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Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Av. Cantilo s/n, Pabellon 1, 2do piso, Ciudad Universitaria
(1428) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel: ++54.11.4576.3390 int.826
Fax::++54.11.4576.3357
email: balen@df.uba.ar
Personal.
Date of Birth: June 13th, 1969Citizenship: Argentine
Languages: Spanish, English
Education.
PhD in Physics: November 2002. "Criticality and Non-Linearity in fragmentation". Advisor: Prof. Dr. C. O. Dorso.M.Sc in Physics: August 1998.
Actual
FCEyN-UBA (Argentina):January
2006-...: Research Teaching Assistant full time.CONICET (Argentina): Investigador Asistente (Research position), since January 2006.
Experience.
UPC (Spain): September 2003-January 2006. Postdoc Researcher, fundacion Antorchas,Generalitat de Catalunya in the Group of Nonlinear Dynamics, Nonlinear Optics and Lasers of UPC.
FCEyN-UBA (Argentina): June 2003-June 2006: Research Teaching Assistant full time
LNS-INFN Catania (Italy): September-November 2002. Visiting Scientist
CONICET (Argentina): August 1998- July 2003: PhD. Fellowship
CAB-IB (Argentina): February 1997: Summer Visit
FCEyN-UBA (Argentina): March 1997-: Teaching Assistant part time
CBC-UBA (Argentina): April 1990-July 1998: Teaching Assistant part time
Collaborations
Dr. Dante Chialvo, Department of Physiology, Feinberg Medical School, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.Dr Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Physics Departament, UPC, Terrassa, Spain.
Dr Claudio Mirasso, Physics Departament, UIB, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Dr Elias Manjarrez Lopez, Laboratory of Integrative Neurophysiology, BUP, Puebla, México.
Research interest.
Functional NetworksCoupled neurons with noise
Complex Systems.
Neurons Networks.
Phase Transitions in small systems.
Critical Phenomena.
Publications.
“Ising-like dynamics in large-scale brain functional networks”,Daniel Fraiman, Pablo Balenzuela , Jennifer Foss y Dante Chialvo,
Phys. Rev. E 79, 061922 (2009).
“Community structures and role detection in music networks”
Tomas Teitelbaum, Pablo Balenzuela , Javier Martin Buldu y Pedro Cano
Chaos 18, 043105 (2008); DOI:10.1063/1.2988285
"Community structures in music networks"
T. Teitelbaum, P .Balenzuela, P. Cano and J.M. Buldú,
Proceedings of "Net-works 2008: Modelling and computation on Complex Networks and related topics",pp. 177-183, Pamplona (Spain), 9-11th June (2008).
“The Brain: What is critical about?”
Dante Chialvo, Pablo Balenzuela y Danie Fraiman,
AIP Conference Proceedings 1028 (Biocomp 2007, Collective Dynamics: Topics on Competition and Cooperation in the Biosciences, Vietri sul Mare), p28 (2008)
Spatiotemporal Response of Neuronal Networks to Time-Dependent Spectral Features
Pablo Balenzuela y Jordi Garcia Ojalvo,
AIP Proceedings 913, 178 (2007).
Phantom reflexes: Muscle contractions at a frequency not physically present in the input stimuli
E. Manjarrez, P.Balenzuela, J.Garcia-Ojalvo, E.E.Vazquez, L. Martinez, A. Flores and C. Mirasso
Biosystems 90, 379-388, (2007) .
Ghost Resonance in a pool of heterogeneous neurons
P.Balenzuela, J.Garcia-Ojalvo, E. Manjarrez, L. Martinez and C. Mirasso
Biosystems 89,166-172, (2007).
Coincidence detection of inharmonic pulses in a nonlinear crystal
X. Vidal, P.Balenzuela, J. Martín Buldú, J. Martorell and J.Garcia-Ojalvo
Phys.Rev.E (75), 012902 (2007).
Episodic synchronization in dinamically driven neurons
P.Balenzuela, J. Martín Buldú, Marcos Casanova and J.Garcia-Ojalvo
Phys.Rev.E 74, 061910 (2006).
On the role of chemical synapse in coupled neurons with noise
P.Balenzuela and J.Garcia-Ojalvo
Phys.Rev.E 72, 021901 (2005).
A neural mechanism for binaural pitch perception via ghost stochastic resonance
P.Balenzuela and J.Garcia-Ojalvo
Chaos 15, 023903, (2005).
Classical drop phase diagram an correlations in phase space.
A.Chernomoretz, P.Balenzuela and C.O.Dorso
Nucl. Phys.A 273, 229-248 (2003).
Dynamics and thermodynamics of constrained systems
M.Ison, P.Balenzuela, A.Bonasera and C.O.Dorso
CRIS 2002, 4th Catania Relativistic Ion Studies,
AIP Conference Proceedings, 644, 167 (2002).
