Homepage of Sidney Redner


email -- redner at bu dot edu
Office Phone: (617) 353-2618; Fax: -9393
Office: Metcalf Science Center - Room 323
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

Hi! I'm a Professor in the Boston University Physics Department, as well as a member of the Center for BioDynamics, the Center for Polymer Studies, and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. For the 2004-05 academic year, I was on leave as the Ulam Scholar at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. I am also a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General Physics, the American Journal of Physics, JSTAT, the Journal of Statistical Mechanics, and the Journal of Informetrics. My research field is statistical and theoretical condensed-matter physics. I have specific interests in non-equilibrium stochastic processes, chemical kinetics, diffusion and non-linear processes in disordered media, and the structure of growing networks. Below is a gallery of images from some recent projects. Click on each image to get a full-size image, a more detailed description of the phenomenon, a link to a page that provides more detail about each project.

List of errata to "A Guide to First-Passage Processes" (regrettably still growing and last updated May 12, 2008). If you find additional errors, please let me know.

Publications (last addition August 5, 2008; last update August 5, 2008).

My CV in pdf or ps formats.

TEACHING:

Slides from selected talks (2 talks added March 18, 2007).

Description of Research Projects: