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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Yaneer_Bar-Yam_preparing_for_his_talk_on_Day_2_of_Wikimania_2014.jpg/240px-Yaneer_Bar-Yam_preparing_for_his_talk_on_Day_2_of_Wikimania_2014.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Yaneer_Bar-Yam_preparing_for_his_talk_on_Day_2_of_Wikimania_2014.jpg/360px-Yaneer_Bar-Yam_preparing_for_his_talk_on_Day_2_of_Wikimania_2014.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Yaneer_Bar-Yam_preparing_for_his_talk_on_Day_2_of_Wikimania_2014.jpg/480px-Yaneer_Bar-Yam_preparing_for_his_talk_on_Day_2_of_Wikimania_2014.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4634" data-file-height="3089" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Bar-Yam (on the left) at <a href="/wiki/Wikimania" title="Wikimania">Wikimania</a> 2014</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1959 (age 64–65)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> <small> (BS, PhD)</small></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Complex_systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex systems">Complex systems</a> (Application to social, biological and physical systems)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_England_Complex_Systems_Institute" title="New England Complex Systems Institute">New England Complex Systems Institute</a> (NECSI) <small> (1997-today)</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a> <small> (1991-1997)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984PhDT........75B">Microscopic Theory of the Dynamics of Defects in Semiconductors.</a></i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1984)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Joannopoulos" title="John Joannopoulos">John Dimitris Joannopoulos</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Erik_Rauch" title="Erik Rauch">Erik Rauch</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://necsi.edu/faculty/bar-yam.html">necsi<wbr />.edu<wbr />/faculty<wbr />/bar-yam<wbr />.html</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Yaneer Bar-Yam</b> (born 1959) is an American scientist and activist specializing in <a href="/wiki/Complex_system" title="Complex system">complex systems</a>. An expert in the quantitative analysis of <a href="/wiki/Pandemic" title="Pandemic">pandemics</a>, he advised policy makers on the <a href="/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Western African Ebola virus epidemic">Western African Ebola virus epidemic</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and founded EndCoronavirus.org, a global network of several volunteers formed in February 2020 to provide information, guidelines, and policy advocacy to fight the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the founding president of the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Complex_Systems_Institute" title="New England Complex Systems Institute">New England Complex Systems Institute</a> (NECSI), an independent research institution that studies complex systems science and its real-world applications. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Yaneer Bar-Yam was born in <a href="/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston, Massachusetts">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, in 1959 to Israeli parents. His father, Zvi Bar-Yam, is a high-energy particle physicist, and his mother, Miriam Bar-Yam, is a developmental psychologist. He received his <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">BS</a> degree in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in 1984, both in physics from the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>. He was a Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow, and a joint postdoctoral fellow at MIT and <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>. In 1991, following a junior faculty appointment at the <a href="/wiki/Weizmann_Institute_of_Science" title="Weizmann Institute of Science">Weizmann Institute of Science</a>, he was appointed an Associate Professor of Engineering at <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a>. He left Boston University in 1997 to become the founding president of the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Complex_Systems_Institute" title="New England Complex Systems Institute">New England Complex Systems Institute</a>, a position he holds as of May 2020. </p><p>Bar-Yam was a visiting scholar at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_Boston" title="Federal Reserve Bank of Boston">Federal Reserve Bank of Boston</a>. He was chairman of the International Conference on Complex Systems, an annual forum dedicated to bridging the domains of complexity science and real-world systems, and is the managing editor of InterJournal, a NECSI publication on selected topics in science and engineering. </p><p>Bar-Yam is currently a research scientist at the <a href="/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab" title="MIT Media Lab">MIT Media Lab</a>, and is the managing editor of the <a href="/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media" title="Springer Science+Business Media">Springer</a> book series on complexity.<sup id="cite_ref-NESCI_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NESCI-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WICI_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WICI-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kaput_Center_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaput_Center-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Forbes_India_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forbes_India-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ideas_and_Theories">Ideas and Theories</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ideas and Theories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The NECSI website defined "complex systems" as systems that "have multiple interacting components whose collective behavior cannot be simply inferred from the behavior of components." Bar-Yam is considered a contributor to the founding of the field of complex systems science, having introduced fundamental rigor, real-world applications, and educational programs to the field. </p><p>Bar-Yam studies the unified properties of <a href="/wiki/Complex_systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex systems">complex systems</a> as a systematic strategy for answering basic questions about the world. His research is focused both on formalizing complex systems concepts and relating them to everyday problems. In particular, he studies the relationship between observations at different scales, formal properties of descriptions of systems, the relationship of structure and function, the representation of information as a physical quantity, and quantitative properties of the complexity of real systems. Applications have been to <a href="/wiki/Physical_system" title="Physical system">physical</a>, <a href="/wiki/Biological" class="mw-redirect" title="Biological">biological</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Social_system" title="Social system">social systems</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NESCI_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NESCI-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WICI_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WICI-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kaput_Center_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaput_Center-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Forbes_India_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forbes_India-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ISSS_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ISSS-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His recent work analyzes the origins and impacts of market crashes, social unrest, ethnic violence, military conflict and pandemics, the structure and dynamics of social networks, and the bases of creativity, panic, evolution, and altruism.<sup id="cite_ref-NESCI_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NESCI-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bar-Yam has made further contributions to the theory of the structural and electronic dynamics of materials, the theory of polymer dynamics and protein folding, the theory of neural networks and structure-function relationships, the theory of quantitative multiscale complexity, and the theory of evolution. His development of multiscale representations as a generalization of renormalization group addressed the limitations of calculus and statistics in the study of nonlinear and network system dependencies on collective behaviors.<sup id="cite_ref-NESCI_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NESCI-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Work">Work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="NECSI">NECSI</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: NECSI"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bar-Yam is the president of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based NECSI, an independent research institution and think tank dedicated to the study of complex systems and its applications to solving real-world problems. NECSI was established by faculty members of various New England academic institutions, including MIT, Harvard, <a href="/wiki/Brandeis_University" title="Brandeis University">Brandeis</a>, and others, to encourage collaboration among researchers. In addition to its in-house research team, NECSI has co-faculty, students, and affiliates from universities around the world. NECSI also conducts classes, seminars, and conferences to assist students, faculty, and professionals in their understanding of complex systems. NECSI's faculty, co-faculty, and affiliates represent a wide range of scientific disciplines, and have included <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Kagan" title="Jerome Kagan">Jerome Kagan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Schelling" title="Thomas Schelling">Thomas Schelling</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb" title="Nassim Nicholas Taleb">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>. NECSI researchers have contributed to such varied areas as networks, social systems, food crises, and economic systems.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2020, NECSI and Bar-Yam established EndCoronavirus.org to offer information, guidelines, and policy advocacy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Consulting_and_advisory">Consulting and advisory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Consulting and advisory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bar-Yam has advised many policymaking and regulatory bodies on various topics, including: the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">Pentagon's</a> Chairman Action Group on global social unrest and the crises in Egypt and Syria; the <a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council" title="United States National Security Council">National Security Council</a> and the National Counter Terrorism Council on global strategy; the <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_Naval_Operations" title="Chief of Naval Operations">Chief of Naval Operations</a> Strategic Studies Group on military force transformation; the <a href="/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention" title="Centers for Disease Control and Prevention">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> on delivery of prevention services and control of hospital infections; Congressman <a href="/wiki/Barney_Frank" title="Barney Frank">Barney Frank</a> (as chairman of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="United States House Committee on Financial Services">House Financial Services Committee</a>) on market regulation and the financial crisis. He has given 175 invited presentations, and has taught the concepts and methods of complex systems science to over 2,000 graduate students, professionals, and executives.<sup id="cite_ref-NESCI_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NESCI-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pandemics_Research_and_Activism">Pandemics Research and Activism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Pandemics Research and Activism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Overview">Overview</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pandemics are a natural field of study for complex systems scientists, as many of the main insights of the discipline—including <a href="/wiki/Network_theory" title="Network theory">network theory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nonlinear_system" title="Nonlinear system">nonlinearity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chaos_theory" title="Chaos theory">chaos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emergence" title="Emergence">emergent properties</a>, <a href="/wiki/Complex_system" title="Complex system">adaptation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ergodicity" title="Ergodicity">non-ergodicity</a>—can be directly brought to bear on the analysis of infectious diseases and their spread. </p><p>Bar-Yam has studied pandemics since the early 2000s, in concert with NECSI's stated mission to foster collaboration among different disciplines (e.g. mathematics and epidemiology) and to apply theoretical work to problems in the real world. His research has emphasized the role of increasing global travel in pandemics; community monitoring of symptoms as potentially superior to conventional testing, tracking, and tracing techniques; and specific guidelines for individuals, policymakers, healthcare workers, and businesses to slow the spread of infectious diseases.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bar-Yam's early research on pandemics identified the fatality rate of an infectious disease as a key limiting factor in its ability to spread. For the deadliest diseases, he argued that the pathogen would rapidly exhaust the local supply of hosts to infect, and would therefore disappear before it could spread beyond the initial local area of outbreak.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 2006 paper co-authored with <a href="/wiki/Erik_Rauch" title="Erik Rauch">Erik Rauch</a>, Bar-Yam introduced global travel (e.g. international long-distance flights and overseas shipment of livestock) as a new variable to his earlier pandemic models, which yielded a nonlinear relationship between the amount of global travel and the ultimate severity of an outbreak. Specifically, the authors found that up to a certain point, increasing global travel had little impact on the overall severity of an outbreak. However, when the amount of travel approached a critical threshold, the ultimate severity of the outbreak (and its likelihood of becoming a global pandemic) increased suddenly and sharply.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Due to increasing global travel," Bar-Yam and Rauch wrote in the 2006 paper, "human beings may cross the transition into the realm of pandemics unless preventive actions are taken that either limit global transportation or its impact."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ebola">Ebola</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Ebola"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the Western African Ebola virus epidemic which began in 2013, Bar-Yam advocated in favor of curtailing transportation from West Africa, arguing that even in cases where significant interconnectivity between populations already existed, even a small amount of <i>additional</i> interconnectivity could dramatically increase the severity of an outbreak.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bar-Yam also advocated in favor of community monitoring to fight the Ebola epidemic. The conventional response to infectious disease outbreaks emphasizes individual contact tracing, i.e. the effort to locate all individuals who were in contact with an individual known to carry the disease. Bar-Yam argued that it would be more effective and efficient to monitor local communities (defined as a natural population unit to and from which transportation can be logically curtailed)<sup id="cite_ref-:2_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as a whole—in other words, to treat an entire community as "infected" once one individual in that community is infected, and then intensively screen that community for additional cases while instituting local transportation restrictions. This type of community response would progressively limit the disease to smaller geographical areas, Bar-Yam argued, while improving the allocation of resources.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bar-Yam argued that community monitoring played a significant role in halting the <a href="/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_Liberia" title="Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia">Ebola epidemic in Liberia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="COVID-19">COVID-19</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: COVID-19"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 26, 2020, one week after the first case of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 disease in the United States</a> was reported, Bar-Yam co-authored a note with Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Joseph Norman. The note outlined several principles in connection with the novel coronavirus outbreak, and argued that policy responses should follow a precautionary approach, including drastically constraining human mobility patterns as soon and as swiftly as possible.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On February 29, 2020, Bar-Yam and NECSI established EndCoronavirus.org, a global volunteer network, to provide information and guidelines for action to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. EndCoronavirus.org was among the first organizations in the United States to offer specific guidelines for policymakers, businesses, and individuals. As of May 2020, EndCoronavirus.org had over 4,000 volunteers.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 13, 2020, the "Coronavirus Guidelines for Businesses" written by EndCoronavirus.org were adopted by the <a href="/wiki/International_Chamber_of_Commerce" title="International Chamber of Commerce">International Chamber of Commerce</a>, the global business organization representing over 45 million members in over 100 countries.