Hernán Alejandro Makse

Professor of Physics
Levich Institute and
Physics Department
City College of New York
Steinman Hall, T1M-12
140th Street and Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031-9198
(212) 650-6847, (212) 650-6835 (fax)
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This is the Jam lab of Hernán Makse at the Levich Institute and Department of Physics of City College of New York in New York City. Our group consists of graduate students Ping Wang, Kun Wang, Chris Briscoe, Yuliang Jin and Eli Lansey from the Physics Department, and postdocs Hernán Diego Rozenfeld, Diego Rybski and Lazaros Gallos.

We try to follow the precepts of the Chinese Tao-te Ching (in Sanskrit): "He who thinks he knows, does not know. He who knows that he does not know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know," since "one thing only we know, and that is that we know nothing," paraphrasing Socrates. In a more poetic way, we remember the great Don Atahualpa Yupanqui--- commemorating “El Año Yupanquiano&rdquo, 100 years of his natalicio--- saying: ... cuando se abandona el pago, y se empieza a repechar, tira el caballo adelante, y el alma tira pa' tras..."

We focus on the study of jammed matter, spanning from colloidal suspensions, dense emulsions to granular materials and glasses in search of unifying theoretical frameworks. We explore this variety of out of equilibrium systems in terms of their behavior as they experience structural arrest or jamming. The group focuses on the theoretical and computational approaches in parallel with the experiments, creating a productive research environment. We are also interested in the theoretical understanding of complexity. We are working towards the development of new arquitectural laws for complex networks, from biological systems, to the Internet, the web, to social networks.

For the latest research, see the presentations on jamming, complex networks, and elasticity.

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