Assistant Professor
PhD, Unicamp (Brazil), 2002
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2009
Weinberg Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, 2009
Professor Motter's research is focused on complex systems and nonlinear phenomena, primarily in the realm of chaos, fractals, statistical physics, complex networks, and biological physics.
Motter Research Page
Broad-Audience Publications
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J. Andreasen, H. Cao, J. Wiersig, and A.E. Motter,
Marginally unstable periodic orbits in semiclassical mushroom billiards,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 154101 (2009).
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.154101 - COVER
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E.G. Altmann, J.B. Pierrehumbert, and A.E. Motter,
Beyond word frequency: Bursts, lulls, and scaling in the temporal distributions of words,
PLoS One 4(11), e7678 (2009).
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007678
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A.E. Motter and A. Saa,
Relativistic invariance of Lyapunov exponents in bounded and unbounded systems,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 184101 (2009).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.184101
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T. Nishikawa, N. Gulbahce, and A.E. Motter,
Spontaneous reaction silencing in metabolic optimization,
PLoS Comput. Biol. 4(12), e1000236 (2008).
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000236
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R.D. Malmgren, D.B. Stouffer, A.E. Motter, and L.A.N. Amaral,
A Poissonian explanation for heavy tails in e-mail communication,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 18153 (2008).
doi:10.1073/pnas.0800332105
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G. Bianconi, N. Gulbahce, and A.E. Motter,
Local structure of directed networks,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 118701 (2008).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.118701
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A.E. Motter, N. Gulbahce, E. Almaas, and A.-L. Barabasi,
Predicting synthetic rescues in metabolic networks,
Mol. Syst. Biol. 4, 168 (2008).
doi:10.1038/msb.2008.1 - EMBO and Nature Publishing Group
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R.D. Vilela and A.E. Motter,
Can aerosols be trapped in open flows?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 264101 (2007).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.264101 - ANIMATION
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D.-H. Kim and A.E. Motter,
Ensemble averageability in network spectra,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 248701 (2007).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.248701
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C.S. Zhou, A.E. Motter, and J. Kurths,
Universality in the synchronization of weighted random networks,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 034101 (2006).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.034101
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A.E. Motter, C.S. Zhou, and J. Kurths,
Enhancing complex-network synchronization,
Europhys. Lett. 69, 334 (2005).
doi: 10.1209/epl/i2004-10365-4
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A.E. Motter,
Cascade control and defense in complex networks,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 098701 (2004).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.098701
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A.E. Motter,
Relativistic chaos is coordinate invariant,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 231101 (2003).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.231101
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T. Nishikawa, A.E. Motter, Y.-C. Lai, and F.C. Hoppensteadt,
Heterogeneity in oscillator networks: are smaller worlds easier to synchronize?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 014101 (2003).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.014101
