List of Publications

I have published 95 articles/preprints

2024

  • Effect of mobile food environments on fast food visits
    Bernardo Garcia-Bulle, Abigail L Horn, Brooke M Bell, Mohsen Bahrami, Burcin Bozkaya, Alex Pentland, Kayla de la Haye, Esteban Moro
    Nature Communications 15 2291 (2024)
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  • Infrequent activities predict economic outcomes in major American cities
    Shenhao Wang, Yunhan Zheng, Guang Wang, Takahiro Yabe, Esteban Moro, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland
    Nature Cities NA 1–10 (2024)
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  • Network constraints on worker mobility
    Morgan R Frank, Esteban Moro, Tobin South, Alex Rutherford, Alex Pentland, Bledi Taska, Iyad Rahwan
    Nature Cities 1 94–104 (2024)
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  • Temporal clustering of social interactions trades-off disease spreading and knowledge diffusion
    Giulia Cencetti, Lorenzo Lucchini, Gabriele Santin, Federico Battiston, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland, Bruno Lepri
    Journal of the Royal Society Interface 21 20230471 (2024)
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2023

  • Population mobility data provides meaningful indicators of fast food intake and diet-related diseases in diverse populations
    Abigail L. Horn, Brooke M. Bell, Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno, Mohsen Bahrami, Burcin Bozkaya, Yan Cui, John P. Wilson, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro, Kayla de la Haye
    NPJ Digital Medicine 6 208 (2023)
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  • The unequal effects of the health–economy trade-off during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Marco Pangallo, Alberto Aleta, R. Maria del Rio-Chanona, Anton Pichler, David Martin-Corral, Matteo Chinazzi, Francois Lafond, Marco Ajelli, Esteban Moro, Yamir Moreno, Alessandro Vespignani, J. Doyne Farmer
    Nature Human Behaviour NA 1–12 (2023)
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  • Home-to-school pedestrian mobility GPS data from a citizen science experiment in the Barcelona area
    Ferran Larroya, Ofelia Diaz, Oleguer Sagarra, Pol Colomer Simon, Salva Ferre, Esteban Moro, Josep Perello
    Scientific data 10 428 (2023)
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  • Long-Range Social Influence in Phone Communication Networks on Offline Adoption Decisions
    Yan Leng, Xiaowen Dong, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
    Information Systems Research Articles in Advance 21 Jun (2023)
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  • Identifying latent activity behaviors and lifestyles using mobility data to describe urban dynamics
    Yanni Yang, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
    EPJ Data Science 12 15 (2023)
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  • Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters
    Takahiro Yabe, Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno, Xiaowen Dong, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
    Nature Communications 14 2310 (2023)
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  • Diversity beyond density: experienced social mixing of urban streets
    Zhuangyuan Fan, Tianyu Su, Maoran Sun, Ariel Noyman, Fan Zhang, Alex `Sandy’ Pentland, Esteban Moro
    PNAS Nexus 2 pgad077 (2023)
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2022

  • Rhythm of the streets: a street classification framework based on street activity patterns
    Tianyu Su, Maoran Sun, Zhuangyuan Fan, Ariel Noyman, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
    EPJ Data Science 11 43 (2022)
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  • Quantifying the importance and location of SARS-CoV-2 transmission events in large metropolitan areas
    Alberto Aleta, David Martin-Corral, Michiel A. Bakker, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Maria Litvinova, Matteo Chinazzi, Natalie E. Dean, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini, Alex Pentland, Alessandro Vespignani, Yamir Moreno, Esteban Moro
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 e2112182119 (2022)
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  • Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy
    Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro
    In Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (2022)
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2021

  • News or social media? Socio-economic divide of mobile service consumption
    Inaki Ucar, Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Zbigniew Smoreda, Esteban Moro
    Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18 20210350 (2021)
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  • Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities
    Esteban Moro, Dan Calacci, Xiaowen Dong, Alex Pentland
    Nature Communications 12 4633 (2021)
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  • Accuracy-Risk Trade-Off Due to Social Learning in Crowd-Sourced Financial Predictions
    Dhaval Adjodah, Yan Leng, Shi Kai Chong, P. M. Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
    Entropy 23 801 (2021)
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  • Effect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US cities
    Ruth F. Hunter, Leandro Garcia, Thiago Herick de Sa, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Christopher Millett, James Woodcock, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Esteban Moro
    Nature Communications 12 3652 (2021)
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  • Universal resilience patterns in labor markets
    Esteban Moro, Morgan R. Frank, Alex Pentland, Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan
    Nature Communications 12 1972 (2021)
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2020

