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• Education
• Position
• Awards and Honours
• Research Fields
• Current Research Interests
• Research Grants
• Professional Activities
• Book
• Selected Recent Publications
• Address/Telephone no./E-mail

Education

1. BSc, University of Hong Kong, 1981
2. MS, The Ohio State University, 1983
3. PhD, The Ohio State University, 1987

Position

1. 2000-now, Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2. 1996-2000, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
3. 1992-1996, Lecturer, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
4. 1989-1992, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan
5. 1987-1989, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA

Awards and Honours

1. Fellow, Institute of Physics
2. Vice-Chancellor Teaching Exemplary Teaching Award 2006, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields

1. Condensed Matter Physics
2. Statistical Physics

Current Research Interests

1. Theoretical condensed matter physics
2. Statistical physics
3. Optical properties of inhomogeneous media and patterned films
4. Complex networks - Dynamics and competing games
5. High school physics education

Research Grants

1. CUHK Direct Grant (92/93): Clustering Effects in Random Nonlinear Composites
2. RGC Earmarked Grant (93/94): Physics of Random Nonlinear Composites (with Dr. K.W. Yu)
3. British Council/RGC UK-HK Joint Research Scheme (93/94): Theory of Photonic Band-Gap Materials (with Dr. Neil Johnson of Oxford University)
4. CUHK Direct Grant (94/95): Traffic Flow Problems: Cellular Automaton Models
5. CUHK Direct Grant (94/95): Physics of Macroscopically Inhomogeneous Media
6. British Council/RGC UK-HK Joint Research Scheme (94/95): Physics of Quantum Dots (with Dr. Neil Johnson of Oxford University)
7. RGC Earmarked Grant (95/96): Transport and Optical Properties of Nonlinear Inhomogeneous Media (with Dr. K.W. Yu)
8. Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (95-98): Member of a team on the project "Novel nonlinear analysis of traffic flow problems in cities: Theory, simulations, and applications"
9. RGC Earmarked Grant (97/98): Vehicular Traffic Flow Problems: Statistical Physics Approaches
10. British Council/RGC UK-HK Joint Research Scheme (97/98): Financial Markets as Complex Dynamical Systems (with Dr. Neil Johnson of Oxford University)
11. RGC Earmarked Grant (98/99): Theory of harmonic generations in random composites of nonlinear dielectrics
12. NSFC Grant (99/01): Modelling and simulations of trafffic flow in cities (with Prof. S.Q. Dai (PI, Shanghai University) and Prof. G.Q. Gu (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology))
13. NSFC Grant (00/02): Study on self organization criticality and phase transition behavior of traffic flow complex systems (with Prof. B.H. Wang (PI, University of Science and Technology of China) and Prof. L.K. Chen (ShenZhen University))
14. NSFC Key Project (00/02): Member of research team on the Key Project "Research on traffic flow in cities" in collaboration with Prof. S.Q. Dai (PI, Shanghai University) and Prof. B.H. Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)
15. RGC Earmarked Grant (2000/01): Coulomb blockade and quantum effects in granular systems (with Prof. Tai-Kai Ng of HKUST as PI)
16. RGC Earmarked Grant (01/02): Physics of Adaptive Behaviour in a Population of Competing Agents
17. CUHK Direct Grant (05/06): Dynamical processes in complex networks
18. RGC Earmarked Grant (05/06): Network Effects and Emerging Global Function in Multi-agent Network Models of Competitive Populations

