Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1987
  • B.A., Haverford College 1980
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Associate Professor of Physics, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2011
  • Assistant Professor, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1992 - 1999
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JAN 20, 2014

    Faculty Council Reboots Campus Conversation on Diversity

  • JAN 14, 2014

    Faculty to Begin Conversation on Diversity

  • SEP 16, 2013

    New Academic Council Chair Begins 2013-14 Term

  • MAR 25, 2010

    MIT Technology Review

    First Aperiodic Tiling With A Single Shape
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  Awards & Honors

  • Top 5% in undergraduate instruction at Duke University. Dean of Arts and Sciences and Dean of Academic Affairs, Trinity College. February 2013
  • Top 5% in undergraduate instruction at Duke University. Deans of Arts and Sciences and Trinity College. February 2011
  • Outstanding Referee. American Physics Society. March 2008
  • Harvard Society Junior Fellows. Harvard Society of Fellows. 1987
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • France (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Stick-slip dynamics and failure in granular materials awarded by Army Research Office 2018 - 2021
  • Structure, Response, and Flow of Dense Granular Materials awarded by  National Science Foundation 2018 - 2021
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program awarded by National Institutes of Health 2005 - 2021
  • The Dynamical Logic of Regulatory Networks awarded by  National Science Foundation 2011 - 2015
  • Duke Center for Systems Biology - Core A awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2013
  • Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Boolean Networks and Gene Expression awarded by  National Science Foundation 2004 - 2007
  • Dynamics of Boolean Networks and Gene Expressions awarded by  National Science Foundation 2003 - 2005
  • Force Propagation and Friction in Granular Materials awarded by  National Science Foundation 2002 - 2005
  • NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program awarded by National Institute for Standards and Technology 2003
  • Spatiotemporal Control without Reference States awarded by  National Science Foundation 1998 - 2001
  • Conference: Dynamics Day 1998 awarded by Office of Naval Research 1997 - 1998
  • Ordering Mechanisms in Dynamical Systems awarded by  National Science Foundation 1994 - 1997
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • Junior Fellow awarded by Harvard Society of Fellows 1987 - 1990
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Zhao, Yuchen, Jonathan Barés, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Yielding, rigidity, and tensile stress in sheared columns of hexapod granules.” Physical Review. E 101, no. 6–1 (June 2020): 062903. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.101.062903.
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    • Tian, Zhenhua, Chen Shen, Junfei Li, Eric Reit, Hunter Bachman, Joshua E. S. Socolar, Steven A. Cummer, and Tony Jun Huang. “Dispersion tuning and route reconfiguration of acoustic waves in valley topological phononic crystals.” Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (February 7, 2020): 762. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14553-0.
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    • Carlevaro, C Manuel, Ryan Kozlowski, Luis A. Pugnaloni, Hu Zheng, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Lou Kondic. “Intruder in a two-dimensional granular system: Effects of dynamic and static basal friction on stick-slip and clogging dynamics.” Physical Review. E 101, no. 1–1 (January 2020): 012909. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.101.012909.
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    • Wang, M., D. Wang, J. E. S. Socolar, H. Zheng, and R. P. Behringer. “Jamming by shear in a dilating granular system.” Granular Matter 21, no. 4 (November 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-019-0951-1.
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    • Zhao, Y., J. Barés, H. Zheng, C. S. Bester, Y. Xu, J. E. S. Socolar, and R. P. Behringer. “Jamming transition in non-spherical particle systems: pentagons versus disks.” Granular Matter 21, no. 4 (November 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-019-0940-4.
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    • Zhao, Yiqiu, Jonathan Barés, Hu Zheng, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Robert P. Behringer. “Shear-Jammed, Fragile, and Steady States in Homogeneously Strained Granular Materials.” Physical Review Letters 123, no. 15 (October 2019): 158001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.158001.
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    • Kozlowski, Ryan, C Manuel Carlevaro, Karen E. Daniels, Lou Kondic, Luis A. Pugnaloni, Joshua E. S. Socolar, Hu Zheng, and Robert P. Behringer. “Dynamics of a grain-scale intruder in a two-dimensional granular medium with and without basal friction.” Physical Review. E 100, no. 3–1 (September 2019): 032905. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.100.032905.
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    • Abed Zadeh, Aghil, Jonathan Barés, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Robert P. Behringer. “Seismicity in sheared granular matter.” Physical Review. E 99, no. 5–1 (May 2019): 052902. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.99.052902.
