Distinguished External Advisory Panel

The Consortium Director is adviced regarding directions of the Consortium by a Distinguished External Advisory Panel of internationally acclaimed scientists from outside UNM. Here are the current members:

Alan Bishop (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Director of the Theory Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Recipient of the Lawrence Award, Fellow of the American Physical Society and an international leader in non-linear science and condensed matter physics.

Leo Kadanoff (University of Chicago)
John D. MacArtur Distinguished Service Professor in the Physics and Mathematics Departments at the University of Chicago.
Recipient of numerous awards including the Elliott Cresson Medal, the Boltzmann Medal, the Centennial Medal, the Lars Onsanger Prize, the Grande Medaille D’Or, and the National Medal of Science. Member of the National Academy of Sciences. A world authority in nonlinear systems and statistical physics.

Katja Lindenberg (University of California at San Diego)
An internationally known expert on statistical mechanics of open systems, Associate Director of the Institute for Nonlinear Science University of California at San Diego, past Chairperson of the Department of Chemistry, and Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Alan Newell (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson)
A world leader in Applied Mathematics for nonlinear phenomena such as soliton dynamics and pattern formation. Professor at the University of Arizona and at the University of Warwick (U.K.)

Moysés Nussenzveig (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Recipient of the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America and an outstanding Latin American mathematical physicist and optical scientist from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) who has turned his attention recently to such interdisciplinary topics as optical tweezers.

Robert Silbey (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)
Dean of the School of Science and Class of ’42 Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Internationally recognized for his contributions to theoretical chemistry, exciton-phonon interactions, polaron dynamics.