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Virtual Editorial Center

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Philip W. Anderson *
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Tel (609) 258-5850, Fax (609) 258-1006
Email: pwa@pupgg.princeton.edu
http://PUPGG.PRINCETON.EDU/www/jh/pwa/
keywords: condensed matter theory, "High-Tc" superconductivity, etc.; more details

Prof. Dr. Kenneth J. Arrow **
Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6072, USA
Tel: (650) 723-9165, Fax (650) 725-5702
Email: arrow@leland.stanford.edu
http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/arrow.html
keywords: Resource allocation between portfolio investment and information; information, innovation, and increasing returns

Prof. Dr. David Avnir
Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Phone: (w) ++972-2-658-5332; (h) ++972-2-643-7166, Fax: ++972-2-652-0099
Email: david@chem.ch.huji.ac.il
http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~david/index.html
keywords: Symmetry-numbers, quantitative symmetry, chirality, distinguishability of states, rotational entropy.

Dr. Fabio Benatti
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, I-34100 Trieste, Italy
Tel. +39 0402240365, Fax: +39 040224601
Email: benatti@ts.infn.it
keywords: Open quantum systems, Quantum dynamical entropies, Quantum information

Dr. Jorge Berger
Department of Sciences, Ort Braude College, P.O. Box 78, 21982 Karmiel, Israel, and
Department of Physics, Technion, 32000 Haifa, Israel
Phone: 972-4-9857998, fax: 972-4-9857777
Email: phr76jb@tx.technion.ac.il
http://brd4.ort.org.il/~jorge
keywords: apparent contradictions to the second law, Szilard's demon, symmetry breaking, Little-Parks, objectivity of thermodynamic quantities

Dr. John Collier
Philosophy Programme, University of Natal, Durban 4041, South Africa
Email: collierj@nu.ac.za
http://www.nu.ac.za/undphil/collier
keywords: evolution and entropy, self organisation and entropy, symmetry breaking, philosophy of science, arrow of time, Maxwell's demon, information dynamics

Dr. Gyorgy Darvas
SYMMETRION, Address: c/o MTA KSZI; 18 Nador St., Budapest, H-1051 Hungary, Mailing address: P.O.Box 994, Budapest, H-1245 Hungary
Tel.36 (1) 312-3022; 36 (1) 331-3975, Fax: 36 (1) 331-3161
Email: h492dar@ella.hu
http://www.mtakszi.iif.hu/darvas.htm
keywords: Relations of symmetry, order and entropy, evolution and entropy, selforganisation and entropy, structure of matter

Prof. Dr. William von E. Doering
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Tel. 001 617 495 4263, 001 617 876 3017 (home); Fax 001 617 495 0574; 001 617 876 3017 (home)
Email: doering@chemistry.harvard.edu
http://www-chem.harvard.edu/WilliamDoering.html
keywords: organic chemical reaction mechanism; thermochemistry; kinetics; enthalpy and entropy of activation.

Dr. Bruce Edmonds
Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Bldg., Aytoun St., Manchester, M1 3GH. UK
Tel: +44 161 247 6479 Fax: +44 161 247 6802
Email: b.edmonds@mmu.ac.uk, URL: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~bruce
New Email: mailto:bruce@cfpm.org, new URL: http://cfpm.org/~bruce
keywords: social simulation, complexity, modelling, context, philosophy of science, limitations of numerical measures

Prof. Dr. Thomas Ericson
Linköping University, ISY, Data transmission, SE 58183 Linköping, Sweden
Phone: +46 13 281312, Fax.: +46 13 281339
Email: thomas@isy.liu.se
http://www.dtr.isy.liu.se/en/staff/thomas
keywords: algebraic coding theory, spherical codes, information theory.

