A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Universality is a powerful concept, which enables making qualitative and quantitative
predictions in systems with extensively many degrees of freedom. It finds realizations in …

Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as
uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences …

When a large number of similar entities interact among each other and with their
environment at a low scale, unexpected outcomes at higher spatio-temporal scales might …

“The career structure and funding of the universities [...] currently strongly discourages
academics and faculties from putting any investment into teaching–there are no career or …

Introduced by the late Per Bak and his colleagues, self-organized criticality (SOC) has been
one of the most stimulating concepts to come out of statistical mechanics and condensed …

In self-organized critical (SOC) systems avalanche size distributions follow power-laws.
Power-laws have also been observed for neural activity, and so it has been proposed that …

Understanding self-organization is one of the key tasks for controlling and manipulating the
structure of materials at the micro-and nanoscale. In general, self-organization is driven by …

" When Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld (1987) coined the term Self-Organised Criticality (SOC),
it was an explanation for an unexpected observation of scale invariance and at the same …

Non-equilibrium critical phenomena have attracted a lot of research interest in the recent
decades. Similar to equilibrium critical phenomena, the concept of universality remains the …