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Guckenheimer elected for article on "Bifurcation" in
Scholarpedia
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On behalf of the Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems,
the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia
Scholarpedia conducted an election of authors
for the article "Bifurcation" with the goal to identify the best
living expert on this subject. The nominees (in the order of
nomination by the public) were:
- Yuri A. Kuznetsov
- Willy Govaerts
- Eusebius Doedel
- Philip Holmes
- John Guckenheimer
The election started on 12 May 2006 and ended
eleven months later, engaging 112 participants.
The rules of the election are described
online. In summary, each participant can vote for no more than three
candidates. Each vote is multiplied by the participant's Scholar
Index, which reflects the expertise and usefulness of contributions of
that person to Scholarpedia. (So that experts have greater weight in
the election). Then, the weighted sum of the votes and a soft-max
procedure is used to select the future author of the article.
Eugene M. Izhikevich, editor-in-chief of
Scholarpedia, had the great privilege to inform John Guckenheimer that
he has been elected to write this article for Scholarpedia, and it is
his pleasure to announce that John Guckenheimer accepted the
invitation.
Eugene Izhikevich thanks all participants of the
election.
Eugene M. Izhikevich
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California.