Stanislaw M. Ulam Distinguished Scholars

Statistical mechanics, cellular biophysics, membrane geometry, and the mechanics of living systems.

Nonlinear partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, data science, imaging, and collective behavior.

Nucleosynthesis, supernovae, neutrino-driven explosions, and the cosmic origin of the elements.

Galaxy formation, the first stars, plasma astrophysics, adaptive-mesh simulation, and scientific computing.

Frustrated magnetism, correlated electrons, topological spin textures, and unconventional quantum phases.

Magnetic reconnection, plasma turbulence, kinetic theory, and the physics of fusion-energy systems.

Quantum dynamics, exciton and charge transport, spectroscopy, and theoretical models of molecular materials.

Large-scale nonlinear optimization, interior-point algorithms, and computational methods for engineering systems.

Quantum criticality, heavy-fermion metals, unconventional superconductivity, and strongly correlated topology.

Reaction-rate theory, transition pathways, electronic structure, catalysis, and atomistic simulation methods.

Molecular simulation, biomolecular dynamics, machine-learned potentials, and efficient electronic-structure methods.

Strongly correlated electrons, quantum criticality, magnetism, and unconventional superconductivity.

Quantum phase transitions, transport in correlated systems, Fermi liquids, and Dirac and Weyl materials.

Solitons, nonlinear lattices, Bose–Einstein condensates, optical media, and mathematical physics.

Multiscale theory, coarse-grained molecular models, proton transport, membranes, and biomolecular self-assembly.

Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, climate dynamics, planetary atmospheres, and turbulence.

Thermodynamics of computation, information theory, optimization, game theory, and collective intelligence.

Ferroic materials, structural phase transitions, domain-wall dynamics, avalanches, and mineral physics.

Mathematical biology, biochemical systems theory, regulatory networks, and design principles in living systems.

Turbulence, pattern formation, intermittency, hydrodynamic instability, and nonlinear dynamical systems.

Asymptotic analysis, perturbation theory, and non-Hermitian quantum mechanics with parity–time symmetry.

Fluid and plasma turbulence, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, dynamical systems, and geophysical flows.

First-passage processes, diffusion, complex networks, nonequilibrium systems, and social dynamics.

Boltzmann equations, transport theory, granular gases, long-time correlations, and nonequilibrium fluids.

Disease dynamics, population biology, social behavior, mathematical modeling, and public-health intervention.

Nonlinear partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, turbulence, geophysics, and data assimilation.

Critical dynamics, mode-coupling theory, phase separation, and nonequilibrium condensed-matter systems.

Phase transitions, metastability, glasses, earthquakes, damage, and stochastic models of complex materials.

Solitons, nonlinear excitations, correlated materials, field theory, and nonequilibrium phenomena.

Operator theory, Navier–Stokes equations, dynamical systems, inertial manifolds, and turbulence.

Many-body theory, collective excitations, superconductivity, quantum liquids, and emergent phenomena.

Spin glasses, disordered and frustrated systems, complex energy landscapes, and many-body theory.

Equation-free computation, bifurcation analysis, data-driven modeling, and multiscale scientific computation.

Multigrid methods, sparse linear systems, numerical PDEs, transport, and scalable scientific solvers.

Chemotaxis, biological pattern formation, nonlinear waves, fluid instability, and applied mathematical modeling.

Discrete breathers, nonlinear lattices, localization, condensed-matter dynamics, and energy transfer.

Nonlinear wave equations, compactons, dispersive systems, and localized coherent structures.

Nonlinear dynamics, planetary and astrophysical systems, theoretical geophysics, and computational modeling.

Transport and mixing, invariant manifolds, reaction dynamics, fluid mechanics, and nonlinear phase-space methods.

Chaos, coupled-map lattices, theoretical biophysics, development, evolution, and universal properties of life.

Elastic turbulence, viscoelastic flows, hydrodynamic instability, pattern formation, and soft-matter physics.

Genetic algorithms, machine learning, adaptation, complex systems, and computational models of cognition.

Particle physics, statistical mechanics, critical phenomena, lattice models, and chaos theory.

Reaction–diffusion systems, biological pattern formation, epidemiology, ecology, medicine, and developmental biology.