Christopher Kulp is the new Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Before coming to Lycoming, Dr. Kulp taught for four years as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Eastern Kentucky University. Dr. Kulp has also taught at The College of William and Mary and McDaniel College.

Dr. Kulp earned a B. A. in physics and mathematics from McDaniel. He also earned a M. S. and a Ph.D. at The College of William and Mary. Dr. Kulp’s dissertation was on the control of nonlinear systems.

Dr. Kulp’s research interests are in nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory. Most recently Dr. Kulp has focused on problems dealing with nonlinear time series analysis and information theory. In particular, Dr. Kulp is studying how to apply various information theoretic algorithms to gappy time series (data sets with missing elements). Dr. Kulp has also worked on applying nonlinear time series analysis algorithms to classical music compositions. The purpose of this work is to develop an analytical means of understanding the relationships between instruments in symphonies.

His personal website can be found at http://srv2.lycoming.edu/~kulp/