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Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Director of the Humanities Center, and seminal postcolonial theorist...
...Shing-Tung Yau, the first time journalist Sylvia Nasar got in touch with him for a story she was writing for the New Yorker, she told him she was interested in the fusion of math and physics as represented in the age-old Poincare Conjecture. Yau, a Harvard string theorist, had a lot to say on the subject—two of his mentees had just completed a full proof of the Conjecture, which had gone unsolved for a hundred years. He happily agreed to talk to her, according to the New Yorker, and the two of them spoke...
...first major showing of Asian media artists. Held in a castle, a shrine and other venues in a small city half an hour outside Nagoya, Ogaki will feature up-and-coming names from Indonesia, India, China, the Philippines and South Korea. According to co-curator and Singaporean art theorist Gunalan Nadarajan, the event will allow visitors to examine the "culturally different notions of art, media and technology." Alternatively, they can simply let themselves be charmed by the beguiling videos on display...
...burns very hot, shining perhaps a million times brighter than the sun and generating a wind of particles that pushes the surrounding gases outward, keeping them from collapsing on their own to form new stars. The very first galaxies in the young universe may well have been microgalaxies, as theorist Mike Norman of the University of California at San Diego calls them: each one a single, huge, superhot star, surrounded by a halo of hydrogen...
...galaxies filled with second-generation stars were by far the dominant type in the early cosmos. It would also have been safe to assume that nobody could spot them in their earliest incarnation without giant new telescopes--if not for Ellis. "He does like to push the frontiers," says theorist Norman with mixed amusement and respect. "It's always great fun to go to a meeting and see the latest Ellis most-distant-object sweepstakes entry...