Boris Shraiman

Boris Shraiman is a theoretical physicist working on statistical physics and biology. He is a Permanent Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Susan F Gurley Professor of Theoretical Physics and Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2]

Boris Shraiman
Born1956
Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), USSR
CitizenshipUSA
EducationUniversity of Lowell (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Known forStatistical Physics and Physics of Living Matter
AwardsMember, National Academy of Sciences (2011)
Fellow, American Physical Society (1998)
Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology (2009)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Rutgers University
Bell Labs
University of Chicago
ThesisApplication of the Renormalization Group Methods to the Study of Critical Transitions in Dynamical Systems. (1983)
Doctoral advisorPaul Cecil Martin[1]
Websitewww.kitp.ucsb.edu/shraiman

Biography

Shraiman earned a PhD from Harvard in 1983 and did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago in the James Franck Institute. In his early work, Shraiman addressed how dynamical systems transition to chaos and how patterns form in viscous flows and dendritic growth.[3][4] He moved to Bell Labs, where he worked on quantum materials,[5][6] then later became a professor at Rutgers University in 2002 and the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004. He has advanced the understanding of turbulent fluids,[7][8] and since the 1990s, his work has built connections between statistical physics and biological problems.[9] In particular, his research has pointed to the interplay between mechanics and morphogenesis, which addresses the problem of "growth and form" in animal development,[10][11] and developed models to describe evolutionary dynamics in populations such as influenza.[12][13] He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.[14]

References
  1. Paul Cecil Martin
  2. "Boris Shraiman | KITP". Kitp.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  3. 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. Bibcode:1981PhRvL..46..935S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.935.
  4. D. Bensimon, L. P. Kadanoff, S. Liang (1986). "Viscous flows in two dimensions". Reviews of Modern Physics. 58 (4): 977–999. Bibcode:1986RvMP...58..977B. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.58.977. S2CID 54051923.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. B. I. Shraiman; E. D. Siggia (1989). "Spiral phase of a doped quantum antiferromagnet". Physical Review Letters. 62 (13): 1564–1567. Bibcode:1989PhRvL..62.1564S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.1564. PMID 10039706.
  6. 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. Bibcode:1996PhRvB..54.5405M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.5405. PMID 9986499. S2CID 827848.
  7. B. Shraiman; E. Siggia (2000). "Scalar turbulence". Nature. 405 (6787): 639–646. Bibcode:2000Natur.405..639S. doi:10.1038/35015000. PMID 10864314. S2CID 4359554.
  8. M. Vergassola; E. Villermaux; B. Shraiman (2007). "'Infotaxis' as a strategy for searching without gradients". Nature. 445 (7126): 406–409. Bibcode:2007Natur.445..406V. doi:10.1038/nature05464. PMID 17251974. S2CID 8973078.
  9. "VIDEO: KITP Chair Endowment / Adventures at the Edge of Physics".
  10. K. D. Irvine; B. I. Shraiman (2017). "Mechanical control of growth: ideas, facts and challenges". Development. 144 (23): 4238–4248. doi:10.1242/dev.151902. PMC 5769630. PMID 29183937.
  11. B. I. Shraiman (2005). "Mechanical feedback as a possible regulator of tissue growth". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar. 102 (9): 3318–3323. Bibcode:2005PNAS..102.3318S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0404782102. PMC 552900. PMID 15728365.
  12. R. A. Neher; T. Bedford; R. S. Daniels; C. A. Russell; B. I. Shraiman (2016). "Antigenic phenotypes of seasonal influenza viruses". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (12): E1701–E1709. doi:10.1073/pnas.1525578113. PMC 4812706. PMID 26951657.
  13. R. A. Neher; C. A. Russell; B. I. Shraiman (2014). "Predicting evolution from the shape of genealogical trees". eLife. 3. arXiv:1406.0789. doi:10.7554/eLife.03568. PMC 4227306. PMID 25385532.
  14. "Boris I. Shraiman".
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