Sorin Solomon short CV

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Sorin Solomon short CV Full Professor at the
Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Director, Division of
Multi-Agent Systems Institute for Scientific
Interchange Torino. Past Tasks Head of the
Theoretical Physics Section at the Racah
Institute of Physics,  Head of the Center for
Microphysics and Cosmology, Scientific Head of
the Visualization Center at HUJ. Awards
Levinson Prize,  Bantrel Prize at Caltech,  J.F.
Kennedy Prize, Weizmann Fellowship, Keren Kayemet
Prize. Committees Member Center for Complexity
Science, Jerusalem, Complexus journal, Int. J.
Mod. Phys. C, Journal of Statistical Mechanics.
Representative Paper (out of about 200)  The
importance of being discrete Life always wins on
the surface with Shnerb, Louzoun, Bettelheim,  
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 97, Issue 19,
10322-10324, September 12, 2000 Conference Talks
(a few tens) , e.g. Plenary talk at EPS-12 The
General Conference of the European Physical
Society. Book Microscopic Simulation of
Financial Markets, with M. Levy and H. Levy,
Academic Press, New York, 2000. Media Coverage
BBC, New York Times, Herald Tribune, Boston
Globe, Der Standard, New Scientist, Neue Zurische
Zeitung, Le Figaro, Business2.0, The Guardian,
Nature, Science, HaAretz, Europhysics News,
Globe and Mail (Canada), Reuters
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What is Complexity?
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A water molecule in a container at 990C
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A water molecule in a container at 990C
The molecule moves in a disordered way bumping on
the walls from time to time.
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A water molecule in a container at 990C
The molecule moves in a disordered way bumping on
the walls from time to time.
What Happens if one heats the walls of the
container by 2 degrees?
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A water molecule in a container at 990C
What Happens if one heats the walls of the
container by 2 degrees?
Almost nothing the molecule will bump on the
walls in average a little bit faster.
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A water molecule in a container at 990C
What happens if one adds 3 more water molecules
(at T 990C) ?
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What happens if one adds 3 more water molecules
(at T 990C) ?
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Almost nothing! They will also occasionally bump
among themselves Their average speed will be
equal to the one of the single molecule before.
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What happens if one increases now the temperature
by 20C?
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What happens if one increases now the temperature
by 20C?
Almost nothing, they will just increase a bit
their average speed.
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What happens now, if one introduces in the
container 1Kg of such molecules and repeats the
experiment of heating the walls by 20C?
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What happens now, if one introduces in the
container 1Kg of such molecules and repeats the
experiment of heating the walls by 20C?
Very Dramatic Effect
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Very Dramatic Effect the spatial and speed
distributions become inhomogeneous, and a lot of
coordinated motion (bubbles) takes place

The water boils.
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Does a new fundamental law of Nature become
active in between the 4 molecules and the 1 Kg
of water?
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Does a new fundamental law of Nature become
active in between the 4 molecules and the 1 Kg
of water?
Yes and No the actual interaction laws between
molecules are not changed.
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Yes and No the actual interaction laws between
molecules are not changed.But the existence of a
large number of molecules leads to some new,
collective, emergent, complex effects of those
laws. This is a law of nature of a new type

More is
Different
(Anderson 1972)
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Could it be that similar effects govern the
emergence of life from chemistry, of meaning from
simple signals, of societies from individuals, of
health from simple cells?
(Anderson 1972)
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Could it be that similar effects govern the
emergence of life from chemistry, of meaning
from simple signals, of societies from
individuals, of health from simple cells etc?
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Could it be that many complex phenomena
unexplained until nowcould be the result of
simple interactions among their simple
components? To answer this one needs to
transcend the traditional research within a
single discipline and use trans-disciplinary
methods. This requires growing a new generation
of bi- or multi-lingual scientists. This requires
more than a juxtaposition of expertizes.
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• Main research frameworks
• The micro-macro representation
• The triangle team
• The interdisciplinary research requires typically
  (at least) 2 senior researchers from the relevant
  fields (the one knowing about water molecules
  and the one knowing about boiling) and one
  student. It is typically in the mind of the
  student that the connection between the laws of
  the water molecules and the laws of boiling will
  become one.
• The research structure of the project will then
  be
• Prof. in Field 1 ?? PhD Student ?? Prof in Field
  2
• The conceptual structure will be
• Microscopic Elements ??
  Microscopic Interactions
  ?? Emergent Macroscopic Complex
  Phenomena
• My coworkers and I implemented this scheme in a
  wide range of domains as seen on the following
  page.
• In the process the students became professors, I
  indicate in brackets their present position .
• One can click for their home pages.

