Founder of Science & Cocktails, Jácome (Jay) Armas (Jácome (Jay) Armas), received the Genius Prize for Science Communication in 2014 and the Outreach Prize from the European Physical Society in 2023. 🎉 #AwardWinning #ScienceCommunication #Inspiration #anniversary

Emergentie op alle schalen: beste-id.nl/nieuws/emergen… Jácome (Jay) Armas UvA Amsterdam

🔭DIEP receives a €7.1M grant! 🌟The consortium 'Emergence at all Scales ' led by Jay Armas (Jácome (Jay) Armas) has gotten a NWO ORC grant to investigate emergence – the process where complex phenomena arise out of simple building blocks. More info here: iop.uva.nl/content/news/2…

Happy to share that I got a 7.1 M euro grant from the Dutch Ministry of Science for research on emergence of space, time, the universe, quantum gravity, black holes, quantum matter, living matter, dark matter, and even some social dynamics, and large scale science festivals.

Founded by Jácome (Jay) Armas (Jácome (Jay) Armas) in 2010, Science & Cocktails began in Copenhagen and has grown into a global initiative blending science with entertainment, accompanied by delicious dry-ice cocktails! See you for a smart night out! 💚scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/cope… #science

Last Tuesday I finally had the pleasure to give my inaugural lecture as Affiliate Associate Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute on Hydrodynamics and Collective Behaviour across scales. Happy to finally be officially part of NBI!

Finally published in Journal of Physics: Complexity. Trying to figure out what is the utility function underlying cooperative dynamics in living and social systems: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Last week, I gave the Institute Lorentz seminar in Leiden on a new approach to hydrodynamics of active matter that turns parts Schrodinger's book "What is Life?" into equations.

Next week I am organising a Science and Cocktails event and a Niels Bohr Lecture with Cumrun Vafa on string theory and puzzles about our universe! Looking forward! scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/cope… nbi.ku.dk/moed-os/niels_…

Tonight at Science and Cocktails: an original music/video performance and a video installation that I help create with the music collective Den Sorte Skole and visual artist Signe Emma and inspired on string theory! Hopefully it will tour around one day.

In a few hours I'll be introducing the project Emergence At All Scales at the InScience Festival in Nijmegen: insciencefestival.nl/en/invision-20…

Together with physicists and social psychologists we modeled involvement in opinion dynamics. The result is counter-intuitive but seems to fit the world: if you increase the connectivity between people you increase the divide between them! arxiv.org/abs/2503.24098

This week appeared on arXiv the work I did with my PhD student on trying to understand theories of spin hydrodynamics from holography. We ended up realising that the chiral anomaly in field theory in 4d can be understood as a gravitational anomaly in 10d: arxiv.org/abs/2505.01843

Some weeks ago I gave a talk about my book Conversations on Quantum Gravity during the History and Philosophy of Physics meeting in the Netherlands. Really fun to speak with historians and philosophers of physics! Very interesting to hear about the notion of effective realism.

Two weeks ago I gave a talk on driven open systems at the Simons Center in Stony Brook in New York. Pretty cool. scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/43162

Here is the recording of my talk a week ago in New York: scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/v…

Fresh on the arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.20602. We used our novel theory of collective phenomena for living systems to understand the temperature profile of an active nematic material which exhibits special features due the underlying agents having their own internal fuel sources.