About the Speaker

Leonard J. Schulman received the B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1988 and the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1992, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has held appointments at UC Berkeley, the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Since 2000 he has been on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. He has received the MIT Bucsela prize in mathematics, an NSF mathematical sciences postdoctoral fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, an Okawa Foundation grant, and the IEEE Schelkunoff prize. He is the director of the Center for the Mathematics of Information and is on the faculty of the Institute for Quantum Information. His research is in several overlapping areas: algorithms and communication protocols; combinatorics and probability; coding and information theory; quantum computation.