Prof. Dr. Georgi P. Gladyshev
Academy of Creative Endeavors, 121205, Moscow, Novy Arbat, 36, Russia
Tel.: (7-095) 290-74-51, Fax: (7-095) 290-79-33
Email: academy@endeav.org
http://www.endeav.org/
keywords: thermodynamics, macrothermodynamics, hierarchical thermodynamics, second law, temporal hierarchies, supramolecular thermodynamics, biological evolution, aging, thermodynamics and evolution of universe.

Prof. Dr. Francis Heylighen
Center "Leo Apostel", Free University of Brussels, Krijgskundestr. 33, 1160 Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32-2-6442677; Fax +32-2-6440744;
Email: fheyligh@vub.ac.be
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
keywords: evolution of complexity, cybernetics, systems, self-organization, arrow of time, conditional entropy as measure of knowledge, variation and selection

Prof. Hideki Imai
President, IEEE Information Theory Society,
University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8505, Japan
Tel:+81-3-5452-6230, Fax:+81-3-5452-6231
Email: imai@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
http://imailab-www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
keywords: Cryptography, Information Security, Error-correcting Codes, Coding Theory, Information Theory, Quantum Cryptography

Prof. Dr. M. C. Jackson
The University of Hull Business School, Cotingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, England
Tel: +44 1482 466309. Fax: +44 1482 466097
Email: M.C.Jackson@hull.ac.uk
http://www.hull.ac.uk/hubs
keywords: systems methodology, anagement cybernetics, soft systems thinking, critical systems thinking

Prof. Dr. Lajos Keszthelyi
Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, P.O.B. 521, H-6701, Hungary
Phone: 36 62 432232, FAX: 36 62 433133.
Email: Kl@nucleus.szbk.u-szeged.hu
keywords: chirality, origin of life, origin of homochirality of biomolecules

Dr. Ioannis Kontoyiannis
Division of Applied Mathematics and Department of Computer Science
Brown University, P.O. Box F, 182 George St., Providence, RI 02912
Tel: (401) 863-9246, Fax: (401) 863-1355
Email: yiannis@dam.brown.edu
http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/yiannis/
keywords: entropy in probability and statistics, convergence in relative entropy, large deviations

Prof. Dr. P.T. Landsberg
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Tel: +44 23 8059 3681 (work), +44 23 8055 6545 (home), Fax: +44 23 8059 3939
Email: P.T.Landsberg@maths.soton.ac.uk
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/staff/Landsberg/
keywords: History of entropy, Thermodynamic characteristics; their applications to solar energy; basic ideas about entropy.

Prof. Dr. Harvey S. Leff, Professor Emeritus of Physics
California State Polytechnic University, 3801 W. Temple Ave., Pomona, CA 91768, USA
Phone:909-869-4013, Fax:909-869-5090
Email: mailto:%20hsleff@csupomona.edu
http://www.csupomona.edu/~hsleff
keywords: Foundations of thermal physics, Maxwell's demon, Information, History and philosophy, Pedagogy

Prof. Dr. James (Jim) Lepock
Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
Tel. 519 885 1211, ext. 6257, Fax: 519 748 8115
Email: Lepock@Sciborg.UWaterloo.Ca
http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/gwp2/gfac/lepock.html
keywords: Hyperthermia and heat shock; membrane biophysics; ion transport

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linert
Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/163-AC, A-1060 Wien, Austria, Europe
Tel.: ++43 - 1 - 58801 - 15350, Fax.:++43 - 1 - 58801 - 16299
Email: wlinert@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.ias.tuwien.ac.at/research/fgwl/
keywords: thermal and optical Spin-State Transitions, Molecular Magnets, Isokinetic Relationships, Compensation Effect, Material Science

Dr. David J.C. MacKay
Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University.Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
Tel: +44-1223-339852, Home phone: 740511, Fax: +44-1223-354599
Email: mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk
http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/
keywords: Bayeysian inference, machine learning, error-correcting codes, information theory