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Moshe Levy Assist Prof Finance
HUJhttp//bschool.huji.ac.il/levy_shiki.html Repr
esentation of Markets in terms of Inhomogenous
individuals Book Acad Press
Yoram Louzoun Assist Prof. BIUhttp//www.cs.biu.
ac.il/louzouy/ Localization in Groups with
Self-Enhancing trends Bul Math Bio Artif life
Lev Muchnik http//www.nature.com/nsu/020923/02092
3-18.html Collective Phenomena from Individual
Behavior
Uri Hershberg Postdoc Yale http//shum.huji.ac.il
/uriher/ Representation of Diseases in terms of
many interacting antigens and antibodies Phys A
Ester Adi Japha Faculty BIUElements of children
drawings associated with meaningCognitive
Development
Ifat Levy, Postdoc NYU Brain activity maps
elicited by visual stimuliNature
Yehuda Stolov, PhD Dynamics of Stories and
Thought IJMPC
Sorin Solomon
Avishalom Shalithttp//www.cs.huji.ac.il/vish/ S
elf Organization of Open Self-Representation
Eran Shir PhD Stud TAInternet Group
BehavEurophys News
Nava Rubin Assoc Prof NYU http//www.cns.nyu.edu
/nava/ 3D rigid sensation from 2D retina
sensors Vision Research
Jacob Goldenberg Assoc Prof HUJhttp//pluto.huji
.ac.il/msgolden/home_page/ Creativity Novelty
ScienceNYT
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The resulting complexity publications grouped by
target research field (only papers since 1995
are listed)
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Generic Complexity The Microscopic
Representation of Complex Macroscopic Phenomena,
S. Solomon, Annual Reviews of Computational
Physics II pp 243-294, editor D. Stauffer, World
Scientific 1995. Collective Degrees of Freedom
and Multiscale Dynamics in Spin Glasses N.
Persky and S.Solomon, Phys. Rev. E. 54 (1996)
4399 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9603056
Complexity a Science at 30, S. Solomon and E.
Shir, Europhysics News Feb-March 2003 p54
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Visual System (reconstructing 3D bodies from 2D
moving points) Restricted Ability to Recover
3D Global Motion from 1 D Motion Signals
Theoretical Observations, N. Rubin, S. Hochstein
and S. Solomon, Vision Research 35 (1995)
569-578. Restricted Ability to Recover 3D
Global Motion from 1 D Motion Signals
Psychophysical Observations, N. Rubin, S.
Hochstein and S. Solomon, Vision Research 35
(1995) 463-476. The Microscopic Bases of Vision
S. Solomon, in Perspectives on Cognitive
Science, vol. 2, ed. B. Kokinov (NBU 1995)
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Multiplicative Random walks, Lotka Volterra
systems, Returns Distributions and Pareto Laws
Dynamical Explanation for the Emergence of
Power Law in a Stock Market Model, M. Levy and
S. Solomon, International Journal of Modern
Physics C, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1996) 65-72 Power
Laws are Logarithmic Boltzmann Laws M. Levy and
S. Solomon International Journal of Modern
Physics C , Vol. 7, No. 4 (1996) 595
http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/adap-org/9607001
Spontaneous Scaling Emergence in Generic
Stochastic Systems S. Solomon and M. Levy
International Journal of Modern Physics C , Vol.
7, No. 5 (1996) 745 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/ada
p-org/9609002 Power-law distributions and
L\'evy-stable intermittent fluctuations in
stochastic systems of many autocatalytic
elements. O. Malcai O. Biham and S. Solomon,
Phys. Rev. E, 60, 1299 (1999).
http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/9907320
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New Evidence for the Power Law Distribution of
Wealth M. Levy and S. Solomon Physica A 242
(1997) 90. http//shum.huji.ac.il/sorin/power-sh
iki.ps Generic emergence of power law
distributions and L\'evy-stable intermittent
fluctuations in discrete logistic systems. O.
Biham, O. Malcai, M. Levy and S. Solomon, Phys.
Rev. E 58, 1352 (1998). http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/a
dap-org/9804001 Stochastic Lotka-Volterra
Systems of Competing Auto-catalytic Agents lead
Generically to Truncated Pareto Power Wealth
Distribution, Truncated Levy Distribution of
Market Returns, Clustered Volatility, Booms and
Crashes. S. Solomon, in Decision Technologies
for Computational Finance, edited by A.-P.
Refenes, A. N. Burgess, and J. E. Moody (Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1998). http//xxx.lanl.gov/ab
s/cond-mat/9803367 Generalized Lotka Volterra
(GLV) Models of Stock Markets S. Solomon, pp
301-322 in "Applications of Simulation to Social
Sciences" , Eds G Ballot and G Weisbuch Hermes
Science Publications 2000 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/
cond-mat/9901250 Power laws in cities population,
financial markets and internet sites (scaling in
systems with a variable number of components)
Aharon Blank and Sorin Solomon, Physica A 287
(1-2) (2000) pp.279-288 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/c
ond-mat/0003240
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Power, Lévy, exponential and Gaussian-like
regimes in autocatalytic financial systems, Z.F.
