research overview
- Professor Beale’s research interests include: theoretical condensed matter physics, especially statistical mechanics, phase transitions and critical phenomena, exact solutions of model systems, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, and pseudorandom number generators. He also participates periodically in physics education research projects to expand interactive engagement teaching methods across our curriculum. He is currently developing cryptographic and non-cryptographic exponential cipher-based pseudorandom number generators for use in randomness beacons and large-scale parallel stochastic and Monte Carlo simulations.
