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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yewande%20Olubummo
Yewande Olubummo (born February 8, 1960) is a Nigerian-American mathematician whose research interests include functional analysis and dynamical systems. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Spelman College, where she served as chair of the mathematics department from 2006 to 2010. She is a member of the Nat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkechi%20Agwu
Nkechi Madonna Adeleine Agwu (born October 8, 1962) is a mathematics teacher. Agwu is a naturalized American citizen, tenured faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New York, and was a director of the college's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane%20Henderson
Diane Marie Henderson is an American applied mathematician, specializing in fluid dynamics and mathematical oceanography. Unusually for a mathematics professor, some of her research involves physical experiments with wave tanks, high speed cameras, and oil droplets. Henderson earned her Ph.D. in physical oceanography ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansruedi%20von%20Gunten
Hansruedi von Gunten (born 12 December 1928 in Bern; died 7 December 2021) was a Swiss chemist and mountaineer. Together with Dolf Reist he succeeded on May 24, 1956, the third ascent of Mount Everest. Early years and life Gunten graduated in Bern, the Municipal Gymnasium (Matura 1948), studied at the University of Be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin%20Moczek
Armin Moczek (born 8 July 1969 in Munich) is a German evolutionary biologist and full professor at Indiana University Bloomington. Biography Moczek studied biology at the University of Würzburg, where he graduated in 1996 with a master's degree in zoology. Joining Fred Nijhout’s lab at Duke University he developed a d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20M.%20Watson
Kenneth Marshall Watson (September 7, 1921 – August 18, 2023) was an American theoretical physicist and physical oceanographer. Life and career Watson graduated in 1943 with BS in electrical engineering from Iowa State College. From 1943 to 1946 he was a researcher at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer%20%28machine%20learning%20model%29
A transformer is a deep learning architecture, initially proposed in 2017, that relies on the parallel multi-head attention mechanism. It is notable for requiring less training time than previous recurrent neural architectures, such as long short-term memory (LSTM), and its later variation has been prevalently adopted ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mei-Ching%20Fok
Mei-Ching Hannah Fok is a planetary scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. She was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2011 and elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2019. She has worked on the IMAGE, Van Allen Probes and TWINS missions. Early life and education Fok stu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton%20University%20Department%20of%20Physics
The Princeton University Department of Physics is an academic department dedicated to research and teaching at Princeton University. The associated faculty members, researchers, and students have been recognized for their research contributions, having been awarded 19 Nobel Prizes, four National Medals of Science, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Jouppi
Norman Paul Jouppi is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. Career Jouppi was one of the computer architects at the MIPS Stanford University Project (under John L. Hennessy), an early RISC project. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1980 and was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Braverman
Elena Yanovna Braverman (née Lumelskaya, ) is a Russian, Israeli, and Canadian mathematician known for her research in delay differential equations, difference equations, and population dynamics. She is a professor of mathematics and applied mathematics at the University of Calgary, and one of the editors-in-chief of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Wiecek
Margaret M. Wiecek (also known as Małgorzata M. Więcek) is a Polish-American operations researcher and professor of mathematical sciences at Clemson University, known for her research in multi-objective optimization, Pareto efficiency, robust design, and three-dimensional packing problems in mechanical engineering. Wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20Lansing%20Taylor
D. Lansing Taylor is the Director at the University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute (UPDDI), Pennsylvania and a faculty member in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology. Early life and education Lansing Taylor was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his B.S. in zoology from the University of M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20cycle%20polynomial
In mathematics, the Hamiltonian cycle polynomial of an n×n-matrix is a polynomial in its entries, defined as where is the set of n-permutations having exactly one cycle. This is an algebraic option useful, in a number of cases, for determining the existence of a Hamiltonian cycle in a directed graph. It is a gen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahinda%20Balasuriya
Dr. Mahinda Balasuriya (18 June 1953 – 29 April 2021) was the 32nd Inspector General of the Sri Lanka Police (IGP) (2009–2011). Balasuriya was educated at Ananda College, Colombo, before obtaining a BSc. in Chemistry and a M.Phil at the University of Peradeniya. Balasuriya joined the Police Department on 1 March 1978...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Henry%20Barron
Donald Henry Barron (April 9, 1905 – August 24, 1993) was an American reproductive biologist who was born in Flandreau, South Dakota and received his B.A. in Chemistry at Carleton College, his M.S. in Botany at Iowa State College and his Ph.D. at Yale University. In March 1933, he joined Edgar D. Adrian's laboratory in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Casini
