Profile

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 Boards of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance and Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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.
• Looking for a survey of modern soft condensed matter physics? Try "Stealing the Gold".
• Curious about evolution? Learn about the ground-breaking discovery of the third domain of life, celebrated at the symposium "Hidden Before Our Eyes"
• View "Collective Effects", Nigel's acceptance speech at the investiture of the Swanlund Endowed Chair

Teaching

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

My finance page

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