Mark Newman
Mark Newman is a British physicist . He has been Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan , USA since 2002 . His research areas are complex networks - especially social and biological networks - as well as computer networks .
Newman graduated from the University of Oxford . In 1988 he received his B.-A. - and in 1991 his Ph.-D. -Graduation. After stays as a postdoc at Cornell University and the Santa Fe Institute , he first became an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in 2002 , has been a Full Professor there since 2007 and Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics since 2015 .
His main areas of interest are statistical physics and the theory of complex systems, with an emphasis on networked systems, including social, biological and computer networks. The topics he has dealt with with his colleagues include mathematical models of the network structure, algorithms for analyzing network data and applications of network theory to various concrete problems such as the spread of diseases in human populations, the spread of computer viruses, Patterns of collaboration among scientists or business people, citation networks and the robustness of networks in the event of network node failure. Among other things, he develops mathematical methods to detect and map social networks:
"Network theory is not a gimmick, I am not interested in karate clubs per se, but in the mathematical aids to find and map social networks."
He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014 . In 2014 he received the Lagarange Prize from the CRT Foundation and in 2016 a Guggenheim grant .
Fonts
- with Duncan J. Watts (Ed.): The Structure and Dynamics of Networks . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2006, ISBN 0-691-11357-2 .
- Mark Newman: Networks . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-880509-0 (English).
- Mark Newman: The physics of networks . In: Physics Today . tape 61 , no. 11 , 2008, p. 33 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.3027989 (English).
Web links
- Literature by and about Mark Newman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile of Mark Newmans on the University of Michigan website
- Connected strategies for connecting homes. In: Vodafone-Receiver Magazine No. 18 May 2007, archived from the original on 11 October 2008 .
Individual evidence
- ^ CV Mark Newman. (pdf) Retrieved November 18, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Max Rauner: Quite a knot . In: The time . February 26, 2004 ( zeit.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Newman, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Newman, Mark EJ; Newman, MEJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |