Michael Jerome Hopkins is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1984 under the direction of Mark Mahowald. In 1984 he also received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Ioan James. He has been professor of mathematics at Harvard University…
Leon Glass is Professor and the Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology at McGill University. Leon Glass is an American scientist who has studied various aspects of the application of mathematical and physical methods to biology, with special interest in vision, cardiac arrhythmia, and genetic networks. He was born in Brooklyn, NY where he attended Erasmus Hall…
Robbert Dijkgraaf is the Director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a mathematical physicist who has made significant contributions to string theory and the advancement of science education. His research focuses on the interface between mathematics and particle physics. In addition to finding surprising and deep connections…
Ivan Zachary Corwin is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University. His research concerns probability, mathematical physics, quantum integrable systems, stochastic PDEs, and random matrix theory. He is particularly known for work related to the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation. Corwin was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. He graduated from Harvard University in 2006 receiving an A.B. in…
Aaron Clauset is an American computer scientist who works in the areas of Network Science, Machine Learning, and Complex Systems. He is currently a professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and is external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Clauset completed his undergraduate studies in Physics and Computer Science at Haverford College…
Tim Maudlin is a philosopher of science and a Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received his B.A. in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. His interests are focused in the foundations of physics, metaphysics, and…
Pedro G. Ferreira is a professor in astrophysics at the University of Oxford and Fellow Oriel College. Ferreira’s field of expertise is theoretical cosmology and astrophysics. He works on the origin of large scale structure in the universe, on the general theory of relativity and on the nature of dark matter and dark energy. His…
Max Tegmark is Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a BS in Physics and a BA in Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He also earned a MA and PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley. Tegmark later returned to Europe and accepted an appointment as a…
Giulio Tononi is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Tononi and collaborators have pioneered several complementary approaches to study sleep. These include genomics, proteomics, fruit fly models, rodent models employing multiunit /…
Frank Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at the University of Chicago, a Master of Arts in Mathematics at Princeton University, and a PhD in Physics at…
Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He received a BS in physics from City College of New York and a PhD from Cornell University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of…
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions…