Michel Butor, Dan Graham, Conversation

A Conversation with Graham Hutchings

G raham Hutchings of Cardiff University made a discovery in 1982 that came to define his career. He predicted that golddespite its reputation for being inertshould be an excellent catalyst for an industrial reaction that makes vinyl chloride monomer (VCM, or chloroethene), used to produce one of the world’s most ubiquitous plastics, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). More than three decades later, Hut...

The world of ways and means: a conversation with Dan Rostenkowski. Interview by John K. Iglehart.

Michel Deza , Michel Petitjean , Krassimir Markov

We study differential-geometrical structure of an information manifold equipped with a divergence function.A divergence function generates a Riemannian metric and furthermore it provides a symmetric third-order tensor,when the divergence is asymmetric. This induces a pair of affine connections dually coupled to each other withrespect to the Riemannian metric. This is the arising eme...

Michel Labouesse

Michel Labouesse grew up near Paris. He studied maths and physics for a degree in engineering, but subsequently embraced a career in biology. He learned genetics during his PhD with Piotr Slonimski in Gif/Yvette, where he analysed how the nuclear genome controls expression of mitochondrial genes in yeast. He then went on to learn developmental biology of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a...

Yang Dan

Yang Dan Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California, Berkeley Yang Dan is a Paul Licht Distinguished Professor in Biology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. She grew up in Beijing and studied physics as an undergraduate student at Peking University. She conducted her PhD research in the lab of Mu-ming Poo a...