Sean Gourley: Mathematician of War

How Sean Gourley predicts war:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/physicists-fool-proof-war-forumla-just-add-media-accounts/

Sean Gourley predicting war at TED:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sean_gourley_on_the_mathematics_of_war.html

The Mother (Nature) of All Wars?
Modern Wars, Global Terrorism, and Complexity Science
Sean Gourley in the American Physical Society:
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/backpage.cfm

Sean Gourley on LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sgourley

A critique by Drew Conway:
http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=577

Sean Gourley also has a startup predictor, YouNoodle
http://younoodle.com/static/about

Sean Gourley CV from http://younoodle.com/people/sean_gourley

New Zealander, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, PhD in Physics specializing in 'networks and complexity', just finished a research fellowship at Oxford in the quantitative analysis of war and terrorism.
Headline: Scientist
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://www.twitter.com/sgourley
Industries: Cleantech, Computing, Financial, Media, Nanotech
Skills: Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Management, Product design, Writing
Location: Oxford
Groups: Global Entrepreneurship Week
Visas: Europe, United States and New Zealand/Australia
Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Offering Expertise, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, complexity, conflict, data analysis, data mining, Strategy, track and field, war
Schools: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, University of Oxford

Sean Gourley STARTUP
YouNoodle
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* Startup type: Company
* Status: Active
* Stage: Beta

Sean Gourley WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer: Said Business School Oxford
Position: Research Fellow
Time period: October 2006 - April 2008
Description: Conducted novel research into the quantitative analysis of wars and terrorism

Employer: NASA
Position: Scientist
Time period: June 2004 - January 2005
Description: Research into the design of self repairing nanocircuits

Sean Gourley EDUCATION
University: University of Oxford
Time period: 2002 - 2007
Degree: Physics: Complex Systems, PhD

University: University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Time period: 2001 - 2002
Degree: Physics: Nanotechnology, MSc

PUBLICATIONS
Articles: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/20...
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/backpage.cfm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/oct/24/iraq.intern...
http://www.johnbohannon.org/NewFiles/socialscience.pdf
INFORMATION
Sports: Track and Field, Decathlon, Surfing
Awards: Rhodes Scholarship
TED fellow 2009