Jack Featherstone
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Howdy! I'm a PhD student studying the structure of spiderwebs and the interactions between spiders and their prey using the toolkit of statistical physics and network analysis. In particular, I am interested in the style of web woven by members of the Latrodectus genus, including Australian red backs and American black widows. These eight-legged friends weave webs which are composed of many vertical gumfooted threads, making them capable of ensnaring land-based prey, instead of the usual menagerie of airborne creatures. Before coming to OIST, I studied the stability of perturbed granular materials in microgravity, and frictional contact dynamics in laboratory-scale granular systems at North Carolina State University. |
