Swarthmore College Department of Computer Science

Pizza Lunch with Aaron Clauset, Santa Fe Institute

Monday, February 25, 2008
12:30-1:30 pm in the CS lab (240)

Students: please RSVP to Bridget before Sunday night if you plan to attend, so we can get enough pizza.

Aaron comes to Swarthmore on behalf of U. New Mexico's CS department, and will give an informal presentation over lunch about the department and the opportunities there for graduate study. The discussion may also cover topics such as graduate school in computer science in general, computational work in industry, and being successful in academic research.

Aaron Clauset received his BS in Physics and CS from Haverford in 2001, and his PhD in CS from the University of New Mexico in 2006. He now primarily works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, where he both studies social, communication and biological networks, terrorism, and macroevolution, and develops algorithms for the statistical analysis of complex systems. Outside academia, Aaron has worked in / consulted for the pharmaceutical, finance and advertising industries, mainly developing computational methods for behavior prediction.

The Santa Fe Institute is a private research institute dedicated to cross-disciplinary science, and is known widely for its pioneering work on self-organization, scaling laws in biology and social systems, the evolution of language, and the physics of complex systems.