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Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences - Faculty
Terence Hwa
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Ph.D., Physics
Professor of Physics
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Research Areas
Statistical Biophysics; systems of high microscopic degrees of freedom
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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
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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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