Marcel den Nijs

• Advanced Statistical Mechanics, Ph525, F09
• Thermal Physics, Ph224, S09
• Physics Colloquium, W2009

• Scale invariance and dynamic phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems

  • ECoG observation of a powerlaw in the brain.
  • 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 dimenional
    quantum fluid ground states.
  • Competetion between (pre)-roughening and surface reconstruction transitions.
  
  

• other

  • Publication List.
  • PDF file of my talk at the 2-nd KIAS conference on
    Statistical Physics of Complex Systems, July 2006.
  • Lorentz workshop, June 2004 .
  • Real-Space Renormalization from a Geometric Fractal Perspective.

current graduate students:

recent graduate students:

recent collaborators:

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