Patrick Mathieu (dir.), Voyage et Scandale

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...

P. Mathieu

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...

Mathieu Groups

In this essay, we will discuss some interesting properties of the Mathieu groups, which are a family of five sporadic finite simple groups, as well as some closely related topics. One construction of the Mathieu groups involves Steiner systems, so we will begin by discussing Steiner systems.

Fantastic Voyage: Influenza

My previous young doctor host Walking quickly away Head down, embarrassed Scolded by a nurse—where was his mask? Too busy and careless, poor fool He still serves me well, dragging me into his wake. Here I go, following and fl oating A door nearby opens—negative pressure! In I go, but on a cancer ward, This should be positive pressure! To keep bugs out, not draw them in. I cannot complain All go...