Louis H Kauffman
University of Illinois, USA
Biography
Louis H Kauffman received a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT in 1966 and a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1972. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1971 and has been a Full Professor since 1984. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications and the editor of the World Scientific Book Series on Knots and Everything. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2014. He is past president of the American Society for Cybernetics and the recipeint of the Warren McCullocy Award (1993) and the Norbert Wiener Gold Medal (2014) of that Society. He is the 2015 recipient of the Bertalanffy Medal for Significant Contributions to Complexity Thinking. Kauffman is the author of numerous books on knots and their applications. His resarch is primarily focused on the structure and discovery of topological invariants of knots and links.
Abstract
Abstract : Braiding of majorana fermions and topological quantum computation