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    • Oğuz, Erdal C., Joshua E. S. Socolar, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Salvatore Torquato. “Hyperuniformity and anti-hyperuniformity in one-dimensional substitution tilings.” Acta Crystallographica. Section A, Foundations and Advances 75, no. Pt 1 (January 2019): 3–13. https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273318015528.
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    • Goshaw, Al, Henry Greenside, Joshua Socolar, and David Schaeffer. “Robert Paul Behringer.” Physics Today 71, no. 12 (December 2018): 60–60. https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.3.4098.
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    • Pham, An T., Yuan Zhuang, Paige Detwiler, Joshua E. S. Socolar, Patrick Charbonneau, and Benjamin B. Yellen. “Phase diagram and aggregation dynamics of a monolayer of paramagnetic colloids.” Physical Review. E 95, no. 5–1 (May 12, 2017): 052607. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.95.052607.
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    • Oǧuz, E. C., J. E. S. Socolar, P. J. Steinhardt, and S. Torquato. “Hyperuniformity of quasicrystals.” Physical Review B 95, no. 5 (February 23, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.054119.
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    • Rutkowski, David M., Catherine Marcoux, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Carol K. Hall. “Formation of limit-periodic structures by quadrupole particles confined to a triangular lattice.” Physical Review. E 95, no. 1–1 (January 10, 2017): 012604. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.95.012604.
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    • Hann, C. T., J. E. S. Socolar, and P. J. Steinhardt. “Local growth of icosahedral quasicrystalline tilings.” Physical Review B 94, no. 1 (July 14, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.014113.
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    • Marcoux, C., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Sparse phonon modes of a limit-periodic structure.” Physical Review B  Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 93, no. 17 (May 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.174102.
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    • Fu, Lin, William Steinhardt, Hao Zhao, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Patrick Charbonneau. “Hard sphere packings within cylinders.” Soft Matter 12, no. 9 (March 2016): 2505–14. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm02875b.
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    • Marcoux, C., T. W. Byington, Z. Qian, P. Charbonneau, and J. E. S. Socolar. “Erratum: Emergence of limit-periodic order in tiling models (Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (2014) 90 (012136)).” Physical Review E 93, no. 2 (February 29, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.029902.
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    • Yang, Ye, Lin Fu, Catherine Marcoux, Joshua E. S. Socolar, Patrick Charbonneau, and Benjamin B. Yellen. “Phase transformations in binary colloidal monolayers.” Soft Matter 11, no. 12 (March 2015): 2404–15. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm00009b.
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    • Sun, Mengyang, Xianrui Cheng, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Regulatory logic and pattern formation in the early sea urchin embryo.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 363 (December 2014): 80–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.07.023.
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    • Marcoux, Catherine, Travis W. Byington, Zongjin Qian, Patrick Charbonneau, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Emergence of limit-periodic order in tiling models.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 90, no. 1 (July 29, 2014): 012136. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.90.012136.
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    • Cheng, Xianrui, Deirdre C. Lyons, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and David R. McClay. “Delayed transition to new cell fates during cellular reprogramming.” Developmental Biology 391, no. 2 (July 2014): 147–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.04.015.
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    • Sun, Mengyang, Xianrui Cheng, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Causal structure of oscillations in gene regulatory networks: Boolean analysis of ordinary differential equation attractors.” Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) 23, no. 2 (June 2013): 025104. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807733.
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    • Cheng, Xianrui, Mengyang Sun, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Autonomous Boolean modelling of developmental gene regulatory networks.” Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 10, no. 78 (January 2013): 20120574. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0574.
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    • Byington, T., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Hierarchical freezing of limit-periodic structure.” Physical Review E, November 12, 2012.
