Yale computer scientist Daniel Spielman has been named to the inaugural class of Simons Investigators, providing him and Yale’s Department of Computer Science with $660,000 over five years for curiosity-driven research.A potential five-year renewal could...
Brian Penprase, a Pomona College astronomer, is a frequent presence at Yale these days, and not chiefly at the observatory.Brian Penprase says astronomers make good university leaders because they “are used to contemplating the big picture.”As a 2012-2013...
In awarding Yale’s George Daniel Mostow its 2013 Wolf Foundation Prize in mathematics — one of the field’s premier global awards — the foundation offered this crisp assessment: “Few mathematicians,” it said, “can compete with the breadth, depth, and...