Maya Paczuski

{{short description|Physicist}} {{multiple issues| {{BLP primary sources|date=April 2018}}{{BLP sources|date=April 2018}} }} {{Infobox scientist | name = Maya Paczuski | native_name = מאיה פצ'וסקי | native_name_lang = he | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|04|07}} | birth_place = Tel-Aviv, Israel | death_date = | death_place = | ethnicity = | field = Physics | work_institutions = University of Calgary | alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology | doctoral_advisor = Mehran Kardar | doctoral_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | footnotes = | signature = }}

'''Maya Paczuski''' ({{Langx|he|מאיה פצ'וסקי}}; born April 7, 1963) is the head and founder of the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary. She is a well-cited physicist whose work spans self-organized criticality, avalanche dynamics, earthquake, and complex networks. She was born in Israel in 1963 but grew up in the United States. Maya Paczuski received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. in 1986 and then went on to study with Mehran Kardar, earning her Ph.D. in Condensed matter physics from the same institute.

Before founding the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary, she held appointments at numerous institutions around the world, most notably, M.I.T., Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark), the University of Houston, NORDITA (Copenhagen, Denmark), Imperial College London, the von Neumann Institute for Computing at Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where she organized and ran the first complex systems and statistical physics program. Paczuski was married to the late Danish theoretical physicist Per Bak, with whom she has coauthored papers.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Complexity, contingency, and criticality|first1=P.|last1=Bak|first2=M.|last2=Paczuski|date=18 July 1995|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=92|issue=15|pages=6689–6696|pmid=11607561|bibcode=1995PNAS...92.6689B|doi=10.1073/pnas.92.15.6689|pmc=41396|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v73/i16/p2162_1 |title=Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2162 (1994): Avalanches and 1/F Noise in Evolution and Growth Models |website=prl.aps.org |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713130652/http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v73/i16/p2162_1 |archive-date=13 July 2012 }}</ref>

==Selected publications== * {{cite journal | author = M. Paczuski |author2=M. Kardar |author3=D.R. Nelson | year = 1988 | title = Landau Theory of the Crumpling Transition | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 60 | pages = 2638–2640 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.2638 | pmid = 10038410 | issue = 25 | pmc = | bibcode=1988PhRvL..60.2638P }} * {{cite journal | author = M. Paczuski |author2=S. Maslov |author3=P. Bak | year = 1994 | title = Field-Theory for a Model of Self-Organized Criticality | journal = Europhysics Letters | volume = 27 | pages = 97–102 | doi = 10.1209/0295-5075/27/2/004 | pmid = | issue = 2 | pmc = |bibcode = 1994EL.....27...97P |s2cid=250749474 }} * {{cite journal | author = S. Maslov |author2=M. Paczuski |author3=P. Bak | year = 1994 | title = Avalanches and 1/f Noise in Evolution and Growth-Models | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 73 | pages = 2162–2165 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.2162 | pmid = 10056988 | issue = 16 | pmc = | bibcode=1994PhRvL..73.2162M }} * {{cite journal | author = P. Bak |author2=M. Paczuski | year = 1995 | title = Complexity, Contingency, and Criticality | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 92 | pages = 6689–6696 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.92.15.6689 | pmid = 11607561 | issue = 15 | pmc = 41396 |bibcode = 1995PNAS...92.6689B |doi-access=free }} * {{cite journal | author = K. Nagel |author2=M. Paczuski | year = 1995 | title = Emergent Traffic Jams | journal = Physical Review E | volume = 51 | pages = 2909–2918 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevE.51.2909 | pmid = 9962967 | issue = 4 | pmc = |bibcode = 1995PhRvE..51.2909N | arxiv = adap-org/9502004 |s2cid=39590935 }} * {{cite journal | author = M. Paczuski |author2=S. Maslov |author3=P. Bak | year = 1996 | title = Avalanche Dynamics in Evolution, Growth, and Depinning Models | journal = Physical Review E | volume = 53 | pages = 414–443 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevE.53.414 | pmid = 9964272 | issue = 1 | pmc = |bibcode = 1996PhRvE..53..414P | arxiv =adap-org/9510002|s2cid=10602221 }} * {{cite journal | author = M. Paczuski |author2=S. Boettcher | year = 1996 | title = Universality in Sandpiles, Interface Depinning, and Earthquake Models | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 77 | pages = 111–114 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.111 | pmid = 10061784 | issue = 1 | pmc = | bibcode=1996PhRvL..77..111P |arxiv = cond-mat/9603120 |s2cid=17793948 }} * {{cite journal | author = P. Bak |author2=M. Paczuski |author3=M. Shubik | year = 1997 | title = Price Variations in a Stock Market with Many Agents | journal = Physica A | volume = 246 | pages = 430–453 | doi = 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00401-9 | issue = 3–4 | arxiv =cond-mat/9609144| bibcode =1997PhyA..246..430B|s2cid=119480691 }} * {{cite journal | author = M. Paczuski |author2=K.E. Bassler |author3=A. Corral | year = 2000 | title = Self-Organized Networks of Competing Boolean Agents | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 69 | pages = 3185–3188 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.3185 | pmid = 11019043 | issue = 14 | pmc = | bibcode=2000PhRvL..84.3185P | arxiv = cond-mat/9905082 |s2cid=27627002 }} * {{cite journal | author = M. Baiesi |author2=M. Paczuski | year = 2004 | title = Scale-free networks of earthquakes and aftershocks | journal = Physical Review E | volume = 84 | article-number = 066106 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.066106 | issue = 6|pmid=15244666 | arxiv = cond-mat/0309485 |bibcode=2004PhRvE..69f6106B |s2cid=17260479 }} * {{cite journal | author = J. Davidsen |author2=M. Paczuski | year = 2005 | title = Analysis of the Spatial Distribution Between Successive Earthquakes | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 94 | article-number = 048501 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.048501 | pmid = 15783608 | issue = 4 | pmc = | bibcode=2005PhRvL..94d8501D| arxiv = cond-mat/0411297 |s2cid=118917829 }} * {{cite journal | author = J.G. Foster | year = 2009 | title = Edge Direction and the Structure of Networks | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 107 | pages = 10815–10820 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0912671107 | pmid = 20505119 | issue = 24 | pmc =2890716 |arxiv = 0908.4288 |bibcode = 2010PNAS..10710815F | doi-access = free }}

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==External links== * [https://www.ucalgary.ca/complexity/people/faculty/maya Maya Paczuski's Homepage]

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