Kurt Binder

Kurt Binder ( born February 10, 1944 in Korneuburg ) is an Austrian physicist.

Life

Binder was born in 1944 born as the son of the engineer Eduard Binder and his wife Anna Eppel. After attending school from 1950 to 1962 in Vienna, he studied physics from 1962 to 1967 at the local Technical University. In 1969 he received his doctorate at Helmut Rauch at the Austrian Institute for Nuclear Physics in Vienna. He stayed for a few months as an assistant to Gustav Ortner, before joining the end of 1969 at the Technical University of Munich, where he studied until 1974 at Heinz Maier- Leibnitz and Herbert Vonach, interrupted by a year of research in 1972 /73 at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. In 1974 he was a research consultant at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill (USA).

In 1973, a call of the Free University of Berlin, which he declined. The end of 1973 he completed his habilitation at the TU Munich. From 1974 to 1977 he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken. Then he became director of the institute at the Nuclear Research Centre Jülich, connected to a professorship in theoretical physics at the University of Cologne. In 1983 he accepted an appointment to a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He is also since 1989 " External Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.

Since 1977, Kurt Binder is married with Marlies Ecker ( born December 12, 1948), with whom he has two sons ( Martin and Stefan ). In his spare time he plays piano.

Work

Research focuses on Kurt Binder lie in statistical physics, solid state physics and materials science. Particularly outstanding are his pioneering work on the Monte Carlo method, which have contributed significantly to the fact that computer simulations could be developed in addition to theoretical physics and experimental physics as a third approach for the analysis of thermal properties of many-particle systems. Basic progress him, inter alia, it succeeded in his investigations to a variety of phase transitions to spin- glasses and in the field of polymer physics. An important parameter for the characterization of phase transitions is named after him Binder cumulant. He is one of the most cited physicists worldwide.

Binder is co-editor of numerous physical journals and in 1992 a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, since 2003 the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz since 2005 and a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the German Physical Society and the European Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. Since 2011 Binder is a member of the Leopoldina.

Awards and honors

Writings

In addition to more than 1,000 scientific publications in journals and conference proceedings, he published the following monographs:

  • Calculation of the spin correlation functions of ferromagnets. Dissertation, Technical University of Vienna, 1969
  • Contributions to the statistical mechanics of the Ising model. Habilitation thesis, Technical University of Munich 1973
  • ( as editor :) Monte Carlo methods in statistical physics. Springer, Berlin [ et al ] 1979, ISBN 3-540-09018-5; 2nd edition, 1986, ISBN 3-540-16514-2
  • ( as editor :) Applications of the Monte Carlo method in statistical physics. Berlin, Springer [ et al ] 1984, ISBN 3-540-12764- X; 2nd edition, 1987, ISBN 3-540-17650-0
  • Dieter W. Heermann: Monte Carlo simulation in statistical physics. An introduction. Springer, Berlin [ et al ] 1988, ISBN 3-540-19107-0; 5 Auflabe, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-03162-5
  • ( as editor :) The Monte Carlo Method in Condensed Matter Physics. Springer, Berlin [u a ] In 1992, ISBN 3-540-54369-4; 2nd edition, 1995, ISBN 3-540-60174-0
  • Theories and mechanism of phase transitions heterophase Polymerizations, homopolymerization, addition polymerization. Springer, Berlin [u a ] 1994, ISBN 3-540-57236-8
  • ( as editor :) Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Polymer Science. Oxford University Press, New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-509438-7
  • With David P. Landau: A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [ua ] 2000, ISBN 0-521-65366-5; 3rd Edition, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-76848-1
  • Computer simulation of liquids and solids. Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08753-2
  • With Walter Kob: Glassy materials and disordered solids. An introduction to Their statistical mechanics. World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ [ua ] 2005, ISBN 981-256-510-8; 2nd edition, 2011, ISBN 978-981-4273-44-2
  • ( as editor :) Statistical mechanics of polymers. New Developments. Selected Contributions from the conference in Moscow ( Russia), June 6-11, 2006 ( = Macromolecular symposia, Volume 252). Wiley -VCH, Weinheim 2007
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