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György Korniss
Associate Professor of Physics
Education:
1993-1997 Ph.D. in Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
1989-1993 M.S. in Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
1988-89 Physics Major at Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary.
Career Highlights:
2006-present Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1997-2000 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University.
1994-97 Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Stochastic Processes in Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, Virginia Tech.
1993-96 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech.
1992-93 Research Assistant, Research Institute for Solid State Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
Research Interests:
Complex system modeling and collective behavior in physical and biological systems; dynamics on complex networks; structure and dynamics of biological, artificial, and social networks; stochastic models for ecological invasion; agent-based simulations and applications to social dynamics.
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and condensed matter theory; driven systems, interface evolution and surface growth; metastability, hysteresis, and dynamic phase transition in spatially extended bistable systems; nucleation and droplet theory.
Monte Carlo simulations, Markov processes, and stochastic differential equations.
Developing and implementing algorithms for simulating complex systems: discrete-event simulations, parallelization, scalability.
Selected Publications:
"Synchronization in Weighted Uncorrelated Complex Networks in a Noisy Environment: Optimization and Connections with Transport Efficiency", G. Korniss, Physical Review E 75, 051121 (2007).
"Fisher Waves and Front Roughening in a Two-Species Invasion Model with Preemptive Competition", L. O'Malley, B. Kozma, G. Korniss, Z. Racz, T. Caraco, Physical Review E 74, 041116 (2006).
"Invasive Advance of an Advantageous Mutation: Nucleation Theory" L. O'Malley, J. Basham, J. Yasi, A. Allstadt, G. Korniss, T. Caraco, Theoretical Population Biology 70, 464 (2006).
"Scaling in Small-World Resistor Networks", G Korniss, M.B. Hastings, K.E. Bassler, M.J. Berryman, B. Kozma, and D. Abbott, Physics Letters A 350, 324 (2006).
"Spatial Dynamics of Invasion: the Geometry of Introduced Species", G. Korniss and T. Caraco, Journal of Theoretical Biology 233, 137 (2005).
"Diffusion Processes on Power-Law Small-World Networks", B. Kozma, M.B. Hastings, and G. Korniss, Physical Review Letters 95, 018701 (2005).
"Roughness Scaling for Edwards-Wilkinson Relaxation in Small-World Networks", B. Kozma, M.B. Hastings, and G. Korniss, Physical Review Letters 92, 108701 (2004).
"Extreme Fluctuations in Small-World Networks with Relaxational Dynamics", H. Guclu and G. Korniss, Physical Review E 69, 065104(R) (2004).
"Competition-Driven Network Dynamics: Emergence of a Scale-Free Leadership Structure and Collective Efficiency", M. Anghel, Zoltan Toroczkai, Kevin E. Bassler, G. Korniss, Physical Review Letters 92, 058701 (2004).
"Suppressing Roughness of Virtual Times in Parallel Discrete-Event Simulations", G. Korniss, M.A. Novotny, H. Guclu, Z. Toroczkai, and P.A. Rikvold, Science 299, 677 (2003).
Contact:
(518) 276-2555
korniss@rpi.edu
Home Page: http://www.rpi.edu/~korniss/
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