James Langer

Biography

Ph.D., University of Birmingham, England,1958.
Faculty, Physics Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1958-1982.
Permanent Member, UCSB Institute for Theoretical Physics (now KITP), 1982-2005. Director, ITP, 1989-1995.
President, American Physical Society 2000; Vice President, National Academy of Sciences, 2001 - 2005.

Research

Nonequilibrium theories of pattern formation; statistical theory of deformation and failure of crystalline solids.

Selected Publications

Fracture toughness of crystalline solids, J.S. Langer, Phys. Rev. E, 103, 063004 (2021).
Scaling confirmation of the thermodynamic dislocation theory, J. S. Langer and K. C. Le, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 24, 117, 47, 29431 (2020).
Statistical thermodynamics of crystal plasticity, J.S. Langer, Journal of Statistical Physics 175, 531–541 (2019).
Theories of glass formation and the glass transition, J.S. Langer, Rep. Prog. Phys. 77 042501 (2014).
Deformation and failure of amorphous, solid-like materials, M. L. Falk and J.S. Langer, Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics, 2:353–73 (2011).
Thermodynamic theory of dislocation-mediated plasticity, J.S. Langer, E. Bouchbinder, and T. Lookman, Acta Materialia 58 3718–3732 (2010).
Dynamics of earthquake faults, J. Carlson, J.S. Langer, and B. Shaw, Reviews of Modern Physics, 66, (1994).
Instabilities and pattern formation, J.S. Langer, Reviews of Modern Physics, 52, (1980).
Statistical Theory of the Decay of Metastable States, J.S. Langer, Annals of Physics 54, 258-275 (1969).
Theory of the Condensation Point, J.S. Langer, Annals of Physics , 41, 108 (1967).