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Joshua Socolar

Professor of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, 107 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0305
096 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Simple siphon surprise - NC-AAPT Conference · November 15, 2019 Other NC School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Quasicrystalline and limit-periodic structures: Who ordered those? And how? - Physics Colloquium · October 9, 2019 Invited Talk American University, Washington, DC
Autonomous Boolean modeling of regulatory networks - Thirty Years of Complex Thinking: A Celebration of Stuart Kauffman’s Contributions to the Field of Complex Systems · August 22, 2019 Invited Talk Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Nonlinear elastic response of a mechanical metamaterial - Contributed talk · March 8, 2019 International Meeting or Conference APS March Meeting, Boston, MA
Experimental seismicity in sheared granular matter - Contributed Talk · March 5, 2019 International Meeting or Conference APS March Meeting,
Simple siphon surprise - NC-AAPT Conference · November 15, 2019 Other NC School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
Quasicrystalline and limit-periodic structures: Who ordered those? And how? - Physics Colloquium · October 9, 2019 Invited Talk American University, Washington, DC
Autonomous Boolean modeling of regulatory networks - Thirty Years of Complex Thinking: A Celebration of Stuart Kauffman’s Contributions to the Field of Complex Systems · August 22, 2019 Invited Talk Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Nonlinear elastic response of a mechanical metamaterial - Contributed talk · March 8, 2019 International Meeting or Conference APS March Meeting, Boston, MA
Experimental seismicity in sheared granular matter - Contributed Talk · March 5, 2019 International Meeting or Conference APS March Meeting,
Local growth rules for icosahedral quasicrystals - Dynamics Systems Conference · May 21, 2017 Invited Talk SIAM, Snowbird, Utah
Formation of ordered, nonperiodic structures: Icosahedral quasicrystals, hexagonal limit-periodic systems, and confined hard spheres - March Meeting · March 15, 2017 Invited Talk American Physical Society, New Orleans
Formation of a hexagonal limit-periodic structure - Condensed Matter Physics Seminar · February 14, 2017 Invited Talk University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Hyperuniformity of quasicrystals
and substitution sequences - Workshop on Hyperuniform States of Matter in Physics, Mathematics and Biology · December 14, 2016 Invited Talk Princeton Center for Theoretical Science,
Sparse vibrational modes 
in a limit-periodic structure - Workshop on Topological Matter at H=0 · May 10, 2016 Invited Talk Lorentz Center, Leiden
Nonperiodic structures: Tiling theory and materials physics - Duke Visualization Seminar · September 11, 2015 Invited Talk Duke University,
Nonperiodic crystals - Seminar · July 7, 2015 Invited Talk LIPN, Universite Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France
Mechanistic modeling of a developmental gene regulatory network - Computational Biology Seminar · March 23, 2015 Lecture Duke CBB,
Nonperiodic crystals - Physics Colloquium · March 20, 2015 Invited Talk ECU , Greenville, NC
Gene regulatory networks - PHY 174 Biophysics Seminar · February 16, 2015 Lecture Duke,
Autonomous Boolean modeling of gene regulatory networks - March Meeting · March 4, 2014 National Scientific Meeting American Physical Society, Denver, CO
Quantifying the complexity of Boolean networks - DNAC Seminar · February 18, 2014 Invited Talk Duke,
Autonomous Boolean models of regulatory networks · January 5, 2014 Lecture Dynamics Days 2014, Atlanta, GA
Crystalline aggregates of magnetic colloidal particles · May 13, 2013 Lecture Triangle Soft Matter Workshop
Crystalline aggregates of magnetic colloidal particles · March 20, 2013 Lecture APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD
Physical properties of locally specified nonperiodic structures · January 16, 2013 Lecture SubTile Conference, Marseille, France
ABN modeling of gene regulation in early embryonic development · June 6, 2012 Lecture International Conference on Delayed Complex Systems, Mallorca, SP
Autonomous Boolean modeling of gene regulatory networks · May 7, 2012 Lecture Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State U.
Physics 114S: Biophysics Seminar · November 2, 2011 Lecture Duke University
Hierarchical freezing in a limit-periodic structure · October 15, 2011 Lecture Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
Periodicity and chaos in delayed Boolean networks · July 19, 2011 Lecture ICIAM Conference, Vancouver, Canada
Relaxation to a limit-periodic ground state · May 23, 2011 Lecture Haverford College, Haverford, PA
Autonomous Boolean models for logic, timing, and stability in regulatory networks · March 24, 2011 Lecture Dallas, TX
Local action, global impact: Forcing nonperiodicity with a single tile · March 3, 2011 Lecture U. of Maryland, College Park, MD
Mathematical Biology Seminar · February 18, 2011 Lecture Duke University
Dynamics on networks: Panel discussion · August 30, 2010 Lecture Durham, NC
Boolean modeling of transcriptional network dynamics · July 13, 2010 Lecture Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA
Periodicity and Chaos in Autonomous Boolean Networks · October 7, 2009 Lecture Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
Autonomous Boolean networks · October 1, 2009 Lecture Duke University, Durham, NC
Cell fates and gene expression patterns · August 7, 2009 Lecture St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM
Autonomous Boolean Models · June 28, 2009 Lecture Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Nonlinear dynamics on complex networks · February 19, 2009 Lecture Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Continuous dynamics and Boolean approximations in complex networks · December 4, 2008 Lecture SAMSI Discrete Models in Systems Biology Workshop, Res. Tri. Park, NC
Boolean and Continuous Dynamics on Random Networks · April 4, 2008 Lecture Statistical Science Seminar, Duke University
Dynamics of Complex Regulatory Networks · February 11, 2008 Lecture Computational Biology Seminar, Duke University

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Team Leader - The Art and Craft of Saxophone Mouthpiece Design · 2019 - 2020 Projects & Field Work Information, Society & Culture

Service to the Profession


Reviewer for Journals · 2021 Other

(6 reviews)

Reviewer for ARO MURI proposals · 2021 Other

(4 reviews)

Chair, Search Committee for Physical Review E Lead Editor · July 2020 - December 2020 Committee Service
Reviewer for Journals - (13 reviews) · 2020 Other
Reviewer for journals - (10 reviews) · 2019 Other
Reviewer for Journals · 2021 Other

(6 reviews)

Reviewer for ARO MURI proposals · 2021 Other

(4 reviews)

Chair, Search Committee for Physical Review E Lead Editor · July 2020 - December 2020 Committee Service
Reviewer for Journals - (13 reviews) · 2020 Other
Reviewer for journals - (10 reviews) · 2019 Other
Reviewer for NSF proposal - (1 proposal) · 2019 Other
Reviewer for Journals - (6 reviews) · 2018 Other
Reviewer for Journals - (6 reviews) · 2017 Other
Reviewer for Journals - (4 reviews) · 2016 Other
Reviewer for Journals - (8 reviews) · 2015 Other
Co-organizer : Flows and Patterns: The Physics of Fluids, Granular Materials, and Soft Matter · October 12, 2013 - October 13, 2013 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Co-Organizer : Dynamics Days 2012 · January 10, 2011 - January 8, 2012 Event/Organization Administration Baltimore, MD
Co-organizer : Dynamics Days 2011 · February 2010 - January 1, 2011 Event/Organization Administration
Co-organizer (with Stuart Daw and others) : Dynamics Days 2008 · July 1, 2008 Event/Organization Administration Knoxville, TN

Service to Duke


Racial Equity Advisory Council (University) · 2021 Committee Service