Douglas Abraham

Douglas Abraham
Visiting Professor of Mathematics
Email
douglas.abraham@gmail.com

Douglas Abraham was a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai.  He is also Emeritus Professor of Statistical Mechanics at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College.  He holds a PhD from Cambridge and a DSc from Oxford.

Professor Abraham’s research interests are Mathematical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, and Exactly Solvable Models. His work has appeared in Physical Review Letters, European Physics Letters, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Physical Review, and Journal of Statistical Physics.

Professor Abraham has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, a Marie Curie Professor of the EU, and a Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley. He also served on the selection panel in Basic Sciences for the Premios in “Frontiers of Knowledge” of the Fundación BBVA, Madrid.

Research Interests

  • Exact and rigorous results in Statistical Mechanics
  • Thermal Casimir interactions
  • Thermal Failure of nano-wires and associated quasi one-dimensional systems
  • Quantum mechanics of one-dimensional arrays of chromophores
  • Extremely long-ranged signaling in networks
  • Exact solution of planar Ising model and related topics

Courses Taught

  • Advanced Linear Algebra II

Education

  • DSc, Applied Maths
    Oxford, 1987
  • PhD, Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics
    Cambridge, 1968
  • BA/MA, Natural Sciences Tripos
    Cambridge, 1964/68