Professional Activities

1. Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Complex Fluids and Monte-Carlo Methods, (July 27-29, 1995) -- a satellite conference to STATPHYS-19.
2. Member of the International Advisory Committee of the 2nd IUPAP Topical Conference and the 3rd Taipei International Symposium on Statistical Physics, (July 18-24, 1995)
3. Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the Fifth International Conference on the Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM5), (June 21-25, 1999, Hong Kong).
4. Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the "Dynamics Days Asia-Pacific: First International Conference on Nonlinear Science" held in Hong Kong (July 13-16, 1999).
5. Organizer, Workshop on the Development of Secondary 4-5 Physics Curriculum (jointly organized by the Curriculum Development Institute, Education Department and the Department of Physics, CUHK), July 2000.
6. Vice-President, Physical Society of Hong Kong (1999-2001)
7. Member of Executive Committee, Physical Society of Hong Kong (2001-2003)
8. Member of the Ad-hoc Committee on revising the Secondary 4-5 physics syllabus, Curriculum Development Institute, Education Department, HKSAR (1999 - 2002)
9. Adjunct Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China (2001 - 2005)
10. Member of the CDC-HKEAA Committee on Revision of Sixth-form Physics Curriculum (2003 - 2005)
11. Member of the CDC-HKEAA Committee on Physics (Senior Secondary) (November 2003 - 2005)
12. President, Physical Society of Hong Kong (2003-2005)
13. Council Member, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) (2005-2010)
14. Chairman, CDC-HKEAA Committee on Physics (Senior Secondary) Curriculum (October 2005 - now)
15. Member of Executive Committee, Physical Society of Hong Kong (2005-07)
16. Honorary Advisor (Education), Leisure and Cultural Department, HKSAR Government (April 2006 - March 2010)
17. Guest Professor, East China Normal University

Book

1. Neil F. Johnson, Paul Jefferies, and Pak Ming Hui,
   Financial Market Complexity (Oxford University Press, 2003).
   
   Further information: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-852665-2
   
   Book Review: http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1469-7688/4/2/R01

Selected Recent Publications

1. K.Y. Fong and P.M. Hui
   "Coupling of waveguide and surface modes in enhanced transmission through stacking gratings", Applied Physics Letters 89, 091101 (2006).
   
   
2. K.Y. Fong and P.M. Hui
   "Wave characteristics in a periodic dielectrics via linear superposition of retarded fields", Journal of the Optical Society of America A 23, pp.3229-3237 (2006).
   
   
3. N.F. Johnson, D.M.D. Smith, and P.M. Hui
   "Multi-agent complex systems and many-body physics", Europhysics Letters 74, pp.923-929 (2006).
   
   
4. N.F. Johnson, S.C. Choe, S. Gourley, T. Jarrett, P.M. Hui,
   "Crowd effects in competitive, multi-agent populations and networks", in T. Lux, S. Reitz, E. Samanidou (Eds), Nonlinear Dynamics and Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 550, 55-70 (Springer Verlag, Berlin 2005).
   
   
5. C. Xu, P.M. Hui, L.F. Zhang, Y.Q. Ma, J.H. Zhou, Z.Y. Li
   "Hysteresis in small arrays of interacting magnetic nanoparticles", European Physical Journal B 46, 475 (2005).
   
   
6. L.Z. Zhong, D.F. Zheng, B. Zheng, P.M. Hui,
   "Effects of contrarians in the minority game", Physical Review E 72, 026134 (2005).
   
   
7. T.S. Lo, K.P. Chan, P.M. Hui, N.F. Johnson,
   "Theory of enhanced performance emerging in a sparsely connected competitative population", Physical Review E 71, 050101(R) (2005).
   
   
8. L.F. Zhang, C. Xu, P.M. Hui, Y.Q. Ma,
   "Influence of dipolar interaction on small magnetic dot arrays", Journal of Applied Physics 97, 103912 (2005).
   
   
9. D.F. Zheng, P.M. Hui, S. Trimper, B. Zheng,
   "Epidemics and dimensionality in hierarchical networks", Physica A 352, 659 (2005).
   
   
10. C. Xu, P.M. Hui, Y.Q. Ma, L.F. Zhang,
    "Rapid magnetization reversal in magnetic small particles induced by non-static bias field", Solid State Communications 134, 625 (2005).
    
    
11. C. Xu, Y.Q. Ma, P.M. Hui, F.Q. Tong,
    "Microstructures in strongly interacting dipolar fluids", Chinese Physics Letters 22, 485 (2005).
    
    
12. T.S. Lo, H.Y. Chan, P.M. Hui, and N.F. Johnson,
    "Theory of networked minority game based on strategy pattern dynamics", Physical Review E 70, 056102 (2004).
    
    
13. S.C. Choe, N.F. Johnson, and P.M. Hui,
    "Error-driven global transition in a competitive population on a network", Physical Review E 70, 055101(R) (2004).
    
    
14. K.P. Chan, D. Zheng, and P.M. Hui,
    "Effects of aging and links removal on epidemic dynamics in scale-free networks", International Journal of Modern Physics B 18, 2534 (2004).
    
