Civilian Control: New Perspectives for New Problems

SYMPOSIUM: The Military After Vietnam: The Search for Legal Control

The American Military Role and Responsibility

The American military, the largest and most powerful institution on earth, is by law ultimately responsible to the will of the American people. This will should be expressed in the form of policy direction that determines the monetary and manpower needs of the military, as well as on the educational, social, and professional levels

Emergent Critical Properties in Liquid-Gas Transition and Single Dislocations in Solid He4

My research focuses on the analytical and numerical study of seemingly completely different systems - the classical critical point of the liquid-gas transition and a quantum topological defect (dislocation) in solid Helium-4. The unifying theme, though, is Emergence - the appearance of unexpected qualities at large distance and time scales in these systems. Our results resolve the long standing controversy about the nature of the liquid-gas criticality by showing with high confidence that it is the same as that of Ising ferromagnet. In solid 4He, a quantum superclimbing dislocation, which is expected to be violating space-time symmetry according to the elementary textbook assessment, shows emergence of this symmetry in our numerical simulations

Civilian Control: New Perspectives for New Problems

SYMPOSIUM: The Military After Vietnam: The Search for Legal Control