Cristian S. Calude

Cristian S. Calude
Portrait of Professor Cristian S. Calude. Taken by Godfrey Boehnke on 20 April 2011 at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Born	1952 (1952)
Residence	New Zealand
Nationality	Romanian
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Auckland, Academia Europaea
Alma mater	University of Bucharest
Doctoral advisor	Solomon Marcus
Known for	Algorithmic Information Theory and Quantum Theory contributions

Cristian Sorin Calude (born 21 April 1952, Galați, Romania) is a Romanian-New Zealand mathematician and computer scientist.^[1] Educated at the National College Vasile Alecsandri, Galați, and the University of Bucharest. Student of Grigore C. Moisil and Solomon Marcus. Chair Professor at the University of Auckland,^[2] New Zealand. Founding director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.^[3] Member of the Academia Europaea.^[4] Visiting Professor in many universities in Europe, North and South America, Australasia, South Africa, including Monbusho Visiting Professor, JAIST, 1999, and Visiting Professor ENS, Paris, 2009. Former professor at the University of Bucharest. Author or co-author of more than 200 research articles and 8 books. Cited by more than 450 authors.^[5]

Research in algorithmic information theory, quantum computing, discrete mathematics and history and philosophy of computation.

Selected bibliography

• C. S. Calude, M. J. Dinneen, Monica Dumitrescu, K. Svozil. Experimental evidence of quantum randomness incomputability, "Physical Review A", 82, 022102 (2010), 1—8.

• C. S. Calude, M. A. Stay. Most programs stop quickly or never halt, "Advances in Applied Mathematics", 40 (2008), 295—308.

• C. S. Calude (ed.) "Randomness & Complexity, From Leibniz to Chaitin", World Scientific, Singapore, 2007.

• C. S. Calude. Information and Randomness: An Algorithmic Perspective, 2nd Edition, Revised and Extended, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002.

• C. S. Calude, G. Păun.Computing with Cells and Atoms, Taylor & Francis Publishers, London, 2001.

• C. Calude. Theories of Computational Complexity, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988.

Notes

1. ^ Publications at DPLB
2. ^ Staff profile page at the departement of computer science
3. ^ CDMTCS at the University of Auckland, New Zealand
4. ^ The list of members for Academia Europaea Informatics Section
5. ^ Calude's citations

External links

• Cristian S. Calude at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• C. S. Calude Home Page
• CDMTCS at the University of Auckland
• Cristian S. Calude member page at Academia Europaea

Persondata
Name	Calude, Cristian Sorin
Alternative names
Short description	Romanian-New Zealand mathematician and computer scientist
Date of birth	21 April 1952
Place of birth	Romania
Date of death
Place of death