Marcel den Nijs

• Statistical Mechanics, Ph328, S2013
• Solid State Physics, Ph567, A2012 and Ph568, W2013
• Introduction to Research, Ph528, A2012
• Topological Phase Transitions and Invariants, Ph578, W2012

• 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.
  • First quantitative observation of critical opalescence in a biological system.
  • 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.
  
  

• other

  • List of Publications.
  • Save our Physics Astronomy Library, Spring 2009
  • Hubert Knops Retirement Symposium Talk .
  • Lorentz workshop, June 2004 .
  • Real-Space Renormalization from a Geometric Fractal Perspective.
  • Condensed Matter Theory Group at the UW

recent graduate students:

recent collaborators:

• Masters degree (ingenieur, Physics) from the Technical University Delft, 1976.
• Ph.D from the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 1979.
• Post-Doc at James-Franck Institute of the University of Chicago, 1980-1981.
• At the University of Washington since 1981.