Biographie de David Boal
David Boal is Professor of Physics at Simon Fraser University,Vancouver, Canada, and has held visiting and adjunct faculty positions at Michigan State University and the University of Illinois. Having previously worked on phase transitions in-nuclear malter, his current research interests irrclude biophysics (specifically the mechanical properties and evolution of the tell) and the statistical methanics of networks and membranes. He is the author of approximately 1100 articles intefereed journals, the co-editor of two books: Particies and Fields (1978) and short Distance Phenorhena in Nuclear Physics (1983), and has given numerous invited lectures. Professor Boal teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, ranging from stellar nucleosynthesis to biophysics, forwhich he has received a faculty teaching award.