Huang and S. Solomon Eur. Phys. J. B 20, (2001)
601-607 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0008026
Finite market size as a source of extreme
wealth inequality and market instability
Zhi-Feng Huang and Sorin Solomon Physica A ,
294 (3-4) (2001) pp. 503-513 http//xxx.lanl.gov/
abs/cond-mat/0103170 Long-time fluctuations in
a dynamical model of stock market indices Ofer
Biham, Zhi-Feng Huang, Ofer Malcai and Sorin
Solomon Phys. Rev. E 64, 026101 (2001)
http//link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v64/e026101
Stochastic Multiplicative Processes for
Financial Markets Zhi-Feng Huang and Sorin
Solomon, Physica A 306 (2002) 412-422 Stability
of Pareto-Zipf law in non-stationary economies
S. Solomon and P. Richmond in Economics with
heterogeneous interacting agents, ed. by
A.Kirman and J.B. Zimmermann, Lecture Notes in
Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer,
Berlin- Heidelberg 2001 page 141
http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/012479
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Power Laws of Wealth, Market Order Volumes and
Market Returns Sorin Solomon, Peter Richmond
Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its
Applications, Vol. 299 (1-2) (2001) pp. 188-197
http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0102423 Power
Laws are disguised Boltzmann Laws Peter
Richmond, Sorin Solomon, International Journal
of Modern Physics C, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2001)
333-343 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/0010222
Self-Organization and Non-Self-Averaging
Effects in Systems of Discrete Auto-Catalytic
Elements S. Solomon, pp 351-360 in Multiscale
Computational Methods in Chemistry and Physics
eds. A. Brandt, J. Bernholc and K. Binder, IOS
Press 2001 NATO Science Series III computer
and Systems Sciences Vol. 177. Volatility
driven markets in a generalized Lotka Voltera
formalism Louzoun. Y. Solomon. S. (2001). Physica
A 302 220-233 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/01
09493 Theoretical analysis and simulations of
the generalized Lotka-Volterra model. O. Malcai,
O. Biham, P. Richmond and S. Solomon, Phys. Rev.
E66, 031102 (2002).
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Co-Evolutionist Stochastic Dynamics Emergence of
Power-LawsPower-laws in stochastic
Lotka-Volterra-Eigen-Schuster Systems S.
Solomon, P. Richmond, O. Biham and O. Malcai,
in "Towards Cognitive Economics", Eds P.
Bourgine and J.-P. Nadal, Springer (2003).
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Artificial Creativity and Novelty
Emergence Creative Sparks Jacob Goldenberg,
David Mazursky, and Sorin Solomon Science 285
1495-1496, 1999 http//shum.huji.ac.il/sorin/cr
eative-sparks.htm Toward Identifying the
Inventive Templates of New Products A Channeled
Ideation Approach, Goldenberg Jacob, David
Mazursky, and Sorin Solomon (1999), Journal of
Marketing Research, 36 (May), p. 200-210.
Meme's the Word, Jacob Goldenberg, David
Mazursky, and Sorin Solomon Science 1999
November 19 286 1477 http//shum.huji.ac.il/so
rin/meme.htm Templates of original innovation
Projecting original incremental innovations from
intrinsic information Goldenberg J. Mazursky D.
Solomon S., (1999) Technological Forecasting and
Social Change, May, Vol. 61/1 P. 1-12.
Creativity Templates Towards Identifying the
Fundamental Schemes of Quality Advertisements
Goldenberg J. Mazursky D. Solomon S. Marketing
Science, Volume 18, Number 3, 1999 Scrutinizing
Creativity Dennis Hollenberg, Jacob Goldenberg,
David Mazursky, and Sorin Solomon Science 1999
December 17 286 2269 http//shum.huji.ac.il/so
rin/creativity.htm
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Agent Based Simulations of Stock Markets
Microscopic Simulation of the Stock Market M.
Levy, H. Levy and S. Solomon, Journal de
Physique I France 5 (1995) 1087-1103.   A
microscopic model of the stock market Cycles,
booms and crashes, M. Levy, H. Levy and S.
Solomon, Economics Letters 45 (1994) 103-111.
