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She entered Princeton University majoring in mathematics but intending to pursue an MD–PhD program; [6] under the influence of faculty mentor and undergraduate thesis supervisor Elias M. Stein, her interests shifted towards pure mathematics. [1] [6] [3] As an undergraduate, she also became an intern at the National Security Agency. [1]
The current dean of The Graduate School is Suzanne Barbour, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, who joined Duke in 2022. The Graduate School is administered by a dean, who with the advice an executive committee of the Graduate Faculty, coordinates the graduate offerings of all departments in the Arts and Sciences, the non-professional degree ...
fds.duke.edu /db /aas /math /bryant Robert Bryant, working with R. Kusner, found this parameterization of Boy's surface which minimizes the Willmore energy [ 1 ] Robert Leamon Bryant (born August 30, 1953) is an American mathematician.
Doctoral conferrals in humanities, social science, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, and in other fields (e.g., business, education, public policy, social work) These four measures were combined using principal component analysis to create two indices of research activity, one representing an aggregate level of ...
The graduate program in literature boasts several internationally renowned figures, including Fredric Jameson, [175] Michael Hardt, [176] and Rey Chow, while philosophers Robert Brandon and Lakatos Award-winner Alexander Rosenberg contribute to Duke's ranking as the nation's best program in philosophy of biology, according to the Philosophical ...
Arlie Oswald Petters, MBE (born February 8, 1964) is a Belizean-American mathematical physicist, who is the Benjamin Powell Professor of mathematics and a professor of physics and economics at Duke University. [1] Petters became the provost at New York University Abu Dhabi effective September 1, 2020. [2]
In 1969 he earned a PhD from Stanford University. Since 1977 he has taught at Duke University, where he is the Bishop-MacDermott Professor of Mathematics. To clarify the mathematics supporting the theories of quantum mechanics, he joined with Barry Simon to publish Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics in four volumes during the 1970s. In a ...
The school was created by Duke's Board of Trustees in 1939. It was named in 1999 following a $35 million gift by Edmund T. Pratt Jr., a 1947 graduate and former chief executive of Pfizer. [5] The Duke University Pratt School of Engineering celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2014–2015. [6]