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William Newman, Professor of Planetary Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
Mail Code: 156704 |
| Office: | Geology 4640 |
| Telephone: | (310) 825-3912 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | win@ucla.edu |
| Alternate: | newman@ess.ucla.edu |
| Web Page: | Phys. & Astronomy |
| Web Page: | Mathematics Dept. |
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Courses Taught |
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| | ESS 200A
ESS 201
ESS 202 |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Planetary physics, geophysical fluid dynamics and the earthquake mechanism; generalized inverse theory; radiation processes, the solar-terrestrial relationship, nonlinear dynamics and computation. |
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Education |
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| | B.Sc., 1971, (Hon.), Physics, University of Alberta, Canada
M.Sc., 1972, Physics, University of Alberta, Canada
M.S.., 1975, Astronomy and Space Science, Cornell University
Ph.D., 1979, Astronomy and Space Science, Cornell University |
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Selected Publications |
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| | Weibel, W. M., W.M. Kaula, and W.I. Newman, A computer search
for stable orbits in the Jupiter-Saturn zone, Icarus, 83, 382-390, 1990. |
| | Newman, W. I. and D.L. Turcotte, Cascade model for fluvial geomorphology,
Geophys. J., 100, 433-439, 1990. | | | Newman, W. I. and
I. Wasserman, Hierarchical fragmentation model for the evolution of self-gravitating
clouds, Astrophys. J., 354, 411-417, 1990. | | | Newman,
A.L. and W.I. Newman, Stochastic forcing of magnetized particles: A kinematic
mechanism for particle energization, Phys. Fluids B, 3, 915-920, 1991. |
| | Newman, W. I., D.K. Campbell, and J.M. Hyman, Identifying coherent
structures in nonlinear wave propagation, Chaos, 1, 77-94, 1991. |
| | Newman, W. I. and A.M. Gabrielov, Failure of hierarchical distributions
of fibre bundles. I., Intl. J. Fracture, 50, 1-14, 1991. | | | Newman,
W.I., Gabrielov, A., and Turcotte, D.L. (eds.) Nonlinear Dynamics and Predictability
of Critical Geophysical Phenomena (Geophysical Monograph #83: IUGG-AGU) |
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