Biography

Louis Kauffman is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and currently visiting professor at the University of Waterloo and at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada. Kauffman's interests are in cybernetics, topology (knot theory and its ramifications) and foundations of mathematics and physics. He is the 1993 recipient of the Warren McCulloch award of the American Society for Cybernetics and currently writes a column entitled Virtual Logic for the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing.