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György Korniss
Associate Professor of Physics
Contact:
(518) 276-2555
korniss@rpi.edu
Home Page: http://www.rpi.edu/~korniss/
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:
1. Asztalos, S. Sreenivasan, B.K. Szymanski, and G. Korniss, “Distributed flow optimization and cascading effects in weighted complex networks”, A. European Physical Journal B (submitted, 2012).
2. J. Xie, J. Emenheiser, M. Kirby, S. Sreenivasan, B. K. Szymanski, G. Korniss, “Evolution of opinions on social networks in the presence of competing committed groups”, PLoS One (in press, 2012).
3. J. Xie, S. Sreenivasan,G. Korniss, W. Zhang, C. Lim, B. K. Szymanski, “Social Consensus through the Influence of Commited Minoritie”, Physical Review E 84, 011130 (2011).
News: Science News Focus, "The power of true believers", by Adrian Cho
RPI News, ``Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas'', by Gabrielle DeMarco
Communications of the ACM, ``Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion'', by Paul Hyman
Discovery News, ``Minority Rules: Scientists Find the Tipping Point'', by Emily Sohn,
Freakonomics, ``Minority Rules: Why 10 Percent is All You Need'', by Matthew Philips
4. D. Hunt, G. Korniss, and B.K. Szymanski, “Network Synchronization in a Noisy Environment with Time Delays: Fundamental Limits and Trade-Offs”, Physical Review Letters 105, 068701 (2010) (Editors Suggestion).
News: Physics Synopsis, ``Don't micromanage when communication is delayed'', by David Voss
RPI News, ``Rensselaer Researchers Provide Insight Into the Impacts of Too Much Communication'', by Gabrielle DeMarco
5. Q. Lu, G. Korniss, and B.K. Szymanski, “The Naming Game in Social Networks: Community Formation and Consensus Engineering”, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 4, 221—235 (2009).
6. L. O’Malley, G. Korniss, and T. Caraco, “Ecological Invasion, Roughened Fronts, and a Competitor's Extreme Advance: Integrating Stochastic Spatial-Growth Models”, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 71, 1160-1188 (2009).
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