African Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Neil Turok is a mathematician/physicist at Cambridge University.
He has founded an institute in Africa from which students have graduated to go on to great places, including for instance a student who is now pursuing a PhD at Cambridge under Stephen Hawking. They now want to start (a few) similar institutions in other sciences, and hope to replicate these successes.
Other notable highlights from the talk:
Maps from World Mapper. Maps in which countries’ areas correspond to a certain characteristic. Along with Gapminder, wonderfully illustrative visualisation tools.
“All known physics” equation:
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two bad the graphic is so small. it is illegible and useless as such
ema zee
Sun, 2011-03-13 at 10:36:24
Well, the equation is also useless as such. :-)
S
Sun, 2011-03-13 at 11:53:21