Dr. Rene C. Batac
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Physics, National Institute of Physics (NIP)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Complex Systems: granular material stability, self-organized critical phenomena; complex networks, social dynamics; cellular automata models
PUBLICATIONS
In International Refereed Journals
Rene C Batac, Statistical Properties of the Immediate Aftershocks of the 15 October 2013 Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake in Bohol, Philippines, Acta Geophysica (2015). DOI:10.1515/acgeo-2015-0054
Anjali B Tarun, Antonino A Paguirigan, Rene C Batac, Spatiotemporal recurrences of sandpile avalanches, Physica A 436, 293-300 (2015). DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2015.05.016
Antonino Paguirigan Jr., Christopher Monterola, and Rene Batac, Loss of criticality in the avalanche statistics of sandpiles with dissipative sites, Commun. Nonlin. Sci. Numer. Simulat. 20(3), 785–793 (2015). DOI:10.1016/j.cnsns.2014.06.020
Rene C. Batac and Holger Kantz, Observing spatio-temporal clustering and separation using interevent distributions of regional earthquakes,Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 21, 735-744, DOI:10.5194/npg-21-735-2014 (2014).
Rene Batac, Anthony Longjas, and Christopher Monterola, Statistical distributions of avalanche size and waiting times in an inter-sandpile cascade model, Physica A 391, 616-624 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2011.08.032
Irene Crisologo, Rene Batac, Anthony Longjas, Erika Fille Legara, and Christopher Monterola, Visual and auditory cues significantly reduce human’s intrinsic biases when tasked to generate a random number sequence, International Journal of Modern Physics C21(5), 567-581 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0129183110015324
Christopher Monterola, Irene Crisologo, Jeric Tugaff, Rene Batac, and Anthony Longjas, Surface morphology of chalkboard tips captures the uniqueness of the user's hand strokes, International Journal of Modern Physics C 21(4), 535-548 (2010).http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0129183110015294
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
Erika Fille Legara, Anthony Longjas, and Rene Batac, Competition in a Social Structure, International Journal of Modern Physics C20(1), 1-7 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0129183109013406
Dranreb Earl Juanico, Anthony Longjas, Rene Batac, and Christopher Monterola, Avalanche statistics of driven granular slides in a miniature mound, Geophysical Research Letters 35(19), L19403 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GL035567
Dr. Rene C. Batac
Complex Systems Group