Michael R. Douglas
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Michael R. Douglas is a world wide leading string theorist and the director of the New High Energy Theory Center at Rutgers University. He is best known for the development of matrix models (the first nonperturbative formulations of string theory), for his work on noncommutative geometry in string theory, and for the development of the statistical approach to string phenomenology. He was on the team which built the Digital Orrery, a special-purpose computer for computations in celestial mechanics, and maintains an active interest in computer science. He received the 2000 Sackler Prize in theoretical physics, holds a Louis Michel Visiting Professorship at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, and has been a Gordon Moore Visiting Scholar at Caltech, a Clay Mathematics Institute Mathematical Emissary, and a visiting researcher at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and at many other institutions.