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 21, 2020, <i><a href="/wiki/USA_Today" title="USA Today">USA Today</a></i> published an opinion piece by Bar-Yam, in which he argued for an immediate five-week lockdown in the entire United States to defeat COVID-19.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 5, 2020, Bar-Yam and Chen Shen published a paper titled "COVID-19: How to Win," which summarized his recommendations. Those recommendations included a lockdown, separate quarantine facilities for mild and moderate COVID-19 cases to prevent transmission within households, mask wearing in shared spaces, travel restrictions, improved safety of essential services, increased testing, health guidelines to prevent mild cases from becoming severe, and increased support for hospitals and healthcare workers.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 15, 2020, Bar-Yam reported via Twitter that he was assisting the government of <a href="/wiki/Kosovo" title="Kosovo">Kosovo</a> in its efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 28, 2020, Bar-Yam was consulted by Virginia residents on an open letter to <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Northam" title="Ralph Northam">Ralph Northam</a>, the governor of Virginia, calling for more aggressive action to fight COVID-19 in that state.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The letter was signed by 430 scientists, doctors, and citizens as of May 25, 2020. </p><p>On May 12, 2020, <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN.com</a> published an opinion piece by Bar-Yam, in which he argued against the premature opening of states, and urged individual citizens to continue strict restrictions on their movement and contact with others.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 26, 2021, Bar-Yam suggested solely on the basis of a simple linear extrapolation that the omicron variant might have eight times the fatality rate of the wild-type virus.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bar-Yam is the author and/or editor of several books, as well as the author of more than 200 research papers in professional journals, including in Science, Nature, PNAS, American Naturalist, and Physical Review Letters.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has published on a range of scientific and real-world problems, including <a href="/wiki/Cell_biology" title="Cell biology">cell biology</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial crisis of 2007–08">global financial crisis</a>, and is the holder of four patents. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1">Bar-Yam, Y. (1997). <i>Dynamics of Complex Systems</i>. New York: Perseus Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-2015-5748-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-2015-5748-0"><bdi>978-0-2015-5748-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dynamics+of+Complex+Systems&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Perseus+Books&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-2015-5748-0&rft.aulast=Bar-Yam&rft.aufirst=Y.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Bar-Yam, Y. (2005). <i>Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World</i>. Cambridge, MA: Knowledge Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9656-3282-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9656-3282-9"><bdi>978-0-9656-3282-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Making+Things+Work%3A+Solving+Complex+Problems+in+a+Complex+World&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=Knowledge+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-9656-3282-9&rft.aulast=Bar-Yam&rft.aufirst=Y.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Selected_papers">Selected papers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Selected papers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Bar-Yam, Y.; Egami, T.; Mustre-Ed Leon, J.; Bishop, A. R., eds. (1992). <i>Lattice Effects in High-Tc Superconductors: Proceedings of the Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 13-15, 1992</i>. Cambridge, MA: World Scientific. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9-8102-0970-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-9-8102-0970-4"><bdi>978-9-8102-0970-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lattice+Effects+in+High-Tc+Superconductors%3A+Proceedings+of+the+Conference%2C+Santa+Fe%2C+New+Mexico%2C+January+13-15%2C+1992&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=World+Scientific&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=978-9-8102-0970-4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Bar-Yam, Y., ed. (2000). <i>Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex Systems</i>. New York: Perseus Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7382-0049-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7382-0049-1"><bdi>978-0-7382-0049-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Unifying+Themes+in+Complex+Systems%2C+Volume+1%3A+Proceedings+of+the+First+International+Conference+on+Complex+Systems&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Perseus+Books&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-7382-0049-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Bar-Yam, Y.; Minai, A. A., eds. (2003). <i>Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, Volume 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Complex Systems</i>. New York: Perseus Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8133-4124-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8133-4124-8"><bdi>978-0-8133-4124-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Unifying+Themes+in+Complex+Systems%2C+Volume+2%3A+Proceedings+of+the+Second+International+Conference+on+Complex+Systems&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Perseus+Books&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-8133-4124-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Lagi, M.; Bar-Yam, Yavni; Bertrand, K. Z.; Yaneer, Bar-Yam, eds. (2012). <i>Economics of Food Prices and Crises</i>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: New England Complex Systems Institute. