In Defending Free Speech, Says Teresa Sullivan, ‘the Middle Ground Is the High Ground’ - The Chronicle of Higher Education

In Defending Free Speech, Says Teresa Sullivan, ‘the Middle Ground Is the High Ground’ - The Chronicle of Higher Education:



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The Threat From Within - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Threat From Within - The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Intellectual intolerance poses an existential danger to the university



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BBC - Future - Inside the mind of a mathematician

BBC - Future - Inside the mind of a mathematician: "Inside the mind of a mathematician"

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EUA argues for efficient, high-performing Horizon 2020 at Commission meeting

EUA argues for efficient, high-performing Horizon 2020 at Commission meeting:



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Filaments and Cellular Responses - Physics of Life

Filaments and Cellular Responses - Physics of Life: "Workshop overview: Life is inherently multiscaled ranging from molecules (nm) to 100m (trees) and from femtoseconds (chemical reactions) to millennia (evolution), covering around 27 orders of magnitude in total. This workshop addresses one aspect, namely filament assembly and their higher order organization.   In this workshop we will investigate self-assembly systems and their ability to scale from nanometer to metre in the structures they make and the cell systems they integrate. How these can be prefabricated and deployed within milliseconds to form a protective cage, or grow imperceptibly over many years through the careful addition of new subunits followed by their orchestrated cross-linking to form a nanocomposite like hair is a key research question.  Keratin intermediate filaments and their associated proteins are the key components, but the process of building the nanocomposite is unanswered   The role of non-globular domains and cation distribution along the polymer are key to filament assembly and then their scaling into higher order structures by bundling and interfilament organization.   Whilst hair is a very visible external example of keratin assembly, they are also key contributors to the mechanical stability of cells in our body.  Intermediate filaments anchor to cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix adhesion sites, connecting individual cells into a trans-cellular network spanning from nanometer to metre if the epidermis is considered as a continuum. Keratin mutations lead to reduced mechanical stability thereby resulting in blister formation as is the case in a diverse group of skin diseases, collectively called genodermatoses. The filaments are in continual flux, exchanging subunits along their length and changing their transcellular distribution according to their environment and age of the cell. Influencing filament dimensions at the nanometer scale is then amplified to the micrometer scale and beyond.  The molecular mechanisms responsible for the coordinated restructuring are still poorly understood and how other elements of the cytoskeleton that provide the molecular motors to facilitate these changes are only just being identified. This workshop will bring together those involved in modelling the non-globular domains/charge component and the dynamics of keratin filaments with those involved in the segmentation, analysis and generation of imaging data of filament assembly systems to review progress, current hypotheses and the orientation of the available and missing experimental tools to understand filament organization in cells and nanocomposites. "




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Biocomputation - Physics of Life

Biocomputation - Physics of Life: "Workshop Overview: The ability of living systems store and process complex genetic information in a manner that is responsive to the external environment has inspired the development of the multidisciplinary field of Biocomputation, which aims to build computational devices using biomolecular systems. This workshop aims to bring together researchers with expertise or interest in biocomputation with specialists in gene regulation, bioinformatics, biochemical network modelling and computer science. Topics for discussion will include Biocomputation: The state of the art, successes and difficulties Bacterial and eukaryotic gene regulation, minimal organsims: How can we learn from life? Languages and models for bioinformatics and biocomputation: How do we represent and describe the complex network of interactions between computing biological components? Measurement and detection: What experimental tools are available for detecting the output of a biocomputation? Is there potential for both single molecule and thermodynamically averaged devices? What are the merit and limitations of each? Understanding and applications: What are the potential future applications for this technology? What new scientific insights could be gained?"




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The flagship Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2017-18 will be launched on 5 September 2017 at the THE World Academic Summit in London. The list of the world’s top 1,000 universities is one of the major events in the global academic calendar, and it will be released live at the summit – a gathering of the leaders of top universities, Nobel laureates, policymakers and business chiefs from across the world.

THE’s new expanded list of the world’s best universities by 11 subjects will be released in batches in the weeks following the launch of the World University Rankings.

The World’s Best Small Universities 2017 | Times Higher Education (THE)

The World’s Best Small Universities 2017 | Times Higher Education (THE):



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THE rankings publication schedule for 2017 revealed | Times Higher Education (THE)

THE rankings publication schedule for 2017 revealed | Times Higher Education (THE):



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Which universities could challenge the higher education elite? | THE News

Which universities could challenge the higher education elite? | THE News:



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The ABCs of Particle Physics board book | symmetry magazine

The ABCs of Particle Physics board book | symmetry magazine:



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Issue of the Beginning: Initial Conditions for Cosmological Perturbations | CQG+

Issue of the Beginning: Initial Conditions for Cosmological Perturbations | CQG+: "Issue of the Beginning: Initial Conditions for Cosmological Perturbations"



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