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WUSTL flag at half-staff in honor of A. Edward Nussbaum
Nov. 6,
2009 -- A. Edward Nussbaum, Ph.D., professor emeritus of mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 84.
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Solving the Arch's Mathematical Mysteries
How the Gateway Arch Got Its Shape
March 16,
2009 -- The Gateway Arch soars above the City of St. Louis. Eero Sarrinen's awe-inspiring design is visually stunning, extraordinarily graceful and an architectural masterpiece, but it is also a mathematical marvel.
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That's just super!
Researchers reveal superfluid-superconductor relationship
Aug. 5,
2008 --
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| Image courtesy of NASA |
| A WUSTL researcher and his collaborator have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. This could shed light on the behavior of neutron stars, above. |
Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. In addition to describing previously unknown superconductor behavior, these calculations could change scientists' understanding of the motion of neutron stars.
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Of time and the River City
National sundial group tours St. Louis area's sundials
Aug. 4,
2008 --
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| A group of about 45 sundial enthusiasts will tour 15 St. Louis area sundials. |
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While we are bombarded daily with gloomy stories about Earth going to a hot place in a handbasket, a group of roughly 45 enthusiasts from around the country are meeting in St. Louis, August 7-10, to celebrate the beauty of the Earth moving around the sun.
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Lefties have the edge
Baseball's southpaws play to their strength
July 7,
2008 --
Baseball diamonds are a left-hander's best friend. That's because the game was designed to make a lefty the "Natural," according to David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and über baseball fan. Peters is a mechanical engineer who specializes in aircraft and helicopter engineering and has a different approach to viewing America's Favorite Pastime.
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Tracing origins
Technique traces origins of disease genes in mixed races
April 8,
2008 -- A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis that includes Alan R. Templeton and the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa has developed a technique to detect the ancestry of disease genes in hybrid, or mixed, human populations. The technique, called expected mutual information (EMI), determines how a set of DNA markers is likely to show the ancestral origin of locations on each chromosome.
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Algorithm finds the network - for genes or the Internet
Math tool finds genetic communities that lead to disease
March 12,
2008 -- Human diseases and social networks seem to have little in common. However, at the crux of these two lies a network, communities within the network, and farther even, substructures of the communities. Weixiong Zhang, Ph.D., Washington University associate professor of computer science and engineering and of genetics, along with his Ph.D. student, Jianhua Ruan, has published an algorithm (a recipe of computer instructions) to automatically discover communities and their subtle structures in various networks.
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Do the math
Consider supplemental math programs as holiday gift
Nov. 12,
2007 --
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| A math problem review session at the Kumon-Ladue math program on Clayton Road in Ladue. |
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Parents of school-aged children might want to think of giving their children an enduring holiday gift this year: enrollment in a supplemental mathematics program. While it can cost anywhere from $80 to $110 a month, the results of practicing mathematics nearly daily is rewarding to both students and parents. In fact, parents might be even bigger recipients of this gift than their children. While their children gain self-esteem and confidence, the parents very likely will feel a sense of relief and pride in their children's accomplishment.
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Sir Michael Atiyah, world famous mathematician, to explore "Truth and Beauty in Mathematics"
Free lecture will be held 5 p.m. May 11
April 20,
2007 -- Sir Michael Atiyah, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, will be at Washington University on Friday, May 11, to deliver a talk on "Beauty and Truth in Mathematics." The lecture, appropriate for a general audience, will be held at 5 p.m. in Crow Hall Room 201, and is free and open to the public.
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Imagine that
Teenager first to play video game by brain only
Oct. 9,
2006 --
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| Photo by David Kilper / WUSTL Photo |
| Researchers have enabled a 14-year-old to play a two-dimensional video game using signals from his brain instead of his hands. |
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Teenage boys and computer games go hand-in-hand. Now, a St. Louis-area teenage boy and a computer game have gone hands-off, thanks to a unique experiment conducted by a team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis. The boy, a 14-year-old who suffers from epilepsy, is the first teenager to play a two-dimensional video game, Space Invaders, using only the signals from his brain to make movements. More...
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