Time dependence of critical behavior in multifragmentation.
P.Balenzuela, A.Chernomoretz and C.O.Dorso
Phys.Rev.C 66, 024613 (2002).
Dynamical properties of constrained drops.
M.Ison, P.Balenzuela, A.Bonasera and C.O.Dorso
Eur.Jour.Phys.A 14, 451 (2002).
Information entropy in fragmenting systems
P.Balenzuela and C.O.Dorso.
Phys. Rev. C 65, 057602 (2002).
Maximum Lyapunov exponent in fragmenting drops.
P.Balenzuela, A.Bonasera and C.O.Dorso
Phys.Rev.E 62, 7848 (2000).
Orientational pinning and transverse voltage: Simulations and
experiments in square Josephson junction arrays .
V.I.Marconi, S.Candia, P.Balenzuela, H.Pastoriza and D.Dominguez.
Phys. Rev. B 62, 4096 (2000).
Maximum Lyapunov Exponent of highly excited finite systems.
P.Balenzuela y C.O.Dorso.
Physica A, 283, 252, (2000).
Lyapunov exponents in LJ drops.
P.Balenzuela y C.O.Dorso.
Anales AFA Tucuman 1999, Vol. 11 , pag.45.
Conferences and Workshops
"Critical functional networks: similarities between brain dynamics and Ising model”,Pablo Balenzuela, Daniel Fraiman y Dante Chialvo, (Charla)
XVI Reunión de Mecánica Estadística de No Equilibrio y Física No lineal,
Medyfinol 2008, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 1-5 diciembre de 2008.
“Neuron responses to frequency dependent spike trains”,
Pablo Balenzuela, (Charla y Organizador)
Topics in Neuroscience, Departamento de Física, FCEyN, UBA
10-12 Setiembre (2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Redes Funcionales en el punto crítico: similaridades entre dinámica cerebral y el modelo de Ising”, Daniel Fraiman, Pablo Balenzuela y Dante Chialvo, (Poster)
93a. Reunión Nacional de Física, Bs.As., septiembre de 2008.
“Roles, comunidades y Musica”,
Tomas Teitelbaum, Pablo Balenzuela y Javier Martin Buldu (Poster)
93a. Reunión Nacional de Física, Bs.As., septiembre de 2008.
“Deteccion de comunas en redes sociales (el caso de las desapareciones en Tucuman 1973-1984 )”,
Ines Caridi, Pablo Balenzuela, Pablo Gallo y Claudio O. Dorso (Poster),
Trefemac 08, 6º Taller Regional de Física Estadística y Aplicaciones a la Materia Condensada, Centro Cívico de San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina. 5-7 de Mayo de 2008.
“Roles, Comunidades y musica”,
Tomas Teitelbaum, Pablo Balenzuela, Pedro Cano y Javier Martín-Buldú (Charla),
Workshop Nolineal 2008, Barcelona, España ,16-19 Junio 2008.
“Similarity and collaborations in music networks”,
Tomas Teitelbaum, Pablo Balenzuela, Pedro Cano y Javier Martín-Buldú (Charla),
Workshop Net-Works, Pamplona, España
9-11 Junio 2008.
“Spatiotemporal Response of Neurons to Time-Dependent Spectral Features”,
Pablo Balenzuela y Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Charla),
7th International Neural Coding Workshop, Montevideo, Uruguay,
7-12 Noviembre 2007.
“Single-cell imaging of membrane recruitment of signaling scaffold: fractional receptor occupancy is
sensed quantitatively seconds after addition of ligand”,
Alejandro Colman-Lerner, Ty Thomson, Andrew Gordon, Alan Bush, Pablo Balenzuela, Luciana Bruno, Ariel Chernomoretz, Rodrigo Laje, Kirsten Benjamin and Roger Brent. (Poster)
8th International Conference on System Biology, Long Beach, California, USA, 1-6 Octubre 2007.
“Coincidence detection of inharmonic pulses in a nonlinear crystal”
X. Vidal, P.Balenzuela, J. Martín Buldú, J. Martorell and J.Garcia-Ojalvo (Poster)
Nolineal 2007, Ciudad Real, España, del 6 al 9de junio de 2007.
“Physics of complex sound perception”,
Medyfinol’06, XV Conference on Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics,
Mar del Plata, Argentina, december 4th to 8th, 2006.
Invited Speaker: Pablo Balenzuela.
“Dynamics of stochastic procesess, complexity and criticality in Neurocience”
V Bolivian Curse of Complex Systems
Invited Speaker: Pablo Balenzuela, Dante Chialvo,
La Paz, Bolivia, september 25th to 29th, 2006.