Prof. Dr. Pedro C. Marijuán
BIOINFORMATION GROUP, Dept. Ing. Elect. & Comunic., CPS Univ. Zaragoza, 50015 Zaragoza, Spain
Tel. (34) 976 762036, Fax (34) 976 762111
Email: marijuan@posta.unizar.es
keywords: foundations of information science, entropy, symmetry, adaptability, bioinformation, cellular processing, enzyme processing, molecular recognition

Prof. Dr. Klaus Mainzer
Lehrstuhl für Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, Institut für Interdisziplinäre Informatik, Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 10, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany
Tel.: +49 821 598 5568, Fax: +49 821 598 5584
Email: Klaus.Mainzer@phil.uni-augsburg.de
http://www.phil.uni-augsburg.de/phil1/FAECHER/Philosophie2/index.htm
keywords: information entropy, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, information dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, complexity

Dr. Greg Mulhauser
Mulhauser Consulting, Ltd., Devon, UK
+44 (0)7966 432547
Email: go to http://www.mulhauser.net/
keywords: evolution, cognition, rationality, algorithmic information theory, complexity, financial derivatives, equity and index options, psychology

Dr. Petri Myllymaki
Department of Computer Science, P.O.Box 26 (Teollisuuskatu 23), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Int. +358 9 191 44173 (tel.), Int. +358 9 708 44441 (fax), Int. +358 40 553 1162 (GSM)
Email: Petri.Myllymaki@cs.Helsinki.fi
http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/Petri.Myllymaki/
keywords: Probabilistic modeling, Bayesian networks, information theory, minimum description length

Prof. Dr. Alexander Nemukhin
Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899 Russian Federation
Tel. (095) 939-48-40, Fax (095) 939-02-83.
Email: anem@lcc.chem.msu.su or anem@phys069b-2.chem.msu.ru
http://phys069b-2.chem.msu.ru/ or http://www.chem.msu.su/eng/people/nemukhin.html
keywords: chemical cybernetics

Dr. Alexey V. Nikulov
Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials
Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow District, Russia
Email: nikulov@ipmt-hpm.ac.ru
http://www.ipmt-hpm.ac.ru/SecondLaw/
keywords: quantum Limits to the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Prof. Dr. Richard G. Palmer
Professor of Physics and Computer Science, Dept of Physics, Box 90305, Duke University, Durham NC 27708, USA
Phone: 919-660-2559 Fax: 919-660-2525
Email: palmer@phy.duke.edu
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~palmer
keywords: spin glasses, glass, granular matter, algorithms, broken ergodicity, nonextensive systems, complex systems

Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira
Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, C.P. 66281, 05389-970-Sao Paulo,SP, Brazil
Tel. (55-11) 818-6101, Fax: (55-11) 814-4135
Email: cpereira@ime.usp.br or: cab3p@aol.com
http://www.ime.usp.br/~cpereira/index.html
keywords: Bayesian inference, foundations of Statistics, significance, evidence, Bayesian analysis of discrete data (BADD)

Dr. Mark R. Pederson
Center for Comp. Mat. Sci., Naval Research Lab.-6392, Washington DC 20375-5345, USA
Tel: 202-767-6577, Fax: 202-404-7546
Email: pederson@dave.nrl.navy.mil
http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/~pederson/new.html
keywords: LCAO cluster calculations, Local and non-local density-functional theory, Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy, Cluster assembled materials and polymers, Reactivities and catalysis, linear and nonlinear optical response, Wannier Representations for scalable electronic structure calculations, Fullerene molecules, polymers and tubules, magnetic clusters, Massively parallel algorithms, Techniques for smart numerical quadratures, Development of multidomain adaptive grid strategies

Prof. Dr. Herschel A Rabitz
129 Frick Lab, Chemistry Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Phone: 609-258-3917, Fax: 609-258-0967,
Email: hrabitz@chemvax.Princeton.EDU
http://www.poem.princeton.edu/bios/rabitz.html
keywords: molecular dynamics, chemical kinetics, protein folding, laser-matter interactions