Angela Casini is a medicinal and inorganic chemist who works on metal-based compounds as therapeutic agents. She was awarded the 2012 European Medal for Bio-Inorganic Chemistry and made the 2019 American Chemical Society Inorganic Lecturer. Early life and education She earned her PhD in chemical sciences at the Univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Konar
Megan Konar is a scientist and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Konar’s research focuses on the intersection of food, water, and trade. She studies the connection between hydrology, environmental science, and economics. Early life and educati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Evershed
Richard Evershed is a Professor of Biogeochemistry and Fellow of the Royal Society. Education and career Evershed attended St Ivo School, St Ives in the late 1960s and graduated in 1978 from Nottingham Trent University (Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham) with a BSc in Applied Chemistry. He undertook his PhD in the Depart...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy%20Campbell%20%28mathematician%29
Lucy Jean Campbell is an applied mathematician and numerical analyst from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada, specializing in the applications of fluid dynamics to modeling the earth's atmosphere and oceans. Beyond fluid dynamics, she has also investigated methods for tracing the sources of greenhouse gas emissions. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Tauman%20Kalai
Adam Tauman Kalai is an American computer scientist who specializes in Machine Learning and works as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. Education and career Kalai graduated from Harvard University in 1996 and received a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001, where he worked under do...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Purdon
Patrick Lee Purdon is an American biomedical engineer whose research focuses on neuroscience, neuroengineering, and clinical applications. He holds the Nathaniel M. Sims Endowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an associate professor of anaesthesia at Harvard Me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20G.%20Hastings
Meredith G. Hastings is an American atmospheric chemist and associate professor of earth, environmental, and planetary sciences at Brown University. Her research focuses on the reactive nitrogen cycle and how atmospheric chemistry affects climate. She is also the founder and president of the Earth Science Women’s Netwo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20Morris
Joy Morris (born 1970) is a Canadian mathematician whose research involves group theory, graph theory, and the connections between the two through Cayley graphs. She is also interested in mathematics education, is the author of two open-access undergraduate mathematics textbooks, and oversees a program in which univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Environmental%20Toxicology%20and%20Chemistry
The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) is an international environmental toxicology and environmental chemistry organization. History It was set up to allow interdisciplinary communication between environmental scientists around the world. It was founded in 1979 in North America. Function SETAC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladen%20Banovi%C4%87
Mladen Banović is a Bosnian scientist specialised for transformers. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Transformers Magazine and director at Merit Services Int., a company specialized in R&D, and education/training on transformers. He graduated in 1999 and obtained his doctorate in 2012 at the Faculty of Elect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanos%20Kanellos
Stefanos Kanellos (; romanized: Stéfanos Kanéllos) was a Greek scholar, revolutionary and member of the Filiki Eteria of the early 19th century. Biography He was born in 1792 in Constantinople, then Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). He studied science and taught mathematics and natural history at the Princely Ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Bellissard
Jean Vincent Bellissard (born 1 March 1946, Lyon) is a French theoretical physicist and mathematical physicist, known for his work on C*-algebras, K-theory, noncommutative geometry as applied to solid state physics, particularly, to quantum Hall effect. Bellissard worked as a teaching assistant at the École catholique...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enea%20Bortolotti
Enea Bortolotti (28 September 1896 – 22 June 1942) was an Italian mathematician born in Rome. Biography He graduated in mathematics in 1920 at the Universities of Pisa, where he was a student of Luigi Bianchi. He taught analytic and descriptive geometry at the Universities of Cagliari and Florence. He was mainly invo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20Franz
Katherine J. Franz (born 1972) is the chair of the department of chemistry at Duke University. She studies metal ion coordination in biological systems and looks to use the insight to manage species such as copper and iron. Franz was awarded the American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen%20DeAngelis
Kristen M. DeAngelis is a professor in the department of Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts where she studies soil microbes in relation to climate change. Early life and education DeAngelis is originally from Watertown, Massachusetts. She graduated from Harvard University within the Biology department in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherburn
Weatherburn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles Ernest Weatherburn (1884–1974), Australian-born mathematician David Weatherburn, chemistry academic Don Weatherburn (born 1951), Australian criminologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommer%20Gentry
Sommer Elizabeth Gentry is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy and as a research associate in surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research concerns operations research and its applications to the optimization of organ transplants, and has...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi%20Wonshik
