Rene Batac

Administrative Positions

Instructor VII
National Institute of Physics
University of the Philippines Diliman

Courses handled

Lectures

• Physics 71 (Elementary Physics I) - Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics
• Physics 72 (Elementary Physics II) - Electromagnetism, Optics
• Physics 10 Special Topics - Complex Systems

Laboratories

• Physics 71.1 (Elementary Physics I Laboratory) - Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics
• Physics 72.1 (Elementary Physics II Laboratory) - Electromagnetism, Optics
• Physics 101.1 (Fundamental Physics I Laboratory for Physics majors) - Newtonian Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics
• Physics 102.1 (Fundamental Physics II Laboratory for Physics majors) - Electricity, Magnetism

Publications

In International Refereed Journals

I. Crisologo, R. Batac, A. Longjas, E.F. Legara, and C. Monterola, Visual and auditory cues significantly reduce human's intrinsic biases when tasked to generate a random number sequence, International Journal of Modern Physics C 21 (5), 567-581 (2010).

C. Monterola, I. Crisologo, J. Tugaff, R. Batac, and A. Longjas, Surface morphology of chalkboard tips captures the uniqueness of the user's hand strokes, International Journal of Modern Physics C 21 (4), 535-548 (2010).

M. Arciaga, M. Pastor, R. Batac, J. Bantang, and C. Monterola, Experimental observation and an empirical model of enhanced heap stability resulting from the mixing of granular materials, Journal of Statistical Mechanics - Theory and Experiment P07040, doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2009/07/P07040 (2009).

R.C. Batac, M.G. Pastor, M.E. Arciaga, J.Y. Bantang, and C.P. Monterola, Kinks, logarithmic tails, and super-stability in bi-disperse granular media, Physica A 388, pp. 3072-3082, doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.04.001 (2009).

E.F.T. Legara, A.G. Longjas, and R.C. Batac, Competition in a social structure, International Journal of Modern Physics C 20 (1), 1-7 (2009).

D.E. Juanico, A.G. Longjas, R.C. Batac and C.P. Monterola, Avalanche Statistics of Driven Granular Slides in a Miniature Mound, Geophysical Research Letters 35, L19403 (2008).



In national refereed journals/proceedings

A.Paguirigan, R.Batac, C.Monterola, “Emergence of small-avalanche rollover regimes by increased neighborhood interaction in a sandpile model,” Proceedings of the 28th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2010).

A.Longjas, I.Crisologo, R.Batac, E.Legara C.Monterola, “Simultaneous Visual And Auditory Cues Enhance Human Random Number Generation,” Proceedings of the 28th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2010).

R.Batac, A.Longjas, C.Monterola, “Loss of self-organized criticality in a cascaded sandpile,” Proceedings of the 28th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2010).

R.C. Batac, A.G. Longjas and C.P. Monterola, “Size and waiting time statistics of multiple sandpile cascades,” Proceedings of the 27th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2009).

A. Paguirigan, R.C. Batac and C.P. Monterola, “Time evolution of a landslide system with time-varying drying rates,” Proceedings of the 27th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2009).

A. Paguirigan, R.C. Batac and C.P. Monterola, “Effects of water on the stability of the sandpile model: Interplay between stabilization and saturation,” Proceedings of the 27th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2009).

I.A. Crisologo, R.C. Batac, A.G. Longjas, E.F.T. Legara and C.P. Monterola, “Waiting time statistics reveal natural period of humans in random number generation tasks,” Proceedings of the 27th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2009).

R.C. Batac, M.G. Pastor and C.P. Monterola, "Kinks and logarithmic tails as stability markers in binary granular piles," Proceedings of the 26th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2008).

R.C. Batac, A.G. Longjas, G.A.P. Esleta and C.P. Monterola, "Cascading dynamics recovers actual landslide scaling exponent," Proceedings of the 26th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2008).

A.G. Longjas, R.C. Batac, D.E.O. Juanico and C.P. Monterola, "Observation of Self Organized Criticality in a miniature granular mound," Proceedings of the 26th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2008).

J.P. Tugaff, I.A. Crisologo, A.G. Longjas, R.C. Batac and C.P. Monterola, "Chalk Print? Feasibility of predicting the lecturer based on his/her chalk leftovers," Proceedings of the 26th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2008).

E.F.T. Legara, A.G. Longjas, and R.C. Batac, "Competition in a social structure," Proceedings of the 26th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2008).

R.C. Batac, M.G. Pastor, M.E. Arciaga and C.P. Monterola, "Cellular automata model of repose angle formation of a binary granular mixture," Proceedings of the 25th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2007).

A.G. Longjas, R.C. Batac, and C.P. Monterola, "Experimental verification of a dissipative self-organized critical sandpile," Proceedings of the 25th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2007).

M.E. Arciaga, M.G. Pastor, R.C. Batac, J.Y. Bantang and C.P. Monterola. Continuum model for the critical angle of bidisperse granular mixtures. PISIKA 1, 33-35 (2007).

R.C. Batac and J.Y. Bantang, "Characterizing elementary cellular automata rule 30 under single-cell overlap and information transfer," Proceedings of the Symposium on the Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science (SMACS) (2005).

R.C. Batac and J.Y. Bantang, "Characterizing Cellular Automata Rules Using Quantitative Lattice Properties," Proceedings of the 23rd Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2005).

R.C. Batac, J.Y. Bantang, C.A. Saloma, "Cellular Automata Model of n-Slit Light Diffraction," Proceedings of the 22nd Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Congress (2004).

Awards and Recognitions

International Publication Award (6)
Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs

DOST-PCASTRD Thesis Grant, 2008

NRCP Best Scientific Poster, 2009
Given during the NRCP General Assembly,
Polakabal-Rigodon Hall, Manila Hotel

See Also

Personal website: http://sites.google.com/site/renebatac [1]
Teaching blog: http://physicsrcbatac.blogspot.com [2]
Blog in Filipino: http://rcbatac.blogspot.com [3]