From the Periodicals Director

Notes from the Director

My years at MSRI have been immensely exciting and rewarding. The job is incredibly varied, the staff excellent, the community highly supportive. The Institute is prospering, and there are many new opportunities for action. Having done this job since 1997, I feel I see possibilities I would not have understood when I began. I cannot imagine a mathematical-administrative job more exciting than th...

Message from the Director - General

From the Desk of the Executive Director.

A Message from the Director Steven Ealick

In May 2009, NE-CAT applied for a high end equipment grant from NCRR to fund the purchase of a Pixel Array Detector (PAD). As a class, PADs are generally acknowledged as the near-term successor to CCD’s at 3rd generation synchrotron crystallography beamlines. The PILATUS-6M, from Dectris Ltd., is the first commercially available PAD suitable for synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallographic...

World Medical Periodicals

building which the Admiralty acknowledged: "Though science is much respected by their Lordships and your paper is much esteemed, it is too learned." Young was also appointed as Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac and Secretary of the Board of Longitude. In this he was unable to satisfy the demands both of the navigators and of the astronomers, incurring the displeasure of both. A bibliograph...