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Andrei, Eva |
Rutgers (L)
eandrei [at] physics.rutgers.edu |
Our research group experimentally studies the various phases of matter that
arise from the competition between interactions and fluctuations, including
vortex matter (channel depinning, order-disorder transitions, memory effects,
and plasticity) and two-dimensional electron systems (Wigner crystals, correlations,
tunneling, and shear propagation.) |
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Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini |
UCLA (P)
ranjini [at] physics.ucla.edu |
Experimental soft condensed matter physics: structure and dynamics of surfactant
solutions, polyelectrolytes and foams. |
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Bantu, Hailu |
Univ. Maryland (P)
hailu [at] glue.umd.edu |
Thermodynamics descriptions of surfaces and dynamics of surface steps.
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Bartolo, Denis |
École Supérieure de Physique (P)
denis [at] turner.pct.espci.fr |
Physics inspired by biology, soft condensed matter, and nonequilibrium statistical
physics. Fluctuation-induced (Casimir) interactions and impurities in liquid
crystals. |
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Behne, Erin |
Univ. Washington (P)
ebehne [at] u.washington.edu |
I am interested in using x-ray microtomography to study structure in granular
physics problems, including soil liquefaction. |
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Behringer, Robert |
Duke Univ. (L)
bob [at] phy.duke.edu |
Nonlinear dynamics and low-temperature physics, including granular flow,
fluid flow in porous media, pattern selection, and convection and conduction
in liquid helium. Fluctuations and stress chains, collisions and shaking
in granular materials. Pattern formation in Couette flow. |
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Benetatos, Panayotis |
Berlin/Harvard (P)
pbenetat [at] cmt.harvard.edu |
I am interested in vortex matter physics and also stiff polymers and biologically
inspired physics. Work includes a mapping of the statistical mechanics of
vortex lines and spontaneous vortex loops in superconductors onto that of
a relativistic charged boson gas. |
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Bhattacharya, Shobo |
NEC Research Inst. (L)
shobo [at] research.nj.nec.com
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Interests are in collective dynamics, from fluids to charge density waves.
His current research focuses on magnetic flux lattices in type II superconductors
and in superconducting wire networks. Recent work on vortex matter includes
plastic/elastic transitions, the peak effect and direct imaging of vortex
pinning. |
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Bianconi, Ginestra |
Univ. Notre Dame (P)
Ginestra.Bianconi.1 [at] nd.edu |
Research has included surface roughening, stripe ordering in high-Tc superconductors,
metabolic networks, and properties of scale-free networks.
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Bodenschatz, Eberhard |
Cornell Univ.(O)
eb22 [at] cornell.edu |
Nonlinear science with special emphasis on dissipative pattern forming systems,
nonlinear nonequilibrium phenomena in fluid-mechanical systems, convection
of simple and complex fluids, Lagrangian descriptions of turbulence,
and geomorphological instabilities. |
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Bowick, Mark |
Syracuse Univ. (L)
bowick [at] phy.syr.edu |
Random surfaces, the statistical mechanics of membranes and the formation
of topological defects in phase transitions. |
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Bray, Alan |
Univ. of Manchester (L)
alan.bray [at] man.ac.uk |
Statistical physics of phase transitions, and related topics, especially
disordered systems (spin glasses and random field magnets), coarsening phenomena
(including the importance of topological defects and persistence), and general
stochastic processes. |
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Brink, Jeandrew |
Cornell Univ. (P)
jb275 [at] cornell.edu |
My research interest include fluid flow in porous media, pattern formation
and convection. |
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Cacciuto, Angelo |
Syracuse Univ. (P)
cacciuto [at] suhep.syr.edu |
Nonequilibrium phase transitions, topological defects, and random surfaces,
including self-avoiding membranes with fixed connectivity. |
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Caspersen, Kyle |
Iowa State Univ. (P)
kcasper [at] fi.ameslab.gov |
My area of research pertains to the nucleation and growth of thin metal films
during deposition, where the deposition of particles combined with extremely
small kinetic barriers produce a far from equilibrium film morphology. |
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Chang, Hsuan-Yeh |
City College of NY (P)
hychang [at] sci.ccny.cuny.edu |
Bose-Einstein Condensation, particularly coherence problems. |
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Chen, Chun-Chung |
Univ. Washington (P)
cjj [at] u.washington.edu |
Non-equilibrium critical phenomena and self-organized criticality, with recent
theoretical work on avalanche models and directed percolation. |
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Chiam, Keng-Hwee |
Cal. Inst. Tech. (P)
chiamkh [at] caltech.edu |
Statistical and nonlinear physics: pattern formation and spatiotemporal chaos
in nonequilibrium fluid systems, including onset and transport of passive
scalars. |
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Chin, Chenshan |
Univ. Washington (P)
cschin [at] u.washington.edu |
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (morphology of growing interfaces)
and strongly correlated electron systems (quantum Hall effect and bosonization.) |
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Chu, Han-Ching |
UCLA (P)
hanchu [at] physics.ucla.edu |
My research project is focused on the properties of superfliud helium near
the critical point, such as the nonequilibrium dynamics of vortex pairs.
