Leonard Sander
Leonard Sander | |
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| Education | University of California, Berkeley Washington University in St. Louis |
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| Institutions | University of Michigan |
Leonard Sander is a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and a fellow of the American Physical Society.[1] His research includes physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, computational neuroscience, and theoretical complex systems.
Early life and education
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Sander earned his B.A. in physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1963 and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968.[1]He later joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1969.[2]
Career
[edit]Sander started work at the University of Michigan in 1969.[1]
His research includes growth processes, statistical physics far from equilibrium, theoretical biophysics, and numerical computation. He has co-authored over 240 published papers.[3] Along with Thomas Witten, he proposed the theory of diffusion-limited aggregation.[4]
His paper with Witten in Physical Review Letters in 1981 has been cited over 4,000 times.[5]
Sander's latest work involves the harmonic measure of fractals, cell motility and malignant brain tumors, statistical fluctuations and front propagation, and new methods for computation of rare events.[1]
Sander has authored two college textbooks, Equilibrium Statistical Physics and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics.[6]
His work has also been included in other textbooks, including Statistical Physics by L.P. Kadanoff.[7]
Select publications
[edit]- T A Witten Jr. and L. M. Sander. Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1400 (1981), Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, a Kinetic Cricital Phenomenon
- C. R. Doering, K. V. Sargysan and L. M. Sander, Extinction times for birth-death processes: exact results, continuum asymptotics, and the failure of the Fokker-Planck approximation, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 3 (2), 283-299 (2005)
- A. M. Stein, D. A. Vader, L. M. Jawerth, D. A. Weitz and L. M. Sander, An algorithm for extracting the network geometry of three-dimensional collagen gels, Journal of Microscopy-Oxford 232 (3), 463-475 (2008)
- Fractal Dimensions of the Q-state Potts Model for Complete and External Hulls (David A. Adams, L. M. Sander, R. M. Ziff) Journal of Statistical Mechanics, Theory and Experiment, 2010
- The Role of Cell Contraction and Adhesion in Dictyostelium Motility (Leonard M. Sander, Mathias Buenemann, Herbert Levine, Wouter-Jan Rappel) Biophysical Journal vol. 99, no. 1, 2010
- The Micromechanics of Three-dimensional Collagen-I gels (Andrew M Stein, David A. Vader, David A. Weitz, Leonard M. Sander) Complexity vol. 16, no. 22, 2011.
- Kim, J , Feng, JC,; Jones, CAR, Mao, XM, Sander, LM, Levine, H, Sun, B, Stress-induced plasticity of dynamic collagen networks, Nature Communications 8, 842 (2017)
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Leonard Sander". University of Michigan Department of Physics. Retrieved 2026-05-06.
- ↑ "Len Sander". University of Michigan. Retrieved May 6, 2026.
- ↑ "Leonard Sander". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ↑ Witten, T. A.; Sander, L. M. (1981). "Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, a Kinetic Critical Phenomenon". Physical Review Letters. 47 (19): 1400–1403. Bibcode:1981PhRvL..47.1400W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1400.
- ↑ Witten, T. A.; Sander, L. M. (9 November 1981). "Physical Review Letters". APS Journals. 47 (19): 1400–1403. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1400. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
- ↑ "Leonard M. Sander". University of Michigan. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
- ↑ Kadanoff, L. P. (2000). Statistical Physics: statics, dynamics and renormalization. World Scientific. p. 101.