The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the selection of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as recipients of the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders.

On May 5, Professor Susan Holmes from the Stanford Statistics Department will give a Public Lecture, “Breaking Codes and Finding Patterns”, in Cubberley Auditorium at 7:30pm. The theme of her lecture is encapsulated in the motto “if we can break any code then we can discover the secrets of life”.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics to Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, “for the development of contact and symplectic topology and groundbreaking discoveries of rigidity and flexibility phenomena…” .   The Crafoord Prize carries with it a generous

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