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Highlights
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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Specials
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The Zeitgeist movie.
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The Zeitgeist Addendum:
How money is
created.
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An overview of the
Kepler conjecture.
Article by
Hales
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Talk on complex network at PASI Conference, Mar del Plata, Argentina,
December 2006.
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Don Atahualpa Yupanqui.
Cuando se abandona el pago,
y se empieza a repechar,
tira el caballo adelante,
y el alma tira para atras.
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MUSIC 2116 songs, 5.9 days, 12.73GB.
From Atahualpa Yupanqui to Caetano Veloso, from
Jorge Cafrune to Chico Buarque, from Falu to Sumo,
from Velvet Underground to Mercedes Sosa,
from Pescado Rabioso to Kraftwerk, from Palo to Gilberto Gil, from Cuba to Gotan
Project, from Monk to Senior Coconuts to Carnaval Brazuca, from Thievery Corporation to Mr. Scruff, from Fela Kuti to LCD Soundsystem and Soulwax.
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New electronic journal from the Institute of Physics and SISSA:
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: theory and experiments
- Kaylita
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Lost in the Woods. A clay animation movie by Milena (.wmv)
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Creepy Woods. Another clay animation movie by Milena (.wmv)
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Gallery of Patterns in Nature: Growing order out of Randomness
- My research in the news
- Related links in the WEB
- Elasticity and
Force chains in granular matter (SDR)
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How to build the stratification cell. Collaboration with the
SEED project at Schlumberger. We are looking for
high school students to work in this project. Please contact
H. Makse.
- Download pictures of stratification
- Buy a kit of the stratification experiment at Science Kit specially designed
for educators and students Grades 7-12.
- Trip to Fortaleza, January 2002. Sand dunes
avalanches in Cumbuco and Canoa Quebrada
- Imperial College
- GEsource team at The University of Manchester.
An online catalogue of Internet resources in geography and
environmental science featuring
"Stratification in Small-scale Aeolian Climbing Ripples".
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Images of Petra and rock stratification for science educators
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How sedimentary rocks are formed: Educational
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Zipf's law.
- Group Pictures
- Droplets: Force chains in compressed emulsions
- Paper: "Granular Packings I: Nonlinear elasticity,
sound propagation, and slow relaxation dynamics", by
Makse, Gland, Johnson,
and Schwartz. Download: postscript or
pdf .
- Book: The Physics of Granular Media
- TRUCO Y Los Quilla Huasi
- Se destapo la olla. El tio es de Los Andes!!
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