    
15. S. Gourley, S.C. Choe, P.M. Hui, and N.F. Johnson,
    "Effects of local connectivity in a competitive population with limited resources", Europhysics Letters 67, 867 (2004).
    
    
16. H.J. Quan, P.M. Hui, C. Xu, and K.F. Yip,
    "Evolutionary minority game with multiple options", Physical Review E 70, 016119 (2004).
    
    
17. N.F. Johnson, S.C. Choe, S. Gourley, T. Jarrett, and P. M. Hui,
    "Theory of collective dynamics in multi-agent complex systems", in Advances in Solid State Physics, Vol. 44, pp.427-438, edited by B. Kramer (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004). [Contribution to the "Fruehjahrstagung" der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG Spring Meeting 2004), Regensburg, Germany 8-12 March 2004.]
    
    
18. H.Y. Lee, H.Y. Chan, and P.M. Hui,
    "Scale-free networks with tunable degree-distribution exponents", Physical Review E 69, 067102 (2004).
    
    
19. K.F. Yip, T.S. Lo, P.M. Hui, and N.F. Johnson,
    "Enhanced winning in a competing population by random participation", Physical Review E 69, 046120 (2004).
    
    
20. P.M. Hui, C. Xu, and D. Stroud,
    "Second-harmonic generation for a dilute suspension of coated particles", Physical Review B 69, 014203 (2004).
    
    
21. P.M. Hui, C. Xu, and D. Stroud,
    "Dimensional crossover in the effective second-harmonic generation of films of random dielectrics", Physical Review B 69, 014202 (2004).
    
    
22. D.F. Zheng, S. Trimper, B. Zheng and P.M. Hui,
    "Weighted scale-free networks with stochastic weight assignments", Physical Review E 67, 040102 (2003).
    
    
23. K. Lee, P.M. Hui and N.F. Johnson,
    "The minority game with different payoff functions: Crowd-anticrowd theory", Physica A 321, 309 (2003).
    
    
24. K.F. Yip, P.M. Hui, T.S. Lo and N.F. Johnson,
    "Efficient resource distribution in a minority game with a biased pool of strategies", Physica A 321, 318 (2003).
    
    
25. C. Xu, P.M. Hui, J.H. Zhou and Z.Y. Li,
    "Biased switching in an interacting pair of magnetic particles", Journal of Applied Physics 91, 5957 (2002).
    
    
26. Y.B. Xie, B.H. Wang, H.J. Quan, W.S. Yang and P.M. Hui,
    "Finite-size effect in the Eguiluz and Zimmermann model of herd formation and information transmission", Physical Review E 65, 046130 (2002).
    
    
27. D. Zheng, G.J. Rodgers, P.M. Hui and R. D'Hulst,
    "Non-universal scaling and dynamical feedback in generalized models of financial markets", Physica A 303, 176 (2002).
    
    
28. K. Lee, P.M. Hui, B.H. Wang and N.F. Johnson,
    "Effects of announcing global information in a two-route traffic flow model", Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 70, 3507 (2001).
    
    
29. G.Q. Gu, P.M. Hui, C. Xu and W.C. Woo,
    "Field transformation approach to photonic band structure calculations", Solid State Communcations 120, 483 (2001).
    
    
30. M. Hart, P. Jefferies, N.F. Johnson and P.M. Hui,
    "Crowd-anticrowd theory of the minority game", Physica A 298, 537 (2001).
    
    
31. H.-J. Quan, B.H. Wang, P.M. Hui, and X.-S. Luo,
    "Cooperation in a mixed population minority game with imitation", Chinese Physics Letters 18, 1156 (2001).
    
    
32. P. Jeffereis, M.L. Hart, P.M. Hui and N.F. Johnson,
    "From market games to real-world markets", European Physical Journal B 20, 493 (2001).
    
    
33. M. Hart, P. Jefferies, P.M. Hui and N.F. Johnson,
    "Crowd-Anticrowd theory of multi-agent market games", European Physical Journal B 20, 547 (2001).
    
    
34. B.H. Wang and P.M. Hui,
    "The distribution and scaling of fluctuations for Hang Seng index in Hong Kong stock market", European Physical Journal B 20, 573 (2001).
    
