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What We're Reading
October 18
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It’s Never too Late to Start a Science Career (Nature)
With willpower and suitable financial means, you can start a science career at any age. Most doctoral students are in their 20s and 30s, but 8 percent are older than 45.
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Math+X Chair Emmanuel Candès Awarded 2017 MacArthur Fellowship (MacArthur Foundation)
Candès, who holds the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University, was named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow for "exploring the limits of signal recovery and matrix completion from incomplete data sets with implications for high-impact applications in multiple fields."
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Penn/International Collaboration Pursue the Nature of Reality (UPenn News)
A look at the It from Qubit collaboration, which aims to find out if a subtle property of quantum information, measured by qubits, gives rise to the structure of space and gravity.
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Dusa McDuff’s Favorite Theorem (Scientific American blog)
Mathematician Dusa McDuff explains why she loves the nonsqueezing theorem—and what vegetable she'd pair it with
