Mark Bowick
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| Born | Mark John Bowick Rotorua, New Zealand (1957) |
| Citizenship | U.S. and New Zealand |
| Education | University of Canterbury (B.Sc. [Hons.]) California Institute of Technology (MSc) (PhD) |
| Known for | Condensed Matter Theory and High Energy Theoretical Physics |
| Awards | Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition (1986) Outstanding Junior Investigator (1987) Fellow of the American Physical Society (2004 Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement (2006) William Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Advising (2009) |
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| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara Syracuse University Yale University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mark John Bowick (born 1957) is a dual national, (United States / New Zealand), theoretical physicist in condensed matter theory and high-energy physics. Bowick is the Deputy Director[1] of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Physics[2] in UCSB's Physics Department.
Education
Bowick was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, and earned his bachelor's degree, B.Sc. (Hons.), at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.[citation needed] In 1983, he received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology, where he held an Earle C. Anthony Graduate Fellowship.[citation needed] His thesis was entitled, Radiative Mass Structure in Unified Models and Fermions in the Desert.[citation needed]
Professional career
Bowick then spent three years at Yale University as the research associate of their Sloane Physics Lab's "Particle Theory Group,"[3][failed verification] followed by a two-year postdoctoral position at the Center for Theoretical Physics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[citation needed]
He was awarded first prize in the 1986 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition.[4] In 1987, he joined the faculty of the Physics Department[5] at Syracuse University (SU), where he was granted an Outstanding Junior Investigator[6] award, from the United States Department of Energy, for the years 1987 to 1994. At SU, Bowick served as assistant and associate professor from 1987 to 1998, was promoted to full professor of physics in 1998, and went on to become Director of the Soft Matter Program[7] from 2011 to 2016.
SU honored Bowick with two commendations: the Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement[8] in 2006, and the William Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Advising in 2009.[9]
In August 2016, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invited Bowick to join as Deputy Director and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Physics.[1]
Since 2002, his career has been split between high-energy physics and condensed matter physics, with ongoing research support by the National Science Foundation.[citation needed]
He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society's Division of Condensed Matter Physics in 2004,[10][11] and joined the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.[citation needed]
Research
Bowick's research interests include the interplay of order and geometry, building blocks for supramolecular self-assembly, shaped structures, topological defects and common themes in condensed matter and particle physics.[citation needed]
Interests
In 2016, while director of Syracuse University's Soft Matter Program, Bowick commissioned composer Andrew Waggoner to write music for their Active And Smart Matter Conference: A New Frontier for Science & Engineering.[12] The world premiere of this new, eclectic composition, entitled Hexacorda Mollia,[13] was performed by the JACK Quartet on June 22, 2016.
Honors and awards
- First prize in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition (1986)[4]
- Outstanding Junior Investigator, United States Department of Energy (1987–1994)[6]
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Condensed Matter Physics (elected 2004)[11]
- Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement, Syracuse University (2006)[8]
- William Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Advising, Syracuse University (2009)[9]
Selected publications
- Bowick, MJ and LCR Wijewardhana, Superstrings at High Temperature, Physical Review Letters 54 (23), 2485 (1985).
- Bowick, MJ, and TW Appelquist, D Karabali, LCR Wijewardhana, Spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking in three-dimensional QED, Physical Review D 33 (12), 3704 (1986).
- Bowick, MJ, and L Chandar, EA Schiff, AM Srivastava, The Cosmological Kibble Mechanism in the Laboratory – String Formation in Liquid-Crystals, Science 263 (5149), 943–944 (1994).
- Bowick, MJ and A Travesset, The statistical mechanics of membranes, Physics Reports 344 (4-6), 255–308 (2001).
- Bowick, MJ, and AR Bausch, A Cacciuto, AD Dinsmore, MF Hsu, DR Nelson, ... Grain boundary scars and spherical crystallography, Science 299 (5613), 1716–1718 (2003).
- Bowick, MJ and L Giomi, Two-Dimensional Matter: Order, Curvature and Defects, Advances in Physics 58 (5), 449–563 (2009).
- Bowick MJ, and L Giomi, X Ma, MC Marchetti, Defect annihilation and proliferation in active nematics, Physics Review Letters 110 (22), 228101 (2013).
- Bowick, MJ, and FC Keber, E Loiseau, T Sanchez, SJ DeCamp, L Giomi, ... Topology and dynamics of active nematic vesicles, Science 345 (6201), 1135–1139 (2014).
References
- ^ a b "KITP / Mark Bowick".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "UCSB Physics Department", Wikipedia, 2019-01-05, retrieved 2021-01-12
- ^ "People | Particle Theory Group". het.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ^ a b "Gravity Research Foundation". Gravity Research Foundation. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ^ "Mark Bowick". College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ a b "Prior Year HEP Early Career Awar... | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)". science.osti.gov. 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ^ Lissner, Michelle. "Soft & Living Matter | SLM@SU". Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ^ a b "University Archives | Syracuse University Libraries". library.syr.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ^ a b "William Wasserstrom Prize – Graduate – Syracuse University". graduateschool.syr.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ^ "Home – Unit – DCMP". engage.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ a b "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
- ^ "2016 Active and Smart Matter". Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- ^ Hexacorda Mollia by Andrew Waggoner - A Unique Commission, retrieved 2021-01-13
External links
- 1957 births
- 20th-century American physicists
- 21st-century American physicists
- New Zealand physicists
- Living people
- People from Rotorua
- California Institute of Technology alumni
- University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
- Particle physicists
- Theoretical physicists
- Syracuse University faculty
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
- University of Canterbury alumni
- Topological dynamics
- Condensed matter physicists