Wednesday, November 27, 2024

What Happens in San Juan Capistrano Stays in San Juan Capistrano (2024 Edition)

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I am in San Juan Capistrano gaming and hanging out with friends for the long weekend.
Thursday, November 21, 2024

2024 Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards

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Major League Baseball has announced the winners of the 2024 Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards . See this page for the complete distribution...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

2024 Cy Young Awards

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Baseball's 2024 Cy Young awards were announced today. Chris Sale of the Atlanta Braves won in the National League, and Tarik Skubal was...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

2024 Baseball Managers of the Year

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The 2024 Managers of the Year in Major League Baseball are Stephen Vogt of the Cleveland Guardians and Pat Murphy of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Monday, November 18, 2024

2024 Baseball Rookies of the Year

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The 2024 Rookies of the Year were announced today. Paul Skenes of the Pirates was the winner of an exceptionally strong rookie class (beati...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Various Major League Baseball Awards

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Various Major League Baseball awards were announced today. These awards include the Comeback Players of the Year — which were Garrett Croch...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

2024 Silver Slugger Awards

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Major League Baseball has announced its 2024 Silver Slugger Awards . You'll noticed a few Dodgers among the awardees. :)
Friday, November 08, 2024

"Oscillatory Networks: Insights from Piecewise-Linear Modeling"

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Another of my papers just appeared in final form. Here are some details. Title: Oscillatory Networks: Insights from Piecewise-Linear Mode...
Sunday, November 03, 2024

2024 Gold-Glove Winners

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Major League Baseball has announced its 2024 Gold-Glove winners .
Saturday, November 02, 2024

What Happens in Seoul Stays in Seoul (2024 Edition)

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I am off to Seoul to speak in a workshop on Theoretical Challenges in Network Science ! I really enjoy visiting Seoul, and I am very happy t...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Dodgers Win the 2024 World Series!!!!

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The Dodgers have won the 2024 World Series ! Today was the 5th game of the series. The 5-run deficit that the Dodgers overcame is the larg...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

"Using Mathematics to Study how People Influence Each Other’s Opinions"

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Our article for teenagers and preteens about mathematical modeling of opinion dynamics has just been published in final form . Here are some...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

RIP Fernando Valenzuela (1960–2024)

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Dodger great Fernando Valenzuela died today . I knew that he was really sick and he seemed to be in trouble, but of course I was hoping that...
Monday, October 21, 2024

What Happens in Atlanta Stays in Atlanta (2024 Edition)

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I am heading to Atlanta for the first time since DragonCon 2013. I will be attending the 2024 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

The Dodgers are Going to the World Series!!!

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The Dodgers beat the Mets in the 6th game of the National League Championship Series (NLCS), and we're now off to the World Series to f...
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Friday, October 11, 2024

Dodgers Advance to the National League Championship Series!

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After being on the brink of elimination, the Dodgers beat the Padres 2–0 to advance to the National League Championship Series!!!! We were ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2024

What Happens in Boston Stays in Boston

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I'm on my way to Boston for the workshop to celebrate David Campbell's 80th birthday! It will surely be chaotic. :)
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

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

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to physicist John Hopfield and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton . The official prize c...
Friday, September 20, 2024

"Adapting InfoMap to Absorbing Random Walks Using Absorption-Scaled Graphs"

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One of my papers just came out in final published form . Here are some details. Title: Adapting InfoMap to Absorbing Random Walks Using A...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Shohei Ohtani Joins the 50/50 Club (and Has One of the Best Single-Game Performances in Baseball History)

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Shoehei Ohtani makes a habit of doing things that none of us have ever seen before. During today's game , he became the inaugural memb...