Michael Cross

Professor of Theoretical Physics

Research

• Systems Far from Equilibrium
• Physics and Applications of Mesoscopic Systems

Publications and talks.

Teaching

• In the 2008-9 academic year I am teaching Ph106ab: Topics in Classical Physics - Mechanics.
• Introduction to Chaos: lecture notes and demonstrations for an introductory course on chaos
• I taught Ph127 Statistical Mechanics for several years. Here are the notes from 2006.
• Guest lecture on chaos for CDS 104
• Collective Effects in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Physics: a special topics course taught at Beijing Normal University in 2006.

Demonstrations

• Chaos
• Pattern Formation
• Spatiotemporal Chaos

Personal

• In the summer of 2007 my wife and I cycled the length of Great Britain (Land's End to John O'Groats). Here are descriptions and pictures of the trip.