The Center for Complex Quantum Systems
[The research institute was formerly named The Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems.] is a research institute within the Department of
Physics
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of
The University of Texas at Austin
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in the
United States
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.
The center, founded in 1967 by
Ilya Prigogine, is dedicated to the
theoretical
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and computational research of
complex systems,
statistical mechanics and
chaos theory.
The current research staff includes
William C. Schieve and
Linda Reichl, the center's director.
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External links
The Center for Complex Quantum Systems
University of Texas at Austin
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