JACOB GATES FOSTER CURRICULUM VITAE

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1 Address: Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Calgary, SB 605 Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 JACOB GATES FOSTER CURRICULUM VITAE Website: Phone: (CAN), (USA) Birthdate: 13 Oct 1980, Charlestown, WV (USA) Education: PhD Candidate in Physics at University of Calgary, 2006-present Thesis Title: Network Analysis and Virtual Worlds: Steps to a High-throughput Social Science, supervised by Profs. Maya Paczuski and Peter Grassberger Expected Completion: June 2010 DPhil Candidate in Mathematics at University of Oxford, Thesis Title: Conformal Invariance, Renormalization, and the Eternal Universe, supervised by Professor Sir Roger Penrose B.S. with distinction, magna cum laude, Physics, Duke University, 2003 Honors Thesis: Physics with Two Time Dimensions, supervised by Prof. Berndt Mueller Research Interests: Social theory; high-throughput social science; complex networks; applications of complex systems theory to the social sciences and humanities; evolutionary dynamics; game theory; narratives and memes; algebraic structures in complex systems; transdisciplinarity Publications: Foster, J.G., Foster, D.V., Grassberger, P., & Paczuski, M. Link and subgraph likelihoods in random undirected networks with fixed and partially fixed degree sequences. Phys. Rev. E. 76, (2007)

2 Foster, J.G., Grassberger, P., & Paczuski, M. Reinforced walks in two and three dimensions. New J. Phys. 11, (2009). Foster, D.V., Foster, J.G., Huang, S., & Kauffman, S.A. A model of sequential branching in hierarchical cell fate determination. J. Theor. Biol.260, (2009). Foster, J.G., & Slayton, M. Deception, tells, and the evolution of combinatorial communication (abstract accepted to Evolang8) Foster, J.G., Foster, D.V., Grassberger, P., & Paczuski, M. Edge direction and the structure of networks. (submitted PNAS; online at: Foster, D.V., Foster, J.G., Paczuski, M., & Grassberger, P. Clustering phase transitions and hysteresis: pitfalls in constructing network ensembles (submitted). Foster, D.V., Foster, J.G., Grassberger, P., & Paczuski, M. Clustering, assortativity, and modularity in ensembles of complex networks (in prep). Foster, J.G., Shreim, A., Davidson, C., Surette, M., & Paczuski, M. Modeling adaptive radiation in Pseudomonads (in prep). Talks: The Meme Factor, InnoLab Seminar, University of Calgary, April Complex Equality & Complex Systems, invited class, University of Alberta, March What is the future of economics?, Complexity Seminar, U of Calgary, March On Unification in the Behavioral Sciences, InnoLab Seminar, U. of Calgary, Sept Taking the Avatar Approximation: The Promise and Peril of High-throughput Social Science in Virtual Worlds, contributed talk, Challenges and Visions in the Social Sciences, ETH Zurich, August Dynamic Landscapes: A Model of Context and Contingency in Evolution, Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, June Torture, Terror, and the Undead, contributed talk, Graduate Sociology Conference, University of Calgary, March Simulation, Reality, and the Social: a Virtual Provocation. invited talk, Computational Philosophies, Niels Bohr Institute, October Modeling Adaptive Radiation in Pseudomonads (with A. Shreim), contributed talk, Fields Institute Workshop The Mathematics of Evolution, University of Ottawa, May 2007.

3 Scholarships and Fellowships: 2008: icore Scholarship (5 years, transferred from Alberta Ingenuity Scholarship in 2007) 2007, 2008: Graduate Research Scholarship, University of Calgary 2006: Dean s Entrance and Graduate Recruitment Scholarships, University of Calgary 2003: Fellowship to attend Vienna International Summer University 2003: Rhodes Scholar (2-3 years of study at Oxford University; elected from Virginia) 2002: Faculty Scholar, Duke University (2-3 awarded per annum for academic promise) 2002: Dean s Summer Fellowship, Duke University 1999: Angier B. Duke Scholar, Duke University (full-tuition, 4 year merit scholarship) Awards: 2005: International Academy of Achievement 2003: Spot Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Group P : Barbara Hernnstein-Smith Award for Outstanding Work in Literary Theory or Criticism, Duke University 2002: Phi Beta Kappa 2002: Sigma Pi Sigma (physics honor society) 1998: Recognized by Educational Testing Service and by resolution of Virginia General Assembly for achieving the most 5 s on Advanced Placement exams of any junior in the world Employment and Teaching History: 2006-present: Graduate Research Assistant, University of Calgary : Tutor, Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford, Balliol College : Teaching Assistant, Further Quantum Theory, Quantum Field Theory, University of Oxford, Mathematics Institute Summer 2003: Researcher, Quantum Cryptography Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory Summer 2000, 2002: Teaching Assistant, Math/Chem, Woodberry Forest School : Undergraduate Researcher, Quantum Optics Group, Duke University Physics Department

4 Summer Schools Attended: Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute, 2008 String Theory Summer School, Perimeter Institute, 2005 Vienna International Summer University on Cosmological and Biological Evolution, 2003 Academic Service: : President, Physics Graduate Liaison Committee, University of Calgary 2008: Graduate Student Representative, Visioning Retreat, Department of Physics & Astro., University of Calgary 2007: Interdepartmental working group on The Physics of Life, University of Calgary : Physics Graduate Liaison Committee, University of Calgary : Colloquium committee, Department of Physics & Astro., University of Calgary : Research, supervision of final editing for Prof. Sir Roger Penrose s The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, (Random House), Communication skills: Completed course in January 2005 on public communication of science, University of Oxford, Departments of Neuroscience, Zoology, Mathematics Writer for Oxonian Review of Books, -- Everybody Loves Einstein, a review of Einstein s Miraculous Year, ed. John Stachel -- Brave Old World, a review of World as Laboratory by Rebecca Lemov -- Warming Up to Al Gore, a review of An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore -- Love Among the Ruins, a review of In the Shadow of the Bomb by S.S. Schweber Writer for The American, The Man Who Made Our World, a review of Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Current Collaborators: Analysis and statistical mechanics of complex networks --David Foster (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary) --Peter Grassberger (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary)

5 --Maya Paczuski (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary) Comparative economics through virtual worlds --David Foster (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary) --Richard Hawkins (Dept. of Communications & Culture, University of Calgary) --Maya Paczuski (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary) Complex systems and social theory --Art Frank (Dept. of Sociology, University of Calgary) Deception, multichannel signaling, and language evolution --Matthew Slayton (visiting student, Duke University) Modeling adaptive radiation --Carla Davidson (Dept. of Biology, University of Calgary) --Maya Paczuski (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary) --Amer Shreim (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary) --Mike Surette (Dept. of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary) References: Maya Paczuski (co-supervisor) Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary Peter Grassberger (co-supervisor) Visiting Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary Arthur W. Frank Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary Social Sciences 956

6 Richard Hawkins Professor, Department of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary Michael G. Surette Professor, Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary 268 Heritage Medical Research Building 3330 Hospital Drive NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada Carl T. Bergstrom Professor, Department of Biology University of Washington Box Seattle, WA