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Esther G. Maynor Honors College
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6841
Fax: 910.521.6606
Email: honors@uncp.edu
Location: Old Main, Room 204
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The Third Annual Robert
K. Gustafson Memorial Scholar Series
Speaker: Kevin Bassler
Kevin E. Bassler is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Houston. He is a gifted lecturer and scholar who has has won a number of awards for both his teaching and his research, including a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the University of Houston Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship,
He is a summa cum laude graduate of the Honors Tutorial College of Ohio University where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics (1985). He then received his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University (1987, 1990). Before joining the faculty at the University of Houston he held postdoctoral positions at Northwestern University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Louisiana State University.
Prof. Bassler is a Complexity theorist whose research focuses on the collective behavior that can occur through the interactions of a group of objects that by them selves behave in a simple way. His is particularly interested in the common behavior that occurs is seemingly disparate systems such as superconductors, sandpiles, and the stock market. His far-reaching results apply to a variety of subjects ranging from materials science to biology to geology to finance.
Additionally, he is a fine art color landscape photographer. His portfolio contains both images of dramatic western American landscapes and of intimate studies of its geography. Form, pattern, mood, and moment are “notions” that comprise the individual parts of his images. However, the images are not simply about their individual parts, but rather, like the systems he studies scientifically, are about how the parts combine to create something more than the sum of its components.
Prof. Bassler is also currently the President of the Houston Center for Photography, an internationally known educational and cultural organization dedicated to deepening the understanding and appreciation of the photographic arts.
Updated: Thursday, April 5, 2007
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