Hoefer received in 2013 and continues to receive funding. Thus far, three publications have been produced as a result of the research. Hoefer said that, “I received the Career award in 2013 to study nonlinear wave dynamics theoretically and experimentally. The grant led to the formation of the Dispersive Hydrodynamics Laboratory, housed in Duane Physics, where undergraduate, graduate students and I investigate soliton and dispersive shock wave dynamics in fluid experiments.
Another aspect of the grant is to investigate a new kind of soliton, recently observed by multiple experimental groups, in magnetic materials called the magnetic droplet soliton. I was a coauthor on a Science paper for the first experimental observation of droplets. As a result of this international collaboration, a postdoc, funded by the Swedish government, will be coming to APPM in March to work with me on computational problems involving magnetic droplet solitons.”
—Eva Lambek