Maya Paczuski

Maya Paczuski
Born	April 7, 1963 Tel-Aviv, Israel
Residence	Canada
Nationality	United States of America
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Calgary
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Mehran Kardar

Maya Paczuski is the head and founder of the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary. She is a well-cited physicist whose work spans self-organized criticality, avalanche dynamics, earthquake, and complex networks. She was born in Israel in 1963, but grew up in the United States. Maya Paczuski received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. in 1986 and then went on to study with Mehran Kardar, earning her Ph.D in Condensed matter physics from the same institute.

Before founding the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary, she held appointments at numerous institutions around the world, most notably, M.I.T., Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark), the University of Houston, NORDITA (Copenhagen, Denmark), Imperial College London, the von Neumann Institute for Computing at Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where she organized and ran the first complex systems and statistical physics program.

See also

• Self-organized criticality
• Geophysics
• Complexity
• Boolean network
• Complex network

Selected publications

• M. Paczuski; M. Kardar, D.R. Nelson (1988). "Landau Theory of the Crumpling Transition". Physical Review Letters 60 (25): 2638–2640. Bibcode 1988PhRvL..60.2638P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.2638. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.2638. 
• M. Paczuski; S. Maslov, P. Bak (1994). "Field-Theory for a Model of Self-Organized Criticality". Europhysics Letters 27 (2): 97–102. doi:10.1209/0295-5075/27/2/004. http://iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/27/2/004. 
• S. Maslov; M. Paczuski, P. Bak (1994). "Avalanches and 1/f Noise in Evolution and Growth-Models". Physical Review Letters 73 (16): 2162–2165. Bibcode 1994PhRvL..73.2162M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.2162. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.2162. 
• P. Bak; M. Paczuski (1995). "Complexity, Contingency, and Criticality". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 92 (15): 6689–6696. doi:10.1073/pnas.92.15.6689. PMC 41396. PMID 11607561. http://www.pnas.org/content/92/15/6689.short. 
• K. Nagel; M. Paczuski (1995). "Emergent Traffic Jams". Physical Review E 51 (4): 2909–2918. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.51.2909. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.51.2909. 
• M. Paczuski; S. Maslov, P. Bak (1996). "Avalanche Dynamics in Evolution, Growth, and Depinning Models". Physical Review E 53 (1): 414–443. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.53.414. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.53.414. 
• M. Paczuski; S. Boettcher (1996). "Universality in Sandpiles, Interface Depinning, and Earthquake Models". Physical Review Letters 77 (1): 111–114. Bibcode 1996PhRvL..77..111P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.111. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.111. 
• P. Bak; M. Paczuski, M. Shubik (1997). "Price Variations in a Stock Market with Many Agents". Physica A-Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 246 (3-4): 430–453. doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00401-9. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVG-3SPXB8W-29&_user=1067480&_coverDate=12%2F01%2F1997&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1709778137&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000051253&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1067480&md5=a39ca21a59933b4ec1ae594461db7620&searchtype=a. 
• M. Paczuski; K.E. Bassler, A. Corral (2000). "Self-Organized Networks of Competing Boolean Agents". Physical Review Letters 84 (14): 3185–3188. Bibcode 2000PhRvL..84.3185P. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3185. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3185. 
• J. Davidsen; M. Paczuski (2005). "Analysis of the Spatial Distribution Between Successive Earthquakes". Physical Review Letters 94 (4): 048501. Bibcode 2005PhRvL..94d8501D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.048501. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.048501. 
• J.G. Foster; D.V. Foster, P. Grassberger, M. Paczuski (2009). "Edge Direction and the Structure of Networks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (24): 10815–10820. doi:10.1073/pnas.0912671107. http://www.pnas.org/content/107/24/10815.short. 

References

External link

• Maya Paczuski's Homepage

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Name	Paczuski, Maya
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Date of birth	April 7, 1963
Place of birth	Tel-Aviv, Israel
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