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Directed Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Spinning Neutron Stars in Binary Systems
Directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars in binary systems by Grant David Meadors Adissertationsubmittedinpartialfulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Physics) in The University of Michigan 2014 Doctoral Committee: Professor John Keith Riles, Chair Professor Fred C. Adams Professor Nuria Pilar Calvet Research Scientist Herold Richard Gustafson Professor Timothy A. McKay Professor Stephen C. Rand c Grant David Meadors 2014 ⃝ All Rights Reserved To the tree of Life, which took stardust and evolved into us. Pro arbore Vitae, ex nube stellarum ad nos evolvit. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks should go beyond a simple page. Lest I forget, let me reflect on all the people without whom I would not have made it here. To my parents, Erin O’Rourke- Meadors and Gregory David Meadors, and my brother, Patrick Thomas Meadors. Home’s name follows you; three decades have we explored – beyond seas, roots grow. My dear grandmother, Florenceann O’Rourke (n´ee Williams), supported my undergraduate studies at Reed College. Aunt Nan & Uncle Bud Williams made book- reading & museum-going fond memories. Hanford gave time to learn my family’s wonderful stories. If only my paternal grandparents, ShulerandJeanne(Brown) Meadors, could be here too. Ethan Obie Romero-Severson is ever a devoted friend in adventures & colleague in mathematics: Team Science for fouryearsandcounting! Keith Riles is a dedicated and conscientious adviser: steadyprogressishownew science is born – detecting gravitational waves is a tricky task, and his thoughtful attention to details will be part of what makes it possible. Dick Gustafson introduced me to the field in 2005 and has helped ever since; my only regret working with him is that we never flew the glider, although we nearly won a sailboat regatta. -
In Memoriam Nico Van Kampen
In memoriam Nico van Kampen 1 Nicolaas Godfried van Kampen was born on June 22, 1921 at Leyden, the Netherlands, where his father held a chair in zoology at the university. He deceased on October 6, 2013 in the Dutch town Nieuwegein. His long life was dedicated to physics. Science was his passion until the last day. After finishing his secondary school education at the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden he started studying mathematics and physics at Leyden University in September 1939. After this university was closed by the Germans in November 1940 he moved to Groningen, where his uncle Frits Zernike held the chair of theoretical physics. He finished his studies there in 1947, and started working on his PhD thesis with Kramers at Leyden. Zernike and Kramers were his role models, and he always talked about them with deep appreciation. In 1948 and 1950, while working under Kramers, he wrote two articles on diffraction in optics[1],[2], based on his work with Zernike, recipient of the 1953 Nobel prize for the invention of the phase contrast microscope. In his dissertation Van Kampen treated the quantum mechanical interaction of an elec- tron with the electromagnetic field, elaborating Kramers' ideas on renormalization. During his PhD studies he spent a year at Niels Bohr's institute in Copenhagen, and in 1952 he graduated cum laude at the university of Leyden, only a few months before Kramers died. The title of his thesis was "Contribution to the quantum theory of light scattering"[3]. In 1952/1953 he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, continuing his work on quantum mechanical scattering theory. -
2015 World Science Festival to Comprise More Than 50 Events Over Five Days in Indoor and Outdoor Locations Across New York City, May 27–31
For Immediate Release, May 4, 2015 2015 WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL TO COMPRISE MORE THAN 50 EVENTS OVER FIVE DAYS IN INDOOR AND OUTDOOR LOCATIONS ACROSS NEW YORK CITY, MAY 27–31 Nation’s Foremost Science Festival Will Bring the Drama of Scientific Discovery to Everyone, with a Wide Range of Original Programs Including: • Celebrations of the 100th Anniversary of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, Including a New Original Work, Light Falls, Featuring Festival Co-Founder Brian Greene, and Created with Composer Jeff Beal (“House of Cards”) and the 2015 Tony-Nominated Team from 59 Productions (An American in Paris); and a Discussion of Relativity Since Einstein, Moderated by Greene and Featuring an All-Star Lineup of Panelists • Opportunities to Hear and Engage with Numerous World-Renowned Scientists, Including NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, Nobel-Winning Theoretical Physicist Steven Weinberg, and Physicist and String Theorist Edward Witten, Who Will Deliver the Festival’s Signature “On the Shoulders of Giants” Lecture • Immersive Activities Such as Stargazing (with Music) in Brooklyn Bridge Park, a Catch-and- Release Fish Count in the Waters Surrounding NYC, a Massive Sculptural Installation from NASA Exploring Satellites, Scientific Sails Through New York Harbor, and a Science Street Fair in Washington Square Park • Science and Story: Nature’s Dramas, Featuring Award-Winning Authors Diane Ackerman (The Human Age), Dan Fagin (Toms River), David Quammen (The Chimp and the River), Rebecca Skloot (The Immortal -
Summer 2009 Issue (Pdf)
The Supernetwork Sentinel The Newsletter of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks Summer 2009 Welcome to the Summer 2009 edition of The Supernetwork Sentinel, the newsletter of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks at the Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst. The Supernetwork Sentinel is published in Fall, Winter, and Summer editions. Its purpose is to keep you informed of events, activities, and successes of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, the Center Associates, and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization. In this newsletter, we include an essay on highlights of recent presentations from Vienna to Rome by the Director. We also give information on a new book, update you on the World Science Festival Traffic Panel – June World Science Festival in NYC, and mark notable 12, 2009 (l-r) Robert Krulwich (ABC and distinctions and awards received by Center NPR), Professor Iain Couzin (Princeton), Associates. In addition, we share news about Professor Anna Nagurney, and Professor exciting upcoming events. As always, we include Mitchell Joachim (Columbia) a list of our recent publications. We wish everyone a wonderful summer! Inside Anna Nagurney Highlights of Recent Presentations John F. Smith Memorial Professor from Vienna to Rome Director – Virtual Center for Supernetworks http://supernet.som.umass.edu New Book – Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an Uncertain World The World Science Festival Reflections on the 2009 Spring UMass Amherst INFORMS Speaker Series Kudos and News Recent Center Publications Professor Anna Nagurney with some of the Participants in the NET2009 Conference in Rome, Italy Contents Copyright © 2009 University of Massachusetts Amherst Hosting of Professor Pentland of MIT 1 Professor Nagurney at Vienna University Professor Nagurney at St. -
Directed Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Spinning Neutron Stars in Binary Systems
Directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars in binary systems by Grant David Meadors Adissertationsubmittedinpartialfulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Physics) in The University of Michigan 2014 Doctoral Committee: Professor John Keith Riles, Chair Professor Fred C. Adams Professor Nuria Pilar Calvet Research Scientist Herold Richard Gustafson Professor Timothy A. McKay Professor Stephen C. Rand c Grant David Meadors 2014 ! All Rights Reserved To the tree of Life, which took stardust and evolved into us. Pro arbore Vitae, ex nube stellarum ad nos evolvit. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks should go beyond a simple page. Lest I forget, let me reflect on all the people without whom I would not have made it here. To my parents, Erin O’Rourke- Meadors and Gregory David Meadors, and my brother, Patrick Thomas Meadors. Home’s name follows you; three decades have we explored – beyond seas, roots grow. My dear grandmother, Florenceann O’Rourke (n´ee Williams), supported my undergraduate studies at Reed College. Aunt Nan & Uncle Bud Williams made book- reading & museum-going fond memories. Hanford gave time to learn my family’s wonderful stories. If only my paternal grandparents, ShulerandJeanne(Brown) Meadors, could be here too. Ethan Obie Romero-Severson is ever a devoted friend in adventures & colleague in mathematics: Team Science for fouryearsandcounting! Keith Riles is a dedicated and conscientious adviser: steadyprogressishownew science is born – detecting gravitational waves is a tricky task, and his thoughtful attention to details will be part of what makes it possible. Dick Gustafson introduced me to the field in 2005 and has helped ever since; my only regret working with him is that we never flew the glider, although we nearly won a sailboat regatta. -
