Andrew J. BlumbergAndrew J. Blumberg is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas, Austin. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Peter May and Michael Mandell, and was later a National Science Foundaion postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, California. He also spent a year as a member at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, New Jersey. His pure mathematics research focuses primarily on homotopy theory and algebraic topology and his applied research focuses on the development of topological and geometric techniques for studying genomic data. Read More Read Less