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Career

  • 2022-: Professor of Statistical Mechanics (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
  • 2018-: Fellow, Emmanuel College
  • 2017-2022: Interdisciplinary Lecturer (DAMTP / Chemistry), University of Cambridge
  • 2008-2017: Lecturer / Reader, University of Bath
  • 2006-2008: Postdoc, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
  • 2004-2006: Postdoc, Theoretical Physics, Oxford University
  • 2000-2004: PhD, Physics, Imperial College London

Research

Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter, combining ideas and methods from mathematics, physics and chemistry.

 

 

Publications

Dynamical phase transitions for the activity biased Ising model in a magnetic field
J Guioth, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020,
063215
Dynamical phase coexistence in the Fredrickson-Andersen model
RL Jack, T Nemoto, V Lecomte
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2020)
2020,
053204
Inference, prediction and optimization of non-pharmaceutical interventions using compartment models: the PyRoss library
R Adhikari, A Bolitho, F Caballero, ME Cates, J Dolezal, T Ekeh, J Guioth, RL Jack, J Kappler, L Kikuchi, H Kobayashi, YI Li, JD Peterson, P Pietzonka, B Remez, PB Rohrbach, R Singh, G Turk
(2020)
Ergodicity and large deviations in physical systems with stochastic dynamics
RL Jack
– The European Physical Journal B
(2020)
93,
74
Assessing the structural heterogeneity of supercooled liquids through community inference.
J Paret, RL Jack, D Coslovich
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2020)
152,
144502
Large deviations and optimal control forces for hard particles in one dimension
J Dolezal, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
(2019)
2019,
123208
Correction of coarse-graining errors by a two-level method: Application to the Asakura-Oosawa model.
H Kobayashi, PB Rohrbach, R Scheichl, NB Wilding, RL Jack
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(2019)
151,
144108
Accelerated relaxation and suppressed dynamic heterogeneity in a kinetically constrained (East) model with swaps
R Gutiérrez, JP Garrahan, RL Jack
– Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
(2019)
2019,
094006
A variational structure for interacting particle systems and their hydrodynamic scaling limits
M Kaiser, RL Jack, J Zimmer
– Communications in Mathematical Sciences
(2019)
17,
739
Large deviations in models of growing clusters with symmetry-breaking transitions
RL Jack
– Physical Review E
(2019)
100,
012140
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Research Group

Soft Matter

Room

G1.01

Telephone

01223 760431