Patrick Hayden /pætrik heidεn/

Une rencontre mathématique By Hayden

Suppose that you are given some number of objects that have a set order but have been randomly shuffled. Without any prior information, you are given the task of putting the objects back into their correct order. How many ways could you arrange the objects? How well do you expect to do? Would this change if there were more objects? Recently I was faced with these very questions and, in the proc...

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh graduated in Communications Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989, when he moved to Harvard as a Professor of Psychology. Along with Ken Nakayama, he founded the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard i...

Patrick Lemaire

Patrick Lemaire grew up in Orsay, close to Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and did his PhD at the EMBL (Heidelberg) and ENS (Paris) with Patrick Charnay (1985–1990); he then joined, as a post-doc, the laboratory of John Gurdon in Cambridge (1991–1994), where he identified a crucial Xenopus organizer gene, Siamois. He has been heading a CNRS research group in Marseille since 199...

Patrick Graves

Patrick Keeling

Patrick Keeling is a Canadian evolutionary microbiologist and Professor in Botany at the University of British Columbia.