Julie Dorsey, Richard Kenyon, Ruzica Piskac, and Peter Schiffer were appointed to endowed professorships.
Dorsey, designated as the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Computer Science, focuses her research on computer graphics. Read Dorsey’s announcement...
A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata — art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math? Beyond useful or brilliant, can an abstract idea be considered beautiful?
Yes, actually — and not just...
You may not know early Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov by name, but perhaps you’ve heard of his most famous film, “Man with a Movie Camera.” Released in 1929, this non-narrative silent film illustrates a day in the life of real Soviet city-dwellers without...
To understand the most ordinary matter in the universe — and the extraordinary things that happen to it — a Yale-led team of astronomers took a deep dive into the cosmic fog.
They learned intriguing new details about the dynamics of baryons, the...