Post-Doctoral Fellow
Complex Systems and Random Networks Group
Department of Physics, I3N
Universidade de Aveiro

Campus Universitario de Santiago
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal

gjbaxter@ua.pt

Research

Broadly speaking, I am interested in what are known as Complex Systems. In Physics terms, I work in statistical physics, stochastic processes and complex networks. Many of the systems I study come from fields outside of traditional physics such as linguistics, biology and neuroscience.

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Selected Publications

G. J. Baxter, A voter model with time dependent flip rates
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2011 P09005 (2011)

G. J. Baxter, S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. V. Goltsev and J. F. F. Mendes, Heterogeneous k-core versus bootstrap percolation on complex networks
Physical Review E 83 051134 (2011)

G. J. Baxter, R. A. Blythe, W. Croft and A. J. McKane, Modeling language change: An evaluation of Trudgill's theory of the emergence of New Zealand English
Language Variation and Change 21 257-296 (2009)

G. J. Baxter, R. A. Blythe, A. J. McKane, Fixation and consensus times on a network: a unified approach
Physical Review Letters 101 258701 (2008)

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