Sidney Redner
Email -- redner at santafe dot edu, office phone: (505) 946-2764
Address: Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501
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
I am a Resident Faculty Member of the Santa Fe
Institute. My research interests are in non-equilibrium statistical
physics, first-passage processes and diffusion, chemical kinetics, complex
networks, and social dynamics. Click on the images in the gallery below for
more details about various projects. Between 1978 and 2015, I was a faculty
member in the Boston University Physics
Department and the Center for Polymer
Studies. During my time at BU, I was an external faculty member at
the Santa Fe Institute between
2007-2014, a Visiting Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in
Paris and at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France in 2008, the
Ulam Scholar at the Center for Nonlinear
Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2004-05, and a Visiting
Scientist & Consultant, Schlumberger-Doll Research between 1984-86. I am a
Fellow
of the American Physical Society (APS) and
the recipient of
the
2021 Kadanoff Prize from the APS. I've served as a Divisional Associate
Editor for Physical Review Letters
(2014-2020), an Associate Editor for
the Journal of
Statistical Physics. and Editorial Board member
of Journal of Physics
A, the American Journal of
Physics, the Journal of Statistical
Mechanics, and
the
Journal of Informetrics.
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 July 8, 2017). 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 April 1, 2021). If you find additional errors,
please let me know.
TEACHING NOTES & RESOURCES:
Elementary Tutorial on Random Walks (part of the SFI Complexity Explorer Program)
PY 482 Course Website (Freshman Seminar at Boston University, Spring 2013)
PY 542 Course Website (Graduate Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics at Boston University, Fall 2011)
PY 211 Lecture
Notes (Freshman Mechanics at Boston University, Spring 2006)
Research Projects:
(mouse over images for a description; click on hyperlinked images for
details)
