About the Authors
Stephan Mertens
Professor
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
External Professor
Santa Fe Institute
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Professor
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
External Professor
Santa Fe Institute
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www.ovgu.de/mertens
Stephan Mertens received his
Ph.D. in Physics from Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany in
1991. His Ph.D. advisor was
Annette
Zippelius, and his thesis was on the theory of neural
networks, which back then was very fashionable. His current research
focuses on phase transitions in computational problems, algorithms for
hard problems in statistical physics, and parallel computing. With
Cristopher Moore he is the author of
The Nature of
Computation.
Cristopher Moore
received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1991. His
Ph.D. advisor was
Philip Holmes,
and his thesis was on undecidable
problems in dynamical systems. Two out of three members of
his thesis
committee agreed that it warranted a degree in Physics. He now works at
the boundary of computer science and physics,
on topics including
quantum computation, phase transitions, and social networks. With Stephan
Mertens he is the author of
The Nature of
Computation.