Theoretical Problems in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

9714725纳尔逊这项对这位杰出的资深PI的续期拨款支持在凝聚态物理和统计力学中的各种主题的工作，重点是几何和无序之间的相互作用。有关于第二类超导体中与人工钉扎中心相互作用的涡旋、布居生物学中的局域效应以及聚合物和囊泡中的热涨落和动力学的项目。有计划考虑通过运行平行于外部磁场的外部电流来产生纠缠涡旋线的“加工硬化”状态的方法。在非均匀介质中具有对流的简单种群生物学模型中，基本的数学结构对应于非埃尔米特局部化问题，并且服从于细菌的实验室研究。有计划在空间不均匀的环境中研究“费舍尔波”。这位资深杰出的PI以开创性、创新性的研究而广受认可；精彩清晰、具有启发性和娱乐性的演讲以及对学生和博士后的精心培养。他从事凝聚态统计力学和生物物理学的研究，范围从超导体到聚合物和囊泡。他在这笔续期拨款中的工作还包括人口生物学中的本地化效应项目。***

9714725 Nelson This renewal grant to this senior distinguished PI supports work on a variety of topics in condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics, with emphasis on interplay between geometry and disorder. There are projects on vortices interacting with artificial pinning centers in a type II superconductor, localization effects in population biology and thermal fluctuations and dynamics in polymers and vesicles. There are plans to consider ways of producing a "work-hardened" state of tangled vortex lines by running an external current parallel to the external magnetic field. In simple models of population biology with convection in heterogeneous media, the underlying mathematical structure corresponds to a non-Hermitian localization problem and is amenable to laboratory investigation with bacteria. There are plans to study "Fisher waves" in a spatially inhomogeneous environment. %%% This senior distinguished PI is widely recognized for pioneering, innovative research; wonderfully lucid, stimulating and entertaining presentations and a careful nurturing of students and postdocs. He works on the statistical mechanics of condensed matter and biophysics, ranging from superconductors to polymers and vesicles. His work in this renewal grant also contains projects on localization effects in population biology. ***