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Rensselaer in Brief
Lvov Honored by NSF
Yuri Lvov, assistant professor of mathematics, recently received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.
Lvov will use NSF’s $350,000, five year grant, to further his work on weak turbulence theory. The theory predicts how energy in complex systems will behave over time. ONR’s $300,000, three year grant, is related to Lvov’s previous work but is more specific to surface ocean wave research.
The focus of Lvov’s research will be on internal ocean waves and how their wavelengths determine their energy will be . Consequently, the findings will aid meterologists in making better weather forecasts.
Lvov, 32, joined the mathematics department in 1999 and is considered to be one of the best researchers among RPI’s faculty. Cancer Detection
David Isaacson, professor of mathematics, is developing a new method for detecting breast cancer. This new technique depends upon the properties of electric conductivity in tumor tissue. Isaacson, who specializes in medical imaging, will use the tendency of tumors to conduct electricity 10 times faster than regular tissue to develop the Fourth Generation Adaptive Current Tomograph.
Using electrodes applied to the breast, currents are transmitted through the area in question and a computer records the voltages required to push through the tissue.
Nominations
The deadline to submit nominations for the 2003 Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame Induction Class will be Thursday, February 28. The Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame is designed to permanently preserve, celebrate, and widely communicate the long and exceptional heritage of Rensselaer.
Up until now, 41 alumni and friends of the Institute have been inducted. The inductees are determined to be people who have made outstanding and far-reaching accomplishments that have benefitted the world and have brought much pride to the Rensselaer family.
All nominations received will be researched, rated by the Selection Committee for inclusion on the ballot, voted on by the Balloting Committee, and then validated by the Selection Committee.
The Selection Committee consists of Rensselaer alumni, students, faculty, staff, administrators, and trustees and the Balloting Committee consists of a representative number of no less than 150 individuals.
The names of the inductees will be announced during Reunion 2003, and they will be recognized at a public ceremony in the fall of 2003. Large scale IT systems
A team of RPI researchers has developed the Intelligent System for Speculative and Active Code which will enable networks to run faster and more efficiently. ISSAC works mainly through the PerfMiner, an IT “brain” whose intelligence will analyze the problems of large-scale, data intensive distributed applications.
Unlike other performance analysis systems, PerfMiner will work in a continuous learning framework to analyze the data, suggest solutions for performance problems, and ultimately make the program run more smoothly.
Mohammed Zaki, assistant professor of computer science, along with a team of other researchers, will use a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to support further research into ISSAC.
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