Stephen W. Morris Professor Emeritus Experimental nonlinear physics, nonequilibrium pattern formation, convection in simple fluids and liquid crystals, segregation in granular media, fracture, geophysical patterns, pattern formation as art. E-mail: Brief CV: B.Sc., British Columbia (1981), M.Sc., British Columbia (1985), Ph.D., Toronto (1991), NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Barbara (1991-1993), APUS/SAC Teaching Award, Toronto (2003), Faculty of Arts & Science Outstanding Teaching Award, Toronto (2004) Senior Visiting Fellow, The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematics, Cambridge University (2005). Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University (2006), Fellow of the American Physical Society (2012), J. Tuzo Wilson Professor of Geophysics (2014-2019). Professor Emeritus (2022-).

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. --- Henri Poincaré

• Research homepage
• Pattern formation in Nature, Science and Art, on Flickr
• Pattern Physics on Instagram
• Patterns from Nature, a musical collaboration with Quinsin Nachoff.
• Videos of pattern formation, and other things, on YouTube
• The Icicle Atlas, an open source data site
• The physics of everyday life

• Talks, seminars and colloquia
• Publications

The Experimental Nonlinear Physics Group / Dept. of Physics / University of Toronto / 60 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A7.