Royce Zia Professor of Physics Condensed Matter Theory A.B. Princeton, 1964. Ph.D. MIT, 1968. Short Bio 540-231-5767  115 Robeson Hall (fax: 540-231-7511) VT Physics Home rkpzia "at" vt.edu

Current Teaching Activities Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics Paper published in the American Journal of Physics 2002 Vol. 70, pp. 384-392: "Getting more from pushing less: Negative specific heat and conductivity in nonequilibrium steady states" Preprint submitted to the Am. J. Phys.: "Making Sense of the Legendre Transform" Research Interests Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics  Phase transitions and critical phenomena  Driven diffusive systems  Interfaces and surfaces  Renormalization group analysis  Monte Carlo simulation techniques  Stochastic differential equations and field theory  "Nuggets" for the NSF:   2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Recent Activities Publications: Journal articles, Reviews and school/workshop proceedings, Preprints and postings Conferences and Workshops:   Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics in Low Dimensions and Reaction Diffusion Systems (September 2003) Workshop on Nonequilibrium Interface Dynamics: Theory and Simulation from Atomistic to Continuum Scales (October 2003) Symposium on Biological systems and soft materials: Future directions in statistical physics (March 2004) International Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Complex Systems (June 2004) 93rd Statistical Mechanics Conference (May 2005) ASC Workshop on Brownian Motion (September 2005) Workshop on Principles of the Dynamics of Non-Equilibrium Systems (May 2006) Workshop on Spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle systems far from equilibrium (September 2006) Lattices and Trajectories: A Symposium of Mathematical Chemistry (June 2007) Statistical Physics Out of Equilibrium (November 2007)