Dr Rosemary J. Harris
Address :	School of Mathematical Sciences Queen Mary, University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS
Office :	Maths B13
Telephone :	+44 (0)20 7882 5478
School Fax :	+44 (0)20 7882 7684
Email Address :	rosemary.harris  @  qmul.ac.uk

I joined QMUL in 2007 as a lecturer in Applied Mathematics. I have a D.Phil. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford and held postdoctoral research positions at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Universität des Saarlandes.

Research

• large deviations, fluctuation theorems
• applications, e.g., traffic, econophysics, biological modelling.

Recent Publications and Preprints

• Current loops and fluctuations in the zero-range process on a diamond lattice, R. Villavicencio-Sanchez, R. J. Harris and H. Touchette, J. Stat. Mech., P07007 (2012).
• Large deviation approach to nonequilibrium systems, H. Touchette and R. J. Harris, arXiv:1110.5216, draft chapter for book on "Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Small Systems" eds. R. Klages, W. Just and C. Jarzynski (2013).
• Traffic of cytoskeletal motors with disordered attachment rates, H. Grzeschik, R. J. Harris and L. Santen, Phys. Rev. E 81, 031929 (2010).
• First-order phase transitions from poles in asymptotic representations of partition functions, H. Touchette, R. J. Harris and J. Tailleur, Phys. Rev. E 81, 030101(R) (2010).
• Fourier's law on a one-dimensional optical random lattice, T. Platini, R. J. Harris and D. Karevski, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43, 135003 (2010).
• Current fluctuations in stochastic systems with long-range memory, R. J. Harris and H. Touchette, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42, 342001 (2009).
• Short-time behaviour of demand and price viewed through an exactly solvable model for heterogeneous interacting market agents, G. M. Schütz, F. Pigeard de Almeida Prado, R. J. Harris and V. Belitsky, Physica A 388, 4126 (2009).
• On the range of validity of the fluctuation theorem for stochastic Markovian dynamics, A. Rákos and R. J. Harris, J. Stat. Mech., P05005 (2008).
• Fluctuation theorems for stochastic dynamics, R. J. Harris and G. M. Schütz, J. Stat. Mech., P07020 (2007).
• Hydrodynamics of the zero-range process in the condensation regime, G. M. Schütz and R. J. Harris, J. Stat. Phys., 127, 419 (2007).
• Scaling approach to related disordered stochastic and free-fermion models, R. J. Harris and R. B. Stinchcombe, Phys. Rev. E 75, 031104 (2007).
• Breakdown of Gallavotti-Cohen symmetry for stochastic dynamics, R. J. Harris, A. Rákos and G. M. Schütz, Europhys. Lett. 75, 227 (2006).
• Zero-range model of traffic flow, J. Kaupužs, R. Mahnke and R. J. Harris, Phys. Rev. E 72, 056125 (2005).
• Current fluctuations in the zero-range process with open boundaries, R. J. Harris, A. Rákos and G. M. Schütz, J. Stat. Mech., P08003 (2005).
• Ideal and disordered two-lane traffic models, R. J. Harris and R. B. Stinchcombe, Physica A 354, 582 (2005).
• Disordered asymmetric simple exclusion process: Mean-field treatment, R. J. Harris and R. B. Stinchcombe, Phys. Rev. E 70, 016108 (2004).

Teaching

• MTH6110: Communicating and Teaching Mathematics: the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme
  Supplementary information is now available on QMplus.

Postgraduate students

• Rodrigio Villavicencio Sanchez (jointly supervised with Hugo Touchette), 2010–
• Massimo Cavallaro (jointly supervised with Raul Mondragon), 2012–
• Mike Maitland (Warwick Complexity DTC student, jointly supervised with Stefan Grosskinsky), 2012–

Other Activities

• Warwick Complexity Summer School (Warwick, April–May 2013);
• CoSyDy meeting on Complexity in Biological Systems (Imperial, March 2013);
• CoSyDy meeting on Synchronisation in Complex Systems (Imperial, May 2012);
• CoSyDy meeting on Long-range correlations in space and time (QMUL, May 2011);
• Stochastic Dynamics and Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics (QMUL, July 2008);
• Spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle systems far from equilibrium (Terschelling, September 2006).

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