{"id":1001,"date":"2013-05-13T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2013-05-13T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:45:53","slug":"juggling-interviews-and-grant-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Juggling, interviews and grant opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My time this week is again taken up with work on a few writing projects that I&#8217;m trying to wrap up (not to mention end of the term grading).\u00a0 But I should be back on track with my regular blogs next week.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=the-mathematics-of-juggling&amp;WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20130513\">article on scientificamerican.com<\/a> caught my attention, being about the mathematics of juggling!\u00a0 But the article originated elsewhere, at <a href=\"https:\/\/simonsfoundation.org\/category\/features\/science-news\/\">Simons Science News<\/a>.\u00a0 And this is how I became aware of the<a href=\"https:\/\/simonsfoundation.org\/about-us\/\"> Simons Foundation website<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth exploring.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Simons Foundation\u2019s mission is to advance the frontiers of research  in mathematics and the basic sciences. We sponsor a range of programs  that aim to promote a deeper understanding of our world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is a private foundation that provides some interesting grant opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>The site provides some video interviews with mathematicians organized under the heading <a href=\"https:\/\/simonsfoundation.org\/category\/features\/science-lives\/alphabetical-listing\/\">Science Lives<\/a>.\u00a0 These interviews include ones with John Nash, Michael Atiyah and Cathleen Morawetz from my own alma mater &#8211; The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s also an interesting article on new observations in biology that are consistent with a mathematical idea of Turing&#8217;s proposed in 1952.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, more than 60 years later, biologists are uncovering evidence of the  patterning mechanisms that Turing proposed in his paper, prompting a  resurgence of interest in them, with the potential to shed light on such  developmental questions as how genes ultimately make a hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My time this week is again taken up with work on a few writing projects that I&#8217;m trying to wrap up (not to mention end of the term grading). But I should be back on track with my regular blogs next week.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, an article on scientificamerican.com caught my attention, being about the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-mathematics","tag-mathematics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathrising.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}