  • Leveraging Communication Topologies Between Learning Agents in Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Abhimanyu Dubey, Anirudh Goyal, PM Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
    In AAMAS (2020)
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  • Methods and apparatus for communication network
    Dhaval Adjodah, Alex Paul Pentland, Esteban Moro, Yan Leng, Peter Krafft, Daniel Calacci, Abhimanyu Dubey
    Patent 2020
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  • Segregated interactions in urban and online space
    Xiaowen Dong, Alfredo J. Morales, Eaman Jahani, Esteban Moro, Bruno Lepri, Burcin Bozkaya, Carlos Sarraute, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Alex Pentland
    EPJ Data Science 9 20 (2020)
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  • Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19
    Alberto Aleta, David Martin-Corral, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Marco Ajelli, Maria Litvinova, Matteo Chinazzi, Natalie E. Dean, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini Jr, Stefano Merler, Alex Pentland, Alessandro Vespignani, Esteban Moro, Yamir Moreno
    Nature Human Behaviour 4 964–971 (2020)
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2019

  • Towards a new social laboratory: An experimental study of search through community participation at Burning Man
    Ziv Epstein, Micah Epstein, Christian Almenar, Matt Groh, Niccolo Pescetelli, Esteban Moro, Nick Obradovich, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan
    Preprint (2019)
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  • How to Hide One’s Relationships from Link Prediction Algorithms
    Marcin Waniek, Kai Zhou, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Esteban Moro, Tomasz P Michalak, Talal Rahwan
    Scientific Reports 9 12208 (2019)
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  • Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor
    Morgan R Frank, David Autor, James E Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J Deming, Maryann Feldman, Matthew Groh, Jose Lobo, Esteban Moro, Dashun Wang, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 6531–6539 (2019)
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2018

  • How to Organize your Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents: The Importance of Communication Topology
    Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Abhimanyu Dubey, Peter Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Sandy Pentland
    Preprint (2018)
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  • ScamCoins, S*** Posters, and the Search for the Next Bitcoin TM : Collective Sensemaking in Cryptocurrency Discussions
    Eaman Jahani, Peter M Krafft, Yoshihiko Suhara, Esteban Moro, Alex Sandy Pentland
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2 79, 1–28 (2018)
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  • Analyzing gender inequality through large-scale Facebook advertising data
    David Garcia, Yonas Mitike Kassa, Angel Cuevas, Manuel Cebrian, Esteban Moro, Iyad Rahwan, Ruben Cuevas
    Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences 115 6958–6963 (2018)
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  • Weather impacts expressed sentiment
    Patrick Baylis, Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Lorenzo Coviello, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, James H Fowler
    PLoS ONE 13 e0195750 (2018)
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  • MemeSequencer: Sparse Matching for Embedding Image Macros
    Abhimanyu Dubey, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan
    In Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web - WWW ’18 (2018)
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  • The Rippling Effect of Social Influence via Phone Communication Network
    Yan Leng, Xiaowen Dong, Esteban Moro, Alex SandyPentland
    In Complex Spreading Phenomena in Social Systems (2018)
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2017

  • Temporal patterns behind the strength of persistent ties
    Henry Navarro, Giovanna Miritello, Arturo Canales, Esteban Moro
    EPJ Data Science 6 97 (2017)
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  • Differential network effects on economic outcomes: A structural perspective
    Eaman Jahani, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Pal Sundsoy, Johannes Bjelland, Esteban Moro, Alex Sandy Pentland
    In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2017)
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  • Improved Learning in Evolution Strategies via Sparser Inter-Agent Network Topologies.
    Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Yan Leng, Peter Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
    Preprint (2017)
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2016

  • Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity
    Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Nick Obradovich, Esteban Moro, Pascal Van Hentenryck, James Fowler, Manuel Cebrian
    Science Advances 2 e1500779 (2016)
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  • Twitter session analytics: Profiling usersshort-term behavioral changes
    Farshad Kooti, Esteban Moro, Kristina Lerman
    In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (2016)
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  • Channel-Specific Daily Patterns in Mobile Phone Communication
    Talayeh Aledavood, Eduardo Lopez, Sam G B Roberts, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Esteban Moro, Robin I M Dunbar, Jari Saramaki
    In Proceedings of ECCS 2014 (2016)
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2015

