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Informationen zum Autor For 200 years?since 1817?the Academy has brought together extraordinary people working at the frontiers of discovery. Among the oldest scientific organizations in the United States, it has become not only an enduring cultural institution in New York, but also one of the most significant organizations in the global scientific community. Klappentext "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." Zusammenfassung This volume comprises contributions from faculty and postdoctoral finalists of the 2011 New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. Inhaltsverzeichnis A crosstalk between bone and gonads / Franck Oury Calabi-Yau manifolds and their degenerations / Valentino Tosatti Emerging topics in epigenetics : ants, brains, and noncoding RNAs / Roberto Bonasio Lighting up the brain's reward circuitry / Mary Kay Lobo Searching for new physics at the frontiers with lattice quantum chromodynamics / Ruth S. Van de Water Quo vadis, data privacy? / Johannes Gehrke Exploring the birth and death of black holes and other creatures / Szabolcs Märka Harnessing the world's biodiversity data : promise and peril in ecological niche modeling of species distributions / Robert P. Anderson Protein function and allostery : a dynamic relationship / Charalampos G. Kalodimos Plate tectonics and planetary habitability : current status and future challenges / Jun Korenaga Accurate evaluation and analysis of functional genomics data and methods / Casey S. Greene and Olga G. Troyanskaya Molecular dispersion spectroscopy : new capabilities in laser chemical sensing / Michal Nikodem and Gerard Wysocki ...
