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Princeton University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Charles Michael
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He works in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, and probability theory. He has contributed to numerous fields where probability mixes with physics, including metastability, spin glasses, the mathematics of food webs and the Ising model, and percolation theory including its connections to Schramm–Loewner evolutions and the Brownian web. According to his citation for membership of the National Academy of Sciences, he is "an agile and creative probabilist" who "has made deep, unusually insightful contributions over a wide range of science.
He is most widely known for his work in disordered systems, including percolation models, random networks and spin glasses.
His contributions combine conceptual penetration with technical virtuosity." In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Newman graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966 with degrees in both mathematics and physics.
He completed his Doctor of Philosophy at Princeton University in 1971 with advisor Arthur Wightman. After two years as an Assistant Professor at New York University, he accepted a position at Indiana University.
In 1979 he moved to the University of Arizona in Tucson, and then in 1989 to the Courant Institute.
He was Chair of the Mathematics Department from 1998–2001, and Director of the Institute from 2002–2006. His students at New York University have included Seema Nanda.
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American Mathematical Society. National Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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