{"id":32049,"date":"2017-03-20T22:27:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T22:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-theoretical-soft-condensed-matter-physicist-by\/"},"modified":"2017-03-20T22:27:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T22:27:51","slug":"a-theoretical-soft-condensed-matter-physicist-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-theoretical-soft-condensed-matter-physicist-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A theoretical soft condensed matter physicist by training who now heads a thriving 33-person research group spanning three departments at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Glotzer uses computer simulations to study emergence\u2014the phenomenon whereby simple objects give rise to surprising collective behaviors. \u201cWhen flocks of starlings make these incredible patterns in the sky that look like they\u2019re not even real, the way they\u2019re changing constantly\u2014people have been seeing those patterns since people were on the planet,\u201d she said. \u201cBut only recently have scientists started to ask the question, how do they do that? How are the birds communicating so that it seems like they\u2019re all following a blueprint?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/20170308-digital-alchemist-sharon-glotzer-interview-emergence\/\">A \u2018Digital Alchemist\u2019 Unravels the Mysteries of Complexity | WIRED<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical soft condensed matter physicist by training who now heads a thriving 33-person research group spanning three departments at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Glotzer uses computer simulations to study emergence\u2014the phenomenon whereby simple objects give rise to surprising collective behaviors. \u201cWhen flocks of starlings make these incredible patterns in the sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}