April 14, 1997 Volume 86, Number 24 | Prev | Next | Index
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Can naked singularities really exist?
By Jacquelyn SavaniMathematics professor Demetrios Christodoulou says that British physicist Stephen Hawking shouldn't have conceded his bet on the cosmic censorship conjecture. In a paper to be published in the Annals of Mathematics, Christodoulou marshals what may be the strongest support to date for cosmic censorship.
Seven are promoted to tenured ranks
Seven current members of the faculty were promoted to the tenured rank of associate professor, as of July 1, by the trustees at their quarterly meeting on April 4: April Alliston of Comparative Literature, Miguel Centeno of Sociology, Beatriz Colomina of the School of Architecture, Georgios Deodatis of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Sanjeev Kulkarni of Electrical Engineering, Thomas Levin of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Gerard Waters of Molecular Biology.Board names five professors
At their quarterly meeting on April 4, the University's board of trustees appointed to the faculty five professors: Michael Bender, John Hopfield, Robert Kaster, Marta Tienda and Scott Tremaine.
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