{"id":73013,"date":"2023-08-11T09:26:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?p=73013"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:28:12","slug":"physics-professor-david-campbell-awarded-the-prestigious-sigmaphi-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/physics-professor-david-campbell-awarded-the-prestigious-sigmaphi-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Professor David Campbell Awarded the Prestigious SigmaPhi Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Campbell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boston University Professor of Physics David Campbell has been named a co-recipient of the prestigious SigmaPhi Prize in Statistical Physics at the SigmaPhi Conference in Greece.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The honor, which has been awarded every three years to three statistical physicists since 2005, recognizes outstanding achievements in the field of Statistical Physics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Campbell, an expert in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, was one of three statistical physicists recipients of\u00a0 the 2020 prize, which was awarded at the 2023 conference on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, for \u201c clarifying the mechanism by which microscopically reversible, non-integrable dynamical systems either approach statistical equilibrium or remain trapped in non-equilibrium metastable states.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The prize recognizes his work concerning a long-standing problem in how statistical physics evolves from classical dynamics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is how \u2018the arrow of time\u2019 develops so that we can tell the future from the past,\u201d he said. \u201cFor instance, if I show you a film of a pendulum oscillating back and forth, you can\u2019t tell the difference if I run the film backward. But if I show you a film of a glass of water being poured onto a table, you can be certain that the spilled water can never come back to the table into the glass.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Campbell, this is the difference between the time-reversible dynamics of Newton and the time-irreversible statistical mechanics of Boltzmann, which were the main components of his award-winning research.<\/span><\/p>\n

“A number of very distinguished scientists have won the award, including Nobel Laureates Giorgio Parisi and J. Michael Kosterliz,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cThus, I feel very honored to have received this award.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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