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.

"Nanoptera in Weakly Nonlinear Woodpile Chains and Diatomic Granular Chains"

2021 Baseball Comeback Players of the Year

2021 Baseball Most Valuable Player Awards

2021 Cy Young Awards

2021 Baseball Managers of the Year

2021 Baseball Rookies of the Year

Some More Trips

Major League Relievers of the Year

"Pull Out All the Stops: Textual Analysis via Punctuation Sequences"

"Detection of Functional Communities in Networks of Randomly Coupled Oscillators Using the Dynamic-Mode Decomposition"

Dodgers Advance to the National League Championship Series!

Dodgers Win Wild Card Elimination Game on a Walk-Off Homerun!

Some Baseball Musings on the Last Day of the 2021 Regular Season

"Math Prof" (a parody of “Dentist” from Little Shop of Horrors)

2021 Ig Nobel Prizes!

What Happens in Boulder Stays in Boulder

"Social Network Analysis for Social Neuroscientists"

Dodgers Acquire Max Scherzer and Trea Turner!

XKCD and Flawed Data

My Current Mathematics Genealogy