Handbook of Liquid Crystal Research (ed.s Collings, Peter J.; Patel, Jay S.)

Sir Peter Brian Medawar ’ S Transplantation Research

Sir Peter Medawar experimentally demonstrated immunological tolerance through his tissue transplantation experiment in the early and mid-1950s. He made a central contribution to modern biomedicine by showing that genetically distinct cells introduced into a body during its foetal phase could not only be permanently tolerated but also make the host accept any subsequent skin grafts from the orig...

Peter J. Hollenbeck

Peter Hollenbeck is Professor and Associate Head of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. He did his PhD at the University of California-Berkeley with W. Zacheus Cande, followed by postdoctoral training with Dennis Bray at the MRC Cell Biophysics Unit in London. He then served on the Harvard Medical School faculty in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and later the Department of Ne...

Jay Cummings: Research Statement

My research has touched many areas of combinatorics, including enumerative, algebraic, spectral, extremal and probabilistic. The projects below include finding the stationary distribution of a random coloring procedure, pursuing new directions in the math of juggling, working with undergraduates on Ramsey theory, and studying a pair of topics from spectral graph theory. I have mentored undergra...

In press , Mehl & Conner ( Eds . ) Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life

Peter J. Landin (1930-2009)

This note is a prelude to a forthcoming special issue of HOSC dedicated to Peter Landin’s memory.