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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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Career

  • 2022-: Professor of Statistical Mechanics (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
  • 2018-: Fellow, Emmanuel College
  • 2017-2022: Interdisciplinary Lecturer (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
  • 2008-2017: Lecturer / Reader, University of Bath
  • 2006-2008: Postdoc, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
  • 2004-2006: Postdoc, Theoretical Physics, Oxford University
  • 2000-2004: PhD, Physics, Imperial College London

Research

Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter, combining ideas and methods from mathematics, physics and chemistry.

 

 

Publications

Counting metastable states in a kinetically constrained model using a patch repetition analysis
RL Jack
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2013)
88,
062113
Large deviations of the dynamical activity in the East model: Analysing structure in biased trajectories
RL Jack, P Sollich
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2013)
47,
015003
Self-assembly of colloidal polymers via depletion-mediated lock and key binding.
DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding
– Soft Matter
(2013)
9,
9661
Dynamical correlations in a glass former with randomly pinned particles
RL Jack, CJ Fullerton
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2013)
88,
042304
Dynamical phase transitions in supercooled liquids: interpreting measurements of dynamical activity.
CJ Fullerton, RL Jack
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138,
224506
Emergence of glass-like behavior in Markov state models of protein folding dynamics.
JK Weber, RL Jack, VS Pande
– J Am Chem Soc
(2013)
135,
5501
Controlling crystal self-assembly using a real-time feedback scheme
D Klotsa, RL Jack
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138,
094502
Space-time phase transitions in the East model with a softened kinetic constraint.
YS Elmatad, RL Jack
– Journal of Chemical Physics
(2013)
138,
12a531
Random pinning in glassy spin models with plaquette interactions.
RL Jack, L Berthier
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2012)
85,
021120
Quantifying reversibility in a phase-separating lattice gas: An analogy with self-assembly
J Grant, RL Jack
– Physical Review E
(2012)
85,
021112
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431