Choi Wonshik is an optical physicist researching deep-tissue imaging and imaging through scattering media. He is a full professor in the Department of Physics of Korea University where he serves as the associate director at the IBS Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics. Inside the Center, he leads the Super-de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Center%20of%20Applied%20Data%20Science
The Center of Applied Data Science (CADS) is a private company established in Malaysia in October 2015. CADS's professed purpose is to nurture a new generation of data scientists and data professionals through programs that focus on solving real business challenges. Founding/History CADS was founded by Sharala Axryd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlie%20Noon
Karlie Alinta Noon is the first Indigenous woman in Australia to graduate with a double degree in maths and physics, an astronomer, of the Gamilaraay people, multiple award winner, 2019 Eureka Prize nominee, and one of the 2017 BBC's 100 Women. She is researching astronomy and astrophysics at the Australian National Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Haggard
Patrick Neville Haggard, FBA, is a cognitive neuroscientist and academic. He is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. Haggard completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and then spent a year (1987–88) as a Harkness Fellow at Yale University. He returned to Trinity Hall t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Berova
Nina D. Berova is a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. She is recognised as a world leader in stereochemistry and chiroptical spectroscopy. Her contributions include the development of porphyrin tweezers. She was the 2007 winner of the Società Chimica Italiana Chirality Medal. Early life and education Ber...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Thermal%20Biology
The Journal of Thermal Biology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles that advance knowledge about the ways and mechanisms through which temperature affects humans and animals. Topics of interest include behavioral and autonomic regulation of body temperature; mechanisms involved in acclimation, ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiu-Yen%20Kao
Chiu-Yen Kao (born 1974) is a Taiwanese-American applied mathematician specializing in shape optimization, image segmentation, and mathematical biology. She is a professor of mathematics at Claremont McKenna College. Education and career Kao comes from a traditional family which did not support her in pursuing higher ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signe%20Kjelstrup
Signe Helene Kjelstrup (born August 29, 1949) is a Norwegian professor of physical chemistry at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. She is a principal investigator at PoreLab, a Center of Excellence at NTNU. Her main area of research is non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Spurgeon
Sarah Katherine Spurgeon (born 4 December 1963) is the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She served as President of the Engineering Professors' Council from 2017 to 2019. She has previously served as Head of the Department of Engineering at both the University of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Food%20Chemists
The working group Young Food Chemists (Arbeitsgruppe Junge Lebensmittelchemie, AG JLC) is a group of German university and PhD students as well as young professionals who represent the interests of students and trainees in the field of food chemistry, i.e. analytical chemistry with a focus on food. The group acts as a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Rafferty
Karen Rafferty (née McMenemy) is the Head of the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast. She works with virtual and augmented reality for health care and automation. Early life and education Rafferty is an alumnus of St. Patrick's Girls Academy, Dungannon Coun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdiana%20Masanja
Verdiana Grace Masanja ( Kashaga, born October 12, 1954) is a Tanzanian mathematician specializing in fluid dynamics. She is the first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics. Education Masanja was born in Bukoba, at the time part of the United Nations trust territory of Tanganyika. She was a student at the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Amirani
Amir Amirani (, born July 28, 1967) is an Iranian-born film director and producer. Early life and education Born in Iran, Amirani grew up in London. He earned a degree in biology from the University of Nottingham and an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to pur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Heyer
Laurie J. Heyer is an American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics. She is Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College, director of Davidson's Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and former chair of Davidson's Mathematics and Computer Science Department. Education Heyer i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Modern%20Dynamics
The Journal of Modern Dynamics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences with the support of the Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry (Pennsylvania State University). The editor-in-chief is Giovanni Forni (University of Maryland ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermon%20H.%20Conwell
Hermon H. Conwell (1886–1980) was an American engineer and college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of New Mexico in 1908, compiling a record of 5–1. Conwell was a 1907 graduate of Kansas State University, where he majored in electrical engineering. He served as a facul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20P.%20Ayres
Raymond P. Ayres, Jr. (born October 6, 1944) is an American military officer who held the rank of Lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps. Born in Carthage, Missouri and raised in Bayside, New York, in 1966 Ayres graduated from Iona College in mathematics and entered the U.S. Marine Corps. One of his firs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie%20Butler
Laurie Jeanne Butler (born 1959) is an American physical chemist known for her experimental work testing the Born–Oppenheimer approximation on separability of nuclear and electron motions. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Chicago. Education an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne%20Butler
