James Sethna
James Sethna has made substantive contributions to many fields - glasses and spin glasses, dynamical systems and chaos, liquid crystals, crackling noise, plasticity, fracture, information geometry, and the renormalization group. He is the author of "Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity", a textbook which he says is a distillation of the most generally useful ideas in the subject. He is professor of physics at Cornell University.