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9656328-5-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9656328-5-0"><bdi>978-0-9656328-5-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Economics+of+Food+Prices+and+Crises&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+Massachusetts&rft.pub=New+England+Complex+Systems+Institute&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0-9656328-5-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">vos Fellman, P.; Bar-Yam, Y.; Minai, A. A., eds. (2015). <i>Conflict and Complexity: Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence</i>. New York: Springer. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4939-1704-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4939-1704-4"><bdi>978-1-4939-1704-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Conflict+and+Complexity%3A+Countering+Terrorism%2C+Insurgency%2C+Ethnic+and+Regional+Violence&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Springer&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=978-1-4939-1704-4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theses">Theses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Theses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBar-Yam1978" class="citation thesis cs1">Bar-Yam, Y. (1978). <i>The MIT three-element radio interferometer (miniferometer) and observations of Saturn at 1.35 cm</i> (BS thesis). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adissertation&rft.title=The+MIT+three-element+radio+interferometer+%28miniferometer%29+and+observations+of+Saturn+at+1.35+cm&rft.degree=BS&rft.inst=Massachusetts+Institute+of+Technology&rft.date=1978&rft.aulast=Bar-Yam&rft.aufirst=Y.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBar-Yam1984" class="citation thesis cs1">Bar-Yam, Y. (1984). <i>Microscopic Theory of the Dynamics of Defects in Semiconductors</i> (PhD thesis). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adissertation&rft.title=Microscopic+Theory+of+the+Dynamics+of+Defects+in+Semiconductors.&rft.degree=PhD&rft.inst=Massachusetts+Institute+of+Technology&rft.date=1984&rft.aulast=Bar-Yam&rft.aufirst=Y.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYaneer+Bar-Yam" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Patents">Patents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Patents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><span class="citation patent" id="CITEREFBar-Yam,_Yaneer1997"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldwide.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US5687286">US 5687286</a>, Bar-Yam, Yaneer, "Neural networks with subdivision", published 1997-11-11</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Apatent&rft.number=5687286&rft.cc=US&rft.title=Neural+networks+with+subdivision&rft.inventor=Bar-Yam%2C+Yaneer&rft.pubdate=1997-11-11"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation patent" id="CITEREFBar-Yam,_Yaneer2012"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldwide.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US8296242">US 8296242</a>, Bar-Yam, Yaneer, "Method and apparatus for coordinating and tracking delivery of a benefit", published 2012-10-23</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Apatent&rft.number=8296242&rft.cc=US&rft.title=Method+and+apparatus+for+coordinating+and+tracking+delivery+of+a+benefit&rft.inventor=Bar-Yam%2C+Yaneer&rft.pubdate=2012-10-23"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation patent" id="CITEREFBar-Yam,_Yaneer;_Harmon,_Dion;_Virdee,_Kawandeep;_Misra,_Vedant;_Lagi,_Marco2014"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldwide.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US8683389">US 8683389</a>, Bar-Yam, Yaneer; Harmon, Dion; Virdee, Kawandeep; Misra, Vedant; Lagi, Marco, "Method and apparatus for dynamic information visualization", published 2014-03-25</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Apatent&rft.number=8683389&rft.cc=US&rft.title=Method+and+apparatus+for+dynamic+information+visualization&rft.inventor=Bar-Yam%2C+Yaneer%3B+Harmon%2C+Dion%3B+Virdee%2C+Kawandeep%3B+Misra%2C+Vedant%3B+Lagi%2C+Marco&rft.pubdate=2014-03-25"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation patent" id="CITEREFBar-Yam,_Yaneer2019"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://worldwide.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US10191956">US 10191956</a>, Bar-Yam, Yaneer, "Event detection and characterization in big data streams", published 2019-01-29</span><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Apatent&rft.number=10191956&rft.cc=US&rft.title=Event+detection+and+characterization+in+big+data+streams&rft.inventor=Bar-Yam%2C+Yaneer&rft.pubdate=2019-01-29"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors">Honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2011: Cited among the top scientific discoveries of 2011 by <i>Wired</i> magazine for his work on the causes of the global food crisis.</li> <li>2011 and 2013: Received recognition among "best of" from <i>Wired</i> for his scientific visualizations.</li> <li>2013: Received recognition among "best of" from <i>Motherboard</i> for his scientific visualizations.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_England_Complex_Systems_Institute" title="New England Complex Systems Institute">New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Systems_science" title="Systems science">Systems science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complex_system" title="Complex system">Complex system</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yaneer_Bar-Yam&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://necsi.edu/how-community-response-stopped-ebola">"How Community Response Stopped Ebola"</a>. <i>New England Complex Systems Institute</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230527212010/https://necsi.edu/how-community-response-stopped-ebola">Archived</a> from the original on 2023-05-27<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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