Daniel A. Spielman, the newly designated Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science, focuses his research on the design and analysis of algorithms, graph theory, machine learning, error-correcting codes and combinatorial scientific computing.He has been...
Legendary songwriter, artist and activist, Patti Smith will be at Yale for two separate evening events sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center: On Nov. 3, she will introduce a screening of the film “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” (2008). Following the...
Up-and-coming singers in Yale Opera will be featured in two evenings of selected opera scenes, including such audience favorites as Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Verdi’s “La Traviata.”The performances will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and 30,...
How worried should we be about our privacy when we engage in Web surfing, blogging, Tweeting, social networking, video sharing and other online activities? That topic will be examined during a Privacy and Innovation Symposium taking place on Friday, Oct....
November 3 will be Doonesbury Day at Yale, when Garry Trudeau (B.A., 1970, M.F.A. 1973) returns to the campus where Bull Tales, the prototype for the satirical strip, first leapt from his imagination onto the pages of the Yale Daily News.The celebration...
The gallery at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., will exhibit works on paper by American artist William Bailey from Nov. 8 through Jan. 28, 2011. Bailey was a professor of art at Yale from 1969 to 1995. The exhibition of temperas, drawings and...
Yale senior Chika Ota spends some time each week rummaging through the local Salvation Army Thrift Store and fishing through campus recycling bins. She’s always on the lookout for objects that others have discarded, which she can use to design and create...
The “worlds” in a bowl of soup will be brought to life in a lecture by noted food writer and memorialist Claudia Roden on Thursday, Oct. 28.Roden, who turned the pleasures of eating into a division of cultural anthropology, will discuss “A Good Soup Holds...
Over the years, many orthopaedists have been invited to deliver the annual Southwick Lecture, which honors the Yale professor who was the first chair of the University orthopaedics department.But this year’s speaker has a unique qualification: He is the...