Hugo Fort Quijano

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Professor
Institute of Physics
Bachelor in Physics, 1988.
Faculty of Sciences.
Master in Physics, 1990.
PEDECIBA-Faculty of Sciences.
PhD in Physical Sciences, 1994.
Institute of High Energy Physics IFAE, UAB.
Phone: (598 2) 5258624  ext. 309
Fax: (5982) 5250580
email:
hugo@fisica.edu.uy
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Address: Igua 4225, 11400 Montevideo, URUGUAY

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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS IN BIOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES.

       COOPERATION BETWEEN SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS:             

·       Evolutionary Spatial Games

Heterogeneous evolving bi-matrix games. The effect of the environmental stress.

·       Pavlovian evolution cellular automata

Optimization vs. satisfaction. Alternative "measures of success" and the societies they yield.

·       Formation of Social Capital

            EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGICAL MODELS:                                  

·       Catastrophic Shifts between Alternative Equilibrium States

Spatio-temporal patterns in ecological systems and early warning signals.

·       Viral Dynamics

Quasispecies models.

·       Biodiversity and Patterns of Interactions between Species

·       Bacterial Evolution

Models for the experimental evolution with E.coli.

 

          SOCIAL INTERACTION MODELS:                                               

·       Sociophysics

Mapping between Social Models and Statistical Physics to develop quantitative

methods for societies.

·       Econophysics

Trade models on networks.

 

I direct the Group of Complex Systems (in this web page you will find further information about  

current research, links and some material).  

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

A minimal model for the evolution of cooperation through evolving heterogeneous games

H. Fort

Europhysics Letters EPL 81 (2008) 48008, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/81/48008

 

Evolving Ecological Social Dilemmas: A Spatial Individual-Based Model for the Evolution of

Cooperation with a Minimal Number of Parameters

H. Fort

Research Letters in Ecology Volume 2007 (2007) doi:10.1155/2007/18636

On Evolutionary Spatial Heterogeneous Games

Physica A 387/7 pp. 1613-1620 (2007)

 

Prisoner's Dilemma cellular automata revisited: evolution of cooperation under environmental pressure

J. Alonso, A. Fernández and H. Fort

Journal of Statistical Mechanics (2006) P06013 (2006).

 

Connectivity effects in a trading model

E. Sicardi, H. Fort and R. Donangelo

Journal of Statistical Mechanics P08005 (2005).

 

Spatial patterns and scale freedom in Prisoner´s Dilemma cellular automata with Pavlovian strategies.

H. Fort and S. Viola

Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P01010 (2005).

 

The Fate of Spatial Dilemmas with Different Fuzzy Measures of Success

H. Fort and N. Pérez

Journal of Arificial Societies and Social Studies JASSS vol. 8 no. 3 (2005).

 

Extended estimator  approach for 2x2 games and its mapping to the Ising model.

D. Ariosa and H. Fort

Physical Review E71 016132 (2005).

 

Economic demography in fuzzy spatial dilemmas and power laws

H. Fort and N. Pérez

European Journal of Physics B44  109-113 (2005).

 

A Model for the Relationship between the interaction Pattern of Ecosystems and their Fate.

L. Acerenza and H . Fort

Ecological Modeling 184 203-217 (2005).

 

Self-organization in a simple model of adaptive agents playing 2x2 games with arbitrary payoff.

H. Fort and S. Viola

Physical Review E69, 036110 (2004).

 

Cooperation and Self-Regulation in a Model of Agents Playing different Games.

H. Fort

 Physical Review E68, 0261118 (2003).

 

Cooperation with random interactions and without memory or “tags”

H. Fort

 Journal of Arificial Societies and Social Studies JASS  vol. 6 no. 2, (2003).

 

Exploring the Cooperative Regimes in an Agent-based Model: Indirect Reciprocity vs.Selfish Incentives.

H. Fort

Physica  A326, 286 (2003).

 

A Model for Mutation in Bacterial Populations

R. Donangelo and H. Fort

Physical Review Letters 89, 038101-1 (2002).

 

 

       2. QUANTUM COMPUTATION             

                             Entangled Quantum Random Walkers.                                                          

                              Quantum Games.

3. STATISTICAL FIELD THEORY 

Phase transitions triggered by topological excitations (superfluids, superconductors).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COURSES

·         Statistical Mechanics [graduated course] (first semester 2003 & 2005)

·         Complex Sistems in  Natural & Social Sciences (first semester 2004)

·         Quantum Mechanics (first semester 2004)

·         Physics II (2nd  semester 2001, 2002 & 2003)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOME INTERESTING LINKS

·         Preprints at Los Alamos

·         Physics web

·         Physics News update

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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