Overview
Quantum field theory; digital knowledge networks
Research Focus
Ginsparg has recently used techniques from statistical mechanical models, specifically the Potts spin glass, to investigate community detection in networks. He has used these to develop new algorithms for clustering arXiv.org subject areas on the basis of full-test similarities, co-author networks, citation networks, and co-readership collaborative filtering. He has also worked on quantum computing and quantum information, including simulations of statistical mechanical models on current 20 and 65 qubit machines.
Graduate Students
Tim Skaras
Awards and Honors
- Harvard Society of Fellows, 1981-84
- DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, 1986-91
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- MacArthur Fellow, 2002
- Radcliffe Institute Fellow, 2008-2009
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Physics, Harvard University, 1984-1986.
- Associate Professor, Physics, Harvard University, 1986-1990.
- Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990-2001.
- Professor, Physics, Computer Science, and Faculty of Computing and Information, Cornell University, 2001- present.
- Visiting appointments at: C.E.N. Saclay, France; Princeton University; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; The Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton; The Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara; The Mathematical Science Research Institute at UC Berkeley; Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A.P. Sloane fellow, 1986-1990.
Publications
In the news
- Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
- Research repository arXiv receives $10M for upgrades
- Three students in STEM win 2022 Goldwater Scholarships
- arXiv hits 2M submissions
- arXiv founder Ginsparg wins Einstein Foundation Berlin Award
- Lessons from arXiv’s 30 years of information sharing
- That swing: Many systems hinge on ‘pivotal components’
- Physicist Paul Ginsparg awarded Compton Medal
- Cornell CIS hosts recipients of 'Genius Grant'
- Physicist to explain quantum entanglement in Bethe Lecture
- Celebrating arXiv's growth at the library, future at CIS
- Documentarian: Take down paywalls with open access to scholarship
- One billion downloads and counting for arXiv
