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Physics Home |Faculty | John Kimball

John Kimball

Professor of Physics

Room: physics 214
Phone: 442-4521
eMail: jkimball@albany.edu
   

Ph.D. (1969) University of Chicago
Assistant Professor (1971-1976) and Associate professor (1976-1979),
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University.
Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley (1978-1980)
Visiting Professor, University of California at Davis (1980-1981)


Research Areas:
Statistical Mechanics of Materials
Physics of Sailing
Current Research:
Models of surfaces with high vapor pressure.
Strategies for finding minimum energy paths with incomplete knowledge.

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Recent Publications:

"The Euler machine", R.E. Benenson and J.C. Kimball, European Journal of
Physics, 23, p.95 (2002)

"Chaotic properties of the soft-disk Lorentz gas", J.C. Kimball, Phys. Rev.
E 63 066216 (2001).

"Surface critical behavior near the uniaxial Lifshitz point of the axial
next-nearest-neighbor Ising model" H.L. Frisch, J.C. Kimball and Kurt
Binder, J.Phys. C. Condens. Matter 12, p.29 (2000).


Please send questions or comments to: physics@albany.edu

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