The Complex Dynamics of a Simple Stock Market
Model M. Levy, N. Persky and S. Solomon Int. J.
of High Speed Computing 8 (1996) 93
http//shum.huji.ac.il/sorin/pers.ps
Behaviorally realistic simulations of stock
markets Traders with a soul, Computer Solomon
S Physics Communications 121-122 (1999) 161 .
http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/adap-org/9901003
Pioneers on a new continent on physics and
economics Sorin Solomon and Moshe Levy
Quantitative Finance (IoP) Volume 3, Number 1,
C12 February 2003
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The Interacting Gaps Model Reconciling
Theoretical and Numerical Approaches to
Limit-Order Models. L. Muchnik, F. Slanina, and
S. Solomon. Physica A 330 (2003) 232.
Statistical Mechanics of Conventional Traders
May Lead to Non-Conventional Market Behavior, Lev
Muchnik and Sorin Solomon Physica Scripta. Vol.
T106, 4147, 2003 An updated Review of the LLS
Stock Market Model Complex Market Ecology, Power
Laws in Wealth Distribution and Market Returns,
Sorin Siolomon and Moshe Levy, p69, in New
Directions in Statistical Physics, ed. Luc Wille,
Springer-Verlag 2004
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  Other Mental Processes The Dynamics of
Childrens's Drawings. E. Adi, I. Levin and S.
Solomon, in Perspectives on Cognitive Science,
vol. 2, ed. B. Kokinov (NBU 1995) Emergence of
Representation in Drawing The Relation Between
Kinematic and Referential Aspects Ester
Adi-Japha, Iris Levin and S. Solomon Cognitive
Development 13, 25-51 (1998) What Are Stories
Made Of? Quantitative Categorical Deconstruction
of Creation Y. Stolov, M. Idel, S. Solomon,
International Journal of Modern Physics C, Vol.
11, No. 4 (2000) 827-835 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/
cond-mat/0008192 Structures of the Mind and
Universal Music Jacob Goldenberg, David
Mazursky, and Sorin Solomon Science 2001 June
29 292 2433 http//shum.huji.ac.il/sorin/struc
tures.htm
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Global Propagation by local rules Marketing
percolation J. Goldenberg, B. Libai, S. Solomon,
N. Jan and D. Stauffer Physica A, 284 (1-4)
(2000) pp. 335-347 , http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-
mat/0005426 Social percolation models Sorin
Solomon, Gerard Weisbuch, Lucilla de Arcangelis,
Naeem Jan, Dietrich Stauffer Physica A 277
(1-2) (2000) pp. 239-247 http//shum.huji.ac.il/s
orin/soc-per.ps Self-organized percolation and
critical sales fluctuations Weisbuch G, Solomon
S Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 11 (6) 1263-1272 SEP 2000
http//shum.huji.ac.il/sorin/ws.ps Social
Percolators and Self Organized Criticality. in
Handbook of Graphs and Networks From the Genome
to the Internet, pp.113-132 eds. S. Bornholdt
and H. G. Schuster, Wiley-VCH, Berlin, 2002.
Solving Traffic Jams Human Intervention or
Self-Organization? E. Mar Or, E. Shir and S.
Solomon, International Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol. 14, No. 8 p 1007
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Emergence and Patterns in Stochastic
Autocatalytic Systems The importance of being
discrete Life always wins on the surface Nadav
M. Shnerb, Yoram Louzoun, Eldad Bettelheim, and
Sorin Solomon Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol.
97, Issue 19, 10322-10324, September 12, 2000
http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/adap-org/9912005
Adaptation of Autocatalytic Fluctuations to
Diffusive Noise N. M. Shnerb, E. Bettelheim, Y.
Louzoun, O. Agam, S. Solomon Phys Rev E Vol 63,
No 2, 2001 http//xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cond-mat/00070
97 HIV time hierarchy winning the war while,
loosing all the battles Uri Hershberg, Yoram
Louzoun, Henri Atlan and Sorin Solomon Physica A
289 (1-2) (2001) pp.178-190 http//xxx.lanl.gov/
abs/nlin.AO/0006023 The Emergence of Spatial
Complexity in the immune System. Louzoun, Y,
Solomon. S., Atlan. H., Cohen.I.R. (2001) Physica
A, 297 (1-2) pp. 242-252. http//xxx.lanl.gov/htm
l/cond-mat/0008133 The risk of being unfair, the
unstable fate of globalization. Louzoun. Y.
Mazurski. D., Goldberg. J. Solomon. S. (2003)
Artificial Life 4(9) 357 - 370 Innovations
Refuse to Die-The Unforeseen Longevity of
Society Fundamental Ideas. Mazurski. D.,
Goldberg. J. Barak.L. Louzoun. Y. Solomon. S.
(2003) Technological forecasting and Social
Change In press Proliferation and competition in
discrete biological systems. Louzoun, Y., Atlan,
H., Solomon. S., Cohen, I.R (2003) Bulletin of
mathematical biology 65(3) 375-396 Reactive Glass
and vegetation patterns, N.M. Shnerb, P. Sarah,
H. Lavee and S. Solomon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90
0381011 (2003)  pdf file