Instructor: UBC Physics 102, Electricity, Light and Radiation. (95 students.)

Lab Instructor: UBC Physics 102, Electricity, Light and Radiation.

Teaching Assistant: UBC Physics 153, Elements of Physics.

Research Associate at the Department of Zoology, UBC
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Doebeli
Spatial population dynamics modeling. See (Doebeli et al. 2007), (Pineda-Krch et al. 2007), and (Killingback, Blok, and Doebeli 2006) below for details.

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Zoology, UBC
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Doebeli
Spatial population dynamics modeling.

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Danielson
Applied theoretical statistical physics tools to evolutionary game theory to demonstrate that culture can drive genetic evolution.

Research Fellow (Ph.D. work), Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, Crisis Points Group, UBC
Supervisor: Dr. Birger Bergersen
Developed multi-agent econophysics model which showed that financial markets may self-organize near a critical phase transition. See (Blok 2000) below for details.

M.Sc. and Ph.D. student at the Department of Physics, UBC
Supervisor: Dr. Birger Bergersen
Explored claims of self-organized criticality in two-dimensional cellular automata. See (Blok and Bergersen 1999) and (Blok and Bergersen 1997) below for details.

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Degree granted: Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
Supervisor: Dr. Birger Bergersen
Thesis: On the nature of the stock market: Simulations and experiments. See [(Blok00b)] (below) for details.

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Degree granted: Master of Science in Physics
Supervisor: Dr. Birger Bergersen
Thesis: Life without bounds: Does the Game of Life exhibit Self-Organized Criticality in the thermodynamic limit? See [(Blok95b)] (below) for details.

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Degree granted: Bachelor of Science, Physics Honours

Okanagan College, Kelowna, BC, Canada
Degree sought: Bachelor of Science, Physics Majors

Mean-field theory, 1993 – present.

Master equation, Fokker-Planck approximation, 1999 – present.

Game theory (Nash equilibria, utility, second-order preferences), 1999 – present.

Second-order critical phase transitions (scale-invariance, universality), 1993 – 2007.

Occupation number representation (second quantization), 2001.

Self-organized criticality, 1993 – 2000.

Bayesian probability theory, 1998 – 2000.

First-order phase transitions (nucleation, intermittency), 1999 – 2000.

Renormalization group (nonequilibrium/dynamically driven), 2000.

Characterization of critical phase transitions, determination of scaling exponents, 1995 – present.

Finite-size scaling, 1995 – 2000.

Fractional Brownian motion, Hurst exponent, autocorrelation, 1999 – 2000.

Levy flight, synthesis and characterization, 1999 – 2000.

Cellular automata, 1993 – present.

Agent- or individual-based simulations, 1996 – present.

Evolutionary game theory (replicator dynamics), 1999 – present.

Types of updating schema (eg. parallel, sequential, Poisson), 1998 – 2001.

Types of interaction networks (eg. mean-field, lattice, small-worlds), 2000 – 2001.

Boundary conditions in spatial models, 1995 – 1997.

Simulations, data analysis and visualization, 1992 – present.

Developed add-in to easily export charts to graphic format files (1999).

Simulations, data analysis and utilities, 1993 – present.

Borland C++Builder (MS-Windows), 1997 – 2007.

Constructed general purpose modeling tool for MS-Windows ( R2DToo), 2001.

Gnu C++ (Unix), 1993 – 1997.

Data analysis and visualization, 1995 – present.

Document preparation, 1998 – present.

Simulations and visualization, 2003 – present.

Simulations, data analysis and visualization, 2004 – present.

Theory and analysis, 2007 – present.

Theory and analysis, 1997 – 2007.

Data analysis, 1998 – 2004.

Also some experience with JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, and BASIC.