I am interested in volcanic processes, especially pyroclastic density currents or PDCs for short! I am currently focused on describing the dynamics of granular flow within these PDCs. Through the use of applied combinatorics and community detection I hope to identify networks of particles that have a dominating affect on the granular medium as a whole.

This is an example of my current community detection algorithm on a small set of 19 particles stacked in a star. The red and blue groups contain particles which have a disproportionately high normal force.