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John Wardle Named Division of Science Head

September 2, 2014 By

John Wardle, Division of ScienceSusan Birren, Dean of Arts and Sciences, has announced that John Wardle, Professor of Physics, will be the new Head of the Division of Science.

The following is Susan’s email:

“I am pleased to announce that John Wardle will be the new Head of the Division of Science.  John is an astrophysicist and Professor of Physics and is a former chair of the Physics department.  In his new role he will oversee science-wide programs and initiatives, including the summer undergraduate research program and will work with Division of Science faculty and staff to identify new directions for the division.  I am delighted that he has agreed to take on this role and I hope that you will join with me in welcoming him.

We all owe a debt of gratitude to Eve Marder who, as the first Head of the Division, created and steered many of the priorities of the Division.  During her time as Head, Eve ably represented the Sciences at Brandeis and beyond, worked to make the Summer Undergraduate Science Program a flourishing success, changed the way we trained students and postdocs in the ethical conduct of research, and worked tirelessly to secure funding and recognition for the Sciences.  Thank you Eve!”

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Café Science Finds New Home at Solea

January 27, 2014 By

The Brandeis Café Science page tell us:

**Café Science will Resume in February!**
Food for thought. And a Drink.

Café Science has found its new home:

SOLEA
Restaurant and Tapas Bar
388 Moody Street
Waltham, MA 02453

We are thrilled to kick-off Café Science’s Spring Talks with Geometry for Grown-Ups! Presented by Ruth Charney.

Please join us at Solea on February 3rd at 6PM as Professor Charney helps us explore the exotic side of geometric structures, bringing us both the useful and fun side of Geometry!

$10.00 admission includes 1 drink per person.

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Quantum Field Theory: An Interdisciplinary Study Group

September 16, 2013 By

William Hicks, a grad student in Physics, writes:

    This semester, graduate students from a wide range of departments will be coming together to study quantum field theory (QFT) as part of the interdisciplinary IGERT program. QFT is a subject whose mathematical underpinnings crop up in a wide range of seemingly unrelated fields, and the study group hopes to take advantage of the varied backgrounds of its members. Mathematicians in the group can help provide mathematical rigor, while physicists can help supply the physical intuition for many of the otherwise abstruse corners of the subject.  Students from other disciplines will be able to broaden the discussion by showing how some of the techniques discussed also show up in their fields.

The study group will meet from noon to 1:00 every Wednesday in Goldsmith 226. All are welcome!

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IGERT Summer Institute

July 23, 2013 By

 The Brandeis IGERT program is hosting its first summer institute starting Wednesday, July 31 and running weekdays through Friday, August 9. This will be a series of lectures by experts inside and outside of Brandeis, together with some student seminars, aimed at graduate students across the sciences, especially (but not exclusively!) those doing theoretical work.

The lectures will run from 9:30-4 every day, with coffee at 9am, and ample time between lectures for questions and conversations.  They will be held in room 055 of the Lemberg Academic Center (note that Domenic’s will be open at that time, so lunch is available nearby).  Those interested in attending should RSVP to Tony Bottaro (bottaro@brandeis.edu) so that we can get a head count for coffee.

The lecturers are:

Parongama Sen (University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India), lecturing on applications of statistical physics to social science problems.
Henry Cohn (Microsoft Research, New England), lecturing on symmetry and optimization.
Ben Allen (Emmanuel College and Harvard), lecturing on evolutionary dynamics
Paul Miller (Brandeis), lecturing on aspects of theoretical neuroscience.
Blake LeBaron (Brandeis), lecturing on empirical puzzles in financial data, and applications of agent-based modeling.
Albion Lawrence (Brandeis), lecturing on fiber bundles (“gauge theory”) and their applications to deformable bodies (falling cats, swimming bacteria).

In addition, we will have seminars by IGERT students:

Sumantra Sarkar
Blake Stacey
Daniel Goldstein

and a schedule can be found on this webpage:

http://www.brandeis.edu/igert/calendar/index.html

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Brandeis mathematicians in inaugural class of AMS fellows

November 19, 2012 By

Department members and emeritus professors named as AMS fellows.

The Math department website notes that Professors Ruth Charney, Ira Gessel, and Kiyoshi Igusa, along with emeritus professors Edgar Brown, David Buchsbaum, Harold Levine, Richard Palais, and Gerald Schwarz, have been named to the inaugural group of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.  According to the description on the AMS website, the “Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.” The first class was announced earlier this month. Among Brandeis alumni in this first batch of fellows, we noted Karen Uhlenbeck (PhD ’68), Jill Mesirov (PhD ’74), Ralph Cohen (PhD ’78), and Ulrike Tillmann ‘85.

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Gessel awarded Simons Fellowship

November 16, 2012 By

Professor of Mathematics Ira Gessel has been awarded a prestigious Simons Fellowship in Mathematics.  He is part of the initial class of awardees for this fellowship, which will support research activities during his sabbatical leave in the spring of 2013.  Other recipients included Math alumni János Kollár (PhD ’84), now at Princeton, and Irena Peeva (PhD ’95), now at Cornell.

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