So Yau founded the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993 and serves as the director.
Occupying three floors of the simply named Academic Building No. 1 of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the New Territories, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences started slowly.
Since 2000, 58 of the 60 graduates of the 18-month program in mathematical finance at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences--Beguir's alma mater--were employed a few months after graduation.
Dr. Castillo-Chavez is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Banff International Research Station and served as a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Council and Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute Committee.
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The mathematical sciences were neglected almost to the point of extinction within the mediaeval educational system, the schools teaching almost no mathematics and the universities only paying lip service to a narrow curriculum of mathematical topics at the very lowest level.
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The UNESCO-Hamdan Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers was awarded to The Rato Bangala Foundation (Nepal), The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Schools Enrichment Centre (South Africa) and to The Banco del Libro (Venezuela).
The mathematical sciences prize was awarded to David L. Donoho for his "contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for statistical estimation in the presence of noise and of efficient techniques for sparse representation and recovery in large data-sets, " the committee said.
Combining IBM Research's expertise in the areas of mathematical sciences, computer science and high-performance computing with the deep-power engineering and operational know-how of the participating members, the Institute will focus on five core innovation tracks to pursue joint research and where shared investments, knowledge and capabilities will benefit every member.
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In order for the mathematisation of nature, that many historians regard as the core of the scientific revolution, to be consummated it became necessary in the 16th and 17th centuries to reform the prevailing education system and introduce a thorough grounding in the mathematical sciences in order to produce the mathematicians, astronomers and physicists capable of carrying out the task.
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In the morning, after the opening by UNESCO and AFPCN and the keynote address by a historian of surrealism, disasters and their consequences will be closely analysed by experts in fields as varied as philsophy, mathematical modelization and earth sciences.
He is also the founding director of the Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.
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The NSF is next at 22 percent and is the largest single contributor to research in the physical and mathematical as well as social sciences.
Jan developed the first mathematical models that could be applied to the social sciences.
The International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) of UNESCO and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) are leading this Mathematics of Planet Earth Day and the international exhibition which is an important component of the year of scientific and outreach activities, Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013), under the patronage of UNESCO.
These are not mathematical formulas, but they describe what happens as truly as the most logical of the quantitative sciences.
As a professor in the department of brain and cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he's using a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments to explain how people learn new things.
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