Rate My Professor Adam Landberg

Adam Landsberg is Professor of Physics at Scripps College, where he holds additional roles as Chair of the Department of Physics and Natural Sciences Convener for Physics. He is a faculty member in the W.M. Keck Science Department, jointly serving Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College. Landsberg obtained his A.B. in Physics from Princeton University, with thesis advisor Val Fitch, followed by M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, under dissertation advisor Edgar Knobloch. He held a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology with Kurt Wiesenfeld. His academic career commenced as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College, with the majority spent at the Keck Science Department, interspersed with short-term sabbatical research positions at Cornell University and UC Berkeley.

Landsberg's research centers on mathematical and computational modeling of complex systems across diverse domains, including nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, bifurcation theory, symmetries and dynamical systems, Josephson junction arrays, mathematical modeling of economic systems, and synchronization. His scholarly output includes collaborations with students and peers on topics such as opinion dynamics, network theory, combinatorial games, chaos, and social simulation. Key publications feature 'Majority Rule or Majority Ruin' in The Mathematical Intelligencer (2025); 'An Assimilation Anomaly: Averaging-induced reversal of overall opinion in two interacting societies' in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (2023); 'Winning strategies: the emergence of base 2 in the game of nim' in The Mathematical Gazette (2022); 'Transitioning Out of the Coronavirus Lockdown: A Framework for Evaluating Zone-Based Social Distancing' in Frontiers in Public Health (2020); 'Construction and Analysis of Random Networks with Explosive Percolation' in Physical Review Letters (2009); and 'Nonlinear dynamics in combinatorial games: Renormalizing Chomp' in Chaos (2007). These contributions appear in prestigious venues like Chaos, Physical Review Letters, and PLoS One, often highlighting student co-authors and advancing interdisciplinary applications in physics, economics, and social sciences.