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Pavel A. Pevzner

Pavel A. Pevzner is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pavel A. Pevzner rather than just read about it. In short: Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner (Russian: Павел Аркадьевич Певзнер) is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner (Russian: Павел Аркадьевич Певзнер) is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego. He serves on the editorial board of PLoS Computational Biology and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore scientific advisory board.

Education Pevzner received his Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology while working for the Russian Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (NII Genetika). In 1990, he joined Michael Waterman's laboratory in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California for two years as a postdoctoral research associate.

Career and research Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level, serving as a founding instructor for the bioinformatics specialization on Coursera and having written several books on bioinformatics and computational biology. In 1992, Pevzner took the position of associate professor at Pennsylvania State University. In 1995, Pevzner moved back to the University of Southern California as a professor of mathematics, computer science, and molecular biology. Since 2000, he has been the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego and he is the director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry.

Books Computational Molecular Biology, MIT Press, 2000 An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms, MIT Press, 2004 (co-authored with Neil Jones) Bioinformatics for Biologists, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (co-edited with Ron Shamir) Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach, Active Learning Publishers, 2014 (co-authored with Phillip Compeau)

Awards and honors NSF Young Investigator Award (1994, 1995) HHMI Professor award (2006) from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute UCSD Chancellor Associates Award for Excellence in Research (2007) ACM Fellow (2010), for contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomics Honoris causa degree (2011) from Simon Fraser University ISCB Fellow (2012) ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2017) ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2018)

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pavel A. Pevzner

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pavel A. Pevzner claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pavel A. Pevzner before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pavel A. Pevzner ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pavel A. Pevzner

In research: Pavel A. Pevzner appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pavel A. Pevzner in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pavel A. Pevzner is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 20th-century Russian mathematicians, 20th-century Russian physicists, 21st-century Russian mathematicians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pavel A. Pevzner outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Pavel A. Pevzner matter?

Because it connects several physics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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