Research Interests

Numerical simulations of high dimensional drive threshold systems; Pattern analysis of complex systems; Dynamics of driven nonlinear Earth systems; Adaptation in complex systems; Statistical Physics of Earthquakes; Earthquake Forecasting.

Career History

• Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1976
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles, 1976-1977
• Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, 1977-1990
• Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1990-1993
• Professor, University of Colorado, 1993-2002
• Professor of Physics, Engineering and Geology, University of California, Davis, 2002-Present
• Director, Center for Computational Science & Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2002-Present

Honors

• 4th Lorenz Lecturer, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2004
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 2004
• Aki Award for Distinguished Service as Chair (1994-1996) of the Advisory Board of the Southern California Earthquake Center, 2001
• Award for Outstanding Contributions in Geosciences Research, given at the Geosciences Research Symposium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, April 1996
• Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA, 1995- Present
• Association Lecturer, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior, Wellington, NZ 1994
• Best Paper of the US Geological Survey, Branch of Geologic Risk Assessment, 1989 (with G. King & R. Stein, $500 Award)
• Award for Exceptional Contributions in Fundamental Research, Sandia National Laboratories, 1987 ($2500 Award)
• University of Illinois Mother’s Association Book Award for Scholastic Excellence University Teaching Fellow, University of Illinois, Physics Department, 1974
• Phi Eta Sigma, Princeton University
• Tau Beta Pi, Princeton University
• Phi Beta Kappa, Princeton University
• National Merit Finalist
• Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University, 1972