\begin{acknowledgments}
+\epigraph{If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of
+ Giants.}{Isaac Newton\citep{turnbull59}}
+
+Newton's competitive spirit gives the heroic phrasing in the quote
+above, but I don't see the need to use giants (\cref{fig:ants}). Any
+furtherance of knowledge due to my research is due to consolidating,
+reorganizing, and tweaking the work of those that came before me. To
+all of you in the rest of this innumerable bundle, thanks!
+
+On a professional level, my high school physics teacher Tom Hoch
+started this whole experience with a very engaging class, and I
+continue to use his block counting analogy for energy conservation
+when teaching new students. Since then, I have been privileged to
+work under Joe Amato, Dan Schult, Jeff Buboltz, the late Marc Feldman,
+and the late Guoliang Yang, all of whom have helped mold me into the
+scientist and person I am today. Prof.~Yang deserves extra credit,
+and his ability to shift topics from force spectroscopy to geopolitics
+and back in a minute helped keep things fresh. Thanks to Louis Cruz
+Cruz for shepherding me through the final stages of my thesis. My lab
+partners Marisa Roman and Runcong Liu provided lively discussions and
+a (mostly) willing audience for smoke testing my software.
+
+On a personal level, my wife Emily and broader family and friends have
+kept me sane throughout this process. Thank you all.
+
+Thanks to my committee members---Jian-Min Yuan, Jun Xi, Michel
+Valli{\`e}res, Som Tyagi, and Prof.~Cruz---for helpful criticism and
+review. Also thanks to Mom, for lots of pro bono editing! Any errors
+that remain are clearly my fault, and corrections are
+welcome\footnote{%
+ Write me at \href{mailto:wking@tremily.us}{wking@tremily.us}. You
+ can browse the thesis source at
+ \url{http://git.tremily.us/?p=thesis.git}.
+}.
+
This work was produced using the following open source software projects:
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and many, many more. I am deeply indebted to all of the smart,
-generous people who produce such wonderful tools.
+generous people who produce such wonderful tools. Besides providing
+the tools, they also provide very supportive communities to help haul
+complete newbies like me up the learning curve.
\sawsim\ work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grants
R01-GM071793.
+
+\begin{figure}
+ \begin{center}
+ \includegraphics[width=4in]{figures/binary/ants}
+ \caption{A raft of 500 fire ants, reproduced from
+ \citet{mlot11}.\label{fig:ants}}
+ \end{center}
+\end{figure}
\end{acknowledgments}
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@string{BHsiao = "Hsiao, Benjamin S."}
@string{CKHu = "Hu, Chin-Kun"}
+@string{DLHu = "Hu, David L."}
@string{BHuang = "Huang, Baiqu"}
@string{HHuang = "Huang, Hector Han-Li"}
@string{MHubain = "Hubain, Maurice"}
@string{SMinoshima = "Minoshima, S."}
@string{IMitchell = "Mitchell, Ian"}
@string{SMitternacht = "Mitternacht, Simon"}
+@string{NJMlot = "Mlot, Nathan J."}
@string{CMobarry = "Mobarry, C."}
@string{NMohandas = "Mohandas, N."}
@string{SMohanty = "Mohanty, Sandipan"}
@string{NJP = "New Journal of Physics"}
@string{DBNewell = "Newell, David B."}
@string{MNewman = "Newman, M."}
+@string{INewton = "Newton, Isaac"}
@string{SNg = "Ng, Sean P."}
@string{NNguyen = "Nguyen, N."}
@string{TNguyen = "Nguyen, T."}
@string{PBPMB = "Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology"}
@string{PS = "Protein Science"}
@string{PROT = "Proteins"}
+@string{RSUP = "Published for the Royal Society at the University Press"}
@string{EPuchner = "Puchner, Elias M."}
@string{VPuri = "Puri, V."}
@string{WPyckhout-Hintzen = "Pyckhout-Hintzen, Wim"}
@string{BTiribilli = "Tiribilli, Bruno"}
@string{TTlusty = "Tlusty, Tsvi"}
@string{JTocaHerrera = "Toca-Herrera, Jose L."}
