SYR. HYPOPHOS: FELLOWS

Queen Elizabeth II Fellows

he electrochemical control of oxidation and reduction processes in organic and inorganic systems is an area of extensive research in both academia and industry. Electrochemical techniques are extremely useful in generating interesting species in unusual oxidation states, or for producing reactive intermediates (as, for example in the reductive dimerization of vinyl cyanide in the Monsanto manuf...

Seventh Quadrennial Fellows

The classical interpretation of probability together with the Principle of Indifference are formulated in terms of probability measure spaces in which the probability is given by the Haar measure. A notion called Labeling Irrelevance is defined in the category of Haar probability spaces, it is shown that Labeling Irrelevance is violated and Bertrand’s Paradox is interpreted as the very proof of...

IEEE Announces 2006 Fellows

T he IEEE Board of Directors recently conferred the title of Fellow upon 271 senior members of the IEEE, including 63 Computer Society members (out of 114 original nominees). IEEE policy limits the total number of Fellows selected in any one year to no more than 0.10 percent of the IEEE's total voting membership. With IEEE membership now standing at more than 350,000 professionals, this year's ...

Tale of Two Fellows

Optimization of Syr Darya Water and Energy Uses

Since independence, joint use of water resources in the Aral Sea basin has been a critical international problem between the Central Asian republics, especially in the Syr Darya basin where the tradeoffs between use of water for agricultural and energy production are very acute. Previous centralized methods of planning, formation of independent countries and the emergence of national interests ...