John Wettlaufer

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A.M. Bateman Professor of Geophysics, Mathematics and Physics
+1 (203) 432-0892
john.wettlaufer@yale.edu
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Research Areas: 
Condensed Matter Physics
Research Type: 
Theorist
Current Projects: 
Stochastic processes, asymptotic analysis and other approaches and methods from modern applied mathematics and physics, along with numerical simulations to probe a broad range of problems including the microscopic theory of melting, the mechanisms underlying cosmogony, climate dynamics, information theory and turbulence. 
 
Biographical Sketch: 

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Overview

I am trained as a condensed matter theorist and have a wide variety of research interests in soft matter, statistical physics and applied mathematics.  I am interested in trying to construct simple but observationally constrained theories and analogue experiments for complex phenomena in nonlinear dynamics, fluid dynamics, astrophysics, biophysics and geophysics – particularly rapid climate change.  The scales of interest range from atomic to astronomical units.  I collaborate with a people from many disciplines and my students and post docs come to Yale from departments of engineering, physics and applied mathematics. 

Education: 
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1991
Honors & Awards: 
  • 2021 -             Member, Nobel Committee for Physics                     
  • 2021                Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
  • 2019                Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
  • 2015                Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics Class III)
  • 2013                Royal Society of London Wolfson Research Merit Award
  • 2014                Plenary Speaker, Inter’l Conference on the Physics & Chemistry of Ice
  • 2013                John Carlson Lecturer, Lorenz Center, MIT
  • 2012                Tage Erlander Professor 
  • 2010-11           John Simon Guggenheim Fellow 
  • 2010                OCCAM Visiting Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
  • 2007                Houghton Lecturer, MIT
  • 2005                Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge
  • 2003                Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 1999                The Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Visiting Professor
  • 1996                Research Faculty Fellowship, University of Washington
  • 1985                Sigma Pi Sigma; American Institute of Physics National Honor Society
Selected Publications: 

Representative recent publications

https://users.math.yale.edu/users/wettlaufer/wettlaufer_pubs.html

or

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=wettlaufer&searchtype=author&source=header

for copies.