Lynne Marie Butler (born 1959) is an American mathematician whose research interests include algebraic combinatorics, group theory, and mathematical statistics. She is a professor of mathematics at Haverford College. Early life and education Butler's parents were both medical professionals. She is the identical twin s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srubabati%20Goswami
Srubabati Goswami is an Indian scientist specialising in High Energy Physics, Astroparticle Physics, and Neutrino Physics . She is the first Indian woman to earn a Ph.D. in neutrino oscillations from the Science College, University of Calcutta. She did her research in the PRL and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois%20Gari%C3%A9py
Jean-François Gariépy (born 1984) is a French Canadian white nationalist, former neuroscience researcher, and alt-right political commentator. Gariépy hosted the YouTube channel The Public Space before launching his current channel JFG Tonight where he calls for the creation of a white ethnostate, promotes antisemitic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous%20system%20%28disambiguation%29
The nervous system is a highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information. Nervous System may also refer to: Nervous System (album), a 2011 album by The Dirtball Nervous System (EP), a 2017 EP by Julia Michaels "Nervous System" (song), a 1979 song by Killing Joke Artificial neur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariza%20de%20Andrade
Mariza de Andrade is a Brazilian-American biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics at the Mayo Clinic, and is known for her work on statistical genetics and precision medicine. Early life De Andrade earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirã...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elham%20Kashefi
Elham Kashefi () is a Professor of Computer Science and Personal Chair in quantum computing at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and a Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) researcher at the Sorbonne University. Her work has included contributions to quantum cryptography, verificat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi%20Jochnowitz
Naomi G. Jochnowitz is an American mathematician interested in algebraic number theory. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester. Jochnowitz earned her Ph.D. in 1976 from Harvard University. Her dissertation, Congruences Between Modular Forms and Implications for the Hecke Algebra, w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana%20Roudenko
Svetlana A. Roudenko is a Russian-American mathematician known for her work in functional analysis and partial differential equations, and in particular in scattering theory and nonlinear Schrödinger equations. She is also known for her mentorship of women in mathematics, and is a Diversity Mentor Professor and profess...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Powers
Victoria Ann Powers is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and known for her work on positive polynomials and on the mathematics of electoral systems. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at Emory University. She is the author of the book Certificates of Positivity for Real Poly...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Kay%20Stein
Mary Kay Stein is an American mathematics educator who works as a professor of learning sciences and policy and as the associate director and former director of the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Education and career Stein graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1975,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nader%20Rahimi
Nader Rahimi (born December 22, 1963) is a Molecular Biologist and is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Boston University. Education Nader Rahimi received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 1991 and received his Ph....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Moldovan%20Popoviciu
Elena Moldovan Popoviciu (26 August 1924–24 June 2009) was a Romanian mathematician known for her work in functional analysis and specializing in generalizations of the concept of a convex function. She was a winner of the Simion Stoilow Prize in mathematics. Education and career Elena Moldovan was born in Cluj to Ioa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanie%20Barz
Stefanie Barz is a German physicist and Professor of Quantum Information and Technology at the University of Stuttgart. She studies quantum physics and quantum information in photonics. Early life and education Barz studied mathematics, physics and computer sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. During ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Cheng
Leslie C. Cheng is an American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis. She holds the Rachel C. Hale Chair in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College. Cheng did poorly in calculus in high school, and began her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr in 1988 intending to study the humanities. However, she was converted to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efi%20Foufoula-Georgiou
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou is a Distinguished Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of California, Irvine. She is well known for her research on the applications of wavelet analysis in the fields of hydrology and geophysics and her many contributions to academic journals and natio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit%20R%C3%B6sler
Margit Rösler (* 1962) is a German mathematician known for her research in harmonic analysis, special functions, and Dunkl operators. She is a professor of mathematics at Paderborn University. Rösler earned a diploma in mathematics with distinction from the Technical University of Munich in 1988. She completed her PhD...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica%20VanDieren
