William I. Newman is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences as well as the Departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has taught for over 30 years. A unifying feature of his research is the role of chaos and complexity in nature, in applications ranging from geophysics to astrophysics as well as mathematical, statistical and computational modeling in condensed matter physics, climate dynamics and theoretical biology. Professor Newman is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a John S...