Carolyne Van Vliet

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|birth_place = Dordrecht, Netherlands

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|death_place = Miami, Florida, US

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|fields = Physicist and electronic engineer

|workplaces = University of Miami
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Université de Montréal
University of Minnesota
Florida International University

|alma_mater = Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

|doctoral_advisor = Gerardus J. Sizoo

|academic_advisors = Hendrik Casimir
Jan Blok

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Carolyne Marina Van Vliet (1929 – 2016) was a Dutch-American physicist notable for the theory of generation-recombination noise and for the theory of quantum transport in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, as well as for her many contributions to the foundations of linear response theory. She was a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS){{Cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald/obituary.aspx?n=carolyne-marina-van-vliet&pid=180766289&fhid=9113 |title=Obituary in Miami Herald |last= |first= |date= |website= Legacy.com|access-date=}} and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).{{cite web |url=http://www.as.miami.edu/news/news-archive/remembering-adjunct-professor-of-physics-at-the-um-college-of-arts-and-sciences-dr-carolyne-m-van-vliet.html |title=A&S:News Archive-Remembering Adjunct Professor of Physics at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Carolyne M. Van Vliet |work=miami.edu |access-date=13 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831215403/http://www.as.miami.edu/news/news-archive/remembering-adjunct-professor-of-physics-at-the-um-college-of-arts-and-sciences-dr-carolyne-m-van-vliet.html |archive-date=31 August 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald/obituary.aspx?n=carolyne-marina-van-vliet&pid=180766289&fhid=9113 |title=Miami Herald Obituary |last= |first= |date= |website= Legacy.com|access-date=}}

Education

Van Vliet obtained a BS in physics and mathematics from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in 1949. Van Vliet then obtained an MA in physics from the same university in 1953, and a PhD in 1956 for a thesis titled Current Fluctuations in Semiconductors and Photoconductors, under Gerardus J. Sizoo.{{Cn|date=August 2024}}

Personal life

As a teenager, Van Vliet lived in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands for 5 years.{{cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991166-1,00.html |title=Letters: Jun. 7, 1999 |date=7 June 1999 |publisher= |access-date=13 April 2017 |via=www.time.com |archive-date=26 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026001234/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991166-1,00.html |url-status=dead }} The name change from "K M van Vliet" to "C M Van Vliet" occurred in 1982.{{cite web|url=http://www.physics.miami.edu/~vanvliet/listing.html|title=Publications Carolyne M|work=miami.edu|access-date=13 April 2017}} She moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1956, then to Montreal, Quebec in 1969. Starting in 1995 she lived in Miami, Florida.{{Cite journal|date=2016-07-28|title=Carolyne Marina Van Vliet|journal=Physics Today|issue=7 |page=10595 |url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.6242/abs/|language=EN|doi=10.1063/PT.5.6242|bibcode=2016PhT..2016g0595. }}

Career

Van Vliet was a teaching assistant (1949–1953) at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and then a NV Philips Research Fellow (1953–1956) at the same university. This was followed by an appointment as a Fulbright Fellow in the electrical engineering department at the University of Minnesota (1956–1957), where she rose to assistant professor. During 1958-1960, Van Vliet was appointed as 'Conservator' in the department of physics at the Vrije Universiteit and then was appointed at the University of Minnesota (1957–1970) rising to professor. In that time, she was an assistant professor (1957–58) and associate professor (1960–65) in the department of electrical engineering and a full professor (1965–70) in the department of physics. In 1969-1995, Van Vliet was professor of theoretical physics at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques of the Université de Montréal. Then, during 1992-2000, she was a professor at Florida International University in Miami. Her last position was as adjunct professor of physics at the University of Miami. In her career, she actively visited other physics departments over the years which include the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands (1968, 1977) and the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL (1974, 1977, 1978–84).

She was a stellar researcher and teacher who specialized in the areas of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, fluctuations and stochastic processes, quantum transport in condensed matter and electron behavior in nanoscale quantum devices during her career. These topics are relevant today in exploring the development of quantum computing and its applications. She published over 200 scientific publications and several books included a graduate textbook, "Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics". She also supervised and graduated over 28 PhD students from 1958 to 2000.

Publications by Van Vliet

K M van Vliet, Current Fluctuations in Semiconductors and Photoconductors, Ph.D. thesis, (copyrighted) Excelsior Press, The Hague, Netherlands, 1956.
K M van Vliet, Elektronica, Collegedictaat, 1958 (copyright VU).
K M van Vliet and J. R. Fassett " Fluctuations due to Electronic Transitions and Transport in Solids" in Fluctuation Phenomena in Solids (R.E. Burgess, Ed.), (copyright Academic Press) Academic Press, NY, 1965.
Carolyne M. Van Vliet, "Ninth International Conference on Noise in Physical Systems" (Ed.), (copyright WSPC) World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore 1987.
Carolyne M. Van Vliet, Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, (copyright Carolyne M. Van Vliet) World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore and New Jersey, 2008. {{ISBN|981-270-477-9}} (Hardcover) and {{ISBN|981-270-478-7}} (pbk).

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External links

[http://www.physics.miami.edu/~vanvliet/ Van Vliet bio]
[https://archive.today/20121128155716/http://140.98.193.141/web/membership/fellows/women_fellows.html Van Vliet's Fellow IEEE citation]
[http://www.physics.miami.edu/~vanvliet/listing.html Van Vliet's scientific publications]
[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=127172 Van Vliet's academic genealogy]

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