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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

The effect of boundary adaptivity on hexagonal ordering and bistability in circularly confined quasi hard discs.
I Williams, EC Oğuz, RL Jack, P Bartlett, H Löwen, CP Royall
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2014)
140,
104907
Counting metastable states in a kinetically constrained model using a patch repetition analysis.
RL Jack
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(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
– Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
(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
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2013)
135,
5501
Controlling crystal self-assembly using a real-time feedback scheme
D Klotsa, RL Jack
– J Chem Phys
(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
– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics
(2012)
85,
021120
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431