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Born 1952
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Yale University
Beijing University
Occupation Applied Mathematician
Years active 1983 - present

Erica Jen (Chinese: 任峻瑞; Rén Jùnrùi, born circa 1952) is an American applied mathematician.[1][2][3] She was a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a faculty member at the University of Southern California, and a scientific director and faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute.[4][5]

Jen's research is based on the mathematical analysis of chaotic and complex behavior.[6] Research areas have included the singular integral equations for crack propagation, the mathematics of cellular automata - a class of dynamical systems that evolve according to simple local interaction rules - and mechanisms of robustness in natural and social systems.[7]

Early life and education

Jen was born in 1952 to Chih-Kung Jen, a Chinese-born physicist who played a leading role in the 1970s in reestablishing scientific exchanges between the U.S. and China.

Jen's father had roomed with Zhou Peiyuan, a young Chinese student, when they had studied at the California Institute of Technology.[8] In 1972 Zhou was the President of Beijing University, and he invited his friend's daughter to study at his University. Jen had completed her junior year at Yale University. She became the first American national to be allowed to study in China since 1949. Jen, and Canadian Jan Wong, became the first two foreigners to study in China since the Cultural Revolution.[9] Approval for their student visas came from Premier Zhou Enlai.[10]

After returning to the U.S., Jen obtained a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Stony Brook University of the State University of New York and was the first postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory.[11]

Career

Jen served for the period 1983-86 as a university scholar and assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California. In 1986, Jen became a staff member in the theoretical division and acting deputy director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In 1995, Jen joined the Santa Fe Institute, a leading interdisciplinary research center for the study of complex adaptive systems.[12] She first served as vice president for academic affairs and then as a research professor. Jen was the principal investigator for innovative programs in evolutionary dynamics, social networks, and distributed learning.[13] During her tenure at the Santa Fe Institute, Jen developed the groundbreaking SFI program on the robustness of physical, biological, ecological, and social systems. After 2003, Jen served as external faculty, science board member, and now{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B=[when?] }} science board fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. Jen was an editor of Physica D: Nonlinearity, and is also the developer of the Nonlinear Sciences nlin arXive.[clarification needed]

Selected bibliography

  • Daily Life: An Experience with Peking Youth in The China Difference (1979), Ross Terrill, ed., New York: Harper & Row
  • D. Campbell, J. P. Crutchfield, J. D. Farmer, and E. Jen. Experimental Mathematics: The Role of Computation in Nonlinear Science. Comm. ACM 28 1985: 374[14]
  • 1989 Lectures on Complex Systems, Erica Jen (ed.), Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Addison-Wesley, 1989
  • Global properties of cellular automata, J. Statistical Physics, vol 43, p 219-242 (1986).[15]
  • Scaling of preimages in cellular automata," Complex Systems 1 (1987) 1045-1062[16]
  • Exact solvability and quasiperiodicity in one-dimensional cellular automata," Nonlinearity 4 (1991), 251-276
  • Stable or Robust? What's the Difference? Complexity 8(3): 12-18 (2003)[17]
  • Robust Design: A Repertoire of Biological, Ecological, and Engineering Case Studies, E. Jen (ed), Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity, Oxford University Press, 2005[18]

References

  1. ↑ Schrecker, John (1979-08-12). "On the Making of Modern China (Published 1979)" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/12/archives/on-the-making-of-modern-china-china-the-china-difference-china-the.html. 
  2. ↑ Jen, Erica; Srivastav, R. P. (1981). "Cubic splines and approximate solution of singular integral equations" (in en). Mathematics of Computation 37 (156): 417–423. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1981-0628705-4. ISSN 0025-5718. https://www.ams.org/mcom/1981-37-156/S0025-5718-1981-0628705-4/. 
  3. ↑ Jen, Erica, ed (2005-03-24). Robust Design: A Repertoire of Biological, Ecological, and Engineering Case Studies. Santa Fe Institute Studies on the Sciences of Complexity. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516532-6. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/robust-design-9780195165326?cc=id&lang=en&. 
  4. ↑ "Cellular Automation Offer New Outlook On Life, The Universe, and Everything". http://abel.harvard.edu/archive/118r_spring_05/docs/erikajen.pdf. 
  5. ↑ "Erica Jen's research works | Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (LANL) and other places" (in en). https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Erica-Jen-2029321582. 
  6. ↑ "Announcing the Rule 30 Prizes—Stephen Wolfram Writings" (in en). October 2019. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/10/announcing-the-rule-30-prizes/. 
  7. ↑ "Six Degrees" (in en). https://wwnorton.com/books/Six-Degrees. 
  8. ↑ Jan Wong. Beijing Confidential, A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found. Anchor Canada. https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Jan_Wong_Beijing_Confidential?id=fFY4Zh8EWaQC. "Unbeknownst to me, Erica Jen, a Chinese-American teenager from Yale University, had just been accepted at Beijing University, too." 
  9. ↑ Liu Ningzhe (劉凝哲) (2005-02-16). "The Wheat Harvest of 1973". East West North South. Archived from the original on 2023-01-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20230119080206/http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050218_1.htm. Retrieved 2023-10-08. "At the time, Jan Wong and her friend Erica Jen were the first two North Americans studying at Beijing University." 
  10. ↑ Elisabeth Sherwin (1996-11-03). ""Red China Blues" recounts story of changing China". UC Davis. Archived from the original on 2022-10-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20221006164105/http://dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/redchina.html. Retrieved 2023-10-08. "In 1972, she was one of two Western students (the other being Erica Jen, a Chinese-American woman) admitted to special studies at Peking University." 
  11. ↑ "Center for Nonlinear Studies". https://cnls.lanl.gov/External/History.php. 
  12. ↑ "A Founding Program on Robustness of Social Processes". https://www.jsmf.org/grants/2002030/. 
  13. ↑ Johnson, George (1997-05-06). "Researchers on Complexity Ponder What It's All About (Published 1997)" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/06/science/researchers-on-complexity-ponder-what-it-s-all-about.html. 
  14. ↑ Campbell, David; Farmer, Doyne; Crutchfield, Jim; Jen, Erica (1985-04-01). "Experimental mathematics: the role of computation in nonlinear science". Communications of the ACM 28 (4): 374–384. doi:10.1145/3341.3345. ISSN 0001-0782. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341.3345. 
  15. ↑ Jen, E. (1986). "Global properties of cellular automata". Journal of Statistical Physics 43 (1–2): 219–242. Bibcode 1986JSP....43..219J. doi:10.1007/BF01010579. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Global-properties-of-cellular-automata-Jen/bad9e4d140a4b2284542378fea7422540f918e63. 
  16. ↑ "Scaling of Preimages In Cellular Automata by Erica Jen" (in en-us). https://www.complex-systems.com/abstracts/v01_i06_a02/. 
  17. ↑ "Stable or robust? What's the difference?" (in en). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234821123. 
  18. ↑ Papin, Jason A (2006-09-01). "Robust Design: A Repertoire of Biological, Ecological, and Engineering Case Studies. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Edited by Erica Jen.". The Quarterly Review of Biology 81 (3): 268. doi:10.1086/509398. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/509398. 
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