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The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS, commonly pronounced "circus") is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on interdisciplinary research combining computer science with social sciences. It is based in Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It is currently directed by Milind Tambe.
McMullen graduated as valedictorian in 1980 from Williams College and obtained his PhD in 1985 from Harvard University, supervised by Dennis Sullivan.He held post-doctoral positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Study, after which he was on the faculty at Princeton University (1987–1990) and the ...
Barry Charles Mazur (/ ˈ m eɪ z ər /; [1] born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. [2] His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, Mazur's torsion theorem in arithmetic geometry, the Mazur swindle in geometric topology, and the Mazur ...
It is named after W. E. B. Du Bois, who was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1895). [ 1 ] The center was the basis for the foundation of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and became one of several institutes under the umbrella of this center.
Overdeck founded the nonprofit Bedtime Math in 2012, sending out playful nightly math posts for children to solve with their parents. The blog received early critical acclaim, and the following year she published Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late , her first of four books with Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Children's ...
Harvard Summer School, founded in 1871, is the first academic summer session established in the United States. Each summer, more than 5,000 students of all ages come to Harvard from across the United States and more than 100 foreign countries to study for seven weeks with faculty from Harvard and other universities.
Crowley (Local pronunciation: / ˈ k r æ l i /) is a city in, and the parish seat of, Acadia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [2] At the 2020 United States census, Crowley had a population of 11,710. [3] Crowley is the principal city of the Crowley micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Acadia Parish.
Social epidemiologist Lisa Berkman was appointed director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies by Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman in October 2007. Berkman is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (formerly the Harvard School of Public Health). She ...