De Tweede Gouden Eeuw
De tweede Gouden Eeuw Nederland en de Nobelprijzen voor natuurwetenschappen 1870-1940 Bastiaan Willink bron Bastiaan Willink, De tweede Gouden Eeuw. Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 1998 Zie voor verantwoording: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/will078twee01_01/colofon.php © 2007 dbnl / Bastiaan Willink 9 Dankwoord In juni 1996 wandelde ik over de begraafplaats van Montparnasse in Parijs, op zoek naar het graf van Henri Poincaré. Na enige omzwervingen vond ik het, verscholen achter graven van onbekenden, tegen de grote muur. Opluchting over de vondst mengde zich met verontwaardiging. Dit is geen passende plaats voor de grootste Franse wiskundige van de Belle Epoque. Hij hoort in het Pantheon! Meteen zag ik in dat zo'n reactie bij een Nederlander geen pas geeft. In ons land is er geen erebegraafplaats voor personen die grote prestaties leverden. Het is al een wonder, gelukkig minder zeldzaam dan vroeger, als er een biografie verschijnt van een Nederlandse wetenschappelijke coryfee. Dat motiveerde me om het plan voor dit boek definitief door te zetten. Het zou geen biografie worden, maar een mini-Pantheon van de Nederlandse wetenschap rond 1900. Er zijn eerder vergelijkbare boeken verschenen, maar een recent overzicht dat bovendien speciale aandacht schenkt aan oorzaken en gevolgen van bloei is er niet. Toen de tekst vorm begon te krijgen, sloeg de onzekerheid toe. Wie ben ik om al die verschillende specialisten te karakteriseren? Veel deskundige vrienden en vriendelijke deskundigen hebben me geholpen om de ergste omissies en fouten weg te werken. Ik ben de volgende hoog- en zeergeleerden erkentelijk voor literatuursuggesties en soms zeer indringend commentaar: A. Blaauw, H.B.G. -
Fall/Winter 2019
FALL/WINTER 2019 RECENT ART + ARCHITECTURE HIGHLIGHTS ARCHITECTURE + ART RECENT $35.00 $55.00 $50.00 978-0-87633-289-4 $40.00 978-0-300-23328-5 978-1-58839-668-6 Hardcover 978-0-300-24269-0 Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Post-Impressionism Graphic Design Graphic CAMP Impressionism and and Impressionism Ruth Asawa Ruth Thompson Eskilson Bolton Schenkenberg Damrosch Yau/Nadis Starr Sexton The Club The Shape of A Life Entrenchment Standing for Reason Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover 978-0-300-21790-2 978-0-300-23590-6 978-0-300-23847-1 978-0-300-24337-6 $30.00 $28.00 $28.50 $26.00 $550.00 $35.00 978-0-300-24395-6 978-0-300-19195-0 $45.00 $65.00 PB-with Flaps PB-with Slipcase with Set - HC 978-0-300-23719-1 978-1-58839-665-5 HC - Paper over Board over Paper - HC Hardcover New Typography New Rediscovered The Power of Color of Power The Genji of Tale The the and Tschichold Jan Vinci da Leonardo Hall Carpenter/McCormick Stirton Bambach Winship Wilken Mackintosh-Smith Hoffman Hot Protestants Liberty in the Things Arabs Ben Hecht Hardcover of God HC - Paper over Board Hardcover 978-0-300-12628-0 Hardcover 978-0-300-18028-2 978-0-300-18042-8 $28.00 978-0-300-22663-8 $35.00 $26.00 $26.00 $40.00 $45.00 $75.00 $50.00 978-0-300-24273-7 978-0-300-23344-5 978-0-300-24365-9 978-1-58839-666-2 HC - Paper over Board over Paper - HC Cloth over Board over Cloth Hardcover Hardcover Gauguin Yves Saint Laurent Saint Yves Loud it Play Archive for is A Homburg/Riopelle Bolton Dobney/Inciardi Wrbican Antoon Popoff Jones-Rogers Brands/Edel The Book of Vasily Grossman and They Were Her The Lessons of Collateral Damage the Soviet Century Property Tragedy Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover 978-0-300-22894-6 978-0-300-22278-4 978-0-300-21866-4 978-0-300-23824-2 $24.00 $32.50 $30.00 $25.00 RECENT GENERAL INTEREST HIGHLIGHTS Yale university press FALL / WINTER 2019 GENERAL INTEREST 1 JEWISH LIVES 28 MARGELLOS WORLD REPUBLIC OF LETTERS 32 SCHOLARLY AND ACADEMIC 63 PAPERBACK REPRINTS 81 ART + ARCHITECTURE A1 cover: Illustration by Tom Duxbury, represented by Artist Partners. -
