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Erica Jen

Erica Jen (Chinese: 任峻瑞; Rén Jùnrùi, circa 1952 – November 12, 2023) was an American applied mathematician. She was a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a faculty member at the University of Southern California, and a scientific director and faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute.

Jen's research was based on the mathematical analysis of chaotic and complex behavior. Research areas have included the singular integral equations for crack propagation, the mathematics of cellular automata - a class of dynamical systems that evolve according to simple local interaction rules - and mechanisms of robustness in natural and social systems. Provided by Wikipedia