Boris Shraiman

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Boris Shraiman
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Born1956 (age 68–69)
Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), USSR
Education University of Lowell (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Known forStatistical Physics and Physics of Living Matter
Awards Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics (2026)
Member, National Academy of Sciences (2011)
Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology (2009)
Fellow, American Physical Society (1998)
Scientific career
Institutions University of California, Santa Barbara
Rutgers University
Bell Labs
University of Chicago
Thesis Application of the Renormalization Group Methods to the Study of Critical Transitions in Dynamical Systems.  (1983)
Doctoral advisor Paul Cecil Martin [1]
Website www.kitp.ucsb.edu/shraiman

Boris Shraiman is an American 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]

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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

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  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. 102 (9). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar: 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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