J. M. Schwarz, Assistant Professor of Physics Address: 201 Physics Building, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA Phone: 315-443-3887/607-342-0876 Email: jschwarz@physics.syr.edu
Current Research Interests Building models of correlated percolation inspired by jamming in granular and glassy systems, looking for discontinuous, disorder-driven localization transitions in quantum systems, studying the interplay between morphology and rheology in the actin cytoskeleton, incorporating effects of microRNAs in models of gene regulation	Manuscripts
Teaching PHY731: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics PHY765: Models of Condensed Matter PHY307: Science and Computers I PHY101: How the "World" Works I	Syllabi PHY731 PHY765 PHY307 PHY101

Current Group Members Silke Henkes (post-doctoral researcher) Liang Cao (graduate researcher) Jorge Lopez (graduate researcher) Tao Zhang (graduate researcher)

Former Group Members Monwhea Jeng (post-doc): Currently at Microsoft Bismayan Chakrabarti (undergraduate summer intern): Currently at Rutgers David Quint (graduate researcher): Currently at UC-Merced Shiliyang Xu (graduate researcher): Currently at NIH

Links Jeng's Percolation Applet New York Complex Matter Workshop My Farm Cummins Nursery