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"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective." -- Edward Teller

My research is in:
Agent-based Systems: º Fundamental principles º Functional evolution º Chaotic games controll º Multiagent-games, collective optimization
Complex Networks: º Structural modeling º Network optimization º Queuing networks
Biophysics: º Population dynamics, epidemics º Endosymbiotic evolution º Protein folding º Neural networks
Computing: º Parallel computing, scalability º Scheduling º Heuristic algorithms
Fluid dynamics: º Chaotic advection, tracer dynamics º Inertial transport º Chemical and Biological activity in mixing flows

Current group
Graduate students Postdocs
º  Andrea Asztalos
º Hyunju Kim
º Anthony Strathman
º Ki Hyuk Yee
º Sameet Sreenivasan



Focus Issue
CHAOS Focus Issue: Optimization in Complex Networks ,
Guest Eds. A. E. Motter and Z. Toroczkai, CHAOS, 17, (2007).
Browse the Table of Contents

Recent Conference:
Talk slides, audio and video are now posted.

Book
Complex Networks , Eds. E. Ben-Naim, H. Frauenfelder, Z. Toroczkai, Lecture Notes in Physics, 650, Springer-Verlag, 544 pages (2004).
Find it on: Amazon , or Springer . Browse the Table of Contents

Review Paper
Complex Networks: The Challenge of Interaction Topology , Z. Toroczkai, Los Alamos Science, 29, 94 (2005). [ pdf ]

Recent papers
•  Z. Toroczkai, B. Kozma, K.E. Bassler, N.W. Hengartner and G. Korniss. "Gradient Networks" J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 , 155103 (2008). cond-mat/0408262.pdf
•  A. L. Pastore Y Piontti, C. E. La Rocca, Z. Toroczkai, L. A. Braunstein, P. A. Macri, E. Lopez "Using relaxational dynamics to reduce network congestion" submitted, cond-mat.stat-mech/0803.3755.pdf
•  E. Ravasz, S. Gnanakaran, Z. Toroczkai, "Network Structure of Protein Folding Pathways" submitted, q-bio/0705.0912.pdf
•  A. E. Motter, Z. Toroczkai, "Introduction: Optimization in networks ", Focus Issue, Chaos 17, 026101 (2007). cond-mat/0707.1107.pdf
•  H. Guclu, G. Korniss, Z. Toroczkai, "Extreme fluctuations in noisy task-completion landscapes on scale-free networks" Chaos 17, 026104 (2007). cond-mat/0701301.pdf
•  Z. Toroczkai, H. Guclu, "Proximity Networks and Epidemics", Physica A 378, 68 (2007), physics/0701255.pdf
•  S. Sreenivasan, R. Cohen, E. Lopez, Z. Toroczkai, H. E. Stanley, "Communication Bottlenecks in Scale-Free Networks", Phys. Rev. E, 75 036105 (2007). cs.NI/0604023.pdf
Zoltán Toroczkai
Associate Professor,
Physics Department,

Concurrent Associate Professor,
Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Notre Dame


Contact Info
Snail Mail:
225 Nieuwland Science Hall,
Department of Physics,
University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, U.S.A.
Phone: +1-574-631-2618 (Office)
E-mail: toro@nd.edu

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