Chinese Academy of Sciences Honorary Professor
(2/4/2007)
This is so cool! I received an appointment 2 weeks ago to be an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). You know I am a geek; why else would I be a member of the neurology book of the month club? Now I have a place to talk with people about my crazy ideas to integrate economics, finance, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics into something that actually works--as opposed to macroeconomics and modern portfolio theory.
This is a photo of a happy me receiving my appointment certificate from Cheng Siwei, Dean of the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS). As I wrote earlier today, Cheng Siwei's day job is vice chairman of the Standing Committee.
My duties will be to give several lectures each year to the CAS faculty and graduate students and to supervise PhD dissertations (I have my first graduate student already--a wonderful person named LI hong, who is writing about venture capital and innovation. And I will teach a 4 week course this summer exploring ways to use recent advances in non-equilibrium thermodynamics in economics and finance.
The best part of the day was my visit with Cheng Siwei after the ceremony. More on that later.