Jennifer Tour Chayes
Jennifer Tour Chayes (born September 20, 1956 in New York City ) is an American mathematician , physicist and computer scientist . She is executive director and co-founder of Microsoft Research New England (NERD, founded in 2008) and was also a co-founder of Microsoft Research New York in 2012.
Chayes, whose parents immigrated from Iran , studied physics and biology at Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in 1979 and received her PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1983 with Elliott Lieb (and Michael Aizenman ) ( The Inverse Problem, Plaquette Percolation and a Generalized Potts Model ). She then went to Harvard University and Cornell University on a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship . In 1987 she became Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1997 she was at Microsoft Research, where she co-founded the theory group with Christian Borgs.
As a theoretical physicist, she dealt with phase transitions in statistical mechanics and transferred this also to discrete mathematics (combinatorics) and computer science (with application to algorithms in combinatorial optimization and graph algorithms, theory of networks). She is known for contributing to the theory of dynamic and random elements of growing networks, with applications to the internet, theoretical biology, and social networks. Chayes is one of the founders of the concept of graphons in the theory of dense graphs, which was widely used in machine learning with large networks. She also dealt with algorithmic game theory (for example algorithms for auctions and analysis of business models for the Internet).
She is involved in around 30 patents (2016). She was married to Christian Borgs and published with him as well as with her future husband Lincoln Chayes.
In 2015 she was John von Neumann Lecturer . She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Mathematical Society (2012), of which she was Vice President, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2019 ). She was a Sloan Research Fellow and is an honorary doctorate from Leiden University . She received the UCLA Teaching Award.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jennifer Tour Chayes in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chayes, Jennifer Tour |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |