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.

Tales from the ArXiv: Mathematics Paper or Science-Fiction Novel?

UCLA's New Undergraduate Major in "Data Theory"

But Are These Data Cookies Reproducible?

Tales from the ArXiv: The Power Law OF DEATH

Will the Authors of this Paper Look Back in Anger?

A Cartoon Depiction of Deep Learning Versus Traditional Machine Learning

The Pulse of Manhattan

"Interval Signatures of Celebrities and Researchers on Twitter"

Proposal: Use Computational Topology to Study Aversion to Pictures of Holes

Visualizations of Music

Happiness is Not Communicating :)

"A Roadmap for the Computation of Persistent Homology"

Math Profs are the Least Boring (And Other Observations from Data Analysis)

What Happens in London Stays in London

How Do People from Different Cultures Draw Circles?

Data Analysis of Gender in Film Dialog

"Quasi-Centralized Limit Order Books"

Lyrical Repetition in Pop Music

My Slides on Data Ethics for Mathematicians (and Others)

A UCLA Math Undergrad's Data-Analysis Blog