Work also includes research on sonoluminescence. |
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Clark, Noel |
Univ. Colorado (L)
Noel.Clark [at] Colorado.EDU
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Understanding and using the properties of condensed phases, ranging from
experiments on the fundamental physics of phase transitions, such as melting,
to the development of liquid crystal electro-optic light
valves. Recent work on nanofabrication using protein crystals. |
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Cleve, Jochen |
Yale Univ. (P)
jochen.cleve [at] yale.edu |
Dynamics of energy transfer in homogeneous isotropic turbulence, using multiplicative
cascade models. |
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Conrad, Jacinta |
conrad [at] physics.harvard.edu |
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colloidal and granular systems. |

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Coullet, Pierre |
INLN (L)
pierre.coullet [at] inln.cnrs.fr |
Non-linear dynamics, dynamical systems, physics of instabilities, hydrodynamics,
interfaces, and non-linear optics.
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Cugliandolo, Leticia |
LPT, Ecole Norm. Sup. (L)
Leticia.Cugliandolo [at] physique.ens.fr |
Glasses (quantum and classical, spin and structural), granular materials,
optimization problems, and general non-equilibrium dynamics. |
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da Silveira, Rava |
Harvard Univ. (P)
rava [at] physics.harvard.edu |
Statistical mechanics and soft condensed matter physics, in particular non-equilibrium
phenomena, disordered and coupled systems, transport. |
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Dahmen, Karin |
Univ. Illinois, U-C. (L)
dahmen [at] physics.uiuc.edu |
Condensed Matter physics; nonequilibrium dynamical systems, including pattern
formation in homogeneous systems and inhomogeneous systems with quenched
disorder. Hysteresis, avalanches, earthquakes, patterns in population dynamics,
hopping conductivity. |
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Das, Dibyendu |
Brandeis Univ. (P)
dibyendu [at] octane.cc.brandeis.edu |
Nonequilibrium steady states, coarsening, aggregation, coupled driven diffusive
systems, phase transitions, glasses. |
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Das, Jayajit |
Virginia Polytechnic (P)
jayajit [at] kanga.phys.vt.edu |
Non-equilibrium statistical physics, equilibrium and non-equilibrium physics
of soft condensed matter systems. Dynamics of ordering in magnets |
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Das, Moumita |
IISc Bangalore (P)
moumita [at] physics.iisc.ernet.in |
Soft condensed matter and non-equilibrium statistical physics. Sheared colloidal
systems and solid friction. |
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Desai, Michael |
Harvard Univ. (P)
desai [at] fas.harvard.edu |
Statistical mechanics, population biology, and population genetics. Pattern
formation in epidemiology and ecology. |
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Dieterich, Jim |
U.S. Geological Survey (L)
jdieterich [at] usgs.gov |
Simulations of regional seismic activity, earthquake stress interactions,
and seismicity rate changes. Frictional processes in rocks, their constitutive
relations, and earthquake nucleation.
