Arthur Alan Middleton is a professor of physics and the associate dean of the

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. He is known for his work in the fields of disordered materials such as random magnets, spin glasses, and interfaces in a random environment, transport in disordered materials, interface motion, and colloidal assemblies,

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, statistical physics, and computational physics, connections between algorithm dynamics, computer science analyses, algorithms for efficient simulation of complex dynamics, including heuristic coarse graining for glassy materials.

Education

Middleton earned his bachelor's in mathematics and physics with distinction at

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in 1984. He received

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and moved to

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where he earned a certificate of advanced study. He also received the NSF-GRFP grant from the

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in 1984. Middleton joined

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in 1986 and earned a PhD in physics in October 1990.

Career

In 1990, Middleton started postdoctoral research associate in the physics department at Syracuse. From 1992 to 1994, he was a visiting scientist at the NEC Research Institute in

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. He joined the department of physics, Syracuse University, in 1995 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2008. He served as the department chair from 2013 to 2017. Middleton was named the associate dean of the

in 2017. Middleton formulated the

Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model The Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model is a self-organizing cellular automaton traffic flow model. It consists of a number of cars represented by points on a lattice with a random starting position, where each car may be one of two types: t ...

along with

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and

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in 1992.

Awards

Middleton was elected a fellow of the

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in 2010 for "his innovative numerical studies of the dynamical and static properties of disordered condensed matter systems, including charge density waves, spin glasses and disordered elastic media". He received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1995. Middleton was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016.

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Syracuse University Profile
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