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Lab/Projects/Grants that I coordinate:

 

 

 

a big research project for finding the fundamental laws governing the  emergence and survival of 
adaptive collective entities ("life") out of inanimate random noise
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  • DAPHnet : Dynamic Analysis of Physiological Networks: a project aimed at understanding human physiology by integrating in a coherent conceptual structure medical measurements that until now were considered separately. 

 

Past Tasks: Head of the Theoretical Physics Section at the Racah Institute of Physics,  Head of the Center for Microphysics and Cosmology, Scientific Head of the Visualization Center at HUJ.

Awards: Levinson Prize,  Bantrel Prize at Caltech,  J.F. Kennedy Prize, Weizmann Fellowship, Keren Kayemet Prize.

Committees Member: Center for Complexity Science, Jerusalem, Complexus journal, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C, Journal of Statistical Mechanics. New Economic Windows Series in Springer-Verlag
Book: Microscopic Simulation of Financial Markets, with M. Levy and H. Levy, Academic Press, New York, 2000.

Media CoverageBBC, New York Times, Herald Tribune, Boston GlobeDer StandardNew ScientistNeue Zurische Zeitung, Le Figaro, Business2.0, The Guardian, Nature, Science, Ha'AretzEurophysics News, Globe and Mail (Canada), ReutersDaily Telegraph, YNet, Slashdot etc etc

NOT SO Recent Scientific Activity Folder  

Selected Research Topics (UN-UPDATED since 2 -3 years)

?        Projects Overview ; Interdisciplinary Physics Driven Projects in: 
Cognitive Development / Children Drawings / Psychophysics / 3D perception/ Cognitive Immunology / Finance Markets / Novelty Emergence / Creation Dynamics 
See also the page of the Multidisciplinarity 2020 Club

?        " Angels and Mortals " on the cover of New Scientist of May 6 2000 and the article therein 
Ordinary Miracles ; based on the paper 
The Importance of Being Discrete - Life Always Wins on the surface 
in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 
When exception rules, mean means nothing ; a nontechnical account of the main idea 
see also Emergence of Macroscopic Objects from Microscopic Noise 
by my students Eldad Bettelheim and Benny Lehmann and the " Angels and Mortals game "

?        Financial Market Simulation Models; Generalized Lotka-Volterra, Scaling, Power Laws 
Book Microscopic Simulation of Financial Markets: From Investor Behavior to Market Phenomena andits endorsments by (Nobel Prize) Harry M. Markowitz, Dietrich Stauffer and Richard Roll.

?        Novelty emergence and propagation creation creativity (article in Science) social percolation market percolation )

?        Emergence of Complex Cognitive Functions in the Immune System and a longer paper 
Microscopic Discrete Proliferating Components Cause the Self-Organized Emergence of Macroscopic Adaptive Features in Biological Systems 
When Physics Meets Biology; How to win the war while loosing all the battles. HIV time hierarchies.

?        More papers, informal notes and memos on work in progress; 
for the internal use of my research group; 
but freely available for public browsing; ). 
See also Conference on Multiscale Phenomena: Computation and Modeling

 

My Bookmarks Old Bookmarks Other Bookmarks

Very old ADS, NLP, and PSY Bookmarks (most outdated or incorrect)


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