Peter Salamon

Peter Salamon
EducationUniversity of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Chemistry, Physics
WorkplacesSan Diego State University
ThesisThe Thermodynamic Legendre Transform or How to Observe the Inside of a Black Box (1978)
Websitehttps://salamon.sdsu.edu/

Peter Salamon is an American mathematician and emeritus professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University.

Early life and education

Salamon emigrated with his family from Hungary to the United States at the age of ten. He grew up in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, where he obtained a PhD in chemistry in the research group of R. Stephen Berry.

Previously, in 1971, he earned a B.A. in mathematics from Lindenwood College and an M.S. in mathematics from Drexel University in 1972.

Career

In 1984, Salamon co-founded the Telluride Science and Innovation Centre, together with R. Stephen Berry. Salamon served as Telluride Science's first chairman of the board and president from 1984 through 1987.

Salamon has been affiliated with San Diego State University since 1980. He has also held visiting positions at Tel Aviv University, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Heidelberg, the Hebrew University and a few other institutions.

Research work

Salamon has published mathematical articles related to biomathematics, thermodynamics in finite time, geometrical thermodynamics, optimization and mathematical modeling. He has an Erdős number of one and has written a book on finite time thermodynamic. Most of Salamon's work deal with optimal control of thermodynamic processes in finite time. Salamon, along with other authors presented the first metagenomic analyses of an uncultured viral community from 200 gallons of seawater using partial shotgun sequencing. In 1990, Salamon introduced the idea of using ensembles of neural networks.

Selected publications