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Salvatore Torquato

Salvatore Torquato

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Physics

D-Index
127
Citations
61473
World Ranking
623
National Ranking
344

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
  • 2009 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, American Physical Society
  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the mathematics of packings and materials.
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For incisive contributions to the theoretical understanding of the structure and macroscopic properties of disordered materials
  • 2004 - William Prager Medal
  • 2002 - Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1998 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1994 - ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award

Overview

Salvatore Torquato is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has an extensive publication record spanning multiple disciplines within physics and materials science. Their research contributions focus heavily on theoretical and computational physics, material dynamics and properties, and photonic crystals and applications.

Torquato's frequent coauthors include Jaeuk Kim, Haina Wang, Paul J. Steinhardt, Michael A. Klatt, and Yang Jiao. These collaborations reflect ongoing research efforts in complex materials and wave propagation phenomena.

Their work appears regularly in several publication venues, most notably Physical Review E, arXiv (Cornell University), The Journal of Chemical Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Physical Review Research.

Key recent papers by Torquato include:

  • Engineered disorder in photonics, 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Multifunctional composites for elastic and electromagnetic wave propagation, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Wave propagation and band tails of two-dimensional disordered systems in the thermodynamic limit, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Predicting transport characteristics of hyperuniform porous media via rigorous microstructure-property relations, 2020, Advances in Water Resources
  • Structural characterization of many-particle systems on approach to hyperuniform states, 2021, Physical Review E

Main fields of study covered by Torquato's research are physics and astronomy as well as materials science. Subfields of particular focus include materials chemistry, condensed matter physics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, computational theory and mathematics, and mechanics of materials.

Themes prevalent in their work include advanced mathematical modeling in engineering, stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, composite material mechanics, and random lasers and scattering media.

Awards recognizing Torquato's contributions include:

  • SIAM Fellow (2009) for contributions to the mathematics of packings and materials
  • David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, American Physical Society (2009)
  • William Prager Medal (2004)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2004) with citation for theoretical understanding of the structure and macroscopic properties of disordered materials
  • Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2002)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1998)
  • ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award (1994)

Best Publications

  • Random Heterogeneous Materials: Microstructure and Macroscopic Properties

    S Torquato;HW Haslach

  • Random Heterogeneous Materials

    Salvatore Torquato

  • Is random close packing of spheres well defined

    S. Torquato;Thomas M Truskett;P. G. Debenedetti

  • Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using Ellipsoids

    Aleksandar Donev;Ibrahim Cisse;Ibrahim Cisse;David Sachs;Evan A. Variano;Evan A. Variano

  • Design of materials with extreme thermal expansion using a three-phase topology optimization method

    Ole Sigmund;Salvatore Torquato

  • Reconstructing random media

    C. L. Y. Yeong;S. Torquato

  • Random Heterogeneous Media: Microstructure and Improved Bounds on Effective Properties

    S. Torquato

  • Jammed hard-particle packings: From Kepler to Bernal and beyond

    Salvatore Torquato;Frank H. Stillinger

  • Local density fluctuations, hyperuniformity, and order metrics

    Salvatore Torquato;Frank H. Stillinger

  • Simulated brain tumor growth dynamics using a three-dimensional cellular automaton.

    A.R. Kansal;S. Torquato;G.R. Harsh;E.A. Chiocca

  • Designer disordered materials with large, complete photonic band gaps

    Marian Florescu;Salvatore Torquato;Paul Joseph Steinhardt

  • Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids

    Salvatore Torquato;Y. Jiao

  • Reconstructing random media. II. Three-dimensional media from two-dimensional cuts

    C. L.Y. Yeong;Salvatore Torquato

  • Hyperuniform states of matter

    Salvatore Torquato

  • Modeling heterogeneous materials via two-point correlation functions: basic principles.

    Y. Jiao;F. H. Stillinger;S. Torquato

  • Packing hyperspheres in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces.

    Monica Skoge;Aleksandar Donev;Frank H. Stillinger;Salvatore Torquato

  • Composites with extremal thermal expansion coefficients

    Ole Sigmund;S. Torquato

  • Pair correlation function characteristics of nearly jammed disordered and ordered hard-sphere packings

    Aleksandar Donev;Salvatore Torquato;Frank H. Stillinger

  • Microstructure of two‐phase random media. I. The n‐point probability functions

    Salvatore Torquato;G. Stell

  • Reconstruction of the Structure of Dispersions

    Mark D. Rintoul;Salvatore Torquato

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank H. Stillinger
Frank H. Stillinger Princeton University
Paul J. Steinhardt
Paul J. Steinhardt Princeton University
Paul Chaikin
Paul Chaikin New York University
Pablo G. Debenedetti
Pablo G. Debenedetti Princeton University
Thomas M. Truskett
Thomas M. Truskett The University of Texas at Austin
George Stell
George Stell Stony Brook University
Jeffrey R. Errington
Jeffrey R. Errington University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Robert Connelly
Robert Connelly Cornell University
Ole Sigmund
Ole Sigmund Technical University of Denmark
Roberto Car
Roberto Car Princeton University

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