Recent talks and courses
Fitting of power-law distributions
Temporal scale invariance and extreme events
Language and music: power laws, Zipf's law, scaling laws, Heaps' law, and even complex networks
Four laws of statistical seismology in fracture experiments
Branching processes, self-organization, and the statistics of natural hazards
Short course on power laws, branching processes and self-organization
In the media
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/26/is-pop-music-evolving-or-is-it-just-getting-louder/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/07/science-music
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2179432/All-songs-DO-sound-Modern-pop-louder-uses-chords-classic-albums-Fifties-Sixties.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/us-science-music-idUSBRE86P0R820120726
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57480692-71/the-songs-remain-the-same-but-louder-say-scientists/
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/science/article3488229.ece
Natural hazards: earthquakes, hurricanes, rain, forest fires, avalanches
Complex systems, self-organized criticality, scaling, extreme events
Statistics of texts and music: Zipf's law, Heaps' law, and beyond
Fitting of power-law distributions
Some recent papers
New paper on finite-size scaling of word-frequency distributions (Phys. Rev. E 2017)
New paper on the non-power-law tail of earthquake size (Sci. Rep. 2017, with SI)
Paper on the statistics of avalanches in compression experiments (Phys. Rev. E 2016)
Paper on finite-size scaling in the geometric Galton-Watson process (Phys. Rev. E 2016)
Paper on similarity-based time series motifs (Expert Systems with Applications 2016)
Paper to test universality of critical exponents (Phys. Rev. E 2016)
Paper on the evolution of music
Representative papers
Statistical similarity between the compression of a porous material and earthquakes,
J. Baró, A. Corral, X. Illa, A. Planes, E. K. H. Salje, W. Schranz, D. E. Soto-Parra and E. Vives,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 088702 (2013).
Scaling of Tropical-Cyclone Dissipation,
A. Corral, A. Ossó, and J. E. Llebot, Nature Phys. 6, 693-696 (2010).
(with SI)
Long-term clustering, scaling, and universality in the temporal occurrence of earthquakes,
Alvaro Corral, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 108501 (2004).
Local distributions and rate fluctuations in a unified scaling law for earthquakes,
Alvaro Corral, Phys. Rev. E 68, 035102(R) (2003).
Tracer Dispersion in a Self-Organized Critical System,
Kim Christensen, Alvaro Corral, Vidar Frette, Jens Feder, and Torstein Jøssang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 107-110 (1996). (pdf)
Self-Organized Criticality and Synchronization in a Lattice Model of Integrate-and-Fire Oscillators,
Alvaro Corral, Conrad J. Perez, Albert Diaz-Guilera, and Alex Arenas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 118-121 (1995). (pdf)
Outreach papers
La ciencia dels sistemes complexos al Centre de Recerca Matematica,
A. Corral, A. Roxin, and T. Alarcón, Noticies de la Societat Catalana de Matematiques 41, 50-57 (2017).
Las leyes matematicas emergentes en el uso del lenguaje,
A. Corral, I. Moreno-Sanchez, F. Font-Clos, Investigacion y Ciencia 478, 16-17 (2016).
La cerca i la recerca de la complexitat a Catalunya: complexitat.cat,
A. Corral, A. Diaz-Guilera, Revista de Fisica 5(2), 4-10 (2016).
Desastres naturals, multifractals i xarxes climatiques: tres exemples de complexitat a geociencia,
A. Corral, C. Masoller, A. Turiel, Revista de Fisica 5(2), 11-16 (2016).
Processos de ramificació, criticitat i autoorganització: aplicació als desastres naturals,
A. Corral and F. Font-Clos, Butlletí de la Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques 29 (1), 5-49 (2014).
Leyes de escala, universalidad y renormalización en la ocurrencia de los terremotos en espacio, tiempo y tamaño,
Alvaro Corral, Revista Iberoamericana de Fisica 3(1), 55-61 (2007). (pdf, in Spanish)
Física Estadística dels Fenòmens Catastròfics,
Alvaro Corral, La Física de Cada Día, edited by David Jou i Josep Enric Llebot,
Fundació Caixa Sabadell, p. 45-67 (2007). ISBN: 978-84-95166-68-5. (in Catalan)
Popular article in Epoca about Hurricanes (in Spanish)