Monica M. VanDieren is an American mathematician specializing in mathematical logic and model theory. She is University Professor of Mathematics and Director of the University Honors Program at Robert Morris University. Education and career VanDieren graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 199...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha%20Kilmer
Misha Elena Kilmer is an American applied mathematician known for her work in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. She is William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University. Starting July 1, 2021, she will serve as Deputy Director of ICERM, where she served on the Scientific Advisory Board. Kilm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character%20module
In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra, every module has an associated character module. Using the associated character module it is possible to investigate the properties of the original module. One of the main results discovered by Joachim Lambek shows that a module is flat if and only if the asso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannie%20Borst
Jannie G. Keyser-Borst is a Dutch cancer immunologist. She became Professor at Leiden University on 16 January 2019 At the Leiden University Medical Center she currently runs a research group investigating the regulation of the T cell response Education and career In 1980 she received her Master's degree in biology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto%20Bottazzini
Umberto Bottazzini (born 1947 in Viadana, Lombardy) is an Italian historian of mathematics, writing on the history of mathematics and the foundations of mathematics. Biography Bottazzini graduated in 1973 with the Laurea degree from the University of Milan. He was an associate professor of matematiche complementari (a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation%20for%20Water%20Research
The Foundation for Water Research (FWR), an independent membership based charity dedicated to education and knowledge transfer, is based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. In 2022 the FWR was taken over by the Institution of Environmental Sciences. History FWR was created in 1989 as part of the privatisation of the Water Re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitta%20Kutyniok
Gitta Kutyniok (born 1972) is a German applied mathematician known for her research in harmonic analysis, deep learning, compressed sensing, and image processing. She has a Bavarian AI Chair for "Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence" in the institute of mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO%20%28film%29
LIGO is a 2019 American documentary film that tells the inside account of the discovery by the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration of the first observation of gravitational waves in September 2015, a discovery that led two years later to the Nobel Prize in Physics for LIGO physicists Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne and B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemamala%20Karunadasa
Hemamala Indivari Karunadasa is an assistant professor of chemistry at Stanford University. She works on hybrid organic – inorganic materials, such as perovskites, for clean energy and large area lighting. Early life and education Karunadasa grew up in Colombo. She attended high school in Sri Lanka and was a student ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20C.%20Hill
Mary Catherine Hill is an American hydrologist, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the winner of the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize and of the Dooge Medal of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, a Darcy Lecturer for the National Ground Water Association, and Fellow of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszek%20Bia%C5%82ous
Franciszek Białous (August 7, 1901 – January 14, 1980) was a Polish microbiologist. Between 1955 and 1971, he was the Chair of Microbiology at the Higher School of Agriculture, now . Decorations Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta Golden Cross of Merit Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland Ref...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amandine%20Aftalion
Amandine Aftalion (born 1973) is a French applied mathematician, known for her research on Bose–Einstein condensates and on the mathematics of footracing. She is a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Education and career Aftalion studied at the École normale supérieure (Par...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Meckes
Elizabeth Samantha Meckes (1980–2020) was an American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Her research included work on Stein's method for bounding the distance between probability distributions and on random matrices. She was a professor of mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics at Case Western...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20Calvetti
Daniela Calvetti is an Italian-American applied mathematician whose work concerns scientific computing, and connects Bayesian statistics to numerical analysis. She is the James Wood Williamson Professor of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University. Education and career Calvetti earned a laurea in mathematics at t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianjun%20Shi
Jianjun "Jan" Shi () is a Chinese-born American engineer and the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also works at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was elected as a member into ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Lynn%20Reed
Mary Lynn Reed (born 1967) is an American mathematician, intelligence researcher, professor, and short fiction writer. She served as the Department Head in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from 2019 to 2022. She is currently a professor of Mathematics at RIT. Educatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc%20Vanden-Broeck
Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck (born 11 September 1951) is a UK mathematician of Belgian origin. He is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University College, London. Early life and education Vanden-Broeck was born in Liège, Belgium on 11 September 1951. He received a degree in engineering and physics from the Universi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa%20Alonso-Rasgado
