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	21 April 1952 Galați, Romania
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) is a Romanian-New Zealander mathematician and computer scientist.^[1] He graduated from the National College Vasile Alecsandri in Galați, and the University of Bucharest and was student of Grigore C. Moisil and Solomon Marcus. He is currently chair professor at the University of Auckland,^[2] New Zealand and also the founding director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.^[3] 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, École Polytechnique, Paris, 2011; Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 2012. Former professor at the University of Bucharest. Author or co-author of more than 250 research articles and 8 books. Cited by more than 550 authors.^[4] 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.

"Computing Reviews Award", Association for Computing Machinery, New York, USA, 1986.
"Gheorghe Lazar" Mathematics Prize, Romanian Academy, Romania, 1988.
Excellence in Research Award, University of Bucharest, Romania, 2007.
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Auckland, 2007.
Hood Fellow, 2008-2009.
Member of the Academia Europaea, 2008.^[5]

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 32098649 LCCN: n86062312 ISNI: 0000 0001 1051 4978 GND: 120988259 SUDOC: 082976155 BNF: cb124797898 (data) MGP: 35458

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