In an introductory editorial to the newest issue of the European Physical Journal Special Topics, NYU Tandon and CUSP Professors Kurt Becker, Juan Bello, and Maurizio Porfiri delve into the […]
Physics Community features study on deriving the size of a collective from the motion of one unit
Prof. Pietro De Lellis and Prof. Maurizio Porfiri, in a new piece “Behind the Paper”, explain what inspired them to explore the ways to assess the number of units in […]
Inferring the size of a collective of self-propelled Vicsek particles from the random motion of a single unit
Quite surprisingly, one can infer the size of a stochastic system from the characteristics of the motion of a single unit. This enticing idea has been applied by Einstein, Smoluchowski, […]
Glass sponge characteristics – HD illustration and Nature Matters Arising discussion
In their Reply to the Nature‘s Matter Arising, the group of Professors, led by Giacomo Falcucci and including our own Maurizio Porfiri, discuss the validity of the assumption of neglecting […]
The detection matrix as a model-agnostic tool to estimate the number of degrees of freedom
The field of structural health monitoring allows to track the condition of a structure from measures from sensors on the structure itself. However, most of the structural health algorithms rely […]