Tony Harkin was recently awarded a prestigious Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Mathematics from the National Science Foundation. He will use this award at Harvard University during the period September 2001- August 2004 to conduct research with Prof. H.A. Stone in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Tony received this award for both the excellence of his Ph.D. thesis in Mathematics and for the proposed new research he will carry out in collaboration with Prof. Stone.

Tony's thesis is entitled `Nonlinear dynamics of gas bubbles in liquids,' and he has so far published two articles based on that research. The first is about microacoustic cavitation and appeared in Physics of Fluids, vol.11. The second, to appear in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, is on the dynamics of two gas bubbles whose radial oscillations and translational motions are coupled in a highly nonlinear manner. Both papers are coauthored by his two major professors, T. Kaper (Math) and A. Nadim (Aero/Mech Eng).