Robert Jack

Professor of Statistical Mechanics (Chemistry / DAMTP)
Fellow of Emmanuel College

Email: rlj22 AT cam.ac.uk

Links to: publications; some useful people.

News...

Nov-2022: Paper on local structure in glasses appears in JCP.
Nov-2022: Paper on two-species exclusion processes accepted by J Stat Phys.
Nov-2022: Congratulations to Paul on passing his viva!
Nov-2022: Paper on fluctuations in 1d systems accepted in PRE.
Oct-2022: Paper on an active lattice gas accepted in J Stat Mech.
Oct-2022: Preprint on random field Ising model appears on arXiv.

Research directions

How fast do complex systems change? Why do some fluids (like water) flow quickly while others (like honey) flow very slowly? How can biological systems build nano-scale ordered structures so quickly and reliably?

What statistical methods can we use to describe change in physical systems? In particular, what happens when motion takes place by localised rare events (cage hopping, avalanches, earthquakes...)?

Research group:
Current:
Kristian Thijssen (chemistry); Paul Rohrbach (damtp); Liheng Yao (damtp); Honghao Yu (chemistry); Calum Brown (damtp); Ellery Gopaoco (part iii chemistry).
Co-supervised:
James Mason (with Maria Bruna); Yann-Edwin Keta (with Ludovic Berthier); Janik Schuettler (with Mike Cates).

Recent (and some not-so-recent):
Dr. Hideki Kobayashi; Dr. Jules Guioth; Dr. Chris Fullerton; Dr. Daphne Klotsa; Dr. Jakub Dolezal; Dr. Marcus Kaiser; Dr. Tobias Brewer; Dr. Lester Hedges; Dr. James Grant; Dr. Clement Law; Dr. Ian Thompson; Jimin Li; Ed Wastell; Dr. Jeremy O'Byrne; Ian Wu; Greg Wood; Sophie Bennett.

Links to...
RLJ @ DAMTP
RLJ @ Cambridge chemistry
... DAMTP home

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