Gregory Laughlin received a Bachelors of Arts in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1988, and a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1994. He held an NSF/JSPS Fellowship in Tokyo, and also did postdoctoral research and the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley. From 1999-2001 he worked for NASA as a planetary scientist. Since 2001, he has been a member of the astronomy and astrophysics faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2004, he was recipient of an NSF CAREER award. He was promoted to Full Professor in June 2007.

In his faculty position, Dr. Laughlin leads a team that conducts research on extrasolar planet detection and characterization. He is an expert on the analysis of time-series data, and on large-scale numerical simulations. He has published over 70 refereed scholarly articles. His 2006 graduate-level textbook, "Numerical Methods in Astrophysics: An Introduction" (with Peter Bodenheimer, Michal Rozyczka, and Harold Yorke) is a detailed survey of the computational techniques that are currently being employed in astrophysics research.

For the past 15 years, Laughlin has maintained an active interest in quantitative finance and the application of modern data analysis methods to market data streams. He believes that there is potential for significant cross-fertilization between the disciplines of computational astrophysics and numerical finance, and he is using his association with OKLO financial to explore these connections.

Email: oklo@mac.com

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