In hmolscience, Janusz A. Holyst (1955-) (CR:3) is a Polish physicist noted for his 2003 to present efforts to launch the econophysics and sociophysics conferences in Poland.
FENS
In 1997, Holtst was the leader of a working group on nonlinear dynamics of complex systems (currently: Physics in Economics and Social Sciences). [2]
In circa 2003, the Polish Physics Society created a new division entitled “Physics in Economics and Social Sciences” (FENS), under the leadership of Holyst, as section president, catering to physicists who try to “look over the bridge” between the methods used in physics and those of the analysis of economical and social phenomena. [1]
His current research field includes models of emotions in cybercommunities, economic and social networks, collective bankruptcies, collective opinion formation, non-equilibrium statistical physics, cellular automata, self-organized criticality and phase transitions. He is one of the pioneers in applying physical methods to economical and social systems and is the co-founder, supposedly with Ryszard Kutner (Ѻ), and chairman of the Section Physics in Economy and Social Sciences of Polish Physical Society.
Education
Holyst completed his MS in technical physics in 1979 and his PhD in physics in 1985 in solid state physics, with a thesis on “Solutions in Quasi-One-Dimensional Magnetic Systems”, both at the Warsaw University of Technology, and his habilitation in theoretical physics, with a thesis on “Nonlinear Effects in Spin Dynamics” at the University of Warsaw”, and in 2001 became a physics professor at Warsaw University of Technology. [2]
References
1. FENS (Polish → English) – Polish Physical Society.
2. Janusz A. Holyst (cv) – Warsaw University of Technology.
Further reading
● Kacperski, Krzysztof and Holyst, Janusz A. (2000). “Phase Transitions as Persistent Feature of Groups with Leaders in Models of Opinion Formation” (abs), Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 287(3-4):631-43.
● Aleksiejuk, A., Hoyst, Staufer D.. (2002). “Ferromagnetic Phase Transition in Barabasi-Albert Networks”, Physica A 2002, 310, 260.
External links
● Janusz Holyst (homepage) – Physics Department, University of Technology.
● Janusz Holyst – GoogleScholar.
