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