Scott A McKinley, Visiting Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	218 Physics
Office Phone:	(919) 660-2848
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• MATH 131.02, ELEM DIFFERENTIAL EQUAT Synopsis

  Physics 235, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• MATH 219.01, STOCHASTIC CALCULUS Synopsis

  Physics 235, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Office Hours:

Wed 1-4 pm, 15 minutes before class, by appointment

Education:

PhD	The Ohio State University	2006
BS	Tulane University	1998

Specialties:

Probability
Applied Math

Areas of Interest:

Continuous time stochastic processes with physical application
Anomalous Diffusion in Passive Microrheology
Geometric Ergodicity of Diffusions in Singular Potentials
Molecular Motors and Intracellular Transport
Qualitative Behavior of nonlinear SDE

Undergraduate Researches Supervised

• Alexis Cook (May, 2008 - present)  
• Brian Choi (May, 2008 - present)  

Recent Publications

1. Scott A. McKinley, Lingxing Yao and M. Gregory Forest, Transient Anomalous Diffusion of Tracer Particles in Soft Matter, Journal of Rheology (Nov/Dec 2009)
2. Scott A. McKinley, Lea Popovic and Michael C. Reed, A Spatial Markov Model for Fast Axonal Transport (Submitted, 2009)
3. Scott A. McKinley, Anomalous Diffusion of Distinguished Particles in Bead-Spring Systems (Submitted, 2009)
4. Jonathan C. Mattingly, Scott A. McKinley, Natesh S. Pillai, Geometric ergodicity of a bead-spring system advected by a stochastic Stokes fluid (Submitted, Winter, 2008)