  • Fully nonlinear dynamics of stochastic thin-film dewetting.
    S Nesic, R Cuerno, E Moro, L Kondic
    Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 92 061002 (2015)
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  • From seconds to months: an overview of multi-scale dynamics of mobile telephone calls
    Jari Saramaki, Esteban Moro
    European Physical Journal B 88 164 (2015)
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  • Social Media Fingerprints of Unemployment
    Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Manuel Cebrian, Esteban Moro
    PLoS ONE 10 e0128692 (2015)
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  • Big data versus small data: the case of `gripe’(flu) in Spanish
    Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Esteban Moro
    Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 198 339–343 (2015)
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  • Nowcasting Disaster Damage
    Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Nick Obradovich, Esteban Moro, Pascal Van Hentenryck, James Fowler, Manuel Cebrian
    Preprint (2015)
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  • Dynamics of thin fluid films controlled by thermal fluctuations
    S Nesic, R Cuerno, E Moro, L Kondic
    European Physical Journal: Special Topics 224 379–387 (2015)
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  • Daily Rhythms in Mobile Telephone Communication.
    Talayeh Aledavood, Eduardo Lopez, Sam G B Roberts, Felix Reed-Tsochas, Esteban Moro, Robin I M Dunbar, Jari Saramaki
    PLoS ONE 10 e0138098– (2015)
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  • Performance of social network sensors during Hurricane Sandy
    Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Esteban Moro, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Manuel Cebrian
    PLoS one 10 e0117288 (2015)
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2014

  • Macroscopic response to microscopic intrinsic noise in three-dimensional Fisher fronts.
    S Nesic, R Cuerno, E Moro
    Physical Review Letters 113 180602 (2014)
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  • Using friends as sensors to detect global-scale contagious outbreaks.
    Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, Nicholas A Christakis, James H Fowler
    PLoS ONE 9 e92413– (2014)
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2013

  • Time allocation in social networks: correlation between social structure and human communication dynamics
    Giovanna Miritello, Ruben Lara, Esteban Moro
    In Temporal networks (2013)
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  • Limits of social mobilization
    Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Sohan D’souza, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland, Iyad Rahwan
    Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 110 6281–6286 (2013)
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  • Limited communication capacity unveils strategies for human interaction.
    Giovanna Miritello, Ruben Lara, Manuel Cebrian, Esteban Moro
    Scientific Reports 3 1950 (2013)
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  • The predictability of consumer visitation patterns.
    Coco Krumme, Alejandro Llorente, Manuel Cebrian, Alex Sandy Pentland, Esteban Moro
    Scientific Reports 3 1645 (2013)
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  • Time as a limited resource - Communication strategy in mobile phone networks.
    Giovanna Miritello, Esteban Moro, Ruben Lara, Rocio Martinez-Lopez, John Belchamber, Sam G B Roberts, Robin I M Dunbar
    Social Networks 35 89–95 (2013)
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2012

  • Predicting Human Preferences Using the Block Structure of Complex Social Networks
    Roger Guimera, Alejandro Llorente, Esteban Moro, Marta Sales-Pardo
    PLoS ONE 7 e44620 (2012)
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  • Agent-specific impact of single trades in financial markets
    Alex J Bladon, Esteban Moro, Tobias Galla
    Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 85 036103 (2012)
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  • Social Features of Online Networks: The Strength of Intermediary Ties in Online Social Media
    Przemyslaw A Grabowicz, Jose J. Ramasco, Esteban Moro, Josep M Pujol, Victor M Eguiluz
    PLoS ONE 7 e29358 (2012)
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2011

  • Branching dynamics of viral information spreading
    Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
    Physical Review E 84 046116 (2011)
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  • Individual impact of agent actions in financial markets
    Alex J Bladon, Esteban Moro, Tobias Galla
    Preprint (2011)
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  • Affinity Paths and information diffusion in social networks
    Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
    Social Networks 33 134–142 (2011)
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  • Dynamical strength of social ties in information spreading
    Giovanna Miritello, Esteban Moro, Ruben Lara
    Physical Review E 83 045102 (2011)
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  • Twitter y pol': Informaci'on, opini'on y 'on?
    M L Congosto, M Fernandez, E Moro
    Cuadernos Evoca NA NA (2011)
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2009

  • Market impact and trading profile of hidden orders in stock markets.
    Esteban Moro, Javier Vicente, Luis G Moyano, Austin Gerig, J Doyne Farmer, Gabriella Vaglica, Fabrizio Lillo, Rosario N Mantegna
    Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 80 066102 (2009)
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  • Impact of human activity patterns on the dynamics of information diffusion.
    Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
    Physical Review Letters 103 038702 (2009)
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2008

  • Specialization and herding behavior of trading firms in a financial market
    Fabrizio Lillo, Esteban Moro, Gabriella Vaglica, Rosario N Mantegna
    New Journal of Physics 10 043019 (2008)
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  • Scaling laws of strategic behavior and size heterogeneity in agent dynamics.
    Gabriella Vaglica, Fabrizio Lillo, Esteban Moro, Rosario N Mantegna
    Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 77 036110 (2008)
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2007

  • Boundary preserving semianalytic numerical algorithms for stochastic differential equations
    Esteban Moro, Henri Schurz
    SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 29 1525–1549 (2007)
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  • Information diffusion epidemics in social networks
    Jose Luis Iribarren, Esteban Moro
    Preprint (2007)
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2006

