (2003), 49, 17-20 [Article in Spanish] Luis Cisneros, Juan Jiménez, Mario Cosenza and Antonio Parravano. Information transfer and nontrivial collective behavior in chaotic coupled map networks, Physical Review E: Rapid Communications (2002) 65, 045204(R) Conference Presentations and Attendance 53th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society (Atendee). Boston, Massachusetts. March 2009.
Cisneros, Kessler, Ortiz, Cortez, Bees. Flows generated by bacteria settled upon a solid surface. 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. San Antonio, Texas. November 2008. - http://meetings.aps.org/meeting/dfd08/event/90880 Gangully, Cisneros, Kessler, Goldstein. Transition to organized behavior on suspensions of concentrated bacteria.61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. San Antonio, Texas. November 2008. - http://meetings.aps.org/meeting/dfd08/event/90009 Cortez, Ortiz, Kessler, Cisneros, Bees.Interaction of rotating helical bacterial flagella with nearby solid. 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. San Antonio, Texas. November 2008. - http://meetings.aps.org/meeting/dfd08/event/90882 Cisneros, Cortez, Dombrowski, Goldstein and Kessler. Measure of coherence on the collective phase of concentrated swimming bacteria. 60th Annual Meeting of the Divison of Fluid Dynamics. Salt Lake City, Utah. November 2007. - http://meetings.aps.org/meeting/dfd07/event/72949 Kessler, Cortez, Cisneros, Goldstein and Dombrowski. Propulsion of a bacterial phalanx. 60th Annual Meeting of the Divison of Fluid Dynamics. Salt Lake City, Utah. November 2007. - http://meetings.aps.org/meeting/dfd07/event/72950 Cisneros. Fluid Dynamics and Coherent Dynamics of self-propeled micro-organisms Arizona BioPhest 2007 Tempe, Arizona. April 2007 - http://biophysics.asu.edu/workshops/2007 AZ biophest/abstracts (...) (...) /Abstract L Cisneros.html 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (Atendee). Tampa Bay, Florida. November 2006. 2006 APS March Meeting (Atendee). Baltimore, Maryland. Cisneros, Tuval, Dombrowski, Wolgemuth, Kessler and Goldstein. Reversal of Bacterial Locomotion at an Obstacle (Poster). 50th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. Salt Lake City, Utah. February 2006. Cisneros, Dombrowski, Goldstein and Kessler. Dynamics of the Chemotactic Boycott Effect. 2005 APS March Meeting. Los Angeles, California. -http://meetings.aps.org/link/baps.2005.mar.a23.9 Cisneros, Tuval, Dombrowski, Wolgemuth, Kessler and Goldstein. Bacterial Swimming and Oxygen Transport Near Contact Lines (Poster). 49th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. Long Beach, California. February 2005. Dombrowski, Cisneros, Chatkaew, Goldstein and Kessler. Self-Concentration and Large- Scale Coherence in Bacterial Dynamics (Poster). 49th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. Long Beach, California. February 2005. Cisneros, Dombrowski, Kessler, Goldstein, Wolgemuth and Tuval. Dynamics of the Chemotactic Boycott Effect. 57th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. Seattle, Washington. November 2004.
- http://flux.aps.org/meetings/yr04/dfd04/baps/abs/s1120005.html Cisneros, Dombrowski, Goldstein and Kessler. Large-Scale Coherence in Concentrated Bacterial Suspensions. 2004 APS March Meeting. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. - http://flux.aps.org/meetings/yr04/mar04/baps/abs/s4090007.html Cisneros and Jiménez. Measuring Collective Information Transfer in Coupled Map Lattices (Poster). Gordon Research Conference on Nonlinear Science. South Hadley, Massachusetts. June 2001. Professional Experience MBA Success, Professional Admission Test Preparation Consulting. Caracas, Venezuela Academic Consultant September, 2000 - May 2002 Worked as consultant and instructor in Math and Numerical Skills for students preparing for SAT, GMAT and GRE tests. Centro Nacional para el Mejoramiento de la Enseñanza de las Ciencias, CE- NAMEC (National Center for the Improvement of the Teaching of Sciences). Caracas, Venezuela Associate Research Assistant October, 1996 - August, 1998 Educational Software developer: designed interactive software for the teaching of High School level physics and vector mathematics. Computer Skills Extensive use of C, Matlab, LabView, LaTex and Image Processing methods, including Particle Tracking Velocimetry and Particle Imaging Velocimetry. Experience with Java, Visual Basic, Mathematica