Profile

Nigel has moved to the University of California San Diego.  This website is no longer being actively maintained and will be taken down when his last graduate student leaves and turns off the lights.

Please go to this website which is actively maintained. 

Current Research Interests: please see Nigel's research group's homepage.

Articles and talks

• Preprints, book reviews and articles
• Abstracts of current talks; talks online
• My research: FAQ.
• My book on renormalization group and errata.
• My essays on Edge
• My finance page

Videos

• Interviews, lectures, tutorials and musical physics parodies on YouTube
  
  
• Curious about evolution? Learn about the ground-breaking discovery of the third domain of life, celebrated at the symposium "Hidden Before Our Eyes" and follow the Chancellor's Colloquium on Evolution: Biology and Beyond during 2009-2010.

Teaching

• 563 (Phase Transitions and Renormalization Group)
• 569 (Emergent states of matter)
• 504 (Statistical Mechanics)
• 598BIO (Biological information and complexity)

View Nigel's Commencement Address to the UIUC Department of Mathematics (2008).

View "Collective Effects", Nigel's acceptance speech at the investiture of the Swanlund Endowed Chair