Lev Muchnik's Home Page

Welcome to my homepage. I built it to summarize my research interests and share some of results, knowledge and tools which can be shared. Hope, it'll be helpful to somebody.

Few words about myself.

My major occupation is being a Ph.D. student at the Physics Department at the Bar Ilan University (Israel). My research interests lie within the Complexity Science, more specifically Complex Networks. I also work on Econophysics, extreme events statistics and more general aspects of modeling and numerical simulations (especially, continues time event driven ones).

Simultaneously, I serve as consultant in TopSpin Medical, a company developing intravascular MRI - a tiny catheter, scanning walls of coronary arteries in order to detect locations which are likely to cause heart attack or stroke.

Check out my Resume and list of publications for the more official acquaintance.

Complex Networks Package for MatLab

A comprehensive MatLab-based package for complex network manipulation and analysis available for download. The package is well documented (the documentation will gradually appear online) and is accompanied by nice tutorials some of which are quite illustrative and can be used getting initial experience with complex networks.

June 21, 2007 - Version of the package for x64 MatLab is available for download.

Clusterizer

Clusterizer is a cool application which finds terms, conceptually close to each other. For example,selecting Mechanics brings a whole bunch of Mechanics-related terms (physical laws, equations, units and measures). You can control the specificity of each group expanding and shrinking it with a single parameter. Clusterizer is a bit similar to Google Sets but is based on Wikipedia (check out the Wikipedia Analysis Project for more details). It utilizes complex networks algorithms to obtain some exciting results.

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Networks Data

Aug. 13, 2007. I have finally started to place some complex networks - related data. For now, these are only two data sets - a monthly snapshot of USA air traffic and a reference network of Wikipedia (in Italian). Both networks can easily be imported into the analysis toolbox.

Complex Networks Package Tutorial

Short tutorial illustrating some of the basic operations performed with the Networks Package including graph generation and manipulation, some basic network analysis and short percolation experiment.

NEW - Displaying XML files within HTML page

A useful JavaScript handling syntax-highlighted and collapsible display of arbitrary XML. A nice XML display in embedded within your custom HTML page. This code can be quite useful for debugging client-server communication in your AJAX application. It requires minimal modifications of your HTML page and is compatible with IE and Firefox . The XML display is easily configurable via trivial CSS file.

Sept. 20, 2007

Publishing EndNote References Online!

Follow few simple steps to make your EndNote's library available online.
The tutorial guides you through a sequence of steps leading to AJAX - based WEB page dynamically loading and presenting a list of publications from EndNote. No coding or prior knowledge of XML or JavaScript is needed.