Tag: Math

  • Nation & World

    Think of jailing debtors as Dickensian? Think again.

    Harvard-led study of three states finds thousands are jailed each year for failure to pay court costs, often for misdemeanors.

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    Person holds bars of jail cell.
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    Feeling passionate about math

    Morgane Austern joined the Department of Statistics as an assistant professor in July.

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    Morgane Austern.
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    Wood becomes first woman to win $1M Waterman Award in math

    Professor Melanie Wood has won the Alan T. Waterman Award, becoming the first woman ever to receive it in mathematics.

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    Melanie Wood.
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    Researcher connects the dots in fin-to-limb evolution

    With an innovative technique called anatomical network analysis, clear patterns emerge that help solve the puzzle of how fins became limbs 420 million years ago.

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    Our endless fascination with pi

    For centuries, pi — the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter — has fascinated mathematicians and scientists. For more perspective on the famous number, the Gazette turned to physics lecturer Jacob Barandes — who, with some help from his 9-year-old daughter, Sadie, recited pi to 100 digits for us.

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    $100M gift will support sciences and math

    A Harvard alumnus and his wife made a gift of $100 million to support the University’s Science Center, enhance mathematics scholarship, and provide unrestricted resources for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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    The Science Center at Harvard
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    New faculty: Lauren Williams

    The Gazette sits down with Lauren Williams, the second woman to be tenured in Harvard’s Math Department and the Seaver Professor at the Radcliffe Institute.

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    Lauren Williams.
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    Bringing biology and mathematics together

    The National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation have awarded a grant to Harvard scientists to create a research center aimed at bringing biologists and mathematicians together to answer some of the central questions about living systems.

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    Picture-perfect approach to science

    After creating a 3-D language called quon, which could be used to understand concepts related to quantum information theory, Harvard mathematicians now say the language offers tantalizing hints that it could offer insight into a host of other areas in mathematics, from algebra to Fourier analysis, and in theoretical physics from statistical physics to string…

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    Making math more Lego-like

    A trio of Harvard researchers has developed a new 3-D pictorial language for mathematics with potential as a tool across a wide spectrum, from pure math to physics.

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    Harvard Ed Portal

    The Harvard Allston Education Portal “Showcase” drew nearly 100 people, including Ed Portal mentors, the Allston youngsters they’ve worked with, family members, and Harvard faculty and staff, to celebrate the conclusion of yet another semester of learning. Both mentees and mentors demonstrated the special connections that form at the Ed Portal and how contagious the…

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    Young pioneers of science

    Four hundred eighth-grade students from the Cambridge public schools visited campus to discuss their science experiments with the Harvard community.

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    GPA SmartTALK Family Math Night February 16, 2011

    The North Allston elementary school’s first Math Night, held Feb. 16, brought parents into the school for an Italian dinner and a chance to learn fun ways to practice math with their children. But the evening, sponsored by the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI), also provided the school’s families with insight into the up-to-date learning…

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    Harvard College senior wins Churchill Scholarship

    Jonathan P. Wang ’11 has won the prestigious Churchill Scholarship for students in science, math, and engineering.

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    Business School boost

    A group of college undergraduates from around the country took part in a weeklong summer program at Harvard Business School in June designed to help them explore the business school environment through the HBS case method.

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    It’s all about the numbers

    Alexander Ahmed ’10 shows a passion for statistics both on the diamond and in the classroom.

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    Mark Kisin joins Harvard as professor of mathematics

    Mark Kisin, one of the world’s most promising young number theorists, has been named professor of mathematics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1.

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    Molecular secrets in atomic nuclei

    For Navin Khaneja, spinning nuclei are like atomic spies. With a little coaxing, they will tell the secrets of the molecules in which they sit.

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    Brenner named SEAS associate dean for applied mathematics

    Frans Spaepen, interim dean at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics, has appointed applied mathematician Michael P. Brenner as the School’s first associate dean for applied mathematics.

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    Geometry plays part in cellular protein arrangement

    Harvard researchers examining the activity of a common type of soil bacteria have taken another step in understanding the inner workings of cells, showing that proteins can arrange themselves according to a cell’s inner geometry.

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    Kou named inaugural recipient of Young Investigator Award

    Samuel Kou, professor of statistics and director of graduate studies in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award from Texas A&M University on March 14. Kou was presented with his award as part of “Statistical Methods for Complex Data,” a daylong…

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