Paul Mark Goldbart (born August 1960 in Barnet,

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) is a physicist and author, and was the first director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

. His research ranges widely over the field of

condensed matter physics Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid State of matter, phases, that arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms and elec ...

, including soft matter, disordered systems, nanoscience and

superconductivity Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where Electrical resistance and conductance, electrical resistance vanishes and Magnetic field, magnetic fields are expelled from the material. Unlike an ord ...

. Goldbart was provost of

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from March 2021 until January 2022. Prior to that he had served as dean of the college of natural sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, Dean of the College of Sciences at the

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, and as the director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory.

Career

Goldbart earned his Ph.D. at

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in 1985 under Professor David Sherrington. Goldbart is a trustee of and the former

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/ref> for the Aspen Center for Physics in

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. He is a fellow of the

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and the

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Books

* M. Stone, P. Goldbart, "Mathematics for Physics: A guided Tour for Graduate Students" Cambridge University Press, 2009 * P. Goldbart, N. Goldenfeld, D. Sherrington, "Stealing the Gold: A Celebration of the Pioneering Physics of Sam Edwards (International Series of Monographs on Physics)" Oxford University Press, USA 2005

References

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