Rui Carvalho

Rui Carvaho
School of Mathematical Sciences

Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
email: rui@maths.qmul.ac.uk

 

RAVEN

 

My research focuses on the integration of methods of statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics and network theory to characterize and model complex systems.

I am a Researcher Co-Investigator on the RAVEN project, which aims at gaining insights into the resilience, adaptability and vulnerability of energy networks. I joined QMUL in January 2008 to work on manmade networks under the FP6 project Manmade. Prior to that, I was a Researcher Co-Investigator on an EPSRC Novel Computation consortium, EPSRC EP/C513703/1, and from 2005 to 2007 I was a Senior Research Fellow at UCL working on Geo-Information Dynamics. I did my PhD in Physics (2001) at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, where I worked with Profs Rui Vilela Mendes and João Seixas.

I am one of the initiators of Living Science (with Luis Bettencourt, Dirk Helbing, Sergi Lozano and Jörg Reichardt).

Selected Publications

11. Fair sharing of resources in a supply network with constraints
Rui Carvalho, Lubos Buzna, Wolfram Just, Dirk Helbing, David Arrowsmith
Phys. Rev. E 85, 046101 (2012)
[physics.soc-ph/1108.0025]

10. Robustness of trans-European gas networks
Rui Carvalho, Lubos Buzna, Flavio Bono, Eugenio Gutierrez, Wolfram Just, David Arrowsmith
Phys. Rev. E 80, 016106 (2009)
[physics.soc-ph/0903.0195]
Reviewed by Mark Newman in Networks: An Introduction (see pp 33 and 34)
Reviewed by Phillip F. Schewe in Inside Science News Service (in GeorgiaFrontPage.com and Georgia Energy&Gas)

9. Scaling and allometry in the building geometries of Greater London
Michael Batty, Rui Carvalho, Andy Hudson-Smith, Richard Milton, Duncan Smith, Philip Steadman
Eur. Phys. J. B 63, 303–314 (2008)
[physics.soc-ph/0804.2442]

8. Socioeconomic networks with long-range interactions
Rui Carvalho
and Giulia Iori
Phys. Rev. E 78, 016110 (2008)
[physics.soc-ph/0706.0024]
Selected for the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research and the PRE Kaleidoscope (July 2008)

7. The Geography of scientific productivity: scaling in U.S. Computer Science
Rui Carvalho and Michael Batty
J. Stat. Mech. (2006) P10012
[physics/0603242]
Reviewed by Katy Borner in Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know

6. Encoding geometric information in road networks extracted from binary images
Rui Carvalho and Michael Batty
Environment and Planning B, 32(2), 179 – 190 (2005)

5. Automatic extraction of hierarchical urban networks: a micro-spatial approach
Rui Carvalho and Michael Batty
in Computational Science - ICCS 2004: 4th International Conference (Eds Bubak, M., van Albada, G. D., Sloot, P.M. and Dongarra, J.J.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Volume 3038/2004, pp 1109 - 1116
[CASA Working Paper 73]

4. Scaling and universality in the micro-structure of urban space
Rui Carvalho and Alan Penn
Physica A 332 (2004) 539 - 547
[cond-mat/0305164]
Reviewed by Philip Ball in The urban maze, news@nature.com and Critical Mass : How One Thing Leads to Another

3. The dynamics of the linear random farmer model
Rui Carvalho
in Economic Complexity: Non-linear Dynamics, Multi-agents Economies and Learning
W.A. Barnett, C. Deissenberg, G. Feichtinger (eds.), Elsevier, 2004, pp 411-430
[cond-mat/0107150]

2. From synchronization to multistability in two coupled quadratic maps
Rui Carvalho, B. Fernandez, R. Vilela Mendes
Physics Letters A 285 (2001) 327-338
[nlin/0005053]

1. Feigenbaum networks
Rui Carvalho, R. Vilela Mendes, João Seixas
Physica D 126 (1999) 27-37
[chao-dyn/9712004]

My PhD thesis can be found here.

In The Media

5. I co-organized a FuturICT talk at QMUL by Prof. Dirk Helbing on the 29th March 2011 (Press releases: €1.9 million awarded to the FuturICT project, Queen Mary academics inspired by groundbreaking FuturICT project)
4. ImpactQM: Research Making a Difference
3. Why the gas is always on, by Phillip F. Schewe (appeared in GeorgiaFronPage.com and Georgia Energy&Gas )
2. The urban maze, news@nature.com
1. Critical Mass : How One Thing Leads to Another, by Philip Ball