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I am a Post-doc at the university of Cologne. I specialise in non-equilibrium statistical physics and renormalization group methods.

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33 Examples of important known universality classes besides Ising Oct 8 '14
16 When is momentum not conserved? Sep 19 '14
16 Motion described by $m \frac{\mathrm{d}^2 x}{\mathrm{d}t^2}=-k\frac{\mathrm{d}^{\frac12 }x}{\mathrm{d}t^{\frac12}}$ Oct 8 '14
14 The unreasonable effectiveness of the partition function Apr 4 '15
14 How do I enforce the no-slip boundary condition in time dependent incompressible pipe flow? Sep 10 '14
13 Blowing your own sail? Sep 15 '14
11 Why is Planck's constant the same for all particles? Oct 10 '14
10 Is the stability matrix of a linearised RG flow always diagonalisable? Oct 2 '14
8 Simple estimation of the critical temperature of water Oct 2 '14
7 Why are the eigenvalues of a linearized RG transformation real? Oct 1 '14
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