Mar 12, 2019

Bio: Leonard J. Schulman received the B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1988 and the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1992, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2000 he has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. He has also held appointments at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, UC Berkeley, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2003 to 2017 he directed the Caltech Center for the Mathematics of Information, and from 2013 through 2018 he served two terms as Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Computing. His research is in several overlapping areas: algorithms and communication protocols; combinatorics and probability; coding and information theory; quantum computation. Honors include: MIT Bucsela Prize ('88), NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship ('92), NSF CAREER ('99), IEEE Schelkunoff Prize ('04), ACM Notable Paper ('12), UAI Best Paper Award ('16).

Location and time: Room 108, 170 Hope Street at 11:00 a.m.