EUP collaborators include senior staff from the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA, the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL who have worked from the earliest days of planning in an unusually close partnership with the scientific leadership of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM).
 

Steering Committee (click here for commitee list and URLs)

Selected Biographies of Steering Committee
 

David Pines, Ph.D., is the founding co-director of ICAM, a multi-campus research program of the University of California, a staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Research Professor of Physics and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana. A specialist in condensed matter physics, Dr. Pines’ research now focuses on the search for the organizing principles responsible for emergent behavior in correlated matter. He was the Principal Investigator of a research project on Emergent Behavior in Correlated Electron Superconductors at Los Alamos, NM. His contributions to many-body systems and theoretical astrophysics have been recognized by two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Feenberg Medal, Friemann, Dirac, and Drucker Prizes, and by his elections to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Pines was Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics for over twenty years and is the founding editor of Frontiers in Physics. As PI and co-founder of EUP, Dr. Pines is responsible for project leadership, grant administration, and the coordination of resources from over forty international member institutions of ICAM.

 
Piers Coleman, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, Rutgers University, is a co-PI and Deputy Director of the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM), a lead researcher in the Rutgers University Condensed Matter Theory Group, and one of charter members of the EUP initiative. His research focuses on how quantum phenomena affect materials, using concepts of emergence to design and understand new classes of engineered materials. A Fellow of APS, Dr. Coleman is currently investigating local moment and heavy fermion physics with NSF funding and nano-scale spin physics with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Coleman’s particularly creative input for pedagogical strategies has been a prominent force in the development of the EUP initiative to date.
 
Alan Hurd, Ph.D., is the Director of the Lujan Neutron Scattering Lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a Deputy Director of ICAM. Dr. Hurd is also one of the founding members of EUP, and has long committed his talents to public education efforts, most notably through his prominent advisory role on the Strange Matters exhibition developed by the Materials Research Society, of which Dr. Hurd is a member, secretary, and councilor. Dr. Hurd brings his considerable expertise in the visualization of subatomic phenomena as well as his research into the self-assembly properties of engineered materials to the EUP initiative.
 
Rob Semper, Ph.D. in Physics, is the Executive Associate Director of the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA, who has considerable experience in the integration of educational, exhibition, and media programs. Dr. Semper is an widely-respected innovator and frequently-invited speaker on the design of educational websites and other interactive media. Among his many projects are the popular Global Warming link on www.exploratorium.edu and a new initiative on stem cell research, which includes emergent principles. Dr. Semper is currently leading a major initiative to provide public education programs in nano-technology. In the EUP, Dr. Semper provides leadership in the design of the EUP website and its interpretations of quantum emergent principles for the general public.
 
Thomas Rockwell was recently appointed Director for the Center for Public Exhibition at the Exploratorium, CA, and is the founder of Painted Universe, Inc., an exhibition design and build firm specializing in educational environments that integrate principles of art and science. Rockwell has considerable experience in developing public programs in nano-scale science, including the NSF-funded It’s a Nano World exhibition at the Sciencenter of Ithaca, NY, the NSF-funded Strange Matter exhibition, and most recently, as the contracted designer for the NSF-funded Too Small to See exhibition developed in cooperation with Cornell University’s Center for Nanobiotechnology. Rockwell also served as a Visiting Fellow in the visualization of sub-atomic particles at the Department of Nuclear Studies at Cornell University. Rockwell brings his considerable background in combining science and art visualizations for public audiences to the EUP project.

 
Barry Aprison, Ph.D. in Biology, is the Director of Science and Technology for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL. Dr. Aprison is currently incorporating emergent principles into the development of a 20,000 SF exhibition called Science Storms, which is based on a four-year partnership with Northwestern University’s Institute for Nanotechnology. Dr. Aprison is the developer of compelling exhibitions on medical imaging and biology, including Imaging: the Tools of Science and Genetics: Decoding Life. Dr. Aprison represents MSI in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer paper on superconductivity in cooperation with the University of IL at Urbana-Champaign. He will advise EUP efforts to translate abstract concepts of emergence into intuitive and useful visualizations that strengthen public understanding.
 
Linda Feferman, executive producer of Feferman Films, Inc., has considerable experience as a science film-maker with an unusually strong background in conveying emergent principles. Feferman directed and produced “Tierra: Evolution in Another Universe,” in which digital organisms compete for space through self-organization, and a treatise on the work of the Santa Fe Insitute, “Simple Rules … Complex Behaviors”. She is currently developing a series of film clips about the research being conducted at ICAM institutions that will be woven into the proposed on-line EUP lexicon, and is scripting a treatment for a documentary on the life and research of John Bardeen for production on PBS TV.
 

Gregory Boebinger, Ph.D., is the Director of the National High Magnet Field Laboratory (NHMFL) whose research focuses on the (ab)normal states of superconductivity and the emergent ordering of electron spin at quantum levels in magnetic fields. Dr. Boebinger coordinates NHMFL resources and staff for the proposed EUP effort.

Michael Davidson, Ph.D., Assistant in Research at the NHMFL, is the designer and manager of hundreds of websites developed by the NHMFL for K-16 education in relevant areas such as molecular expressions, superconductivity, and optical properties. Davidson’s group will weave and maintain the EUP website and link it to five other urls at ICAM, UIUC, and the participating museums.

 

Melissa Kelly, M.Ed., UIUC, is the Computer-Assisted Instruction Specialist for the Anderson Laboratory, who has considerable experience in the development of curriculum materials on mathematics, superconductivity, and other related topics for middle and high school students. She is a specialist in the design, creation, and maintenance of educational websites, and is skilled in evaluating the effectiveness of on-line learning environments. Kelly will work with members of the Physics Department at UIUC to convert existing curricular materials for use by the general public on the EUP website.

Philip Phillips, Ph.D., Professor of Physics at UIUC, and four graduate students in Physics will work with Kelly to provide content expertise to the development of visuals and explanatory shells for CORE CONCEPTSs. Prof. Phillips’ research focuses on solid state theory, quantum phase transitions, and strongly correlated electron systems.
 
Evaluators: Valerie Knight-Williams, Ed.D., founder of Knight-William Research Communications and Barbara Flagg, Ed.D., founder of Multimedia Research, Inc., have substantial experience in assisting the development of interactive science education media through rigorous evaluation research. Their collective experience involves multiple projects for NOVA, Scientific American Frontiers, and curriculum projects presented on-line and in print media. Drs. Knight-Williams and Flagg will perform evaluation services throughout the EUP initiative. For this planning project, they will conduct a literature review, and present findings from front-end and formative studies to support planning for the EUP website.