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James H. Simons was the chair of the mathematics department at Stony Brook from 1968 to 1976. After deciding to leave academia, he then went on to make billions with his investment firm Renaissance Technologies. On February 27, 2008 he announced a donation totaling $60 million (including a $25 million gift two years prior) to the mathematics ...
The C. N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics (YITP) is a research center at Stony Brook University.In 1965, it was the vision of then University President J.S. Toll and Physics Department chair T.A. Pond to create an institute for theoretical physics and invite the famous physicist Chen Ning Yang from Institute for Advanced Study to serve as its director with the Albert Einstein ...
These four measures were combined using principal component analysis to create two indices of research activity, one representing an aggregate level of research activity and the other representing per-capita research activity. Institutions that were high on both indices were classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research ...
The State University of New York at Stony Brook was established in Oyster Bay in 1957, as the State University College on Long Island (SUCOLI). Established almost a decade after the creation of New York's public higher education system, the institution was envisioned as a college for the preparation of secondary school teachers.
The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology [1] (Laufer Center) is a multidisciplinary venue where research from fields such as biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, engineering, genetics, mathematics, and physics come together and target medical and biological problems using both computations and experiments.
Wolfram Research, Inc. (/ ˈ w ʊ l f r əm / WUUL-frəm) is an American multinational company that creates computational technology. Wolfram's flagship product is the technical computing program Wolfram Mathematica, first released on June 23, 1988.
Marine Sciences Research Center is a research center at Stony Brook University. The center studies coastal oceanographic processes and atmospheric sciences. In 1997 the center was awarded grants of $7.1 million, including more than $1.9 million from the National Science Foundation alone. [1]
Yuanyuan Yang is a Chinese-American computer scientist whose interests include parallel and distributed computing, wireless sensor networks, and cloud computing.She is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Stony Brook University, Associate Dean for Diversity and Academic Affairs in the Stony Brook College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. [1]