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Terence Hwa

Terence Hwa
Ph.D., Physics
Professor of Physics


Research Areas
Statistical Biophysics; systems of high microscopic degrees of freedom


I am interested in a variety of complex phenomena that arise from competing interactions in systems involving a large number of microscopic degrees of freedom. These include, for example, the pinning of magnetic flux lines in disordered superconductors, the dynamics of interfaces in nonequilibrium growth phenomena, and the formation and recognition of complex patterns in chemical and biological systems. Various aspects of these phenomena are characterized by applying the methods of statistical physics and field theory, and by extending the existing knowledge of disordered and stochastic systems.

For more information, visit http://matisse.ucsd.edu


Selected Publications

"Similarity-Detection and Localization," with M. Lassig, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2592 (1996).

"Defect-Mediated Stability: An Effective Hydrodynamic Theory of Spatio-Temporal Chaos," with C. Chow, Physica D, 94, 494 (1995).

"Avalanches, Hydrodynamics and Great Events in Models of Sandpiles," with M. Kardar, Phys. Rev. A 45, 7002 (1992).

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