Boston University

Department of Physics

38 Mossfield Road

Boston, MA 02215

Waban, MA 02168

617-353-2188

617-332-7738

email: klein@buphyc

Personal

Born, April 1, 1943, Philadelphia, Pa. ; married, two children.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Temple University 1972, Physics

B.A. Temple University 1965, Physics

POSITIONS

Professor of Physics, Boston University, Sept. 1984-

Professor, College of Engineering, Boston University, January 1992 -

Visiting Scientist, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, September, 1997 - January 1998

External Researcher, Santa Fe Institute, January, 1996-

Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Sept. 1,1990 - July 1993

Visiting Scientist, Oersted Institute, Copenhagen, July 1, 1992- Dec. 31, 1992

Visiting Professor, McGill University, January 1,1987-December 31, 1989

Visiting Scientist, IBM Bergen Scientific Center, July 1988

Visiting Scientist, University of Konstanz, August 1985

Visiting Scientist, University of Mainz, July 1985

Visiting Scientist, SUNY Stony Brook, August 1984

Visiting Scientist, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, July 1984

Visiting Scientist, Harvard University, Sept. 1983-June 1984

Associate Professor of Physics, Boston University, Sept. 1981-Sept. 1984

Visiting Scientist, IBM Zurich, August 1983

Visiting Scientist, Kernforschungsanlage, Jülich, Germany, July 1983

Visiting Scientist, Kernforschungsanlage, Jülich, Germany, May 1982

Assistant Professor of Physics, Boston University, Jan. 1977-Sept. 1981

Visiting Scientist, Kernforschungsanlage, Jülich, Germany, May 1981

Research Associate, Boston University, Sept. 1976-Jan. 1977

Research Scientist, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Sept. 1974-Sept. 1976

PostDoctoral Fellow, Mathematics Department, MIT, Sept. 1973-Sept. 1974

PostDoctoral Fellow, National Bureau of Standards, June 1972-Sept. 1973

Additional Positions

Consultant, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1984-1985

Consultant, Schlumberger-Doll, 1983-1985

Consultant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1992-1993

ACTIVITIES

Associate Director, Center for Polymer Studies

Member, Board of Directors, Center for Computational Science

Member of External Advisory Board, Colorado Center for Chaos and Complexity, University of Colorado at Boulder

Local Organizing Committee, Stat. Phys. 16, Boston 1986

Co-Organizer, Rutgers Symposium on Kinetics of Phase Transitions May, 1992

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Statistical Physics, January 1, 1991-December 31, 1993

Co-Organizer of Workshop on Natural Hazzard Reduction, Santa Fe Institute, Januaury, 1994

Co-Editor of Reduction and Predictibitity of Natural Disasters, Sante Fe Institute Studies in Science and Complexity, Addison Wesley (1995)

Member of DOE panel on Computational Material Science, Gaithersburg MD February 1995

Co-Organizer of meeting of the IGU on Mathematical Geophysics, Santa Fe, June, 1996

Co-Convener of a session on ``Earthquakes, Modelling and Theory'' American Union of Geophysics meeting, San Francisco, December, 1996

Co-Convener of a session on ``Theory and Modelling in Solid earth Physics'' American Geophysics Union meeting, Sna Francisco, December, 1997

Member of DOE Computational Sciences Initiative Workshop on Materials and Geophysics, Gaithersburg MD, January 1998

PUBLICATIONS

[1]

J. Yang, H. Gould, W. Klein and R. Mountain, ``Dynamics Study of Supercooled Liquids'' J. Chem. Phys., 93, 711 (1990)

[2

L. Monette and W. Klein, ``Spinodal Nucleation as a Coalescence Process'' Phys. Rev. Lett., 68, 2336 (1992)

[3]

N. Gross, W. Klein and K. Ludwig, ``Structure and the Failure of the Linear Theory of Continuous Ordering''Phys. Rev. Lett., 73, 2639 (1994)

[4]

A. Mel'cuk, R. Ramos, H. Gould, W. Klein and R. Mountain, ``Long Lived Structures in Fragile Glasses'' Phys. Rev. Lett., 75, 2552 (1995)

[5]

G. Johnson, A. Mel'cuk, H. Gould, W. Klein and R. Mountain, ``Molecular Dynamics Study of Long Lived Structures in a Fragile Glass Forming Liquid'' Phys. Rev. E 57, 5707 (1998)

[6]

J. Rundle and W. Klein, ``Scaling and Critical Phenomena in a Class of Burridge-Knopoff Models for Earthquakes'' J. Stat. Phys., 72 405 (1993)

[7]

J. B. Rundle and W. Klein, ``Dynamical Segmentation and Rupture Patterns in a `Toy' Slider Block Model for Earthquakes'' Non-Linear Proc. in Geophys. 2, 61 (1995)

[8]

W. Klein, J. B. Rundle and C. D. Ferguson, ``Critical Phenomena and Metastability in Models of Earthquake Faults'' Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3793 (1997)

[9]

J. B. Rundle, E. Preston, S. McGinnis and W. Klein, ``Why Earthquakes Stop: Growth and Arrest in Stochastic Fields'' Phys. Rev. Lett., 80, 5698 (1998)

[10]

C. F. Ferguson, W. Klein and J. R. Rundle ``Spinodals, Scaling and Ergodicity in a Model of an Earthquake Fault with Long-Range Stress Transfer'' Phys. Rev. E, 60, 1374 (1999)