I am an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. My research centers on problems in theoretical biology and physics.
I work on a variety of problems in biological and social systems, computation and cognition, and am supported in part by the National Science Foundation under an Emerging Frontiers grant.
The most recent papers from this work are Evidence of Strategic Periodicities in Collective Conflict Dynamics (J. Roy. Soc. Interface), Effective Theories of Circuits and Automata (Chaos), and Dynamics and Processing in Finite Self-Similar Networks (J. Roy. Soc. Interface.)
Overview for scientists and for the general public.
I have a number of illustrious colleagues!
Notes useful to students at the Complex Systems Summer School are online. You also may be interested in the blue sky seminar series, a.k.a. reckless ideas. Work on humanistic topics has its own section.
Finally, my curriculum vitæ is available.
"But the placing of the cap-sheaf to all this blundering business was reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous Baron. In 1836, he published a Natural History of Whales, in which he gives what he calls a picture of the Sperm Whale. Before showing that picture to any Nantucketer, you had best provide for your summary retreat from Nantucket. In a word, Frederick Cuvier's Sperm Whale is not a Sperm Whale, but a squash. Of course, he never had the benefit of a whaling voyage (such men seldom have), but whence he derived that picture, who can tell?"
Moby Dick, Chapter LV, "Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales"