Matthew WrightRichard Weaver is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received an A.B. degree in physics from Washington University in St Louis in 1971 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Cornell University in 1977. After postdotoral research in elastic wave propagation and ultrasonics at Cornell, he moved to the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois. His research is in stochastic linear acoustics, with applications to structural vibrations, condensed matter physics, quantum chaos, and seismology. He was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 1996. He received the Hetényi Award from the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 2004 and the Eötvös Award from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers in 2009. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He joined the Department of Physics in 2006. Read More Read Less