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Denis
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Departamento de Sistemas ComplejosInstituto de FísicaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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Curso propedéutico de Termodinamica (2017)
Main research interests:
Statistical analysis and modeling of animal displacements.
Social networks and social dynamics.
Pattern formation, defects and slow dynamics in soft matter.
Stochastic processes.
Sound interacting with flows and singularities.
Recent publications:
Stochastic processes and modeling of animal displacements:
On salesmen and tourists: Two-step optimization in deterministic foragers, M. Maya, O. Miramontes and D. Boyer, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 226, 391 (2017).
Long time scaling behaviour for diffusion with resetting and memory, D. Boyer, M. R. Evans and S. N. Majumdar, J. Stat. Mech. 023208 (2017).
Slow Lévy flights, D. Boyer and I. Pineda, Phys. Rev. E 93, 022103 (2016).
A generalized Airy distribution function for the accumulated area swept by N vicious Brownian paths, I. Pérez Castillo and D. Boyer, J. Stat. Phys. 162, 1587 (2016).
What future for Lévy walks in animal movement research? Comment on 'Liberating Lévy walk research from the shackles of optimal foraging', by A.M. Reynolds, D. Boyer, Phys. Life Rev. 14, 87 (2015).
Solvable random walk model with memory and its relations with Markovian models of anomalous diffusion, D. Boyer and J.C.R. Romo-Cruz, Phys. Rev. E 90, 042136 (2014).
Random walks with preferential relocations to places visited in the past and their application to biology, D. Boyer and C. Solis-Salas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 240601 (2014).
Complex behavior can also emerge from simple linear interactions: comment on Bradbury and Vehrencamp, G. Ramos-Fernandez and D. Boyer, Behavioral Ecology 25, e1015-e1016 (2014).
The effects of spatially heterogeneous prey distributions on detection patterns in foraging seabirds, O. Miramontes, D. Boyer and F. Bartumeus, PloS ONE 7, e34317 (2012).
Non-random walks in monkeys and humans, D. Boyer, M.C. Crofoot and P.D. Walsh, J. R. Soc. Interface 9, 842 (2012).
No evidence of coordination between different subgroups in the fission-fusion society of spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi), G. Ramos-Fernandez, B. Pinacho-Guendulain, A. Miranda-Perez and D. Boyer, Int. J. Primatol. 32, 1367 (2011).
Monkey and cell-phone-user mobilities scale similarly, P.D. Walsh, D. Boyer and M.C. Crofoot, Nature Physics 6, 929 (2010).
Modelling the mobility of living organisms in heterogeneous landscapes: does memory improve foraging success?, D. Boyer and P.D. Walsh, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 368, 5645 (2010).
Levy-like behaviour in deterministic models of intelligent agents exploring heterogeneous environments, D. Boyer, O. Miramontes and H. Larralde, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42, 434015 (2009).
Self-organization, scaling and collapse in a coupled automaton model of foragers and vegetation resources with seed dispersal, D. Boyer and O. Lopez-Corona, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42, 434014 (2009).
Intricate dynamics of a deterministic walk confined in a strip, D. Boyer, EPL 83, 20001 (2008).
Origin of power-law distributions in deterministic walks: The influence of landscape geometry, M.C. Santos, D. Boyer, O. Miramontes, G.M. Viswanathan, E.P. Raposo, J.L. Mateos, and M.G.E. da Luz, Phys. Rev. E 75, 061114 (2007).
A complex social structure with fission-fusion properties can emerge from a simple foraging model, G. Ramos-Fernandez, D. Boyer and V.P. Gomez, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 60, 536-549 (2006).
Scale Scale-free foraging by primates emerges from their interaction with a complex environment, D. Boyer, G. Ramos-Fernandez, O. Miramontes, J.L. Mateos, G. Cocho, H. Larralde, H. Ramos, F. Rojas, Proc. R. Soc. B 273, 1743-1750 (2006).
Looking for the right thing at the right place: Phase transition in an agent model with heterogeneous spatial resources, D. Boyer and H. Larralde, Complexity 10, 52 (2005).
Modeling the searching behavior of social monkeys, D. Boyer, O. Miramontes, G. Ramos-Fernandez, J.L. Mateos and G. Cocho, Physica A 342, 329 (2004).
Social networks and social dynamics:
La connexion des réseaux comme facteur de changement institutionnel. L'exemple des vins de Bourgogne, R. Boyer, D. Boyer et G. Laferté, In: Qu'appelle-t-on aujourd'hui les sciences de la complexité? Language, réseaux, marchés, territoires, Eds: Gérard Weisbuch & Hervé Zwirn (Vuibert, Collection Philosophie des sciences, Paris, 2010), p. 73-101.
