Bill Klein   

Education: BA, PhD, Temple University

Field of Research: Theoretical Condensed-Matter Physics, Polymer Physics,and Statistical Mechanics 

Research Statement:

At present I am interested in three areas of research; Kinetics of phase transitions whwere one investigates the pathways that systems use to change from disordered phases such as liquids to ordered phases (e. g. solids), the properties of the glass phase and the transition from liquids to glasses and statistical models of earthquake faults.  These problems have the common thread that they are concerned with higly non-linear processes that take place on many length and time other. The methods I use range from the application of field theoretics methods to the use of large scale computational resources.