Dr. Johnrob Y. Bantang
ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Former Director, UP Computer Center
Assistant Professor of Physics, National Institute of Physics (NIP)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Complex systems: granular matter mixing, segregation, and heap stability; cellular automata model of dynamical systems, chaotic systems, complex networks and social dynamics; ordinary differential equation model of virus-cell interaction; Membrane system simulation using Brane calculus formalism; Optics and imaging: focused light propagation and imaging through turbid media
PUBLICATIONS
In International Refereed Journals/Proceedings
James Christopher S. Pang and Johnrob Y. Bantang, Hodgkin–Huxley neurons with defective and blocked ion channels, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 26, 1550112 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0129183115501120
Maria Pamela Dobay, Akos Dobay, Johnrob Bantang, Eduardo Mendoza, How many trimers? Modeling influenza virus fusion yields a minimum aggregate size of six trimers, three of which are fusogenic, Molecular BioSystems 7, 2741-2749 (2011).http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1MB05060E
Marisssa Pastor and Johnrob Bantang, Transport efficiency of passive diffusion of viral cargos in biological cells, International Journal of Modern Physics C 22(4), 1-11 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0129183111016294
Rene Batac, Marissa Pastor, Marko Arciaga, Johnrob Bantang, Christopher Monterola, Kinks, logarithmic tails, and super-stability in bi-disperse granular media, Physica A 388, 3072-3082 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2009.04.001
Marko Arciaga, Marissa Pastor, Rene Batac, Johnrob Bantang, and Christopher Monterola, Experimental observation and an empirical model of enhanced heap stability resulting from the mixing of granular materials, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2009, P07040 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2009/07/P07040
[BOOK CHAPTER] Maria Pamela C. David, Johnrob Y. Bantang, and Eduardo R. Mendoza, A Projective Brane Calculus with Activate, Bud and Mate as Primitive Actions, LNBI Transactions on Computational Systems Biology (C. Priami, Ed., Springer) 5750/2009, 164-186 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04186-0_8
[BOOK CHAPTER] Johnrob Bantang and Caesar Saloma, Suppression of chaos in coupled chaotic logistic models, New Research in Nonlinear Phenomena, F Columbus, editor (Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2007)
Johnrob Bantang and Caesar Saloma, Co-existence of Poisson and non-Poisson processes in ordered parallel multilane pedestrian traffic, Complexity 11(6), 35-42 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplx.20134
[CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS] R.C. Geronimo, A. J. Uychiaoco, May Lim, R. M. Seymour, Johnrob Bantang, and E. D. Gomez, Assessing the impact of biodiversity changes on reef fisheries using an individual based model, In: Suzuki, Y and Nakamori, T and Hidaka, M and Kayanne, H and Casatero, BE and Nadaoka, K and Yamano, H and Tsuchiya, M, (eds.)Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reefs Symposium, 1457 - 1462 (2006).
Kristine Marie Romallosa, Johnrob Bantang, and Caesar Saloma, Three-dimensional light distribution near the focus of a tightly-focused beam of few-cycle optical pulses, Physical Review A 68, 033812 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.033812
Johnrob Bantang, May Lim, Christopher Monterola, and Caesar Saloma, Gravity-assisted segregation of granular materials of equal mass and size, Physical Review E 66, 041306 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.041306
Dr. Johnrob Y. Bantang
Complex Systems Group