Marcel den Nijs

Office: PAB B429

Department of Physics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

(206)-543-7305

dennijs@phys.washington.edu

Teaching:

Physics Graduate Program Coordinator:

The GPC page contains copies of documents maintained in my role as Physics Graduate Program Coordinator

Special Items:

Retrospective, David Thouless, May 2019, Science
Obituary, David Thouless, Sep 2019, Physics Today
David Thouless Nobel Physics Colloquium, Marcel den Nijs, October 10, 2016
- Scale invariance and dynamic phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems
  - ECoG observation of a power law in the brain.
  - Polymer localization in random media versus traffic jams.
  - Clustering and conservation laws in one dimensional driven stochastic flow.
  - Avalanches in an unloading sandbox with KPZ scaling.
  - Surface reconstruction during growth.
  - Stationary state Skewness in KPZ type growth in one and two dimensions.
  - Crossover scaling between dynamic universality classes.
  - Absorbing state phenomena in growing and equilibrium surfaces.
- Equilibrium phase transitions in crystal surfaces
  - Anomalous equilibrium surface roughness in dissociative dimer dynamics and
    even visiting random walks.
  - Facet ridge endpoints in equilibrium crystal shapes and the mapping to
    one dimensional KPZ type growth.
  - Preroughening phase transitions in crystal surfaces.
  - Disordered flat phases and their equivalence to one dimensional
    quantum fluid ground states.
  - Competition between (pre)-roughening and surface reconstruction transitions.