Per Bak, the Glossary
Per Bak (8 December 1948 – 16 October 2002) was a Danish theoretical physicist who coauthored the 1987 academic paper that coined the term "self-organized criticality.".[1]
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26 relations: Abelian sandpile model, ANNNI model, Bak–Sneppen model, Brønderslev, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Copenhagen, Danes, Denmark, Dynamical system, Electrical conductor, Imperial College London, Insulator (electricity), Kurt Wiesenfeld, Maya Paczuski, Myelodysplastic syndrome, Niels Bohr Institute, Phase transition, Physical Review Letters, Physicist, Santa Fe Institute, Self-organized criticality, Tang Chao (physicist), Technical University of Denmark, Theoretical physics, University of Calgary, University of Copenhagen.
- 20th-century Danish physicists
- People from Brønderslev
Abelian sandpile model
The Abelian sandpile model (ASM) is the more popular name of the original Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld model (BTW).
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ANNNI model
In statistical physics, the axial (or anisotropic) next-nearest neighbor Ising model, usually known as the ANNNI model, is a variant of the Ising model.
Bak–Sneppen model
The Bak–Sneppen model is a simple model of co-evolution between interacting species.
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Brønderslev
Brønderslev is a city in Denmark with a population of 12,842 (1 January 2024).
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island, a hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Danes
Danes (danskere) are an ethnic group and nationality native to Denmark and a modern nation identified with the country of Denmark.
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
Dynamical system
In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space, such as in a parametric curve.
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Electrical conductor
In physics and electrical engineering, a conductor is an object or type of material that allows the flow of charge (electric current) in one or more directions.
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Imperial College London
Imperial College London (Imperial) is a public research university in London, England.
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Insulator (electricity)
An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely.
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Kurt Wiesenfeld
Kurt Wiesenfeld is an American physicist working primarily on non-linear dynamics.
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Maya Paczuski
Maya Paczuski (born April 7, 1963) is the head and founder of the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary.
Myelodysplastic syndrome
A myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is one of a group of cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature, and as a result, do not develop into healthy blood cells.
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Niels Bohr Institute
The Niels Bohr Institute (Niels Bohr Institutet) is a research institute of the University of Copenhagen.
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Phase transition
In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.
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Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society.
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Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems.
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Self-organized criticality
Self-organized criticality (SOC) is a property of dynamical systems that have a critical point as an attractor.
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Tang Chao (physicist)
Tang Chao (born 1958) is a Chair Professor of Physics and Systems Biology at Peking University.
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Technical University of Denmark
The Technical University of Denmark (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering.
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Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict natural phenomena.
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University of Calgary
The University of Calgary (U of C or UCalgary) is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet, KU) is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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See also
20th-century Danish physicists
- Aage Bohr
- Anders Boserup
- Asger Ostenfeld
- Ben Roy Mottelson
- Bent Sørensen (physicist)
- Carl B. Braestrup
- Christian Christiansen (physicist)
- Christian Møller
- Georg Forchhammer
- Hans Henrik Andersen
- Hilde Levi
- Hugo Fricke
- Inge Lehmann
- Jens Lindhard
- Jens Martin Knudsen
- Kirstine Meyer
- Lene Hau
- Niels Bohr
- Per Bak
- Peter Kristian Prytz
- Peter Laut
- Peter Thejll
People from Brønderslev
- Ejnar Mikkelsen
- Jakob Ahlmann
- Julie Aagaard
- Karen Dahlerup
- Kim Jensen
- Marianne Gaarden
- Naja Abelsen
- Ove Christensen
- Peder Møller (violinist)
- Per Bak
- Susanne Zimmer
- The Blue Van
- Viktor Ahlmann