William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor
Professor of Physics
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Physiology (School of Medicine)
Director, Center for Polymer Studies

Gene Stanley

Contact Info:

617.353.2617 (office)

857.891.1941 (mobile and home)

hes@bu.edu

 

Professional Activities:

Selected Publications

Publications by Topic

Articles Cited More Than Their Rank
(HIRSCH INDEX = 112)

Ph.D. Theses Supervised
(Boston University, unless otherwise noted)

Research Associates and "Visiting Scholars"

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Curriculum Vitae [pdf: publications in rank order]

Narrative Biography (update of wikipedia biography)

Feature Article:
Bubble Trouble: Can a Law Describe Bubbles and Crashes
in Financial Markets?

Physics World 24[5], 29-32 (May 2011).

Quantitative Analogies between Financial Fluctuations and Earthquakes:
"A Richter Scale for Markets"
New York Times "Week in Review" (Sunday, 1 August 2010).

Video Lecture:
"Economic Fluctuations and Statistical Physics:
Quantifying Extremely Rare and Much Less Rare Events
"
(Keynote Talk, International Workshop on Coping with Crises
in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, ETH Zurich, September 2008).

Video Lecture:
"Applications of Statistical Physics to Understanding Complex Systems"
(Opening Plenary Talk, International Conference on Complexity (ECCS), Jerusalem, 13-16 September 2008).

American Physical Society Guest Editorial:
"Econophysics and the Current Economic Turmoil"
The Back Page in APS News 17[11], 8-9 (December 2008).

Recognition for PNAS 102, 16558 (2005):
"Emerging Research Fronts"

Related Pages:
"H. Eugene Stanley Festschrift"
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115, Issue 48 (1 December 2011).

"Seeking Connections"
Nature interview (4/24/03).

"The Puzzle in Nature's Patterns"
BU alumni magazine article (Fall 2004).

Peter Gwynne, "Critical Contributions from an Unusual Physicist,"
Physics World 9[9], 10-11 (September 1996).

"Why are there so few women in physics?"
March 2004 acceptance talk, "APS Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service."

Co-Editor: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (Elsevier)

Prize Winning Cover for the cover article:
M. Kitsak, L. K. Gallos, S. Havlin, F. Liljeros, L. Muchnik,
H. E. Stanley, and H. A. Makse,
"Identification of Influential Spreaders in Complex Networks,"
Nature Physics 6, 888-893 (2010).

Physics Today review of The Physics of Foraging:
An Introduction to Random Searches and Biological Encounters

by Viswanathan, da Luz, Raposo, and Stanley.

 

CPS Library Holdings (Internal Circulation)  



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