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Maya Paczuski

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Maya Paczuski
Born (1963-04-07) April 7, 1963 (age 61)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Calgary
Doctoral advisorMehran Kardar

Maya Paczuski (born April 7, 1963) is the head and founder of the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary. She is a well-cited physicist whose work spans self-organized criticality, avalanche dynamics, earthquake, and complex networks. She was born in Israel in 1963, but grew up in the United States. Maya Paczuski received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. in 1986 and then went on to study with Mehran Kardar, earning her Ph.D in Condensed matter physics from the same institute.

Before founding the Complexity Science Group at the University of Calgary, she held appointments at numerous institutions around the world, most notably, M.I.T., Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark), the University of Houston, NORDITA (Copenhagen, Denmark), Imperial College London, the von Neumann Institute for Computing at Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where she organized and ran the first complex systems and statistical physics program. Paczuski was married to the late Danish theoretical physicist Per Bak, with whom she has coauthored papers.[1][2]

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  1. ^ Bak, P.; Paczuski, M. (18 July 1995). "Complexity, contingency, and criticality". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92 (15): 6689–6696. Bibcode:1995PNAS...92.6689B. doi:10.1073/pnas.92.15.6689. PMC 41396. PMID 11607561.
  2. ^ "Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2162 (1994): Avalanches and 1/F Noise in Evolution and Growth Models". prl.aps.org. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
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