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Dukovski, Ilija |
U. Mass., Amherst (P)
dukovski [at] physics.umass.edu |
Cluster Monte Carlo methods, random field Ising model and statistical mechanics
of polymers. |
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Ettouhami, Mouneim |
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder (P)
mouneim [at] bogart.colorado.edu |
Properties of flux line lattices and liquids in type II superconductors. Effects of disorder on flux line systems, both at equilibrium and under the effect of an external driving force. Phase transitions in disordered systems. |
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Ferguson, Matthew |
U. Maryland (P)
ferguson [at] physics.umd.edu |
Experimental nonlinear dynamics, including pattern formation in solidification
of polymer films and dynamics of colloidal particles. |
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Fisher, Daniel |
Harvard Univ. (L)
fisher [at] physics.harvard.edu |
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium behavior of disordered systems, classical
and quantum. Physical systems studied include vortex matter, random magnets,
earthquakes, crack propagation, strongly interacting electrons, and fluid
flow on rough surfaces. |
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Foglia, Anthony |
UC Santa Barbara (P)
afoglia [at] physics.ucsb.edu |
Plasticity and fracture in amorphous materials. Shear transformation zones. |
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Gardel, Margaret |
Harvard Univ. (P)
gardel [at] fas.harvard.edu |
Polymer physics, biological systems. Viscoelasticity of actin networks. |

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Gittings, Alex |
UCLA (P)
gittings [at] physics.ucla.edu |
Bubble rearrangement in foams. Applications of diffusing wave spectroscopy
and diffuse transmission spectroscopy to study foams, colloids and granular
flows. |
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Glatz, Andreas |
U. of Cologne (P)
ang [at] thp.uni-koeln.de |
Dynamic and static properties of disordered systems. Collective dynamics
of charge-density waves. |
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Goldenfeld, Nigel |
Univ. Illinois, U-C. (L)
nigel [at] uiuc.edu
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Theoretical condensed matter physics, pattern formation in spatially extended
systems, turbulence in classical and quantum fluids, scaling phenomena, phase
ordering, high temperature superconductivity, applications of renormalization
group to PDEs, quantitative finance and medical physics. |
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Goldstein, Ray |
University of Arizona (L)
gold [at] physics.arizona.edu |
Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, fluid dynamics, biological physics;
theory and experiment. Elastohydrodynamics of filaments, Rayleigh and pearling
instabilities, and patterns of signaling activity in cellular populations.
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Goulian, Mark |
Univ. of Pennsylvania (L)
goulian [at] dept.physics.upenn.edu |
Design principles of cell signalling. Study of mechanisms for limiting noise
and maintaining fidelity in biological circuits, using fluorescence microscopy
and techniques from molecular biology. We are developing new methods for
engineering biomolecular networks in cells and for measuring signaling activity. |
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Haddad, Thomas |
Univ. Sao Paulo (P)
thaddad [at] if.usp.br |
Dynamics of disordered and glassy systems. Dynamics of random magnets and
metastability. Fixed points for magnets with aperiodic modulation. Reaction-diffusion
and driven diffusive systems. |
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Hong, Zhenning |
Boston Univ. (P)
hongzn [at] bu.edu |
I'm interested in porous media, pattern formation , biological systems and
fractals. Growth of cholesterol crystals and biominearlization. Drying and
cracking of gelatin gels and AFM study of mucin proteins. |
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Howell, Rafael |
Dartmouth (P)
rhowell [at] dartmouth.edu |
My research interests include nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and long-lived
localized solutions of nonlinear scalar fields. Nonperturbative fluctuations
in phase mixing and percolation. |
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Jettestuen, Espen |
Univ. of Oslo (P)
espen.jettestuen [at] fys.uio.no |
My research is in friction, by means of computer simulation
and theoretical calculations, including the effects of fracture and plasticity
of microasperities. |
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Jun, Suckjoon |
Simon Fraser University (P)
fugue [at] sfu.ca |
Mathematical Biology (Kinetic Model of DNA replication). MC-simulation
study of protein folding. Future research plans include problems in
complex networks such as robustness of protein network in cell-cycle. |
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Kiskowski, Maria |
Univ. Notre Dame (P)
mkiskows [at] nd.edu |
Mathematical biology. In particular, modeling of morphogenesis and differentiation,
aggregation and swarming. |
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Kloster, Morten |
Princeton Univ. (P)
mkloster [at] princeton.edu |
I'm working on self-organized criticality, domain structures of ferroelectrics.
