Quantum Chaotic Thoughts

My name is Mason Porter. I am a Professor in Nordita (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) and am Professor in Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University. Previously, I was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Before that, I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College. I am still a Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College.

2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Applications of Statistical Physics to Machine Learning!

2021 Abel Prize: László Lovász and Avi Wigderson

Tales from the ArXiv: Was the AI Eaten by a Grue?

A Paper that Rejects Itself

Print and Play Cards: Women in Science

A Big Pile of ... Linear Algebra

Conway's Game of Life In Real Life (on an Ocellated Lizard)

Graph Alignment: A Major Open Problem

A Movie About Ada Lovelace

Pokémon Go and the Traveling Salesperson Problem

"Curry's Paradoxical Combinator": A 3rd Level Computer Scientist Spell

Tales from the ArXiv: "Other Naive Models"

Theorem: There Exist Arbitrarily Long Songs of Complexity O(1)

A New Quasipolynomial Time Algorithm for Graph Isomorphisms

RIP UGCS (1989–2016)

Recap of Somerville College's Ada Lovelace Bicentenary

"Women in Computing" Playing Cards

Computer Scientists Versus Computer Engineers

Tales from the ArXiv: "Finding a Mate With No Social Skills"

Excursion to Bletchley Park: 2015 Edition