Levensbericht N.G. Van Kampen
Nicolaas Godfried van Kampen 22 juni 1921 – 6 oktober 2013 levensberichten en herdenkingen 2014 22 L&H_2014.indd 22 10/22/2014 3:20:10 PM Levensbericht door G. ’t Hooft Na een kort ziekbed, overleed op 6 oktober 2013 Nicolaas Godfried van Kampen, lid van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen sinds 1973. Nico was 92 jaar, en tot nog onlangs bleef hij een trouw bezoeker van de vergaderingen van de Afdeling Natuurkunde, waar zijn aanwezigheid zelden onopgemerkt bleef. Nico’s vader, Pieter Nicolaas van Kampen, was hoogleraar zoölogie in Leiden en zijn moeder, Lize, was van de familie Zernike, die opmerkelijke personages telde, zoals haar broer, Frits Zernike, die in 1953 de Nobelprijs voor Natuurkunde kreeg toegekend voor de uitvinding van de fasecontrast- microscoop, een voor die tijd revolutionaire techniek die het mogelijk maakte om bijvoorbeeld het celdelingsproces in levende cellen waar te nemen. Een andere broer, Johannes Zernike, was hoogleraar in de scheikunde en schrijver van een boek over ‘Entropie’. Een zuster, Elisabeth Zernike, werd een bekend schrijfster, en een andere zuster, Nico’s tante Annie, werd de eerste Neder- landse vrouwelijke predikante, in Bovenknijpe. Zij huwde met de schilder Jan Mankes. Nico deed in 1939 eindexamen als beste van zijn klas in het gymnasium te Leiden. Hij was nog maar net begonnen met de natuurkundestudie in Leiden, toen de universiteit daar door de bezetters werd gesloten. Nico vertrok in 1941 naar Groningen waar zijn oom Frits Zernike hoogleraar theoretische natuurkunde was en waar hij in 1947 zijn doctoraal behaalde. Met Zernike werkte hij aan diffractie van licht. -
Annual Report 2011
AnnuAl RepoRt 2 0 11 Apoptosis imAges by DR. RolAnD eils the pictures in this report illustrate the process of ‘apoptosis,’ programmed cell death, imaged through the technique of fluorescence microscopy. they come to us from the laboratory of Dr. Roland eils of the university of Heidelberg and the german Cancer Research Centre. Dr. eils’ work combines mathematical modeling with experiments in molecular cell biology to yield a detailed, quantitative understanding of basic cellular mechanisms. His knowledge in the fields of physics, mathematics and biology enables scientific results not likely attainable through a traditional approach. such an integration of expertise comprises the relatively new field of systems biology, an illustration of this report’s emphasis on cross-disciplinary activities. the simons Foundation is grateful to Dr. eils for sharing these remarkable images with us. The mission of the Simons Foundation is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. TAble oF Contents 14 EnabliNg reseArCh 06 NeTworks 16 Simons simplex Collection 17 SSC@iAN EncourAgiNg 18 Projects using SSC 04 CoNNectioNs 19 Simons Variation in individuals Project 08 Collaboration grants 20 SFARI: recent Advances 09 Math + X grants letter From 10 Simons Center for The President and Geometry and Physics The ChAirmAN 11 Life sciences at stony brook 12 Support for systems biology 36 FouNdatioN Facts 28 38 Financials 40 Directors 41 Simons Foundation staff PromoTiNg Exchanges 42 Grants to institutions 22 30 Mathematical sciences -
DANIEL L. SCHACTER July 2021 Personal
DANIEL L. SCHACTER July 2021 Personal Birthdate: June 17, 1952; New York, N.Y. Citizenship: U.S. Position: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University Address William James Hall Department of Psychology Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: (617) 495-3855 FAX: (617) 496-3122 e-mail: [email protected] Education 1970-1974 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill B.A., 1974 1976-1977 University of Toronto M.A., 1977 1978 Oxford University Visiting Researcher, Department of Experimental Psychology 1978-1981 University of Toronto Department of Psychology Ph.D., 1981 Ph.D. Supervisor: Endel Tulving Academic Employment 1981-1987 Research Associate and Assistant Professor, Unit for Memory Disorders and Department of Psychology, University of Toronto 1987-1989 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona 2 1989-1991 Professor, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona 1991-1995 Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University 1995-2005 Chair, Department of Psychology, Harvard University 1999 Visiting Professor, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London 2002- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Harvard University 2009 (spring) Acting Chair, Department of Psychology, Harvard University Selected Awards/Honors Arthur Benton Award, International Neuropsychological Society, 1989 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in Human Learning and Cognition, American Psychological -