Directed stochastic sandpile models. |

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Koopmann, Jerome |
ETH Zurich
jerome [at] student.ethz.ch |
Statistical physics, disordered systems, vortices. |
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Kori, Hiroshi |
Kyoto University (P)
kori [at] ton.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
Information transporting and processing in the organism. Collective dynamics
of coupled oscillators and application to transmission of phase information
in neural fields. |
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Kurchan, Jorge |
École Supérieure de Physique (L)
jorge [at] pmmh.espci.fr |
Glassy systems. Dense granular media, structural glasses, spin glasses, metastability,
nonlinear rheology, coarsening, aging, fluctuation-dissipation theorems.
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Lacevic, Naida |
Johns Hopkins (P)
lacevic [at] lurch.nist.gov |
My primary interest is in the phenomenon of spatially heterogeneous dynamics
in glass-forming liquids. Use of molecular dynamics simulations to study
length scales in supercooled liquids. |
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Leone, Michele |
SISSA (Trieste) (P)
mleone [at] sissa.it |
Complexity theory and spin glasses. The relationship between random combinatorial
problems and zero temperature spin glasses. |
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Levine, Herbert |
UC San Diego (L)
levine [at] herbie.ucsd.edu |
My interest is in the physics of nonequilibrium processes, especially in
the emergence of spatial patterns in extended systems. Within this framework,
I work on issues arising in condensed matter physics, chemical physics and
most recently biophysics. Chemotaxis and development in Dictyostelium. Evolution
and fitness landscapes. Protein folding and receptor clustering. Crack propagation. |
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Longhi, Emily |
Duke Univ. (P)
elonghi [at] phy.duke.edu |
I am currently involved in granular material experiments. I have carried
out experiments on force fluctations in granular flow, used dynamical systems
to study pattern formation in plants, and studied the response of granular
materials to point perturbations. |
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Marchetti, Cristina |
Syracuse Univ. (O)
mcm [at] physics.syr.edu |
Superconductivity & vortex matter, including microscopic models of vortex
line interactions, vortex lattice melting, vortex entanglement, hydrodynamic
models of flux lines, and smectic ordering of flowing flux lines. General
models of plastic and elastic flow applied to hysteresis, memory effects,
and nonequilibrium phases in driven systems. Viscous and supercooled liquids
and the glass transition. |
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Marconi, Veronica |
C-A Bariloche (P)
marcov [at] cab.cnea.gov.ar |
Nonequilibrium dynamical systems, particularly, vortices in superconductors.
Josephson junction arrays, driven XY models, fully frustrated systems. |
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Mehta, Amit |
Univ. Illinois, U-C. (P)
apmehta [at] uiuc.edu |
I'm interested in renormalization group and its applications to non-equilibrium
systems. Barkhausen noise in magnetic hysteresis loops. |
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Middleton, Alan |
Syracuse Univ. (O)
aam [at] syr.edu |
Statics and dynamics of systems with quenched disorder. Models of collective
transport, as used to describe flux flow in superconductors, charge transport
in arrays of quantum dots, and charge density waves. Plastic and elastic
flow. Ground states and excitations in disordered systems, found by combinatorial
optimization. Connections between algorithm dynamics and physical systems. |
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Moore, Mitchell |
U. Texas, Austin (P)
mgmoore [at] chaos.ph.utexas.edu |
My primary interest is in pattern formation, especially patterns in interfacial
phenomena and in complex fluids; my current work is the study of time dependent
viscous fingering flows. |

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Morales, Hector |
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