    • Gong, Xinwei, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Quantifying the complexity of random Boolean networks.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 85, no. 6 Pt 2 (June 8, 2012): 066107. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.85.066107.
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    • Durrett, Richard, James P. Gleeson, Alun L. Lloyd, Peter J. Mucha, Feng Shi, David Sivakoff, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Chris Varghese. “Graph fission in an evolving voter model.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 10 (March 2012): 3682–87. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200709109.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S., and J. M. Taylor. “Forcing Nonperiodicity with a Single Tile.” Mathematical Intelligencer 34, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-011-9255-y.
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    • Byington, Travis W., and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Hierarchical freezing in a lattice model.” Physical Review Letters 108, no. 4 (January 25, 2012): 045701. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.108.045701.
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    • Khalil, Karim S., Amanda Sagastegui, Yu Li, Mukarram A. Tahir, Joshua E. S. Socolar, Benjamin J. Wiley, and Benjamin B. Yellen. “Binary colloidal structures assembled through Ising interactions.” Nature Communications 3 (January 2012): 794. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1798.
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    • Sun, M., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Comparison of autonomous Boolean network dynamics and ODE models.” Chaos, 2012.
    • Socolar, Joshua E. S. “Local action, global impact: forcing nonperiodicity with a single structural unit.” Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) 21, no. 4 (December 2011): 041106. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3668192.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S., and J. M. Taylor. “An aperiodic hexagonal tile.” Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A 118, no. 8 (November 1, 2011): 2207–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2011.05.001.
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    • Sevim, Volkan, Xinwei Gong, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Reliability of transcriptional cycles and the yeast cell-cycle oscillator.” Plos Computational Biology 6, no. 7 (July 8, 2010): e1000842. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000842.
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    • Sevim, V., X. Gong, and J. E. S. Socolar. “Reliability of transcriptional cycles and the yeast cell-cycle oscillator.” Plos Computational Biology 6, no. 7 (July 1, 2010): 18. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000842.
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    • Cavalcante, Hugo LD de S., Daniel J. Gauthier, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Rui Zhang. “On the origin of chaos in autonomous Boolean networks.” Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences 368, no. 1911 (January 2010): 495–513. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2009.0235.
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    • Zhang, Rui, Hugo L. D. de S Cavalcante, Zheng Gao, Daniel J. Gauthier, Joshua E. S. Socolar, Matthew M. Adams, and Daniel P. Lathrop. “Boolean chaos.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 80, no. 4 Pt 2 (October 27, 2009): 045202. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.80.045202.
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    • Norrell, Johannes, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Boolean modeling of collective effects in complex networks.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 79, no. 6 Pt 1 (June 8, 2009): 061908. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.79.061908.
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    • Orlando, David A., Charles Y. Lin, Allister Bernard, Jean Y. Wang, Joshua E. S. Socolar, Edwin S. Iversen, Alexander J. Hartemink, and Steven B. Haase. “Global control of cell-cycle transcription by coupled CDK and network oscillators.” Nature 453, no. 7197 (June 2008): 944–47. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06955.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S. “Time-Delay Control for Discrete Maps,” May 20, 2008, 29–45. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527622313.ch2.
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    • Tighe, Brian P., and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Nonlinear elastic stress response in granular packings.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 77, no. 3 Pt 1 (March 13, 2008): 031303. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.77.031303.
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    • Ribeiro, Andre S., Stuart A. Kauffman, Jason Lloyd-Price, Björn Samuelsson, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Mutual information in random Boolean models of regulatory networks.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 77, no. 1 Pt 1 (January 3, 2008): 011901. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.77.011901.
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    • Norrell, Johannes, Björn Samuelsson, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Attractors in continuous and Boolean networks.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 76, no. 4 Pt 2 (October 30, 2007): 046122. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.76.046122.
