Albert-László Barabási
Albert-László Barabási [ ˈɒlbɛrt ˈlaːsloː ˈbɒrɒbaːʃi ] (born March 30, 1967 in Cârța , Romania ) is a Hungarian professor of physics at Northeastern University in Boston. He is best known for his work in the field of scale-free networks .
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Life
Born in Székely, he studied physics and engineering in Romania and Hungary before moving to the USA and receiving his doctorate from Boston University in 1994 . After a year as a post doc at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center , Barabasi moved to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend , Indiana , where he was appointed professor in 2000. From 2005 to 2006 he was visiting professor at Harvard University and moved to Northeastern University in 2007.
Barabási's most important contribution is the introduction of the theory of scale-free networks within the framework of network research , which he has been promoting in collaboration with researchers from the fields of physics, mathematics and computer science since the early 1990s. In the context of this work he examines, among other things, the complex structures of social networks (including the epidemiological investigation of AIDS , but also the function of terror networks), the World Wide Web and biological cells . Reference should be made in particular his theory of the preferred binding ( preferential attachment ) new nodes (known to already well-connected participants hubs ) in a network. The algorithm developed with Réka Albert is described in the Barabási-Albert model .
In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
Fonts
- The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success , Little, Brown and Company , 2018, ISBN 978-0-316-50549-9
- Network Science , Cambridge University Press , 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-07626-6
- Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do , April 29, 2010, Dutton Adult, ISBN 0-52595-160-1
- with Mark Newman and Duncan Watts : The Structure and Dynamics of Networks. 2006, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-69111-357-2 .
- Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else. 2004, Plume, ISBN 0-45228-439-2 .
- with Zoltan Oltvai: Network Biology: Understanding the cells's functional organization. In: Nature Reviews Genetics . 5, 2004, pp. 101-113. PDF (English)
- with Réka Albert : Emergence of scaling in random networks. In: Science . 286, 1999, pp. 509-512. PDF (English)
- Fractal Concepts in Surface Growth . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Web links
- Personal website (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barabási, Albert-László |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian physicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cârța , Romania |