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Faculty of Mathematics

 

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Career

  • 2022-: Professor of Statistical Mechanics (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
  • 2018-: Fellow, Emmanuel College
  • 2017-2022: Interdisciplinary Lecturer (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
  • 2008-2017: Lecturer / Reader, University of Bath
  • 2006-2008: Postdoc, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
  • 2004-2006: Postdoc, Theoretical Physics, Oxford University
  • 2000-2004: PhD, Physics, Imperial College London

Research

Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter, combining ideas and methods from mathematics, physics and chemistry.

 

 

Publications

Hyperuniformity and Phase Separation in Biased Ensembles of Trajectories for Diffusive Systems
RL Jack, IR Thompson, P Sollich
– Physical review letters
(2015)
114,
060601
The Statistical Mechanics of Dynamic Pathways to Self-Assembly
S Whitelam, RL Jack
– Annual review of physical chemistry
(2014)
66,
143
Geometrical interpretation of fluctuating hydrodynamics in diffusive systems
RL Jack, J Zimmer
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2014)
47,
485001
Information-theoretic measurements of coupling between structure and dynamics in glass formers
RL Jack, AJ Dunleavy, CP Royall
– Physical review letters
(2014)
113,
095703
Dynamical Phase Transitions Reveal Amyloid-like States on Protein Folding Landscapes
JK Weber, RL Jack, CR Schwantes, VS Pande
– Biophys J
(2014)
107,
974
Investigating amorphous order in stable glasses by random pinning.
CJ Fullerton, RL Jack
– Physical Review Letters
(2014)
112,
255701
The effect of boundary adaptivity on hexagonal ordering and bistability in circularly confined quasi hard discs
I Williams, EC Oğuz, RL Jack, P Bartlett, H Löwen, CP Royall
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2014)
140,
104907
Counting metastable states in a kinetically constrained model using a patch repetition analysis
RL Jack
– Physical Review E Statistical Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics
(2013)
88,
062113
Large deviations of the dynamical activity in the East model: analysing structure in biased trajectories
RL Jack, P Sollich
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2013)
47,
015003
Self-assembly of colloidal polymers via depletion-mediated lock and key binding.
DJ Ashton, RL Jack, NB Wilding
– Soft matter
(2013)
9,
9661
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431