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Four faculty from the
School of Science win awards!
Marin Soljacic wins MacArthur 'genius' grant
Marin Soljacic '96, assistant professor of physics, will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
MIT News Office, September 23, 2008
Three faculty win '08 NIH Pioneer Awards
Three MIT faculty are among 16 scientists nationwide to receive 2008 Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health for their "pioneering -- and possibly transforming -- approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research." Professors Alexander van Oudenaarden, Aviv Regev and Alice Y. Ting will each receive $2.5 million over five years.
MIT News Office, September 22, 2008
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OCTOBER 14 , 2008
Clay Public Lecture: "A Tribute to Euler"
Among history's greatest mathematicians is Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), the Swiss genius who produced an astonishing 25,000 pages of pure and applied mathematics of the very highest quality. In this talk, we sketch Euler's life and describe a few of his contributions to number theory, algebra, and other branches of mathematics. Then we examine a particular Eulerian theorem: his simple but beautiful proof that there are as many ways to decompose a whole number as the sum of distinct summands as there are ways to decompose it as the sum of (not necessarily distinct) odd summands.
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