Sidney Redner
email -- redner at bu dot edu, Office Phone: (617) 353-2618; Fax: -9393
Office: Room 321, Boston University Physics Department, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215
Professional Background
A.B. in Physics, 1972,
University of California at
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Ph.D. in Physics, 1977,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA
Postdoctoral Fellow 1977-78,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor in the Boston University Physics
Department, member of the Center for
BioDynamics, the Center for Polymer
Studies, and external faculty member at
the Santa Fe Institute. Ulam Scholar at
the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los
Alamos National Laboratory in 2004-05. Associate editor for
the Journal of
Statistical Physics, and an editorial board member for
the
Journal of Informetrics. Past editorial board member
of Journal of Physics
A, the American Journal of
Physics, and the Journal of Statistical
Mechanics. Research interests in non-equilibrium statistical physics,
chemical kinetics, diffusion processes, complex networks, and social
dynamics. Click on the images in the gallery below for more details about
various projects.
A Kinetic View of Statistical
Physics by P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner, and E. Ben Naim
(Cambridge University Press, 2010), a graduate text on non-equilibrium
statistical physics. Table of
contents and preface. Current
errata list (updated January 2, 2012). If you find additional errors,
please let one of the authors know.
A Guide to First-Passage
Processes by S. Redner (Cambridge University Press, 2001),
a monograph on first-passage processes and their
applications. Table of contents and
preface. Current
errata list (updated December 11, 2011). If you find additional errors,
please let me know.
TEACHING: PY 542 Course Website (Fall 2011) PY 211 Lecture Notes (Spring 2006)
Research Projects:
(mouse over images for a description; click on hyperlinked images for
details)
