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Nigel Goldenfeld

Department of Physics
Loomis Laboratory
University of Illinois
1110 W. Green
Urbana, IL 61801
USA

Tel: 217-333-8027
Fax: 217-333-9819

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Nigel Goldenfeld holds a Swanlund Endowed Chair and is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 1982, and for the years 1982-1985 was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara. Nigel has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, a University Scholar of the University of Illinois, a recipient of the Xerox Award for research, and a recipient of the A. Nordsieck award for excellence in graduate teaching. In 1996, Nigel co-founded NumeriX, a company that specializes in high-performance software for the derivatives marketplace.   He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Curriculum vitae
Publication list.

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

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

Current Research Interests

Detailed information is available at my research group's homepage.

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  • 563 (RG)
  • 569 (Emergent states of matter)
  • 504 (Stat. Mech.)
  • 598BIO (Biological information and complexity)

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