Talk:Boris Shraiman

TEXT MAIN BODY  (REVISED TEXT ) Paragraph 1: Boris Shraiman is an American theoretical physicist working on Statistical Physics and the Physics of Living Matter. He is a Permanent Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), and the Susan F. Gurley Professor of Theoretical Physics and Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).[KEEP CITATION https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/shraiman]

Education (REPLACES Biography): Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), [WIKI LINK] Russia, in 1956, Shraiman received a BS from the University of Lowell [WIKI LINK] in 1978, and a PhD from Harvard [WIKI LINK] in 1983. He then did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago's [WIKI LINK] James Franck Institute.[WIKI LINK] In his early work, Shraiman addressed how dynamical systems transition to chaos and how patterns form in viscous flows [WIKI LINK] and dendritic growth.[KEEP CITATION B. Shraiman; C. E. Wayne; P. C. Martin (1981). "Scaling Theory for Noisy Period-Doubling Transitions to Chaos". Physical Review Letters. 46 (14): 935–939. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.935.][KEEP CITATION D. Bensimon, L. P. Kadanoff, S. Liang (1986). "Viscous flows in two dimensions". Reviews of Modern Physics. 58 (4): 977–999. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.58.977.]

Professional Career (NEW HEADER ): He moved to Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, in 1987, working on quantum materials as a member of the Technical Staff in the Theoretical Physics Research Department,[KEEP CITATION B. I. Shraiman; E. D. Siggia (1989). "Spiral phase of a doped quantum antiferromagnet". Physical Review Letters. 62 (13): 1564–1567. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.1564. PMID 10039706.] [KEEP CITATION A. J. Millis; R. Mueller; B. I. Shraiman (1996). "Fermi-liquid-to-polaron crossover. II. Double exchange and the physics of colossal magnetoresistance". Physical Review B. 54 (8): 5405–5417. arXiv:cond-mat/9602155. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.5405. PMID 9986499. S2CID 827848.] followed by a 2002 professorship at Rutgers University in their Physics Department and tBioMaPs Institute.[CITATION: http://cgisvr.physics.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/physdb/genpip.pl?Shraiman]

In 2004, Shraiman was invited to become a Permanent Member the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a professor in UCSB's Physics Department. [citation: https://physics.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.phys.d7/files/sitefiles/about/insidephysicsfall05.pdf] KITP honored him in 2009 with the Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology. [Citation: https://www.on.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/friends/gurley_shraiman/] He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998,[citation: https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=S&year=2020&unit_id=&institution=] and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.[13][Citation: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/news?year=All&title=&page=7]

Research: (MOVE THIS TEXT DOWN FROM BIOGRAPHY) Shraiman has advanced the understanding of turbulent fluids,[6][7] and since the 1990s, his work has built connections between statistical physics and biological problems.[8] In particular, his research has pointed to the interplay between mechanics and morphogenesis, which addresses the problem of "growth and form" in animal development,[9][10] [Citation: https://www.physics.umass.edu/events/2020-10-29-physical-morphogenesis] and developed models to describe evolutionary dynamics in populations such as influenza.[11][12]

Awards: Member, National Academy of Sciences (elected 2011) [Citation: repeat http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20015876.html]

Fellow, American Physical Society (elected 1998) [citation: https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=S&year=2020&unit_id=&institution=]

Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara (2009) [Citation: repeat https://www.on.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/friends/gurley_shraiman/]

CATEGORIES: American physicists, University of Massachusetts Lowell alumni, University of Chicago alumni, Statistical physics, Turbulence models, Evolutionary dynamics

External links: National Academy of Sciences membership [LINK www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20015876.html] Boris Shraiman on Google Scholar [LINK https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=er7sZioAAAAJ&hl=en]