"Binaural pitch perception via Ghost Stochastic Resonance",
Pablo Balenzuela y Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Contributed talk).
Design and Control of Self-Organization in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems,
ICTP, Trieste, Italy, July 25th to August 5th, 2005.
"The role of chemical synapses in coupled neurons with noise",
Pablo Balenzuela y Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Poster).
XXV Dynamics Days Europe 2005,
Berlin, Germany, July 25-28 2005.
"Signal processing in coupled stochastic systems",
Pablo Balenzuela, Javier Martín Buldú, Cristina M. González, M.C. Torrent y
Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Contributed talk).
XXV Dynamics Days Europe 2005,
Berlin, Germany, Julio 25-28 2005.
"Binaural pitch perception via Ghost Stochastic Resonance",
Pablo Balenzuela y Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Contributed talk).
European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 2005),
Dresden, Germany, July 18-22 2005.
"The role of chemical synapses in coupled neurons with noise",
Pablo Balenzuela y Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (Poster).
European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 2005),
Dresden, Germany, July 18-22 2005.
"Respuesta de neuronas de Morris-Lecar acopladas a estímulos estocásticos y
modulación periódica", (Contributed talk)
Nolineal 2004, Toledo, Spain, 1-4th June 2004.
"Critical Behavior in Fragmentation", (Contributed talk)
Modern Challenges in Statistical Mechanics - extention (PASI -2004)",
hold in Albuquerque USA, 13-20th March, 2004.
Organized by "Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, UNM.
"3era Reunión de la red de dinámica no-lineal de organización espacio-temporal" (Attendant),
Barcelona, 5-7th of February 2004.
"From Neuron to Networks: biofisically based functional methods" (Attendant)
Organized by Santa Fe Institute,
27th July- 9th August, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Workshop: Modern Challenges in Statistical Mechanics (PASI-2002), (Poster)
hold in Bariloche, from june 2 to june 15, 2002.
Organized by "Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, UNM.
http://panda.unm.edu/pasi2002/Index.html .
"Critical exponents at fragmentation time in finite systems" (Poster - Proceedings)
P.Balenzuela, A.Chernomoretz and C.O.Dorso.
IV Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics.
Mexico D.F., Mexico, september 2001.
Air ticket, registration and accomodation paid by
Jefferson National Laboratory via National Science Fundation
Americas Grant.
"Asymptotic distance in Phase space for excited drops" (Poster - Proceedings)
M.Ison, P.Balenzuela and C.O.Dorso.
IV Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics.
Mexico D.F., Mexico, septiembre 2001.
Air ticket, registration and accomodation paid by
Jefferson National Laboratory via National Science Fundation
Americas Grant.
"Maximal Lyapunov exponent in fragmentation of LJ drops" (Poster-Proceedings)
P.Balenzuela y C.O.Dorso.
84th National Meeting of Physics (AFA Meetings),
Tucuman, Argentina. September, 1999.
"Maximal Lyapunov Exponent of Fragmenting Drops" (Poster-Proceedings)
C.O.Dorso y P.Balenzuela.
VI Latin American Workshop on Nonlinear Physics (LAWNP'99),
XII National Meeting on Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and
Nonlinear Physics - Medyfinol '99.
Huerta Grande, Cordoba, Argentina, Octubre de 1999.
"Phase Transitions in drops and Lyapunov exponents" (Poster)
C.O.Dorso y P.Balenzuela.
83rd National Meeting of Physics (AFA Meetings),
La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. September, 1998.
"Guided movement of vortex in Josephson junction arrays" (Poster)
S.Candia, H.Pastoriza y P.Balenzuela.
83rd National Meeting of Physics (AFA Meetings),
La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. September, 1998.
"Spectral response of solar cells produced by the Solar Energy Division of the
National Bureau of Atomic Energy (CNEA)" (Poster)
A.Lamagna, A.Frigerio, F.Saconne y P.Balenzuela.
78th National Meeting of Physics (AFA Meetings),
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. September, 1993.
References.
Dr. Dante Chialvo, Department of Physiology, Feinberg Medical School, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.Dr Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Departament de Fisica i Enyingeria nuclear, UPC, Terrassa, Spain.
jordi.g.ojalvo@upc.edu.
Prof.Dr.C.O.Dorso, Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, UBA, Argentina.
codorso@df.uba.ar.
Dr.A.Bonasera, LNS -INFN, Catania Italy. bonasera@lns.infn.it
Dr.H.Pastoriza, Low Temperatures Lab, CAB, Bariloche, Argentina. hernan@cab.cnea.gov.ar
Prof.Dr. Jorge Lopez, University of Texas El Paso, jorgelopez@utep.edu
Skills
I'm a Spanish native speaker and also I can speak and write in English. I feel at ease programming in Fortran either in Unix and Windows environments.