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Life on Both Sides of the Fence: Mentoring Versus Being Mentored
Mason A. Porter
I have the rare experience of being on both sides of the mentor--undergraduate student relationship in the same program (Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, or SURF…
Modulational Instability in Nonlinearity-Managed Optical Media
Martin Centurion, Mason A. Porter, Ye Pu +3
We investigate analytically, numerically, and experimentally the modulational instability in a layered, cubically-nonlinear (Kerr) optical medium that consists of alternating layer…
Modulational instability in a layered Kerr medium: Theory and Experiment
Martin Centurion, Mason A. Porter, Ye Pu +3
We present the first experimental investigation of modulational instability in a layered Kerr medium. The particularly interesting and appealing feature of our configuration, consi…
Modulated Amplitude Waves in Collisionally Inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensates
Mason A. Porter, P. G. Kevrekidis, Boris A. Malomed +1
We investigate the dynamics of an effectively one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with scattering length subjected to a spatially periodic modulation, $a=a(x)=a(x+L)…
Nonlinearity Management in Optics: Experiment, Theory, and Simulation
Martin Centurion, Mason A. Porter, P. G. Kevrekidis +1
We conduct an experimental investigation of nonlinearity management in optics using femtosecond pulses and layered Kerr media consisting of glass and air. By examining the propagat…
Community Structure in the United States House of Representatives
Mason A. Porter, Peter J. Mucha, M. E. J. Newman +1
We investigate the networks of committee and subcommittee assignments in the United States House of Representatives from the 101st--108th Congresses, with the committees connected…