In a talk sponsored by the Einstein Legacy Society, Brett
Hammond, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, TIAA-CREF,
addresses financial markets, the downturn and current outlook, and
what investors can do to help assure that their plans...
For the past decade, the Institute’s Science Initiative Group
(SIG) has worked with the World Bank and other partners to
strengthen science in developing nations. In this talk, Phillip
Griffiths, who helped create SIG when he was Director of the...
Barry O'Neill, Leon Levy Foundation Member, School of Social
Science. Many of the world’s societies function by codes of honor.
Violence between ethnic groups or countries often follows the rules
of honor among individuals, in particular among...
We construct our understanding of the world solely from neuronal
activity generated in our brains. How do we do this? Many studies
have investigated how the electrical activity of neurons (action
potentials) is related to outside stimuli, and...
Although the concept of randomness is ubiquitous, it turns out
to be difficult to generate a truly random sequence of events. The
need for “pseudorandomness” in various parts of modern science,
ranging from numerical simulation to cryptography, has...