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An Applied Mathematician With an Unexpected Toolbox

March 1, 2023

Lek-Heng Lim uses tools from algebra, geometry and topology to answer questions in machine learning.

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She Studies Growing Arteries to Aid Heart Attack Recovery

February 13, 2023

Regenerative medicine researcher Kristy Red Horse’s discoveries may someday help damaged hearts heal better. Her stewardship of her Native American heritage may advance science in other ways too.

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The Computer Scientist Who Finds Life Lessons in Games

January 25, 2023

In Shang-Hua Teng’s work, theoretical and practical questions have long been intertwined. Now he’s turning his focus to the impractical.

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Starfish Whisperer Develops a Physical Language of Life

January 11, 2023

Nikta Fakhri is adapting and extending concepts from physics to describe how tiny biological components give rise to living organisms.

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She Finds Keys to Ecology in Cells That Steal From Others

December 19, 2022

The ecologist Holly Moeller studies microorganisms that expand their range by absorbing organelles and gaining new metabolic talents from their prey.

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She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’

December 12, 2022

By using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos, Silke Weinfurtner is “looking for a deeper truth beyond one system.” But what can such experiments teach us?

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A Mathematician Dancing Between Algebra and Geometry

November 22, 2022

Wei Ho, the first director of the Women and Mathematics program at the Institute for Advanced Study, combines algebra and geometry in her work on an ancient class of curves.

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A Mathematician Who Fled to Freedom but Still Stares Down Doubts

November 1, 2022

Svetlana Jitomirskaya was born in Ukraine, but left the Soviet Union to escape sexism and antisemitism. Even though her work in mathematical physics has now been honored with one of the field’s top prizes, she finds herself still fighting old battles.

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The Computer Scientist Who’s Boosting Privacy on the Internet

October 18, 2022

Harry Halpin wants our internet conversations to be more private. He’s helped create a new kind of network that might make it possible.

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