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New
Postdoc position available on `Game theory and evacuation'. This is within the EPSRC-funded projectGame theory and adaptive networks for smart evacuations
Please click here for further particulars and instructions on how to apply. Closing date 25th August 2010.
Three-day meeting Modelling Complex Systems, Manchester, 21-23 June 2010
Mini Symposium Topological defects on 18th May 2010
One-day IOP meeting Complexity and nonlinear phenomena in biological systems on 20 May 2010 in Bath.
Organised by the Nonlinear and Complex Physics group of the IOP
Click here to enter the group's web page.
Three-day meeting: Introductory Lectures on Aspects of Complexity
University of Manchester, 6-8th July 2009
Please click here for the programme and slides of presentations
Research Interests
- statistical mechanics of complex systems
- Minority Games+econophysics
- models of opinion dynamics
- evolutionary game theory, replicator equations
- combinatorial optimisation, combinatorial auctions
- defect formation in the Swift-Hohenberg equation
- Ward identities in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories on the lattice
Please click here for a more detailed description of our work
Funding
- EU Complexity Net, Resilience and interaction of networks in ecology and economics (RESINEE)
(start September 2010, with Anxo Sanchez, Antonio Cabrales, Jose Cuesta, Alan McKane, Sanjeev Goyal, Max Rietkerk, Miguel Zavala)
- EPSRC Ideas factory/Sandpit grant Game theory and adaptive networks for smart evacuations
(start October 2010, with J. Preston, J. Binner, L. Branicki, M. Ferrario, N. Jones)
- Royal Society International Joint Project Grant, Characterising complex nonlinear systems using quantum information theory
(start January 2010, with Otfried Guehne, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Innsbruck, Austria)
Trajectory
- since 09/07: RCUK Academic Fellow/Lecturer
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, UK
- May 2007: certificate Advanced security in the field, UN Department of Safety and Security
- 9/04-08/07: postdoc, ICTP Trieste statistical physics group (and INFM-CNR-SISSA),
funded through STIPCO and GENNETEC networks
- November 2004: Doctor of Philosophy, Theoretical Physics
University of Oxford, group of David Sherrington
- December 1999: Diplom in Physics, University of Muenster,
Germany
group of Gernot Muenster
- September 1996: Vordiplom in Physics and in Mathematics,
University of
Muenster
- June 1980: Diploma of play, Parents nursery school Palo Alto, California
Recent work
- Imitation, internal absorption and the reversal of local drift in stochastic evolutionary games
Tobias Galla
arXiv:1006.2960 [q-bio.PE] (submitted to JTB)
- Evolutionary dynamics, intrinsic noise and cycles of co-operation
Alex J. Bladon, Tobias Galla, Alan J. McKane
arXiv:1006.0825 [q-bio.PE] (accepted by Phys. Rev. E)
- Minority games, evolving capitals and replicator dynamics
Tobias Galla, Yi-Cheng Zhang
arXiv:0908.2347v1 [physics.soc-ph], J. Stat. Mech. (2009) P11012
- Intrinsic noise in game dynamical learning
Tobias Galla
arXiv:0910.4022v1 [physics.soc-ph], Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 198702 (2009)
- Independence and interdependence in the nest-site choice by honeybee swarms:
agent-based models, analytical approaches and pattern formation
Tobias Galla
arXiv:0909.1582v1 [q-bio.PE], J. Theor. Biol. 262 (2010) 186
For undergraduate students interested in doing a 4th year project with me
- If you are interested in doing a 4th year project statistical physics of recommender systems then click here (scroll down to project 2C) and/or contact me by email or come by my office for a chat.
For prospective PhD students in the area of complex systems
- If you are interested in doing a PhD in the area of complex systems, then you can find a description of possible projects here and a more detailed description of our work here. You can also contact me by email and come by to talk in more detail.
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