Joseph L. McCauley (born 1943) is Professor of Physics at the

University of Houston The University of Houston (; ) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas, United States. It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College, a coeducational institution and one of multiple junior colleges formed in ...

. He was

Lars Onsager Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist. He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemist ...

's last graduate student. His main research fields are economics and finance (

econophysics Econophysics is a non-orthodox (in economics) interdisciplinary research field, applying theories and methods originally developed by physicists in order to solve problems in economics, usually those including uncertainty or stochastic processes ...

nonlinear dynamics In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system (or a non-linear system) is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input. Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists, physicists, mathem ...

, and

statistical physics In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities. Sometimes called statistical physics or statistical thermodynamics, its applicati ...

. He has also published papers on the theory of

superfluid Superfluidity is the characteristic property of a fluid with zero viscosity which therefore flows without any loss of kinetic energy. When stirred, a superfluid forms vortex, vortices that continue to rotate indefinitely. Superfluidity occurs ...

s, quantum theory of vortices,

cosmology Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', with the meaning of "a speaking of the wo ...

, porous media, critical phenomena, and science wars. McCauley predicted a Dollar crisis in April, 2007, this is described in chapter 9 of his 2009 book Dynamics of Markets. He serves on the Advisory Board of th
Econophysics Forum
and as an editor of The International Review of Financial Analysis.

Bibliography

McCauley has written four books published by

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

: *''Chaos, Dynamics, and Fractals: An Algorithmic Approach to Deterministic Chaos'' (1993). *''Classical Mechanics: Transformations, Flows, Integrable and Chaotic Dynamics'' (1997) . *''Dynamics of Markets: Econophysics and Finance'' (2004). *''Dynamics of Markets: The New Financial Economics'' (2009). *''Stochastic Calculus and Differential Equations for Physics and Finance'' (2013). and also *''Hydrodynamics of Speed on the Water; Surface Piercing Propellers and Fast Boats'', kdp 2020

External links

University of Houston home page
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