Origen’s Vacillating Stances toward his “Valentinian” Colleague Heracleon

Curriculum Content: Changing Students’ Stances toward Uncertainty

From Hollywood blockbusters such as Jurassic Park and The Butterfly Effect to popular books such as Chaos by Gleick (1988) and Complexity by Waldrop (1992), the new science of complexity has made its way into the American discourse. By now thoughtful educators cannot have failed to at least glance at the headlines in popular science magazines proclaiming new scientific advances. They are aware ...

Ayatollah Golpayegani's Stances and Measures toward Policies of Pahlavi Regime

The current article tries to study Ayatollah Golpayegani's declarations+ and stances toward the policies of Pahlavi regime and relations with its agents. Taking ayatollah's political thought i.e. his belief in general welayat-e faqih into consideration, the main concern of this article is to find reasons behind his different behaviors to confront with Pahlavi regime in different stages. What ca...

Dynamics of vacillating voters

We introduce the vacillating voter model in which each voter consults two neighbors to decide its state, and changes opinion if it disagrees with either neighbor. This irresolution leads to a global bias toward zero magnetization. In spatial dimension d > 1, anti-coarsening arises in which the linear dimension L of minority domains grows as t1/(d+1). One consequence is that the time to reach co...

Dear Colleague

Meehl as colleague.

The author summarizes some memories and impressions of Paul Meehl as graduate advisor, classroom teacher, and departmental colleague.