General links
- GIACS — More is Different
- Intelligent Falling
- Teach ‘Intelligent Falling’ in schools alongside gravity!!
People
- Ginestra Bianconi
- Ginestra is an absolute star who has done lots of cool work on networks and econophysics.
- Stefan Bornholdt
- Stefan has done lots fun stuff including biophysics, networks and econophysics.
- Damien Challet
- Damien is one of the stars of the econophysics scene, as the major force behind the Minority Game model of financial markets, and with some recent interesting papers on computer software.
- Dante Chialvo
- The inventor, with Per Bak, of one of the neural network models I have used in my own research, and an all-round excellent person, Dante trained as a medical doctor and his subsequent research career spans an extremely wide range of fun and fascinating biological topics.
- Álvaro Corral
- Álvaro has done fun work on integrate-and-fire oscillators (IFOs), self-organized criticality and earthquakes, among other things.
- Tobias Galla
- Tobias has done lots of fun work on the Minority Game and is frighteningly smart, understanding maths that renders me speechless just looking at it.
- MC Hawking
- The lesser-known works of the author of A Brief History of Time. >;}~
- Paulien Hogeweg
- Paulien Hogeweg is one of the leading figures in bioinformatics and a pioneer in the use of simple self-organising models of coevolving agents.
- Mogens Høgh Jensen
- Mogens has done a great deal of seminal work on fractals, chaos and turbulence, as well as more recent work on bio- and econophysics.
- Matteo Marsili
- Matteo is fantastically smart, brilliant almost beyond belief at maths, and does all sorts of exciting stuff on econophysics, data clustering and other interdisciplinary statistical physics.
- Sergei Maslov
- Sergei’s work includes some important contributions to the theory of self-organized criticality and, more recently, some excellent work on biophysics (particularly on protein interactions), networks and econophysics.
- James Millington
- James works on landscape and ecological modelling, particularly from the poiint of view of human/landscape/ecosystem interaction.
- Maya Paczuski
- Maya is a top person who has done lots of cool things including some very important work on self-organized criticality, bio- and econophysics, earthquake science and, most recently, a fascinating investigation of solar flares.
- Kim Sneppen
- Kim is a very prolific scientist whose research includes nuclear physics, fractals, biophysics, econophysics and networks, as well as having developed one of the classic models of self-organized criticality.
- Duncan J. Watts
- Duncan is most well-known for his work on the structure and dynamics of networks (and more importantly interactions on networks) which have taken him all the way from a physics degree to a professorship of sociology (!).
Software
- Cygwin
- Provides to some degree a sort of ‘virtual Linux’ running under Windows. It’s not up to providing the complete interoperability that one would like but it helps if you’re running Windows but have to interact with Linux a lot.
- GSL — The GNU Scientific Library
- Forget Numerical Recipes, this is what you really want. ;-)
- The MathWorks
- MATLAB and Simulink software.
- GNU Octave
- Boo hiss to proprietary software. Octave is a free/open source numerical computing package with a similar scripting language to MATLAB.
- The R Project for Statistical Computing
- Reference Manager
- Great bibliography software for use with MS Word.
Organisations
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- American Physical Society (APS)
- BioMed Central
- European Physical Society
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- National Academies of the USA
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the USA
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Royal Society of London
- Swiss Physical Society
Journals
These are some of the journals I like to read on a regular basis. This is not an exhaustive list: I have left out lots of ‘specialist’ journals, for example those to do with neural systems or econophysics. Instead the journals listed here are hopefully of more general, interdisciplinary interest.
- arXiv.org
- Not a journal, but an e-print archive. Fantastically useful!
- Advances in Complex Systems
- Biology Letters
- Complexity
- Europhysics Letters
- European Physical Journal B
- Fractals
- Nature
- New Journal of Physics
- Open-access!
- Physica A (ScienceDirect)
- Physica D (ScienceDirect)
- Physical Review E
- Physical Review Letters
- Physics Reports (ScienceDirect)
- PLoS Biology
- Open-access!
- PLoS Computational Biology
- Open-access!
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
- Reports on Progress in Physics
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Science
Scientific Publishers
- AIP Journals
- BioMed Central Journals
- Open-access publisher!
- Journals of the American Physical Society
- Cambridge University Press
- EDP Sciences
- Elsevier B.V.
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Some publications are open-access.
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- MIT Press
- Nature Publishing Group
- Oxford University Press
- PLoS Journals
- Open-access publisher!
- Publications of the Royal Society of London
- Springer-Verlag
- World Scientific