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    • Berger, Carolyn M., John W. Cain, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Daniel J. Gauthier. “Control of electrical alternans in simulations of paced myocardium using extended time-delay autosynchronization.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 76, no. 4 Pt 1 (October 25, 2007): 041917. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.76.041917.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S. “Erratum: The hexagonal parquet tiling, k-isohedral monotiles with arbitrarily large k (The Mathematical Intelligencer 29:2 (33-38)).” Mathematical Intelligencer 29, no. 4 (September 1, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02986167.
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    • Shreim, Amer, Peter Grassberger, Walter Nadler, Björn Samuelsson, Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Maya Paczuski. “Network analysis of the state space of discrete dynamical systems.” Physical Review Letters 98, no. 19 (May 8, 2007): 198701. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.98.198701.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S. “The hexagonal parquet tiling k-isohedral monotiles with arbitrarily large k.” Mathematical Intelligencer 29, no. 2 (March 1, 2007): 33–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02986203.
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    • Samuelsson, Björn, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Exhaustive percolation on random networks.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 74, no. 3 Pt 2 (September 25, 2006): 036113. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.74.036113.
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    • Foster, D. V., S. A. Kauffman, and J. E. Socolar. “Network growth models and genetic regulatory networks.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 73, no. 3 Pt 1 (March 14, 2006): 031912. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.73.031912.
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    • Tighe, Brian P., Joshua E. S. Socolar, David G. Schaeffer, W Garrett Mitchener, and Mark L. Huber. “Force distributions in a triangular lattice of rigid bars.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 72, no. 3 Pt 1 (September 23, 2005): 031306. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.72.031306.
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    • Dealy, S., S. Kauffman, and J. Socolar. “Modeling pathways of differentiation in genetic regulatory networks with Boolean networks.” Complexity 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 52–60. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.20100.
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    • Harrington, Ilan, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Design and robustness of delayed feedback controllers for discrete systems.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 69, no. 5 Pt 2 (May 12, 2004): 056207. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.69.056207.
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    • Hövel, Philipp, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Stability domains for time-delay feedback control with latency.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 68, no. 3 Pt 2 (September 11, 2003): 036206. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.68.036206.
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    • Socolar, J. E., and S. A. Kauffman. “Scaling in ordered and critical random boolean networks.” Physical Review Letters 90, no. 6 (February 13, 2003): 068702. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.068702.
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    • Hövel, P., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Stability domains for time-delay feedback control with latency.” Physical Review E  Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 68, no. 3 2 (2003): 362061–67.
    • Otto, M., J. P. Bouchaud, P. Claudin, and J. E. S. Socolar. “Anisotropy in granular media: Classical elasticity and directed-force chain network.” Physical Review E  Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 67, no. 3 1 (2003): 031302/1-031302/24.
    • Socolar, J. E. S. “Discrete models of force chain networks.” Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems  Series B 3, no. 4 (January 1, 2003): 601–18. https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2003.3.601.
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    • Beck, O., A. Amann, E. Schöll, J. E. Socolar, and W. Just. “Comparison of time-delayed feedback schemes for spatiotemporal control of chaos in a reaction-diffusion system with global coupling.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 66, no. 1 Pt 2 (July 24, 2002): 016213. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.66.016213.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S., D. G. Schaeffer, and P. Claudin. “Directed force chain networks and stress response in static granular materials.” The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter 7, no. 4 (April 2002): 353–70. https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2002-10011-7.
