Gernot Akemann Editor

Gernot Akemann gained his PhD in theoretical physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover in 1996. He was an EU Marie-Curie Fellow from 1996 until 1998. He has worked at MPIK Heidelberg and later at CEA SPhT, where he held a Heisenberg fellowship. He is currently Professor for Mathematical Physics at the Faculty of Physics, Bielefeld University, Germany. Jinho Baik gained his PhD in mathematics at New York University in 1999. He has been the recipient of the AMS Centennial Fellowship, the Sloan Research Fellowship and he won the CMFT2005 Young Researcher Award. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan. Philippe Di Francesco gained his PhD in theoretical physics in 1989 at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6). He completed his habilitation in mathematics in 2004 at the Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7). He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics, Princeton and a professor with the Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina. He has been a research member of IPHT, CEA Saclay since 1989.