Nuclear warheads? This robot can find them
Picture a swarm of autonomous, three-foot rolling robots armed with smart detectors to support nuclear safeguards and verify arms-control agreements.
René Carmona and François Delarue to Receive the 2020 Joseph L. Doob Prize
The 2020 Joseph L. Doob Prize will be awarded to the two-volume set Probabilistic Theory of Mean Field Games with Applications, I and II, written by René Carmona and François Delarue, and published in 2018 by Springer-Verlag in its series Stochastic Analysis and Applications.
CELEBRATE PRINCETON INNOVATION - Amit Singer: Software for near-atomic resolution using cryo-electron microscopy
A software package aims to aid drug design and biomedical research by making it easy to construct 3D images of proteins and other molecules using one of the world’s most powerful microscopes.
Professor Paul Seymour appointed Visiting Professor in Mathematics at Oxford University
The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Board, University of OXFORD, acting on the recommendation from the Department of Mathematics, has agreed to confer upon Paul Seymour the title of Visiting Professor in Mathematics for a period of 3 years from 23 October 201
PEI awards $1.01 million in Water and the Environment Grand Challenge projects
The ecological impacts of extreme weather, a national “climate park” in the New Jersey Meadowlands, and engineered nanoparticles that target groundwater pollutants are among the 13 projects funded by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) as part of its Water and the Environment Grand Challenge program.
Algorithms could stop an ‘internet of things’ attack from bringing down the power grid
Last year, Princeton researchers identified a disturbing security flaw in which hackers could someday exploit internet-connected appliances to wreak havoc on the electrical grid. Now, the same research team has released algorithms to make the grid more resilient to such attacks.
Paul Seymour Awarded Comenius University's Commemorative Medal
Professor Paul Seymour received the Commemorative Medal from Comenius University in Bratislava at a ceremony on August 27. "It is an honour for us to host the world's leaders in combinatorics in the 100th year of our university.
Researchers reverse engineer the ‘fireworks of life’
Imagine standing in a lumberyard and being asked to build a house — without blueprints or instructions of any kind.
Engineering faculty receive presidential early-career awards
Four faculty members of the School of Engineering and Applied Science have been named recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their research careers.