Curriculum Vitae

Education:
Ph.D.	Theoretical Physics & Applied Mathematics	Cambridge Univ. 1970
Part III	Mathematics Tripos, with distinction	Cambridge Univ. 1967
B.A.	Chemistry & Physics, summa cum laude	Harvard College 1966

Employment History:
Provost	Boston University	9/2005-present
Provost ad interim	Boston University	2004-2005
Dean, College of Engineering	Boston University	2000-2005
Department Head and Professor	University of Illinois	1992-2000
Adjunct Prof. of Physics	University of New Mexico	1990-1992
Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies	Los Alamos	1987-1992
Staff Member	Los Alamos	1977-1992
J.R. Oppenheimer Fellow	Los Alamos	1974-77
Exchange Scientist to Soviet Union	Natl. Acad. of Sciences	1977
Member, Inst. for Advanced Study	Princeton University	1972-74
Fellow, Center of Advanced Study	University of Illinois	1970-72
Inst. & Res. Assoc., Dept. of Physics	University of Illinois	1970-72

Selected Honors, Awards, and Editorial Positions:

Editor-in-Chief, CHAOS, 1991–present
Stanislaw Ulam Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1998–99
Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 1988–91
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1990
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988
Exchange Scientist to PROC Ministry of Education 1986
Visiting Professor, Univ. de Dijon, France, 1984 and 1985
NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, Cambridge University, 1968-70
Marshall Scholarship, Cambridge University, 1966-68

Research Contributions:

The first realization of the relation of strong interaction chiral symmetry and pion condensation, establishing a link between it and the “abnormal” nuclear matter proposed by Lee and Wick.
The solution of a skyrmion-like model nuclear field theory using his novel variant of the “inverse scattering technique.”
The demonstration of a correspondence between relativistic field theories and models of quasi-onedimensional solids, providing analytic forms for “kink'” solitons, polarons, bipolarons, and polarexcitons and determining their signatures in experiments.
The description of the interplay of nonlinearity and electron-electron interactions in novel electronic materials, including proof of the stability of solitons in conducting polymers, analysis of the optical spectra of strongly correlated systems, and the first exact numerical diagonalization of the t-J model of high T_c superconductors.
The discovery and interpretation of a surprising resonance phenomenon in the scattering interactions of kink-like solitary waves in non-integrable theories.
The analysis of the existence of spatially extended, time periodic (“breather”') solutions in continuum and discrete systems.

Current Research Interests:

My current research focuses on two areas: (1) possible observable consequences of chaos and quantum chaos in nanoscale structures, including semiconductor superlattices and mesoscopic rings in Aharanov- Bohm fields; and (2) true many-body studies (exact diagnalization, quantum Monte Carlo, Bethe Ansatz) of the effects of electron-electron interactions in novel materials, including spin-Peierls, charge density wave, and high T_c systems.