Looking Out for Missoula

Looking out for future scientists

Proposals to reduce the number of students who do PhDs are misguided, writes Eve Marder, because they would exclude young scientists with qualities that do not show up in exam results and interviews.

Looking out for the backside!

Insider looking out

Josef Penninger, the new director of the planned Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, tells Graham Tebb of hurdles but high hopes he has for shaping a new kind of institution in Austria.

Looking out for Stable Syzygy Bundles

We study (slope-)stability properties of syzygy bundles on a projective space P given by ideal generators of a homogeneous primary ideal. In particular we give a combinatorial criterion for a monomial ideal to have a semistable syzygy bundle. Restriction theorems for semistable bundles yield the same stability results on the generic complete intersection curve. From this we deduce a numerical f...

From the inside, looking out

Kitchens play a role in the daily life of the family. Kitchens in rural areas of developing countries have some specific characteristics in common; lack of comfort, difficult access to water, poor structures, lack of efficient ventilation, and a lot of smoke. The studies about kitchens have been analyzing diverse aspects, like the stove, the functions, and the climate. Little, if nothing was st...