Tales of Rotating Thermal Convection: How rapid rotation drives heat transport, creates novel vortex structures, and relates laboratory experiments to the motions of the Earth’s outer core.

January 27, 2025

Speaker Bio

Robert Everett Ecke is an American experimental physicist specializing in nonlinear dynamics, turbulence, and granular materials. He is a Laboratory Fellow and Director Emeritus of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory and an Affiliate Professor of Physics at the University of Washington. A Fellow of the APS and AAAS, Ecke has held leadership roles in both organizations.

Born in Los Angeles in 1953 and raised in Helena, Montana, Ecke earned a B.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington. He joined Los Alamos in 1983, where he has published over 110 research articles, earning an h-index of 43 with 5,400+ citations.