Research Interests for Joshua Socolar

Research Interests: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics; Nonlinear Dynamics; Systems Biology

Prof. Socolar is interested in the principles that determine collective behavior in condensed matter and dynamical systems. His current research interests include:

  • Organization and function of complex dynamical networks, especially biological networks, but also including electronic circuits and social interaction networks;
  • Mechanistic models of genetic regulatory networks;
  • Limit-periodic structures, quasicrystals, packing problems, and tiling theory.
  • Self-assembly of colloidal particles with designed interactions.
  • Shear jamming and stick-slip dynamics in dry granular materials.

Recent Papers, Books and Preprints
  1. Socolar, JES, Quasicrystalline structure of the hat monotile tilings, Physical Review B, vol. 108 no. 22 (December, 2023), American Physical Society (APS) [doi][abs] .
  2. Basak, R; Kozlowski, R; Pugnaloni, LA; Kramar, M; Socolar, JES; Carlevaro, CM; Kondic, L, Evolution of force networks during stick-slip motion of an intruder in a granular material: Topological measures extracted from experimental data., Physical review. E, vol. 108 no. 5-1 (November, 2023), pp. 054903 [doi][abs] .
  3. Socolar, JES, Quasicrystalline structure of the Smith monotile tilings (May, Preprint, 2023).
  4. Zhao, Y; Wang, D; Zheng, H; Chakraborty, B; Socolar, JES, Microscopic reversibility and emergent elasticity in ultrastable granular systems, Frontiers in Physics, vol. 10 (November, 2022) [doi][abs] .
  5. Kozlowski, R; Zheng, H; Daniels, KE; Socolar, JES, Stick-Slip Dynamics in a Granular Material With Varying Grain Angularity, Frontiers in Physics, vol. 10 (July, 2022) [doi][abs] .

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