Susan N. Coppersmith
Short bio
Dr. Susan Coppersmith is a Vilas Research Professor and the Robert
E. Fassnacht Professor of Physics at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She is a theoretical physicist who has worked
on a broad range of problems in the area of complex systems, and has
made substantial contributions to the understanding of subjects
including glasses, granular materials, the nonlinear dynamics of
magnetic flux lattices in type-II superconductors. Her current
research focuses on the development of quantum computers using silicon
technology similar to that used in modern classical computers.
Dr. Coppersmith has served as Chair of the UW-Madison physics
department, as a member of the NORDITA advisory board, as a member of
the Mathematical and Physical Science Advisory Committee of the
National Science Foundation, as a member of the Condensed Matter and
Materials Research Committee of the National Research Council (U.S.),
and as a Trustee at the Aspen Center for Physics. She has served
as Chair of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics and of the Topical
Group for Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of the American Physical
Society, as Chair of the Section on Physics of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, as Chair of the Board of Trustees of
the Gordon Research Conferences, and as Chair of the External Advisory
Board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Dr. Coppersmith is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been elected to membership in the
National Academy of Sciences.