Sergei Maslov

Sergei Maslov received his M.S. from the Landau Institute in Moscow, Russia, in 1992 and his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 1996. In 2004 he was given a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is currently a permanent staff member at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he is working on interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics. His most recent research concentrates on topics in systems biology and complex networks.

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Power laws in chess

November 16, 2009

The popularity of various chess openings follows a power law distribution, but the exponent depends on the depth of the opening sequence. Read More »