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    • Harrington, I., and J. E. Socolar. “Limitation on stabilizing plane waves via time-delay feedback.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 64, no. 5 Pt 2 (November 2001): 056206. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.64.056206.
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    • Socolar, J. E., S. Richards, and W. G. Wilson. “Evolution in a spatially structured population subject to rare epidemics.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 63, no. 4 Pt 1 (April 2001): 041908. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.63.041908.
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    • Bleich, M. E., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Delayed feedback control of a paced excitable oscillator.” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering 10, no. 3 (January 1, 2000): 603–9. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127400000414.
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    • Richards, S. A., W. G. Wilson, and J. E. Socolar. “Selection for intermediate mortality and reproduction rates in a spatially structured population.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences 266, no. 1436 (December 1999): 2383–88. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1999.0935.
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    • Sexton, M. G., J. E. Socolar, and D. G. Schaeffer. “Force distribution in a scalar model for noncohesive granular material.” Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 60, no. 2 Pt B (August 1999): 1999–2008. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.60.1999.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S. “Average stresses and force fluctuations in noncohesive granular materials.” Physical Review E 57, no. 3 (March 1, 1998): 3204–15. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.57.3204.
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    • Egolf, D. A., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Failure of linear control in noisy coupled map lattices.” Physical Review E  Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 57, no. 5 (January 1, 1998): 5271–75. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.57.5271.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S., and D. J. Gauthier. “Analysis and comparison of multiple-delay schemes for controlling unstable fixed points of discrete maps.” Physical Review E  Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 57, no. 6 (January 1, 1998): 6589–95. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.57.6589.
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    • Gauthier, D. J., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Comment on “Dynamic Control of Cardiac Alternans”.” Physical Review Letters 79, no. 24 (December 15, 1997): 4938. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4938.
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    • Sukow, David W., Michael E. Bleich, Daniel J. Gauthier, and Joshua E. S. Socolar. “Controlling chaos in a fast diode resonator using extended time-delay autosynchronization: Experimental observations and theoretical analysis.” Chaos (Woodbury, N.Y.) 7, no. 4 (December 1997): 560–76. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.166256.
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    • Bleich, M. E., D. Hochheiser, J. V. Moloney, and J. E. S. Socolar. “Controlling extended systems with spatially filtered, time-delayed feedback.” Physical Review E  Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 55, no. 3 (January 1, 1997): 2119–26. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.55.2119.
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    • Bleich, M. E., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Stability of periodic orbits controlled by time-delay feedback.” Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics 210, no. 1–2 (January 1, 1996): 87–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(95)00827-6.
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    • Socolar, J. E., D. W. Sukow, and D. J. Gauthier. “Stabilizing unstable periodic orbits in fast dynamical systems.” Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 50, no. 4 (October 1994): 3245–48. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.50.3245.
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    • Gauthier, D. J., D. W. Sukow, H. M. Concannon, and J. E. Socolar. “Stabilizing unstable periodic orbits in a fast diode resonator using continuous time-delay autosynchronization.” Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 50, no. 3 (September 1994): 2343–46. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.50.2343.
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    • Grinstein, G., C. Jayaprakash, and J. E. Socolar. “Scale invariance of nonconserved quantities in driven systems.” Physical Review. E, Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 48, no. 2 (August 1993): R643–46. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.48.r643.
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    • SOCOLAR, J. E. S., G. GRINSTEIN, and C. JAYAPRAKASH. “ON SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY IN NONCONSERVING SYSTEMS.” Physical Review E 47, no. 4 (April 1, 1993): 2366–76. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.47.2366.