Maria Teresa Alonso-Rasgado is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean for Global Engagement in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London. She was awarded the Ohtli Award in 2016, the most significant honour of the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. In 2019 she was awarded th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cumbers
John Robert Cumbers (born 1979) is a British molecular biologist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is founder and chief executive officer of SynBioBeta which promotes synthetic biology to build a more sustainable universe. He founded BetaSpace, a space settlement innovation network aimed at sustaining human life...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnIML
The Analytical Information Markup Language (AnIML) is an open ASTM XML standard for storing and sharing any analytical chemistry and biological data. AnIML and FAIR data A main reason of using AnIML is that FAIR data (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) standards are automatically implemented. As AnIML'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Hogben
Leslie Hogben is an American mathematician specializing in graph theory and linear algebra, and known for her mentorship of graduate students in mathematics. She is a professor of mathematics at Iowa State University, where she held the Dio Lewis Holl Chair in Applied Mathematics 2012-2020; she is also professor (by co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namrata%20Vaswani
Namrata Vaswani is an Indian-American electrical engineer known for her research in compressed sensing, robust principal component analysis, signal processing, statistical learning theory, and computer vision. She is a Joseph and Elizabeth Anderlik Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State Universi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa%20Elena%20%C3%81lvarez-Buylla%20Roces
María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces (born July 11, 1959) is a Mexican professor of molecular genetics at National Autonomous University of Mexico and the director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología appointed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018. Early life and education Álvarez-Buylla was born into an eli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertus%20Enklaar
Bertus Enklaar (1 December 1943 – 3 October 1996) was a Dutch chess International Master (1973). Biography Bertus Enklaar was a student of the Barlaeus Gymnasium and studied mathematics in Amsterdam. In the early 1970s, he worked for a short time as a mathematics teacher at the Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam. In the 1980...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kummer%27s%20transformation%20of%20series
In mathematics, specifically in the field of numerical analysis, Kummer's transformation of series is a method used to accelerate the convergence of an infinite series. The method was first suggested by Ernst Kummer in 1837. Technique Let be an infinite sum whose value we wish to compute, and let be an infinite sum...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Hughes%20%28historian%29
Jeff Hughes was an historian of science based at the University of Manchester who researched physics, nuclear culture and scientific communities. Early life Jeffrey Alan Hughes was born in 1965 in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire. Education Hughes studied at Maesydderwen Comprehensive School in Ystradgynlais before atten...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriko%20Takano
Eriko Takano is a professor of synthetic biology and a director of the Synthetic Biology Research Centre for Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM) at the University of Manchester. She develops antibiotics and other high-value chemicals using microbial synthetic biology tools. Early life and education Takano was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20coupling
In atomic physics, close coupling is a quantum mechanics method to calculate the multi-electronic atomic and molecular structure from fine structure to hyperfine structure levels and dynamic processes including photoionization, collisional excitation and ionization as well as autoionization and their inverse processes....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Slay
Jill Slay is a British-Australian engineer and computer scientist. Her work has attracted international attention and she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to the information technology industry through contributions in the areas of forensic computer science, security, critical infrastructure pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare%20Parnell
Clare Elizabeth Parnell (born 1970) is a British astrophysicist and applied mathematician who studies the mathematics of the sun and of magnetic fields, including the Solar corona and the sun's magnetic carpet, magnetic reconnection in plasma, and the null points of magnetic fields. She is a professor of mathematics at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colva%20Roney-Dougal
Colva Mary Roney-Dougal is a British mathematician specializing in group theory and computational algebra. She is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra at St Andrews. She is also known for her popularization ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20K.%20Baldridge
Kim K. Baldridge is an American theoretical and computational chemist who works to develop quantum mechanical methodologies and apply quantum chemical methods to problems in life sciences, materials science, and general studies. She is professor and vice dean in the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology of Ti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Ercolano
Barbara Ercolano is an Italian astrophysicist known for her work on interstellar dust, star formation, and protoplanetary disks. She is the Professor for Theoretical Astrophysics in the at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Ercolano is originally from Naples, and studied astrophysics at University College Lo...