Steven H. Strogatz

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ~Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics. Known for contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems and for work in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. Widely cited Nature article Collective Dynamics of Small-World Networks (with Duncan Watts, 1998) is considered a seminal contribution to the interdisciplinary field of complex networks, whose applications range from graph theory and statistical physics to sociology, business, epidemiology, and neuroscience. Author of the textbook Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (1994), several works for general audiences, and, in 2010 and 2012, a weekly column on mathematics in The New York Times for non-specialists. Honors include the Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990), the Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (2007), the Public Engagement with Science Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013), and the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2015).~