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...student specializing in medical scans. Over drinks, friends told him they were creating a computer simulation of a man diving into a pool. "They said the water would be ridiculously hard to get right," O'Brien says. But O'Brien thought it was simply a matter of doing the math...
...getting enough of the math right to fool the eye. Because computers don't have enough horsepower yet to simulate, say, every flake of snow in a drift, academics like O'Brien attempt to figure out how much we need to see to believe a scene is real. That's appreciated by animators and video-game artists who want simulations that look good but don't take a weekend to run. (It can take hours of computer time to generate one second of animation, but video-game players want things to happen in real time.) O'Brien's programs have...
Unlike other departments that promote assistant professors to senior faculty, the math department has no tenure track. As a general rule, it only “poaches” established senior faculty members from other institutions, Harris says...
...women who may be starting families around the same time their male contemporaries are producing some of their best work. “Summers’ plan goes against having more women at the senior level,” Nicoara says, “because most women in math who are big in their field became so later on than many of their male colleagues...
Departments are pushing for more mentoring programs for women in the sciences. Both the computer science and math departments offer mentoring programs in which undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members participate...