Obituary: Toshisada Nishida (March 3, 1941–June 7, 2011)

Toshisada Nishida (1941–2011): Chimpanzee Rapport

One of the absolute greats of primatology, Toshisada Nishida (March 3, 1941– June 7, 2011), recently passed away at the age of 70 (Figure 1). We have come such a long way in our knowledge of chimpanzees, and the discoveries have reached us in such a gradual and cumulative fashion, that it is easy to forget how little was known when Nishida set out for Africa to establish one of the first chimpa...

Computational Game Theory Spring Semester , 2011 / 2012 Lecture 3 : March 7

In the previous lectures we talked about the inefficiency of equilibrium states. We defined the concepts of the Price of Anarchy (PoA) and the Price of Stability (PoS). We mentioned two problems: 1. Infinitesimal Flows-For which we showed that an equilibrium state can be suboptimal. We talked of Brass Paradox, as a situation where adding another channel or route actually decreases the performan...

Obituary: Rafael Pont-Lezica (1940–2011)

Rafael Pont-Lezica, Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology Emeritus Professor at the Université de Toulouse, passed away on September 26, 2011 after losing his fight with cancer. He had studied agronomy at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, in Argentina, and in 1978 earned a Ph. D. at the Université de Gembloux, Belgium. Rafael began his scientific career as a Research Assistant in Pl...

APS March Meeting 2011

APS March Meeting 2011