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Professor Robert Jack

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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

Bayesian inference across multiple models suggests a strong increase in lethality of COVID-19 in late 2020 in the UK
P Pietzonka, E Brorson, W Bankes, ME Cates, RL Jack, R Adhikari
(2021)
2021.03.10.21253311
(doi: 10.1101/2021.03.10.21253311)
Collective motion in large deviations of active particles.
Y-E Keta, É Fodor, F van Wijland, ME Cates, RL Jack
– Physical review. E
(2021)
103,
022603
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.103.022603)
Preface: Special issue ‘Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VII’
CP Royall, RL Jack, J Russo, C Cammarota, JP Garrahan, P Sollich
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020,
104001
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/aba897)
Giant leaps and long excursions: Fluctuation mechanisms in systems with long-range memory.
RL Jack, RJ Harris
– Phys Rev E
(2020)
102,
012154
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.102.012154)
Dynamical phase transitions for the activity biased Ising model in a magnetic field
J Guioth, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020,
063215
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ab8c34)
Dynamical phase coexistence in the Fredrickson–Andersen model
RL Jack, T Nemoto, V Lecomte
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020,
053204
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ab7af6)
Inference, prediction and optimization of non-pharmaceutical interventions using compartment models: the PyRoss library
R Adhikari, A Bolitho, F Caballero, ME Cates, J Dolezal, T Ekeh, J Guioth, RL Jack, J Kappler, L Kikuchi, H Kobayashi, YI Li, JD Peterson, P Pietzonka, B Remez, PB Rohrbach, R Singh, G Turk
(2020)
(link to publication)
Ergodicity and large deviations in physical systems with stochastic dynamics
RL Jack
– The European Physical Journal B
(2020)
93,
74
(doi: 10.1140/epjb/e2020-100605-3)
Assessing the structural heterogeneity of supercooled liquids through community inference
J Paret, RL Jack, D Coslovich
– J Chem Phys
(2020)
152,
144502
(doi: 10.1063/5.0004732)
Large deviations and optimal control forces for hard particles in one dimension
J Dolezal, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2019)
2019,
123208
(doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/ab4801)
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Email

rlj22@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431

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