Mark F. Hamilton

Dr. Hamilton conducts research in physical acoustics, mainly nonlinear acoustics. He currently focuses on biomedical applications of high intensity sound. Dr. Hamilton was elected as the 2008 president of the Acoustical Society of America at their Spring 2007 meeting. He will succeed the current president in July 2008, and his term as president will last for one year. His election also includes one-year terms as president-elect and past-president on the governing board of the society. He has actively involved in the Society, having served most recently as its Vice President. He was a recipient of the ASA R. Bruce Lindsay Award, and he is a Fellow of the Society. He was also a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering. He received the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Hamilton is co-editor of the graduate textbook and research monograph entitled "Nonlinear Acoustics." He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1985 and is a member of the Acoustics, Biomechanical Engineering, and Dynamic Systems & Control programs of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Dr. Hamilton also holds an appointment at Applied Research Laboratories, which is the largest organized research unit at the University, emphasizing applications in acoustics aimed at improving national security. Dr. Hamilton is working on models of acoustic cavitation toward the goal of improving kidney stone disintegration during shock wave lithotripsy. In relation to decompression sickness, he is studying bubble growth in marine mammals subjected to underwater sound. He is developing a biomechanical model of human lung to simulate the response to sonar operating near the lung resonance frequency. He is exploring uses of nonlinear ultrasonic propagation effects for imaging in body tissue. He is also developing MEMS-based parametric acoustic arrays for secure battlefield communication, free of electromagnetic radiation.