James Crutchfield

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James Patrick Crutchfield (born June 30, 1955 in San Francisco ) is an American physicist who deals with chaos theory and the theory of complex systems.

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Crutchfield studied mathematics and physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1979 (summa cum laude) and his PhD in 1983. In the late 1970s he was part of a group of PhD students who pioneered chaos theory ( Robert Shaw (physicist) , Norman Packard , J. Doyne Farmer ). As a post-doc he was at Los Alamos National Laboratory (where he was a visiting scientist again and again afterwards) and from 1983 at the University of California, Berkeley (1985/86 with an IBM scholarship), where he was Research Physicist until 1997 . From 1990 he was External Associate Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and thereafter Research Professor until 2004, then External Professor. From 1995 to 2004 he was also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico . From 2004 he was a professor at the University of California, Davis and director of the Complexity Science Center there.

He has also been visiting professor at the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at the University of California, San Francisco , the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Bernard Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

In addition to chaos theory, Crutchfield dealt with hydrodynamics, pattern formation, theory of phase transitions, solid state physics, astrophysics, evolution theory, genetic algorithms.

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SURNAME Crutchfield, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crutchfield, James P .; Crutchfield, James Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco