Charles Michael "Chuck" Newman (born 1 March 1946) is a mathematician and a physicist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
He works in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, and probability theory.
He has contributed to numerous fields where probability mixes with physics, including metastability, spin glasses, the mathematics of food webs and the Ising model, and percolation theory including its connections to Schramm–Loewner evolutions and the Brownian web.
He is most widely known for his work in disordered systems, including percolation models, random networks and spin glasses.
[5] After two years as an assistant professor at NYU, he accepted a position at Indiana University.