Sylvester James "Jim" Gates, Jr. participated in a live webcast event on June 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm ET. His talk, From the Mathematics of Supersymmetry to the Music of Arnold Schoenberg, was a part of the Perimeter Institute's Public Lecture Series. The webcast is available at, http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/node/92581, and was followed with an online chat discussion on Perimeter Institute's website.
Victor Yakovenko described his econophysics work in an episode of the TV series Through the Wormhold with Morgan Freeman on the Science Channel. The episode, Is Poverty Genetic?, first aired in June, 2014.
The appearance on the Science Channel follows coverage of Victor's econophysics work in Science Magazine last month it he the special Science of Inequalitly issue. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/828.full
Noah Mandell has been chosen to receive the University Medal, which is awarded each year to the graduating senior who best exemplifies academic distinction, outstanding character and extracurricular contributions to the university and public communities. Mandell, who studied nuclear fusion with Bill Dorland, will receive a bachelor's degree in physics with a minor in math. In the fall, Mandell will start his graduate studies in astrophysical sciences at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory.
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