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Denis
Boyer
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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