  • Single tensionless transition in the Laplacian roughening model
    Juan Jesus Ruiz-Lorenzo, Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno
    Physical Review E 73 015103 (2006)
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2005

  • Spreading of viscous fluid drops on a solid substrate assisted by thermal fluctuations.
    Benny Davidovitch, Esteban Moro, Howard A Stone
    Physical Review Letters 95 244505 (2005)
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  • Non-negativity preserving numerical algorithms for stochastic differential equations
    Esteban Moro, Henri Schurz
    Preprint (2005)
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  • Phase transition in tensionless surfaces
    J J Ruiz-Lorenzo, R Cuerno, E Moro, A Sanchez
    In Biophysical Chemistry (2005)
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2004

  • Numerical schemes for continuum models of reaction-diffusion systems subject to internal noise
    Esteban Moro
    Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 70 045102 (2004)
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  • The minority game: an introductory guide
    Esteban Moro
    Advances in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics NA 263–286 (2004)
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  • Hybrid method for simulating front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems
    Esteban Moro
    Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics 69 4 (2004)
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2003

  • Emergence of pulled fronts in fermionic microscopic particle models.
    Esteban Moro
    Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 68 025102 (2003)
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  • Defect formation in the Swift-Hohenberg equation.
    Tobias Galla, Esteban Moro
    Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 67 035101 (2003)
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2002

  • Statistical physics of induced correlation in a simple market
    David Sherrington, Esteban Moro, Juan Pedro Garrahan
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 311 527–535 (2002)
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  • Microscopic model for thin film spreading.
    Douglas B Abraham, Rodolfo Cuerno, Esteban Moro
    Physical Review Letters 88 206101–2061014 (2002)
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  • Transition from ferromagnetism to superparamagnetism on the nanosecond time scale
    L Lopez-Diaz, L Torres, E Moro
    Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 65 1–10 (2002)
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2001

  • Dynamic renormalization group study of a generalized continuum model of crystalline surfaces
    Rodolfo Cuerno, Esteban Moro
    Physical Review E 65 016110 (2001)
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  • Internal fluctuations effects on Fisher waves.
    E Moro
    Physical Review Letters 87 238303–1–238303–4 (2001)
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  • Variational mean-field study of a continuum model of crystalline tensionless surfaces.
    E Moro, R Cuerno
    Physical review E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics 63 036104 (2001)
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  • Micromagnetics of thermally activated switching in nonuniformly magnetized nanodots
    L Torres, L Lopez-Diaz, E Moro, C De Francisco, O Alejos
    Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 226-230 1242–1244 (2001)
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  • Correlated adaptation of agents in a simple market: A statistical physics perspective
    J P Garrahan, E Moro, D Sherrington
    Quantitative Finance 1 246–253 (2001)
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2000

  • Statistical physics of adaptive correlation of agents in a market
    David Sherrington, Juan P Garrahan, Esteban Moro
    Preprint (2000)
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  • Roughening and super-roughening in the ordered and random two-dimensional sine-gordon models
    A Sanchez, AR Bishop, E Moro
    Physical Review E 62 3219–3229 (2000)
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  • Continuous time dynamics of the thermal minority game
    JP Garrahan, E Moro, D Sherrington
    Physical Review E 62 R9–R12 (2000)
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1999

  • Analytical results for a continuum model of crystalline tensionless surfaces. I. Variational mean field study
    Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno
    Preprint (1999)
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  • The effect of thermal activation on the coercivity of domain walls
    L Lopez-Diaz, E Della Torre, E Moro
    Journal of Applied Physics 85 4367–4369 (1999)
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  • Dynamics of defect formation
    Esteban Moro, Grant Lythe
    Physical Review E 59 R1303–R1306 (1999)
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  • Stochastic vortex dynamics in two-dimensional easy-plane ferromagnets: multiplicative versus additive noise
    Till Kamppeter, Esteban Moro, A R Bishop, F Mertens, Angel Sanchez
    Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 59 11349–11357 (1999)
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1998

  • Noise effects on synchronized globally coupled oscillators
    E Moro, A Sanchez
    Epl 44 409–415 (1998)
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  • Crystalline lattice effects on tensionless surface dynamics
    Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno, Angel Sanchez
    Microelectronic Engineering 43-44 497–505 (1998)
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1997

  • Growth Dynamics of Crystalline Tensionless Surfaces
    Esteban Moro, Rodolfo Cuerno, Angel Sanchez
    Physical Review Letters 78 4982–4985 (1997)
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1996

  • Does the quark cluster model predict a JP=0(-) isospin-2 dibaryon resonance?
    E Moro, A Valcarce, H Garcilazo, F Fernandez
    Physical review. C, Nuclear physics 54 2085–2087 (1996)
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Esteban Moro

Professor at Northeastern University. Working on Complex Systems, Social Networks and Urban Science.