LAWRENCE HARGRAVE, 1850–19151

Lawrence Kruger

Introducing Paul Hargrave, the 2000 recipient of the Friedenwald award.

It is customary in these introductions to speak of the work of the award recipient and I shall attend to that shortly. But first I want to speak of Paul’s personal history and his character because that profoundly colors the kind of work he does, the kind of teacher he strives to be and the high level of insight and breadth he brings to his work. In all of this, he is truly a “Marathon Man.” Pa...

Higher Lawrence configurations

Any configuration of lattice vectors gives rise to a hierarchy of higher-dimensional configurations which generalize the Lawrence construction in geometric combinatorics. We prove finiteness results for the Markov bases, Graver bases and facet posets of these configurations, and we discuss applications to the statistical theory of log-linear models.

Lawrence Katz (1956–2005)

Lawrence C. Katz died of melanoma on November 26, 2005, at the age of 48. He was amongst the most creative and influential neuroscientists of his time. His contributions were both scientific and personal, providing as much to the development of people as to scientific discovery. These affections were always inextricably intertwined, his love of scientific beauty and discovery, and his caring fo...

The Aboo Lawrence School

This school was founded by Sir Henry Lawrence in 1854, and has completed the eighteenth year of its existence. The objects of the institution are to provide a refuge from the debilitating effects of a tropical climate, and a plain, practical education and Christian training for the children and orphans of soldiers serving in Rajpootana and Western India. The report for the year 1871-72, which h...