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In article <1992Dec10.082708.8548@physics.ucla.edu> lee@physics.ucla.edu writes:
>Hello,
>
>Just two questions for you:
>
>  1) How is the job market in Complex Systems (computer modeling and quantification of   non-linear systems)?
>  2) What is your view of the field?
>
>I am trying to make a little life decision.


I am an experimentalist in the same field. I would say that it is
definately a growing field. At least in experimental physics, the
first people to work in the field as grad students and then as post
docs are just beginning to hit the job market. Many universities who
are looking for people explicitly mention nonlinear dynamics as a
field of interest.  Of course, the overall job market in academe is
not great just now, but that's another story. I have no idea what the
job market in this field is like outside of universities.

I should also say that it seems to me to be a field that has a rather
high proportion of theorist/computationalist types, and rather few
experimentalists. If you are an experimentalist, this means your job
prospects are really pretty good. If you are a theorist, the
competition might be fairly stiff. Of course it is the nature of the
field that theory, computation and experiment are all tightly
intertwined. That is one of the things I like about it.

Nonlinear dynamics and complex systems will become more and more
an important area of research over the next ten years. Beyond that,
it is really impossible to predict.

Hope this helps!

John