Homepage of Sidney Redner

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

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 December 6, 2008; last update January 22, 2009).

My CV in pdf or ps formats.

TEACHING:

Slides from selected talks (2 talks added September 7, 2008).

Description of Research Projects: