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Professor William Newman focuses on applying methods of theoretical physics and applied mathematics to real-world problems. His research interests include the development of new statistical techniques for assessing the significance of climate change and earthquake hazards, as well as models concerning the evolution of solar system bodies, including the potential for small bodies residing in orbit around Jupiter to collide with Earth, which could result in large-scale species extinction events. His work also involves energetic flows near the speed of light and the behavior of charged particles in astrophysical environments, particularly how they may be collimated by massive magnetic fields. Newman has published graduate textbooks with Princeton and Cambridge University Presses and has contributed over 100 refereed professional papers. He has created courses particularly relevant to the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, including a diversity requirement-satisfying undergraduate course on natural disasters and graduate courses on planetary atmospheres and the continuum mechanics underlying earthquakes. He is currently on sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.