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    • Krug, J., J. E. Socolar, and G. Grinstein. “Surface fluctuations and criticality in a class of one-dimensional sandpile models.” Physical Review. A, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 46, no. 8 (October 1992): R4479–82. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.46.r4479.
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    • Socolar, Joshua E. S. “Theory of Packings of Identical Hard Disks Generated by Ballistic Deposition.” Europhysics Letters (Epl) 18, no. 1 (February 14, 1992): 39–44. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/18/1/008.
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    • Krug, J., and J. E. Socolar. “Comment on "Scalings of growing self-organized surfaces".” Physical Review Letters 68, no. 5 (February 1992): 722. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.722.
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    • Socolar, J. E. S. “Weak matching rules for quasicrystals.” Communications in Mathematical Physics 129, no. 3 (May 1, 1990): 599–619. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02097107.
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    • Socolar, J. E. “Simple octagonal and dodecagonal quasicrystals.” Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter 39, no. 15 (May 1989): 10519–51. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.39.10519.
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    • Onoda, G., P. J. Steinhardt, D. DiVincenzo, and J. E. Socolar. “Onoda etal. reply.” Physical Review Letters 62, no. 10 (March 1989): 1210. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.62.1210.
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    • Onoda, G. Y., P. J. Steinhardt, D. P. DiVincenzo, and J. E. Socolar. “Growing perfect quasicrystals.” Physical Review Letters 60, no. 25 (June 1988): 2653–56. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.60.2653.
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    • Socolar, J. E., and D. C. Wright. “Explanation of peak shapes observed in diffraction from icosahedral quasicrystals.” Physical Review Letters 59, no. 2 (July 1987): 221–24. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.221.
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    • Lubensky, T. C., J. E. Socolar, P. J. Steinhardt, P. A. Bancel, and A. P. Heiney. “Distortion and peak broadening in quasicrystal diffraction patterns.” Physical Review Letters 57, no. 12 (September 1986): 1440–43. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.1440.
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    • Socolar, J. E., T. C. Lubensky, and P. J. Steinhardt. “Phonons, phasons, and dislocations in quasicrystals.” Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter 34, no. 5 (September 1986): 3345–60. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.34.3345.
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    • SOCOLAR, J. E. S. “PHASON STRAIN IN QUASICRYSTALS.” Le Journal De Physique Colloques 47, no. C3 (July 1986). https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1986323.
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    • Socolar, J. E., and P. J. Steinhardt. “Quasicrystals. II. Unit-cell configurations.” Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter 34, no. 2 (July 1986): 617–47. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.34.617.
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    • Socolar, J. E., P. J. Steinhardt, and D. Levine. “Quasicrystals with arbitrary orientational symmetry.” Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter 32, no. 8 (October 1985): 5547–50. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.32.5547.
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    • Mele, E. J., and J. Socolar. “Numerical integration of the time evolution operator: Excited‐state dynamics in conjugated molecules.” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 26, no. 18 S (January 1, 1984): 347–58. https://doi.org/10.1002/qua.560260832.
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    • Gollub, J. P., E. J. Romer, and J. E. Socolar. “Trajectory divergence for coupled relaxation oscillators: Measurements and models.” Journal of Statistical Physics 23, no. 3 (September 1, 1980): 321–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01011372.
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    • Bleich, M. E., and J. E. S. Socolar. “Controlling spatiotemporal dynamics with time-delay feedback.” Physical Review E 54, no. 1 (n.d.): R17–20. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.54.r17.
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    • Socolar, Joshua E. S., Tom C. Lubensky, and Charles L. Kane. “Mechanical graphene.” New Journal of Physics 19, no. 2 (n.d.): 025003–025003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa57bb.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ISS 293: ISS Research Independent Study 2020
  • PHYSICS 141L9: General Physics I (Lab) 2020
  • PHYSICS 363: Thermal Physics 2020
  • PHYSICS 491: Independent Study: Advanced Topics 2020
  • PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study 2020
  • ISS 293: ISS Research Independent Study 2019
  • MUSIC 126: Acoustics and Music 2019
  • PHYSICS 136: Acoustics and Music 2019
  • PHYSICS 363: Thermal Physics 2019
  • MUSIC 126: Acoustics and Music 2018
  • PHYSICS 136: Acoustics and Music 2018
  • PHYSICS 161D: Fundamentals of Physics I 2018
  • PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study 2018
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  Teaching Activities

