FACULTY

			Stephen Wolfram is the author of A New Kind of Science and was the principal lecturer at the Summer School. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and the creator of Mathematica. Having started in science as a teenager (he got his PhD at age 20), Wolfram had a highly succesful early career in academia. He began his work on NKS in 1981, and spent ten years writing the NKS book, published in 2002. Over the course of 25 years Wolfram has mentored a large number of individuals who have achieved great success in academia, business and elsewhere. The NKS Summer School was his first formal educational undertaking in sixteen years.


Directors Todd Rowland was the 2003 NKS Summer School's Academic Director, while Catherine Boucher worked as Program Director.

			Todd Rowland assisted Stephen Wolfram with mathematical issues found in A New Kind of Science Chapters 5, 9, and 12. Before joining the NKS team a couple of years ago, he wrote entries for MathWorld. Todd received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1999, where he studied traditional mathematics such as algebraic and differential geometry. Currently, he is managing editor of Complex Systems. His interests include automated theorem proving, and the fundamental theory, as well as NKS education.


			Catherine Boucher joined Wolfram Research in 1998. She led project management during the production of A New Kind of Science and is currently the Special Projects Director for Wolfram Research. Catherine received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst specializing in cluster analysis.

Instructors In addition to Todd Rowland, the following people served as both lecturers and project advisors to the participants of the summer school.

			Jason Cawley has been talking to Stephen Wolfram about the ideas in A New Kind of Science and reading early drafts of the work for over 10 years. In the last few years before publication, Jason worked for him as a research assistant on historical and philosophical issues, including many covered in the notes. A former graduate student in political science at the University of Chicago, Jason's wide ranging interests include philosophy, social science, and the history of thought. He is currently working on developing the NKS Forum, which he intends to write for and moderate.

			Matthew Frank was a research assistant to Stephen Wolfram during the production of A New Kind of Science, and helped with topics from time to Timaeus and from sets to sestina. Prior to this, Matt received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago; he is currently completing a PhD there in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science. His non-academic activities of the past two years have included an extended trip to Spain, work with the Save The Point community organization, and a triathlon.

			Ed Pegg Jr. was a research assistant to Stephen Wolfram during the production of A New Kind of Science, and helped with topics ranging from bismuth crystals and leaves to diophantine equations and CA constructions. Prior to this, Ed received a master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Colorado. He is a full time employee of Wolfram Research, primarily involved in work on the Mathematica Information Center, in addition to various NKS projects. In his spare time, he works on http://www.mathpuzzle.com.

			Matthew Szudzik made significant contributions to A New Kind of Science from 1998 through 2000 and during the summer of 2001 as a research assistant to Stephen Wolfram. His work focused primarily on the analysis of simple programs and on the theoretical foundations of computational mathematics. He is currently a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, studying toward a Ph.D. in mathematical logic.

			Oyvind Tafjord has been working on various aspects of A New Kind of Science since 2001, touching on a wide range of topics from details of theoretical physics to technical book production issues. He is also interested in the general development of Mathematica. His educational background consists of a degree in physics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (1994) and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (1999), working on string theory as a possible framework for a unified theory of gravitation and quantum mechanics. He also spent two years as a postdoc at McGill University before coming to Wolfram Research.