Statistical, Nonlinear and Bio Physics Research Group
Research group of Prof. Pik-Yin Lai (黎璧賢 )
The physical/biological systems we are interested share the common properties of being complex interacting systems. These systems have the common properties of having a large number of degrees of freedom in which cooperative effects play a vital role. Our research theme focuses on biophysics and soft-matter science using methods in statistical physics and complex many-body systems, computational techniques and non-linear dynamics.
Our research themes focus on several frontier topics in biological and soft-matter systems that are related to the nonlinear and non-equilibrium nature of complex interacting systems.
Both analytical theories and computer simulations are carried out in our research group. Collaborations with experimentalists on soft-matter, non-equilibrium physics, neuronal networks, cardiac cells, DNA, nonlinear physics, granular materials are also carried out.
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Neuronal networks and dynamics
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Regulations, signaling dynamics in cellular and subcellular levels
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Biological rhythms & control of cardiac arrhythmia
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Mathematical Biology
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Driven granular materials
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Colloidal dynamics
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Polymer physics & knots
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Complex and biological networks
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Control of complex dynamics & chaos
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Nonequilibrium statistical physics in driven/active systems