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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Hutzler, Stefan | |
| Main Department | Physics | |
| College Title | Associate Professor | |
| stefan.hutzler@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1676 | |
| Web | http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Foams | |
| Fax | +353 1 671 1759 | |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Chartered Physicist, Member of the Institute of Physics | 1995 | PRESENT |
| Description of Research Interests |
| AREA OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY: Physics. Computational and Statistical Physics, in particular physics of foams and granular materials, sociophysics. DOMAIN OF SPECIALIZATION: My research is in the area of soft condensed matter, granular matter, and econo- and sociophysics. In collaboration with Professor Denis Weaire, I have contributed to a better understanding of liquid foams, which constitute a model system of soft matter, through both experiments and simulations (e.g. discovery and monitoring of a solitary wave in foam drainage, avalanches of bubble rearrangements in foams under shear and convective bubble motion in foams under forced drainage). The book "The Physics of Foams" co-written together with D. Weaire (OUP 1999, paperback 2001) and featuring a large amount of original work, has received excellent reviews in the scientific press and has turned into a standard reference in research papers on the physics of foams. Present research interests A further theme of my research are analogies of foams and granular matter concerning packing problems and dilatancy (expansion of a packing of grains under shear). My contribution to econophysics concerns a study of wealth distributions in societies. An agent based model reproduces the long power law tails (Pareto tails) that are typical for such distributions. |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Avalanches and 1/f noise |
| Summary | Coordinator |
| Funding Agency | Enterprise Ireland Basic Research Grant |
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| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2000 |
| Date to | 2003 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Hydrodynamics of wet foams |
| Summary | (member of team) |
| Funding Agency | ESA/ESTEC (European Space Agency) |
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| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2004 |
| Date to | 2007 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Application of statistical physics to risk analysis in finance and sociology |
| Summary | |
| Funding Agency | SFI |
| Programme | Basic Research Grant |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2004 |
| Date to | 2006 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Development of advanced foams in microgravity |
| Summary | (member of team) |
| Funding Agency | ESA/ESTEC (Euroepan Space Agency) |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2003 |
| Date to | 2006 |
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| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Denis Weaire and Stefan Hutzler, Foam as a complex system, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 21, 2009, p474227 - 474231 Url TARA - Full Text DOI |
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| Weaire D, Hutzler S and Pittet N, Cylindrical Packings of Foam Cells, Forma, 7, (3), 1992, p259 - 263 Url |
| Non Peer Reviewed | |
| Dynamics of Money and Income Distributions II in, editor(s)A. Chatterjee, S. Yarlagadda and B.K. Chakrabarti , Econophysics of Wealth Distributions, Econophys-Kolkata I, Milan, Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp120 - 125, [Richmond P, Repetowicz P and Hutzler S] Url |
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