Loyal (Randy) Durand

Loyal Durand is an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been involved with the Aspen Center for Physics since 1962, and has lived full time in Aspen since 2011. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale: B.S. in 1953 and Ph. D. in 1957 with Gregory Breit. He was also on the faculty at Yale from 1961-1965 before moving to Wisconsin as a full professor in 1965. His research has ranged over a number of areas within theoretical particle physics — scattering problems from 1 eV to 10^15 eV, bound state problems, structure functions, strong interactions, and very high energy neutrino scattering, among other areas.

He also works on the theory of special functions, fractional Lie operators, and integral transforms. Randy has been involved with the Aspen Center for Physics since the first day it opened in 1962, chaired the executive committee 1968-1972, served as the second president of the Center from 1972 to 1976, was a trustee from its incorporation in 1968 until 1980, and has been an honorary trustee since 1980, continuing to be active in various roles.

Learn more at hep.wisc.edu/~ldurand