+@string{CATovey = "Tovey, Craig A."}
@string{AToyoda = "Toyoda, A."}
@string{TASME = "Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers"}
@string{BTrask = "Trask, B."}
@string{ZTshiprut = "Tshiprut, Z."}
@string{JCMTsibris = "Tsibris, J.C.M."}
@string{LTskhovrebova = "Tskhovrebova, Larissa"}
+@string{HWTurnbull = "Turnbull, Herbert Westren"}
@string{RTurner = "Turner, R."}
@string{AUlman = "Ulman, Abraham"}
@string{UltraMic = "Ultramicroscopy"}
@string{MWen = "Wen, M."}
@string{JWetter = "Wetter, J."}
@string{EPWhite = "White, Ethan P."}
+@string{ANWhitehead = "Whitehead, Alfred North"}
@string{AWhittaker = "Whittaker, A."}
@string{HKWickramasinghe = "Wickramasinghe, H. K."}
@string{RWides = "Wides, R."}
@string{CCWilliams = "Williams, C. C."}
@string{MWilliams = "Williams, M."}
@string{SWilliams = "Williams, S."}
+@string{WN = "Williams \& Norgate"}
@string{MWilmanns = "Wilmanns, Matthias"}
@string{GWilson = "Wilson, Greg"}
@string{PWilson = "Wilson, Paul"}
functional states, and inter- and intra-molecular interactions can
be derived.},
}
+
+@book{ turnbull59,
+ editor = HWTurnbull,
+ author = INewton,
+ title = {The correspondence of Isaac Newton},
+ year = 1959,
+ publisher = RSUP,
+ volume = 1,
+ numpages = 445,
+ url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=pr8WAQAAMAAJ},
+ note = {The ``Giants'' quote is on page 416, in a letter to Robert
+ Hooke dated February 5, 1676.},
+}
+
+@book{ whitehead11,
+ author = ANWhitehead,
+ title = {An introduction to mathematics},
+ year = 1911,
+ publisher = WN,
+ numpages = 274,
+ address = {London},
+ url = {http://archive.org/details/introductiontoma00whitiala},
+ note = {The ``civilization'' quote is on page 61.},
+}
+
+@article{ mlot11,
+ author = NJMlot #" and "# CATovey #" and "# DLHu,
+ title = {Fire ants self-assemble into waterproof rafts to survive floods},
+ year = 2011,
+ month = may,
+ day = 10,
+ address = {Schools of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and
+ Systems Engineering, and Biology,
+ Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA.},
+ journal = PNAS,
+ volume = 108,
+ number = 19,
+ pages = {7669--7673},
+ issn = {1091-6490},
+ doi = {10.1073/pnas.1016658108},
+ url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21518911},
+ language = {eng},
+ keywords = {Animals},
+ keywords = {Ants},
+ keywords = {Behavior, Animal},
+ keywords = {Biophysical Phenomena},
+ keywords = {Floods},
+ keywords = {Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions},
+ keywords = {Microscopy, Electron, Scanning},
+ keywords = {Models, Biological},
+ keywords = {Social Behavior},
+ keywords = {Surface Properties},
+ keywords = {Time-Lapse Imaging},
+ keywords = {Video Recording},
+ keywords = {Water},
+ abstract = {Why does a single fire ant \species{Solenopsis invicta}
+ struggle in water, whereas a group can float effortlessly for
+ days? We use time-lapse photography to investigate how fire ants
+ \species{S.~invicta} link their bodies together to build
+ waterproof rafts. Although water repellency in nature has been
+ previously viewed as a static material property of plant leaves
+ and insect cuticles, we here demonstrate a self-assembled
+ hydrophobic surface. We find that ants can considerably enhance
+ their water repellency by linking their bodies together, a process
+ analogous to the weaving of a waterproof fabric. We present a
+ model for the rate of raft construction based on observations of
+ ant trajectories atop the raft. Central to the construction
+ process is the trapping of ants at the raft edge by their
+ neighbors, suggesting that some ``cooperative'' behaviors may rely
+ upon coercion.},
+ note = {Higher resolution pictures are available at
+ \url{http://antlab.gatech.edu/antlab/The_Ant_Raft.html}.},
+}
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