He urges that our attention be directed, not to individual hypotheses, nor even to theoretical networks at any one point in time, but to developing research programmes over a span of time — such as the Newtonian programme to treat the universe as a mechanical system, or Bohr's programme for the quantization of atomic systems. (religion-online.org)
Ben received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of California, Berkeley where he worked under Stephen R. Leone studying ultrafast electronic relaxation dynamics in atomic systems as well as competitive electronic - nuclear dynamics in superexcited states of small molecules using femtosecond soft X - ray / VUV light sources. (ornl.gov)
Their model, which employs concepts from the physics of complex atomic systems, was developed by Didier Sornette of the Financial Crisis Observatory in Zurich, Switzerland, and Wei - Xing Zhou of the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai. (newscientist.com)