    
35. G.Q. Gu and P.M. Hui,
    "Interaction between particles and particle chains in electrorhelogical fluids", International Journal of Modern Physics B 15, 1033 (2001).
    
    
36. M. Hart, P. Jefferies, N.F. Johnson, and P.M. Hui,
    "Generalized strategies in the minority game", Physical Review E 63, Article No. 017102 (2001).
    
    
37. C. Xu, Z.Y. Li, and P.M. Hui,
    "Monte Carlo studies of hysteresis curves in magnetic composites with fine magnetic particles", Journal of Applied Physics 89, 3403 (2001).
    
    
38. T.S. Lo, P.M. Hui, and N.F. Johnson,
    "Theory of the evolutionary minority game", Physical Review E 62, 4393 (2000).
    
    
39. P.M. Hui, P. Sheng, L.-H. Tang (eds),
    Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM5), published in Physica A 279, Nos. 1-3 (2000).
    
    
40. N.F. Johnson, P.M. Hui, Dafang Zheng, and M. Hart,
    "Enhanced winnings in a mixed-ability population playing a minority game", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 32, L427 (1999).
    
    
41. P.M. Hui, X. Zhang, A.J. Markworth, and D. Stroud,
    "Thermal conductivity of graded composites: Numerical simulations and an effective medium approximation", Journal of Materials Science 34, 5497 (1999).
    
    
42. N.F. Johnson, P.M. Hui and T.S. Lo,
    "Self-organized segregation of traders in a market", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 357, 2013 (1999).
    
    
43. N.F. Johnson, P.M. Hui, Dafang Zheng, and C.W. Tai,
    "Minority game with arbitrary cutoffs", Physica A 269, 493 (1999).
    
    
44. S.K. Wong, B. Zhao, T.K. Ng, X.N. Jing, X. Yan, and P.M. Hui,
    "A phenomenological model of percolating magnetic nanostructures", European Physical Journal B 10, 481 (1999).
    
    
45. N.F. Johnson, M. Hart, P.M. Hui
    "Crowd effects and volatility in markets with competing agents", Physica A 269, 1 (1999).
    
    
46. B.H. Wang, Y.R. Kwong, P.M. Hui, and Bambi Hu,
    "Cellular automaton models of driven diffusive Frenkel-Kontorova-type systems", Physical Review E 60, 149 (1999).
    
    
47. N.F. Johnson, P.M. Hui, R. Jonson, and T.S. Lo,
    "Self-organized segregation within an evolving population", Physical Review Letters 82, 3360 (1999).
    
    
48. N.F. Johnson, S. Jarvis, R. Jonson, P. Cheung, Y.R. Kwong, and P.M. Hui
    "Volatility and agent adaptability in a self-organizing market", Physica A 258, 230 (1998).
    
    
49. P.M. Hui, P. Cheung and Y.R. Kwong
    "Effective response in nonlinear random composites", Physica A 241, 301 (1997).
    
    
50. P.M. Hui and D. Stroud
    "Theory of second harmonic generation in composites of nonlinear dielectrics", Journal of Applied Physics 82, 4740 (1997).
    
    
51. W. Deng and P.M. Hui
    "Bose-Einstein condensation of finite number of confined particles", Solid State Communications 104, 797 (1997).
    
    
52. B.H. Wang and P.M. Hui
    "One-dimensional traffic flow problems: A microscopic approach", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 66, 1238 (1997).
    
    
53. P.M. Hui and W.M.V. Wan
    "Theory of effective response in dilute strongly nonlinear random composites", Applied Physics Letters 69, 1810 (1996).
    
    
54. S.C. Benjamin, N.F. Johnson and P.M. Hui
    "Cellular Automaton Models of Traffic Flow Along a Highway Containing a Junction", J. Phys. A: Math & Gen 29, 3119 (1996).
    
    
55. P.M. Hui and N.F. Johnson
    "Photonic Band-Gap Materials", in Solid State Physics: Advances in Research and Applications, Vol. 49, 151-203 (1995), edited by H. Ehrenreich and F. Spaepen.
    
    
56. K.H. Chung, P.M. Hui and G.Q. Gu
    "Two-dimensional Traffic Flow Problems with Faulty Traffic Lights", Physical Review E 51, 772 (1995).
    
    

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