RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Pattern formation and nonlinear mechanics
- Biophysics
- Numerical analysis
- Graph and network problems
Norbert Stoop
Norbert Stoop, Instructor
Office: Office: 2-173
Email: stoopn [at] mit .edu
PUBLICATIONS
- Disorder-induced topological transition in porous media flow networks N. Stoop, N. Waisbord, V. Kantsler, V. Heinonen, J.S. Guasto, J. Dunkel, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 268, 66-74, 2019
- Anomalous percolation flow transition of yield stress fluids in porous media, N. Waisbord, N. Stoop, D.M. Walkama, J. Dunkel, J. S. Guasto, Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 063303, 2019
- Designing spectral band gaps in phononic networks, H. Ronellenfitsch, N. Stoop, J. Yu, A. Forrow, J. Dunkel, Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 095201, 2019
- Universal firing paradigm of neural networks of columnar architecture, K. Karlis, N. Stoop, R. Stoop, Chaos 29, 093109, 2019
- Controlling fracture cascades through twisting and quenching R. H. Heisser, V.P. Patil, N. Stoop, E. Villermaux, and J. Dunkel, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115(35):8665-8670, 2018
- Entropy determines cell lineage tree packings J.I. Alsous, P. Villoutreix, N. Stoop, S. Shvartsman and J. Dunkel, Nature Physics, doi:10.1038/s41567-018-0202-0, 2018
- Geometry of wave propagation on active deformable surfaces P. W. Miller, N. Stoop, and J. Dunkel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 268001, 2018
- Kibble-Zurek mechanism in curved elastic surface crystals N. Stoop and J. Dunkel, Soft Matter 14, 2329-2338, 2018
- Curvature-induced instabilities of shells M. Pezzulla, N. Stoop, M.P. Steranka, A.J. Bade, and D.P. Holmes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 048002, 2018
- Curvature-driven morphing of non-Euclidean shells M. Pezzula, N. Stoop, X. Jiang, D. Holmes, Proc. R. Soc. A 473:20170087, 2017
- Actomyosin-based tissue folding requires a multicellular myosin gradient N.C. Heer, P Miller, S. Chanet, N. Stoop, J. Dunkel, A.C. Martin, Development 144(10):1876-1886, 2017
- Curvature-controlled defect localization in elastic surface crystals F. Lopez Jimenez, N. Stoop, R. Lagrange, J. Dunkel and P.M. Reis, Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, 104301 (2016)
- Bimodal rheotactic behavior reflects flagellar beat asymmetry in human sperm cells, A. Bukatin, I. Kukhtevich, N. Stoop, J. Dunkel, V. Kantsler, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 112, 52 (2015)
- Curvature-induced symmetry-breaking determines elastic surface patterns, N. Stoop, R. Lagrange, D. Terwagne, P.M. Reis, and J. Dunkel, Nature Materials, 14, 337–342 (2015)
- Nonlinear buckling and symmetry breaking of a soft elastic sheet sliding on a cylindrical substrate, N. Stoop and M.M. Müller, Int. J. Non-Linear Mech. 75, 115 (2014)
- Subdivision shell elements with anisotropic growth, R. Vetter, N. Stoop, T. Jenni, F.K. Wittel, and H.J. Herrmann, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Eng. 95, 791-810 (2013)
- Fluid membrane vesicles in confinment, O. Kahraman, N. Stoop, and M. M. Müller, New J. Phys. 14, 095021 (2012)
- Finite Element Simulation of Dense Wire Packings, R. Vetter, N. Stoop, F.K. Wittel, and H.J. Herrmann, European Journal of Mechanics - A, 37, 160-171 (2012)
- Ordered packing of elastic wires in a sphere, J. Najafi, N. Stoop, F.K. Wittel, and M. Habibi, Phys. Rev. E, 85, 6 (2012)
- Morphogenesis of membrane invaginations in spherical confinement, O. Kahraman, N. Stoop and M. M. Müller, EPL, 97, 68008 (2012)
selected as editor's choice - Packing of elastic wires in spherical cavities , N. Stoop, J. Najafi, F.K. Wittel, M. Habibi, and H.J. Herrmann, Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, 214102 (2011)
selected as an editor's suggestion, PRL cover image and highlighted in APS 'Physics' - Self-contact and instabilities in the anisotropic growth of elastic membranes, N. Stoop, F. K. Wittel, M. Ben Amar, M. M. Mueller, and H. J. Herrmann, Phys. Rev. Lett., 105, 068101 (2010)
- Biophysical Parameters Modification Could Overcome Essential Hearing Gaps, A. Kern, C. Heid, W.-H. Steeb, N. Stoop, and R. Stoop, PLoS Computational Biology, 4(8), e1000161 (2008)
- Morphological phases of crumpled wire, N. Stoop, F.K. Wittel, H.J. Herrmann, Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 094101, featured in Physics Today, Aug. 2008, as a PRL cover image and in the German FAZ (2008)
- Optimized Broad-Histogram Ensembles for the Simulation of Quantum Systems, S. Wessel, N. Stoop, E. Gull, S. Trebst, M. Troyer, JSTAT, P12005 (2007)
- Managing autonomy and control in social systems, M. Christen, G Bongard, A Pausits, N. Stoop, R. Stoop, "Managing Complexity" by D. Helbing (eds.), Springer, Berlin (2007)
- Periodic economic cycles: the effect of evolution and control, M. Christen, T. Ott, A. Kern, N. Stoop, R. Stoop, JSTAT, P 11013 (2005)
- Shiner-Davison-Landsberg complexity revisited, R. Stoop, N. Stoop, A. Kern, W.-H. Steeb, JSTAT, P11009 (2005)
- Complexity of Dynamics as Variability of Predictability, R. Stoop, N. Stoop, L.A. Bunimovich, J. Stat. Phys., 114: (3) 1127-1137 (2004)
- Natural computation measured as reduction of complexity, R. Stoop, N. Stoop, Chaos, 14: (3) 675-679 (2004)
- Towards genuine machine autonomy, J.-J. van der Vyver, M. Christen, N. Stoop, T. Ott, W.-H. Steeb, R. Stoop, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 46: (3) 151-157 (2004)
- Simulating Thin Sheets: Buckling, Wrinkling, Folding and Growth, R. Vetter, N. Stoop, F.K. Wittel, and H.J. Herrmann, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 487(1) (2014)
- Hebbian Principal Component Clustering for Information Retrieval on a Crowdsourcing Platform, T. Niederberger, N. Stoop, M. Christen, T. Ott, Proceedings of NDES (Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems) Wolfenbüttel, IEEE Explore (2012)
- Loopy belief propagation: Benefits and pitfalls on Ising-like systems, N. Stoop, T. Ott, R. Stoop, Proc. Int. IEEE Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, 500104 (2006)
- From Small World to Hierarchic Business Information Networks by Reorganizations - A Real World Study of a Failure, M. Christen, G Bongard, A Pausits, N. Stoop, R. Stoop, Proceedings of the Workshop "Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006", 202-211 (2006)
- Periodic economic cycles: The effect of evolution towards criticality, and control, M. Christen, T. Ott, A. Kern, N. Stoop, R. Stoop, Proc. Int. IEEE Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, (2005)
- Optimized Ensembles for Quantum Systems, Diploma thesis (master thesis), Institute for Theoretical Physics, group of Prof. M. Troyer, ETH Zurich (2006)
- Morphogenesis in Constrained Spaces, PhD thesis, Institute for Building Materials, group of Prof. H. Herrmann, ETH Zurich (2011)
