[Comp-neuro] Jim Yorke elected author/curator of "Chaos" in Scholarpedia

[Eugene M. Izhikevich]

On behalf of Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, Scholarpedia
conducted an election of authors for the article "Chaos".
The letter below was sent to Dr. Jim Yorke, (University of Maryland, 
College Park), who already accepted the invitation and will write this 
article with Dr. Tim Sauer (George Mason University). See
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Chaos

Dear Dr. Yorke,

As you might know, Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems (hosted by 
Scholarpedia, the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia,) conducted election 
of authors for the article "Chaos" with the goal to identify the best 
living expert to invite to write such an article. The nominees (in the 
order of nomination by the public) were
1. James A. Yorke
2. Tien-Yien Li
3. Edward Ott
4. Robert L. Devaney
5. Robert C. Hilborn
6. Clark Robinson
As the editor-in-chief, it is my great privilege to let you know that
you were elected to write this article for Scholarpedia
(http://www.scholarpedia.org).

The election started on 14 May 2006 and ended today, engaging 121
participants. Rules of the election are described in
http://scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:Election
In summary, each participant can vote for no more than 3 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.

I am sending you a short explanation of this project and the
instructions to reserve the article in a separate letter. Please, let me
know whether you could write this article withing a reasonable period of
time.

Sincerely yours,
Eugene M. Izhikevich,        Editor-in-Chief at scholarpedia.org
PhD, Mathematics,   Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology
The Neurosciences Institute,        http://www.izhikevich.com
10640 John J. Hopkins Drive                tel:(858) 626-2063
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