  • Curriculum development for Duke Kunshan University:  Chaired committee to develop integrated science and math courses for Natural Science students at DKU.  (2016 - 2018)
    
    As Director of Undergraduate Studies in Physics, led the redesign of introductory physics courses for Engineering students at Duke.  (2002-2003)
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Simple siphon surprise. NC-AAPT Conference. NC School of Science and Mathematics. November 15, 2019  2019
  • Quasicrystalline and limit-periodic structures: Who ordered those? And how?. Physics Colloquium. American University. October 9, 2019  2019
  • Autonomous Boolean modeling of regulatory networks. Thirty Years of Complex Thinking: A Celebration of Stuart Kauffman’s Contributions to the Field of Complex Systems. Santa Fe Institute. August 22, 2019  2019
  • Nonlinear elastic response of a mechanical metamaterial. Contributed talk. APS March Meeting. March 8, 2019  2019
  • Experimental seismicity in sheared granular matter. Contributed Talk. APS March Meeting. March 5, 2019  2019
  • Local growth rules for icosahedral quasicrystals. Dynamics Systems Conference. SIAM. May 21, 2017  2017
  • Formation of ordered, nonperiodic structures: Icosahedral quasicrystals, hexagonal limit-periodic systems, and confined hard spheres. March Meeting. American Physical Society. March 15, 2017  2017
  • Formation of a hexagonal limit-periodic structure. Condensed Matter Physics Seminar. University of Pennsylvania. February 14, 2017  2017
  • Hyperuniformity of quasicrystals and substitution sequences. Workshop on Hyperuniform States of Matter in Physics, Mathematics and Biology. Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. December 14, 2016  2016
  • Sparse vibrational modes in a limit-periodic structure. Workshop on Topological Matter at H=0. Lorentz Center. May 10, 2016  2016
  • Nonperiodic structures: Tiling theory and materials physics. Duke Visualization Seminar. Duke University. September 11, 2015  2015
  • Nonperiodic crystals. Seminar. LIPN, Universite Paris 13. July 7, 2015  2015
  • Mechanistic modeling of a developmental gene regulatory network. Computational Biology Seminar. Duke CBB. March 23, 2015  2015
  • Nonperiodic crystals. Physics Colloquium. ECU . March 20, 2015  2015
  • Gene regulatory networks. PHY 174 Biophysics Seminar. Duke. February 16, 2015  2015
  • Autonomous Boolean modeling of gene regulatory networks. March Meeting. American Physical Society. March 4, 2014  2014
  • Quantifying the complexity of Boolean networks. DNAC Seminar. Duke. February 18, 2014  2014
  • Autonomous Boolean models of regulatory networks. January 5, 2014  2014
  • Crystalline aggregates of magnetic colloidal particles. May 13, 2013  2013
  • Crystalline aggregates of magnetic colloidal particles. March 20, 2013  2013
  • Physical properties of locally specified nonperiodic structures. January 16, 2013  2013
  • ABN modeling of gene regulation in early embryonic development. June 6, 2012  2012
  • Autonomous Boolean modeling of gene regulatory networks. May 7, 2012  2012
  • Physics 114S: Biophysics Seminar. November 2, 2011  2011
  • Hierarchical freezing in a limit-periodic structure. October 15, 2011  2011
  • Periodicity and chaos in delayed Boolean networks. July 19, 2011  2011
  • Relaxation to a limit-periodic ground state. May 23, 2011  2011
  • Autonomous Boolean models for logic, timing, and stability in regulatory networks. March 24, 2011  2011
  • Local action, global impact: Forcing nonperiodicity with a single tile. March 3, 2011  2011
  • Mathematical Biology Seminar. February 18, 2011  2011
  • Dynamics on networks: Panel discussion. August 30, 2010  2010
  • Boolean modeling of transcriptional network dynamics. July 13, 2010  2010
  • Periodicity and Chaos in Autonomous Boolean Networks. October 7, 2009  2009
  • Autonomous Boolean networks. October 1, 2009  2009
  • Cell fates and gene expression patterns. August 7, 2009  2009
  • Autonomous Boolean Models. June 28, 2009  2009
  • Nonlinear dynamics on complex networks. February 19, 2009  2009
  • Continuous dynamics and Boolean approximations in complex networks. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Boolean and Continuous Dynamics on Random Networks. April 4, 2008  2008
  • Dynamics of Complex Regulatory Networks. February 11, 2008  2008
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Bass Connections Team Leader. The Art and Craft of Saxophone Mouthpiece Design. 2019 - 2020  2019 - 2020
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  Service to the Profession

  • Reviewer for NSF proposal. (1 proposal). 2019  2019
  • Reviewer for journals. (10 reviews). 2019  2019
  • Reviewer for Journals. (6 reviews). 2018  2018
  • Reviewer for Journals. (6 reviews). 2017  2017
  • Reviewer for Journals. (4 reviews). 2016  2016
  • Reviewer for Journals. (8 reviews). 2015  2015
  • Co-organizer : Flows and Patterns: The Physics of Fluids, Granular Materials, and Soft Matter. October 12, 2013 - October 13, 2013  2013
  • Co-Organizer : Dynamics Days 2012. January 10, 2011 - January 8, 2012  2011 - 2012
  • Co-organizer : Dynamics Days 2011. February 2010 - January 1, 2011  2010 - 2011
  • Co-organizer (with Stuart Daw and others) : Dynamics Days 2008. July 1, 2008  2008

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