Julian D Maynard

Education

University of Virginia (B.S.), 1967

Princeton University (M.A.), 1968

Princeton University (Ph.D.), 1974

Honors and Awards

• University of Virginia Echols Scholar (1963)
• University of Virginia Hamilton Watch Award (1967)
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1967)
• N.D.E.A. Fellowship (1968)
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1977)
• Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (1988)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (1989)
• Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America (1994)
• Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters (2003-2006)
• Associate Editor, Physical Review E (2007-2019)
• Associate Editor, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2010-present)

Selected Publications

1. J. D. Maynard, "Determination of the thermodynamics of He II from sound velocity data", Phys. Rev. B 14, 3868-3891 (1976).
2. G. J. Jelatis, J. A. Roth and J. D. Maynard, "Observation of fifth sound in a planar superfluid 4He film", Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 1285-1288 (1979). This research was reviewed in Physik in unserer Zeit, 12 Jahrg. 1981, pp 43-51.
3. J. D. Maynard, "Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy", Physics Today 49, 26-31 (1996).
4. J. D. Maynard, E. G. Williams and Y. Lee, "Nearfield Acoustic Holography (NAH). I. Theory of generalized holography and the development of NAH", J. Acoust. Soc. Amer. 78, 1395-1413 (1985). This research was featured in Science Digest, November 1982, pg 24, and in a television show hosted by Don Herbert, aka "Mr. Wizard".
5. Shanjin He and J. D. Maynard, "Detailed measurements of inelastic scattering in Anderson localization", Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 3171-3174 (1986).
6. Shanjin He and J. D. Maynard, "Eigenvalue spectrum, density of states and eigenfunctions of a two-dimensional quasicrystal", Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1888-1891 (1989). This research was featured in the New York Times, Science Section, 5 September 1989, in Nature, 17 August 1989, pg 504, and in New Scientist, 17 June 1989, pg 40.
7. J. D. Maynard, "Acoustical analogs of condensed matter problems", Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 401-417 (2001).
8. M. J. McKenna, R. L. Stanley and J. D. Maynard, "Effects of nonlinearity on Anderson localization", Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1807-1810 (1992).
9. P. S. Spoor, J. D. Maynard, M. J. Pan, D. J. Green, J. R. Hellman and T. Tanaka, "Elastic constants and crystal anisotropy of titanium diboride", Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 1959-1961 (1997).
10. P. S. Spoor, J. D. Maynard and A. R. Kortan, "Elastic isotropy and anisotropy in crystalline and quasicrystalline AlCuLi", Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3462-3465 (1995).
11. C. Nisoli, N. M. Gabor, P. E. Lammert, J. D. Maynard and V. H. Crespi, "Static and dynamical phyllotaxis in a magnetic cactus", Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186103 (2009). This research was featured in Nature Materials, 6 June 2010, pg 470.

Research Interests

Research involves building acoustic systems which, because the Schrödinger equation is a wave equation, are mathematically analogous to quantum mechanical systems. This approach permits the study of quantum mechanical solid state problems involving the effects of disorder, nonlinear interactions, and time-dependent scatterers.