1 Katherine Freese CV George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics
1 Katherine Freese CV George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 +1 (734) 604-1325 (cell), [email protected] Citizenship: USA Education: Sept. 1973 - June 1974: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sept. 1974 - June 1977: Princeton University, B.A. in Physics '77 Sept. 1979 - Jan. 1982: Columbia University, M.A. in Physics '81 Feb. 1982 - Aug. 1984: University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Physics '84 Thesis Advisor: Dr. David N. Schramm Positions: 2014{2016 Director, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), Stockholm, Sweden 2014{ Guest Professor, Stockholm University 2009{ George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics, University of Michigan 1999-2009 Professor of Physics, University of Michigan 1991-99 Associate Professor of Physics (with tenure), University of Michigan 1988-91 Assistant Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1987-88 Presidential Fellow at UC Berkeley 1985-87 Postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, California 1984-85 Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Center for Astrophysics Awards and Honors: 2019: Julian Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, American Physical Society 2017: Kavli Prize Lecture, American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX 2016 { : Distinguished Visiting Research Chair, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada 2012: Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) at the University of Stockholm 2012: Simons Foundation Fellowship in Theoretical Physics 2009{ : named George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics at the Univ. of -
CURRICULUM VITAE: Lawrence M. Krauss Born: May 27, 1954
CURRICULUM VITAE: Lawrence M. Krauss Born: May 27, 1954; New York City Citizenship: U.S.A., Canada Married: 1980-2012 to Katherine Kelley 2014- to Nancy Dahl Children: Lillian, born Nov. 23, 1984 Santal (step-daughter), born Aug. 14, 2000 Current Address and Position: Foundation Professor, Director, Origins Project Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative School of Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Physics Arizona State University PO Box 871404, Tempe AZ 85287-1404 Research office: 480-965-6378 Email: [email protected] Education B.Sc. First Class Honours, Mathematics and Physics Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1977 Ph.D. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982 Honorary Degrees and Fellowships: 1998 Fellow, American Physical Society 2001 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2003 D.Sc. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Employment: Teaching and Research (since 1982) 1982-85 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, and Physics Dept., Harvard University 1985-88 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Yale University 1985-86 Visiting Scientist, Boston University 1985-89 Visiting Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 1986-88 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Yale University 1988-93 Associate Professor, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Yale University 1993- 2008 Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Astronomy and chair (thru 2005), Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve University 2005 Director, Office of Science, Public Policy, and Bio- Entrepreneurship, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2002-2008 Director, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics 2006-7 Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University 2008- Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration & Physics Dept.