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The One Billion Map
For a network scientist few things can be more exciting that when the US government commits $100 million a year for its most massive network mapping initiative ever: obtain a map of the connectome, a complete circuitry of the brain. The effort’s scale and complexity only compares to Google’s mighty operation to map out the WWW and Facebook’s ambition to map out the world’s social circuitry.
May 01, 2013
Person of the Week: Dr. Alessandro Vespignani
Sternberg Distinguished Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences, Alessandro Vespignani has been selected as MPHPProgramsList.com's Person of the Week.
April 30, 2013
Prepare for Takeoff
A little over a year ago, Justin Dowd’s boss bought a pack of colored chalk to write the day’s specials on the wall. Little did he know, that chalk would change Dowd’s life forever. The Northeastern undergraduate, then a third-year studying physics, told me he’d always had a penchant for doodling and a minor love affair with Einstein’s theory of relativity.
April 26, 2013
Professors Srinivas Sridhar and Swastik Kar's Graphene Bolometer Project Highlighted in Photonics Spectra
Short-, long- and mid-wave IR imaging helps defense agencies find targets and even determine intent.
April 22, 2013
Large Hadron Collider and Dark Matter Brings Gregory Peim to Northeastern University
Gregory Peim is a graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in physics, conducting research under the direction of Professor Pran Nath.
April 04, 2013
Physics Graduate Student Gregory Peim Wins this Year's Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Congratulations to Gregory Peim for winning this year's Outstanding Graduate Student award! Gregory will be will be recognized at the upcoming Northeastern University Academic Honors Convocation on April 18.
April 04, 2013
Apps, Co-ops, Startups, and Global Solutions: It's RISE:2013
Ever walk by a construction project in the city and wonder what the site will look like one day? Well, a team of seven seniors at Northeastern has created a new app for that.
March 28, 2013
Under the Hood of the Ribosome
We all know—generally speaking—how a car works: The gas pedal makes it go, the break pedal makes it stop, and the steering wheel determines its course. But pop open the hood and you’ll find there’s a lot more nuance to those maneuvers.
March 26, 2013
Beauty, Simplicity, and Symmetry
If Einstein’s theory of relativity is wrong, then this whole thing we call the universe is either a dream or it works a lot differently than we suspected.
March 26, 2013
TEDx Talk: the Art of the Higgs Boson
Assistant Professor Toyoko Orimoto recently gave a TEDx talk at the University of Geneva.
March 26, 2013
A Burst for Bursts
The other day I starred the following headline in my RSS feed: “Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less.”
February 21, 2013
AAAS 2013: Predicting Human Behavior
If you’ve driven on the highway, you’ve seen it: The traffic jam appears out of nowhere and disappears just as mysteriously.
February 21, 2013
Complex Systems Made Simple
Just as the name implies, complex systems are difficult to tease apart.
February 19, 2013
Justin Dowd: A True Story of Dark Matter
The universe is more than galaxies, stars, planets, and empty space.
February 19, 2013