ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erik VanMarcke is a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1985 since receiving his Ph.D. there in 1970. He held visiting appointments at Harvard University and the University of Leuven in his native Belgium, and was the Shimizu Corporation Visiting Professor at Stanford University. The author of Random Fields: Analysis and Synthesis, published by the M.I.T. Press in 1983, he has since extended his studies of complex random variation to modeling the early-universe density fluctuations and their consequences, with results presented in Quantum Origins of Cosmic Structure. For more information, please see Professor VanMarcke's homepage.