Association networks in spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi), G. Ramos-Fernandez, D. Boyer, F. Aureli and L. Vick, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 63, 999 (2009).
Interface motion and pinning in small-world networks, D. Boyer and O. Miramontes, Phys. Rev. E 67, 035102 (2003).
Pattern formation:
Order, intermittency, and pressure fluctuations in a system of proliferating rods, S. Orozco-Fuentes and D. Boyer, Phys. Rev. E 88, 012715 (2013).
Buckling instability in ordered bacterial colonies, D. Boyer, W. Mather, O. Mondragon-Palomino, S. Orozco-Fuentes, T. Danino, J. Hasty and L. S. Tsimring, Physical Biology 8, 026008 (2011).
Coarsening in potential and nonpotential models of oblique stripe patterns, J.R. Gomez-Solano and D. Boyer, Phys. Rev. E 76, 041131 (2007).
Modeling grain boundaries in solids using a combined nonlinear and geometrical method, D. Boyer and D. Romeu, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 19, 4047 (2005).
Numerical study of domain coarsening in anisotropic stripe patterns, D. Boyer, Phys. Rev. E 69, 066111 (2004).
Weakly nonlinear theory of grain boundary motion in patterns with crystalline symmetry, D. Boyer and J. Viñals, Phys. Rev. Lett., 89, 055501 (2002).
Grain boundary pinning and glassy dynamics in stripe phases, D. Boyer and J. Viñals, Phys. Rev. E 65, 046119 (2002).
Domain coarsening of stripe patterns close to onset, D. Boyer and J. Viñals, Phys. Rev. E 64, 050101 (2001) (R).
Grain boundary motion in layered phases, D. Boyer and J. Viñals, Phys. Rev. E 63, 061704 (2001).
Brownian functionals and single particle tracking:
Distribution of the least-squares estimators of a single Brownian trajectory diffusion coefficient, D. Boyer, D. S. Dean, C. Mejia-Monasterio and G. Oshanin, J. Stat. Mech., P04017 (2013).
Ergodic least-squares estimators of the generalized diffusion coefficient for fractional Brownian motion, D. Boyer, D. S. Dean, C. Mejia-Monasterio and G. Oshanin, Phys. Rev. E 87, 030103(R) (2013).
Optimal least-squares estimators of the diffusion constant from a single Brownian trajectory, D. Boyer, D. S. Dean, C. Mejia-Monasterio and G. Oshanin, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 216, 57-71 (2013).
Optimal fits of diffusion constants from single-time data points of Brownian trajectories, D. Boyer, D. S. Dean, C. Mejia-Monasterio and G. Oshanin, Phys. Rev. E 86, 060101(R) (2012).
Optimal estimates of the diffusion coefficient of a single Brownian trajectory, D. Boyer, D. S. Dean, C. Mejia-Monasterio and G. Oshanin, Phys. Rev. E 85, 031136 (2012).
On the distribution of estimators of diffusion constants for Brownian motion, D. Boyer and D. S. Dean, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44, 335003 (2011).
Sound-flow and sound-defect interactions:
Propagation of elastic waves through polycrystals: the effects of scattering from dislocation arrays, A. Maurel, V. Pagneux, D. Boyer and F. Lund, Proc. R. Soc. A 462, 2607 (2006).
Experimental determination of preferred instability modes in a mechanically excited thermal plume by ultrasound scattering, J.C. Elicer-Cortes, A. Navia, D. Boyer, M. Pavageau and R.H. Hernandez, Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci. 30, 355 (2006).
Elastic wave propagation through a distribution of dislocations, A. Maurel, V. Pagneux, D. Boyer and F. Lund, Mat. Sci. Eng. A 400-401, 222 (2005).
Observation of preferred instability modes in a mechanically excited thermal plume using Schlieren visualizations, J.C. Elicer-Cortes, C. Ruz, R.H. Hernandez, M. Pavageau and D. Boyer, Int. Commun. Heat and Mass Transf. 32, 360 (2005).
Temperature spectra from a turbulent thermal plume by ultrasound scattering, J.C. Elicer-Cortes, R. Contreras, D. Boyer, M. Pavageau and R.H. Hernandez, Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci. 28, 803 (2004).
Lecture notes:
Indroducción a la Física nolineal y los sistemas complejos, summer school of the Institute of Physics, UNAM, 08/2005.
Miscellaneous:
Departamento de Sistemas Complejos | Instituto de Física | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México