A. Alan Middleton

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A. Alan Middleton
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
Cambridge University
Harvey Mudd College
Known forDisordered Materials
Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model
AwardsAPS Fellow (2010)
AAAS Fellow (2016)
Scientific career
InstitutionsSyracuse University
ThesisCritical and qualitative behavior of sliding charge density waves (1990)
Doctoral advisorDaniel S. Fisher
Other academic advisorsM. Cristina Marchetti
Websiteaamiddle.expressions.syr.edu

Arthur Alan Middleton is a professor of physics and the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University.[1][2] He is known for his work in the fields of disordered materials such as random magnets, spin glasses, and interfaces in a random environment, transport in disordered materials, interface motion, and colloidal assemblies, condensed matter physics, statistical physics, and computational physics, connections between algorithm dynamics, computer science analyses, algorithms for efficient simulation of complex dynamics, including heuristic coarse graining for glassy materials.[3]

Education[edit]

Middleton earned his bachelor's in mathematics and physics with distinction at Harvey Mudd College in 1984. He received Churchill Scholarship and moved to Cambridge University where he earned a certificate of advanced study. He also received the NSF-GRFP grant from the National Science Foundation in 1984. Middleton joined Princeton University in 1986 and earned a PhD in physics in October 1990.[4]

Career[edit]

The Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model, named after Ofer Biham, Middleton, and Dov Levine.

In 1990, Middleton started postdoctoral research associate in the physics department at Syracuse. From 1992 to 1994, he was a visiting scientist at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.[2]

He joined the department of physics, Syracuse University, in 1995 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2008. He served as the department chair from 2013 to 2017.[5] Middleton was named the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[2]

Middleton formulated the Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model along with Ofer Biham and Dov Levine in 1992.[6]

Awards[edit]

Middleton was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010 for "his innovative numerical studies of the dynamical and static properties of disordered condensed matter systems, including charge density waves, spin glasses and disordered elastic media".[7]

He received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1995.[8]

Middleton was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016.[9][10]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Alan Middleton". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Enslin, Rob (May 9, 2017). "Alan Middleton Appointed A&S Associate Dean". Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). July 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  4. ^ Middleton, Arthur Alan (October 1990). Critical and qualitative behavior of sliding charge density waves (PhD). Princeton University. OCLC 83953264. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  5. ^ Mattingly, Justin (3 March 2015). "SU uses gift to establish Charles Brightman Endowed Professorship of Physics". The Daily Orange. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  6. ^ Biham, Ofer; Middleton, A. Alan; Levine, Dov (November 1992). "Self-organization and a dynamical transition in traffic-flow models". Phys. Rev. A. 46 (10). American Physical Society: R6124–R6127. arXiv:cond-mat/9206001. Bibcode:1992PhRvA..46.6124B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.46.R6124. ISSN 1050-2947. PMID 9907993. S2CID 14543020. Archived from the original on 2013-02-24. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  7. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. American Physical Society. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  8. ^ Middleton, A. Alan (1 March 1999). "Computational complexity of determining the barriers to interface motion in random systems". Physical Review E. 59 (3): 2571–2577. arXiv:cond-mat/9902203. Bibcode:1999PhRvE..59.2571M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.59.2571. S2CID 56166087. Retrieved 16 May 2021. This work has been supported by .... Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
  9. ^ Pinholster, Ginger (20 November 2016). "2016 AAAS Fellows Honored for Advancing Science to Serve Society". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  10. ^ Manley, Amy (December 15, 2016). "Physics Chair Honored for Innovation, Education, Leadership". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved 15 May 2021.

External links[edit]

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