Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists 2011
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1260; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1260.
Publisher: Published by Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781573318617
Subjects: Life sciences; Physical sciences; Mathematics; Computer science; Natural Science Disciplines; Biomedical Technology
Description: "The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists acknowledge and celebrate the excellence of our most noteworthy young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The Awards recognize highly innovative, impactful, and interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering with unrestricted financial prizes for both finalists and awardees."
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Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A crosstalk between bone and gonads / Franck Oury; title: Calabi-Yau manifolds and their degenerations / Valentino Tosatti; title: Emerging topics in epigenetics : ants, brains, and noncoding RNAs / Roberto Bonasio; title: Lighting up the brain's reward circuitry / Mary Kay Lobo; title: Searching for new physics at the frontiers with lattice quantum chromodynamics / Ruth S. Van de Water; title: Quo vadis, data privacy? / Johannes Gehrke; title: Exploring the birth and death of black holes and other creatures / Szabolcs Márka; title: Harnessing the world's biodiversity data : promise and peril in ecological niche modeling of species distributions / Robert P. Anderson; title: Protein function and allostery : a dynamic relationship / Charalampos G. Kalodimos; title: Plate tectonics and planetary habitability : current status and future challenges / Jun Korenaga; title: Accurate evaluation and analysis of functional genomics data and methods / Casey S. Greene and Olga G. Troyanskaya; title: Molecular dispersion spectroscopy : new capabilities in laser chemical sensing / Michal Nikodem and Gerard Wysocki.