Steve Hsu is Vice-President for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University, where he oversees over $500 million in annual research expenditures. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held professorships at Yale University and the University of Oregon. Hsu was founder and CEO of SafeWeb, an information security startup acquired by Symantec. He is a scientific advisor to BGI and a member of its Cognitive Genomics Lab. Hsu has developed new algorithms for genomic prediction using large scale datasets.
Steve Hsu
Vice-President for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University
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Jan 1st
2015
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2015
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Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics
This series of fourteen roundtables will explore fundamental questions across the sciences and humanities, including knowledge and its limits, infinity, complexity and emergence, consciousness, memory, free will, genius, development, and the nature of human experience.
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Oct 3rd
2015
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2015
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Understanding Genius
This roundtable will examine competing philosophical and historical conceptions of genius, including the relationship between talent and originality, and whether originality is the defining feature of genius.