Prof. Dr. Joseph (Joe) Rosen
338 New Mark Esplanade, Rockville MD 20850-2734, USA
Phone & fax: +1-301-610-7666
Email: joerosen@mailaps.org
keywords: symmetry, Curie principle, space, time, spacetime, quantum

Dr Stanley (Stan) N. Salthe
HCR 86, 228 Laurel Bank Avenue, Deposit, New York 13754, USA.
Fax: 607-467-2200
Email: ssalthe@binghamton.edu
http://www.nbi.dk/~natphil/salthe/index.html
keywords: Dosorder, dissipative structures, gradients, negentropy, variety

Dr. Thomas (Tom) D. Schneider
Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, USA
Tel. 301-846-5581 (-5532 for messages), fax 301-846-5598
Email: toms@alum.mit.edu
http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/
keywords: molecular information theory, the application of information theory to biology

Prof. Dr. Daniel P. Sheehan
Department of Physics, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA
Tel. 001 619-260-4095, fax 619-260-2303
Email: dsheehan@sandiego.edu
http://www.sandiego.edu/physics/
keywords: the second law, quantum mechanics

Prof. Dr. Jonathan D. H. Smith
Department of Mathematics, 496 Carver Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Tel. (515)-294-8172, Fax: (515)-294-5454,
Email: jdhsmith@math.iastate.edu
http://www.math.iastate.edu/jdhsmith/
keywords: information theory, spacetime modelling, demography, complex systems, approximate symmetry, entropy in algebra

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stummer
Department of Mathematical Stochastics, University of Karlsruhe, Englerstrasse 2, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
Tel. +49 721 608 - 7985 (office), - 3265 or 3270 (Secr.), Fax +49 721 608 - 6066.
Email: stummer@math.uni-karlsruhe.de
http://mspcdip.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/english/personen/stummer/stummer.html
keywords: entropy concepts for finance and for the decision theory of general diffusion processes

Prof. Dr. Michael (Mike) Stutzer
Professor of Finance and Director, Burridge Center for Securities Analysis and Valuation,
Leeds School of Business, 419 UCB, Business 411, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0419
Tel: 303 492 4348
Email: michael.stutzer@ucolorado.edu
http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/finance/faculty/Stutzer.html
keywords: Kullback-Leibler, large deviations, finance, economics, Esscher Transform

Prof. Dr. Eitan Tadmor
Director, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
4149 CSIC Bldg. #406, Paint Branch Drive, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-3289
Tel: (301) 405-0652, Fax: (301) 314-6674
Email: go to http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/~tadmor/contact.htm
keywords: Nonlinear conservation laws and related convection diffusion problems; kinetic formulations, entropy and stability analysis; high resolution schemes for time dependent problems; spectral viscosity methods.

Prof. Bernard Testa
Service de Pharmacie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CHUV - BH 04, 46 rue du Bugnon, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tel. Tel +41 21 314 4237; Fax +41 21 314 4992,
Email: Bernard.Testa@hospvd.ch
http://www-ict.unil.ch/index.html
keywords: Emergence / emergent properties;Dissolvence / Constrained properties; Biochemical systems; Drug-biosystem interactions; Molecular dynamics simulations

Dr. Thomas Ward
School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, NR4 7TJ, UK
Tel: +44 1603 592848 Fax: +44 1603 593868
Email: T.Ward@uea.ac.uk
http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/~h720/
keywords: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems, connections to algebra and number theory

Dr. David R. Wolf
PO Box 8308, Austin, TX 78713-8308, USA
Email: drwolf@realtime.net
http://dino.ph.utexas.edu/~wolf/
keywords: Computational intelligence and machine learning; Bayesian methods in information and learning; statistical, relativistic, and quantum physics; more detail

Notes:
*Winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics
**Winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics
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