Leonard Sander
{{Short description|American physicist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Leonard Sander
| birth_place = United States
| workplaces = University of Michigan
| education = University of California, Berkeley
Washington University in St. Louis
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Leonard Sander is a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and a fellow of the American Physical Society.{{Cite web |title=Leonard Sander |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/physics/people/emeritus/lsander.html |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=U-M LSA Physics |language=en}} His research includes physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, computational neuroscience, and theoretical complex systems.
Early life and education
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Sander earned his B.A. in physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1963, and his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1968.
Career
Sander started work at the University of Michigan in 1969.
His research includes growth processes, statistical physics far from equilibrium, theoretical biophysics, and numerical computation. He has co-authored over 240 published papers.{{Cite web | title=Leonard Sander |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leonard-Sander | access-date = 2024-08-12 | website=ResearchGate | language=en}} Along with Thomas Witten, he proposed the theory of diffusion-limited aggregation.{{cite journal|last1=Witten|first1=T. A.|last2=Sander|first2=L. M.|title=Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, a Kinetic Critical Phenomenon|journal=Physical Review Letters|date=1981|volume=47|issue=19|pages=1400–1403|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1400|bibcode=1981PhRvL..47.1400W}}
His paper with Witten in Physical Review Letters in 1981 has been cited over 4,000 times.{{Cite journal | title =Physical Review Letters | url= https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1400 | access-date = 2024-09-10 | website = APS Journals | date= 9 November 1981 | volume= 47 | issue= 19 | pages= 1400–1403 | doi= 10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1400 | language = en | last1= Witten | first1= T. A. | last2= Sander | first2= L. M. | url-access= subscription }}
Sander's latest work involves the harmonic measure of fractals, cell motility and malignant brain tumors, statistical fluctuations and front propagation, and new methods for computation of rare events.
Sander has authored two college textbooks, Equilibrium Statistical Physics and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics.{{Cite web | title=Leonard M. Sander |url=https://websites.umich.edu/~lsander/ | access-date = 2024-08-12 | website=University of Michigan | language=en}}
His work has also been included in other textbooks, including Statistical Physics by L.P. Kadanoff.{{Cite book | last = Kadanoff | first = L. P. | date = 2000 | title =Statistical Physics: statics, dynamics and renormalization | publisher = World Scientific | page=101}}
Select publications
- T A Witten Jr. and L. M. Sander. Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1400 (1981), Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, a Kinetic Cricital Phenomenon
- C. R. Doering, K. V. Sargysan and L. M. Sander, Extinction times for birth-death processes: exact results, continuum asymptotics, and the failure of the Fokker-Planck approximation, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 3 (2), 283-299 (2005)
- A. M. Stein, D. A. Vader, L. M. Jawerth, D. A. Weitz and L. M. Sander, An algorithm for extracting the network geometry of three-dimensional collagen gels, Journal of Microscopy-Oxford 232 (3), 463-475 (2008)
- Fractal Dimensions of the Q-state Potts Model for Complete and External Hulls (David A. Adams, L. M. Sander, R. M. Ziff) Journal of Statistical Mechanics, Theory and Experiment, 2010
- The Role of Cell Contraction and Adhesion in Dictyostelium Motility (Leonard M. Sander, Mathias Buenemann, Herbert Levine, Wouter-Jan Rappel) Biophysical Journal vol. 99, no. 1, 2010
- The Micromechanics of Three-dimensional Collagen-I gels (Andrew M Stein, David A. Vader, David A. Weitz, Leonard M. Sander) Complexity vol. 16, no. 22, 2011.
- Kim, J , Feng, JC, ; Jones, CAR, Mao, XM, Sander, LM, Levine, H, Sun, B, Stress-induced plasticity of dynamic collagen networks, Nature Communications 8, 842 (2017)
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