Alfred Hubler
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Alfred Wilhelm Hübler is a German-born research physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
as well as a tenured faculty member in the UIUC Department of Physics. He is the director of the Center for Complex Systems Research (CCSR) and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute
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Hübler has been a faculty member of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1989 as well as a long-time external faculty member of New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute. From 1993 to 1994, he was a Toshiba chair professor at Keio University in Tokio, Japan. He is also the Executive Editor of the journal Complexity.
Hübler has published more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals about his experimental and theoretical research on complex systems. His 2008 publication, entitled "A simple, low-cost data-logging pendulum built from a computer mouse" is one of the most downloaded papers of all Institute of Physics journal articles (in the top 3%). The American Physical Society (APS) listed his paper on mixed reality on the APS tipsheet and invited him to give a press conference on this topic at the 2008 March meeting. Hübler has a 1997 US patent on minimum dissipation quantum-dot transistors and in 2009 the UIUC filed a patent in his name on digital quantum batteries.
Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics. Seitz was president of Rockefeller University, and president of the United States National Academy of Sciences 1962–1969. He was the recipient of the National Medal of Science, NASA's Distinguished Public Service...
as well as a tenured faculty member in the UIUC Department of Physics. He is the director of the Center for Complex Systems Research (CCSR) and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems.The Institute houses a...
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Biography
Alfred Hübler was born in Munich, (West) Germany in 1957. He earned a doctorate in Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1983. His Ph.D. research was on controlling chaos and fractal particle agglomeration processes. After his Ph.D., Hubler was invited to join Herman Haken's Synergetics group at the University of Stuttgart as a post doc.Hübler has been a faculty member of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1989 as well as a long-time external faculty member of New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute. From 1993 to 1994, he was a Toshiba chair professor at Keio University in Tokio, Japan. He is also the Executive Editor of the journal Complexity.
Hübler has published more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals about his experimental and theoretical research on complex systems. His 2008 publication, entitled "A simple, low-cost data-logging pendulum built from a computer mouse" is one of the most downloaded papers of all Institute of Physics journal articles (in the top 3%). The American Physical Society (APS) listed his paper on mixed reality on the APS tipsheet and invited him to give a press conference on this topic at the 2008 March meeting. Hübler has a 1997 US patent on minimum dissipation quantum-dot transistors and in 2009 the UIUC filed a patent in his name on digital quantum batteries.
Research Interests
Concepts governing the dynamics and structure of emergent patterns in open dissipative systems; mixed reality; prediction and control of fractal network dynamics; entrainment of cancer cells; energy conversion, storage, and distribution; dissipate wave-particle systems; solitons; flames and shock waves; turbulence; reverse osmosis and filtration with fractal absorbers; conceptual networks; quantitative measures for knowledge and intelligence; natural language parsing.Publications
Here are some of Hübler's more important publications:- F. Dinkelacker, A. Hübler, E. Lüscher, (1987), "Pattern formation of powder on a vibrating disc" Biol.Cybern. 56: 51–56
- J. Cremers, A. Hübler (1987), "Construction of differential equations from experimental data", Z.Naturforsch 42a: 797–802.
- A. Hübler, E. Lüscher (1989), "Resonant Stimulation and Control of Nonlinear Oscillators", Naturwissenschaften 76: 67–69.
- A. Hübler (1989), "Adaptive Control of Chaotic Systems", Helv.Phys.Acta 62: 343–346.
- R. Wittmann, T. Kautzky, A. Hübler, E. Lüscher (1991), "A simple experiment for the examination of dendritic river systems", Naturwissenschaften 78: 23–25.
- M. Sperl, A. Chang, N. Weber, A. Hübler (1999), "Hebbian learning in the agglomeration of conducting particles", Phys.Rev.E 59: 3165-3168.
- P. Melby, J. Kaidel, N. Weber, A. Hübler, (2000), "Adaptation to the edge of chaos in the self-adjusting logistic map", Phys.Rev.Lett. 84: 5991–5993.
- C. Strelioff, A. Hübler (2006), "Medium term prediction of chaos", Phys.Rev.Lett. 96: 044101-1-4.
- M.S. Singleton, A. Hübler (2007), "Learning rate and attractor size of the single-layer perceptron", Phys.Rev.E 75: 057201.
- A. Hübler, O. Osuagwu (2010), "Digital Quantum Batteries: Energy and information storaage in nano vacuum, tube arrays", Complexity 15(5): 48–55.
External links
- CyberProf
- Center for Complex Systems Research
- How-Why.com
- A Quantum Leap in Battery Design
- APS Physics Tip Sheet #68