 Elza Erkip
Age: 41
Hometown: Ankara, Turkey
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Selected Publications
A. Sendonaris, E. Erkip and B. Aazhang. User cooperation diversity-Part I: System description. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1927-1938, November 2003.
A. Sendonaris, E. Erkip and B. Aazhang. User cooperation diversity-Part II: Implementation aspects and performance analysis. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1939-1948, November 2003.
A. Stefanov and E. Erkip. Cooperative coding for wireless networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 1470-1476, September 2004.
M. Yuksel and E. Erkip. Multi-antenna cooperative wireless systems: A diversity multiplexing tradeoff perspective. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3371-3393, October 2007.
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Recent Updates
Current Position: Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University of NYU.
Award: Fellow of the IEEE, 2011.
 David Evans
Age: 40
Position: Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Selected Publications
Reddy, S.M. & Evans, D.A.D., 2009. Palaeoproterozoic supercontinents and global evolution: Correlations from core to atmosphere. In: Reddy, S.M., Mazumder, R., Evans, D.A.D. & Collins, A.S., eds., Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution. Geological Society of London Special Publication, v.323, p.1-26.
Evans, D.A.D., 2006. Proterozoic low orbital obliquity and axial-dipolar geomagnetic field from evaporite palaeolatitudes. Nature, v.444, p.51-55.
Evans D.A.D., 2003. True polar wander and supercontinents. Tectonophysics, v.362, p.303-320.
Evans D.A., Beukes N.J. & Kirschvink J.L., 1997. Low-latitude glaciation in the Palaeoproterozoic era. Nature, v.386, p.262-266.
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 Zoltan Haiman
Age: 39
Position: Associate Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University
Hometown: Budapest, Hungary
Selected Publications
Kratochvil, J. M., Haiman, Z., May, M. Probing cosmology with weak lensing peak counts. Phys. Rev. D, vol. 81, Issue 4, id. 043519.
Lippai, Z., Frei, Z., Haiman, Z. Prompt Shocks in the Gas Disk around a Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole Binary. ApJ Letters, 676, 5 (2008).
Mesinger, A., Haiman, Z. Evidence of a Cosmological StrÃmgren Surface and of Significant Neutral Hydrogen Surrounding the Quasar SDSS J1030+0524. ApJ Letters, 611, 69 (2004).
Haiman, Z., Holder, G. P. The Reionization History at High Redshifts. I. Physical Models and New Constraints from Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization. ApJ, 595, 1 (2003).
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Recent Updates
Award:
Grant: "The Response of a Circumbinary Disk to a Black Hole Merger"
Program Name: Astrophysics Theory Program
Sponsoring Agency: NASA
Total Award: $580,685
Recent Publications
C. Shang & Z. Haiman. 2011. Cosmology with Standard Sirens: the Importance of the Shape of the Lensing Magnification Distribution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 411, pp. 9-22.
J. Wolcott-Green & Z. Haiman. 2011. Suppression of HD-cooling in protogalactic gas clouds by Lyman-Werner radiation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 412, pp. 2603-2616.
S.K. Sethi, Z. Haiman & K. Pandey. 2010. Supermassive Black Hole Formation at High Redshifts Through a Primordial Magnetic Field. The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 721, pp. 615-621.
T. Tanaka, Z. Haiman & K. Menou. 2010. Witnessing the Birth of a Quasar. The Astronomical Journal, vol. 140, pp. 642-651.
S. Molnar, K. Umetsu, M. Birkinshaw, G. Bryan, Z. Haiman, et al. 2010. Constraining Intracluster Gas Models with AMiBA13 The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 723, Issue 2, pp. 1272-1285.
 Michal Lipson
Age: 40
Position: Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
Hometown: Haifa, Israel
Selected Publications
Xu, Q., Schmidt, B., Pradhan, S. and Lipson, M. Micrometre-scale silicon electro-optic modulator. Nature, Vol. 435, pp. 325-327, 19 May 2005.
Xu, Q., Sandhu, S., Povinelli, M.L., Shakya, J., Fan, S. and Lipson, M. Experimental Realization of an On-Chip All-Optical Analogue to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, 123901, 31 Mar. 2006.
Wiederhecker, G.S., Chen, L., Gondarenko, A. and Lipson, M. Controlling photonic structures using optical forces. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature08584, 15 Nov. 2009.
Robinson, J. T., Manolatou, C., Chen, L. and Lipson, M. Ultrasmall Mode Volumes in Dielectric Optical Microcavities. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, 143901, 30 September 2005.
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Recent Updates
Award: MacArthur Fellow, 2010.
 Evgeny Nudler
Age: 39
Position: Julie Wilson Anderson Professor of Biochemistry, New York University
Hometown: Moscow, Russia
Selected Publications
Proshkin S, Rahmouni AR, Mironov A, Nudler E. Cooperation between translating ribosomes and RNA polymerase in transcription elongation. Science, 2010 Apr 23;328(5977):504-8.
Gusarov I, Shatalin K, Starodubtseva M, Nudler E. Endogenous nitric oxide protects bacteria against a wide spectrum of antibiotics. Science, 2009 Sep 11;325(5946):1380-4.
Bar-Nahum G, Epshtein V, Ruckenstein AE, Rafikov R, Mustaev A, Nudler E. A ratchet mechanism of transcription elongation and its control. Cell, 2005 Jan 28;120(2):183-93.
Mironov AS, Gusarov I, Rafikov R, Lopez LE, Shatalin K, Kreneva RA, Perumov DA, Nudler E. Sensing small molecules by nascent RNA: a mechanism to control transcription in bacteria. Cell, 2002 Nov 27;111(5):747-56.
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 Song-Hai Shi
Age: 36
Position: Assistant Member, Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chair, Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hometown: Dongtai, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China
Selected Publications
Maroof, A., Brown, K., Shi, S.-H., Studer, L., and Anderson, S.A. 2010. Prospective isolation of cortical interneuron precursors from mouse embryonic stem cells. J. Neurosci. 30:4667-75. (PMID: 20357117).
Wang, X., Tsai, J.-W., Imai, J.H., Lin, W.-N., Valle, R. B., and Shi, S.-H. 2009. Asymmetric centrosome inheritance maintains neural progenitors in neocortex. Nature , 461: 947-955.
Bultje, R.S., Castaneda-Castellanos, D.R., Jan, L.Y., Jan, Y.N., Kriegstein, A.R., and Shi, S.-H. 2009. Mammalian Par3 regulates progenitor cell asymmetric division via Notch signaling in the developing neocortex. Neuron, 63: 189-202.
Yu, Y.-C., Bultje, R.S., Wang, X., and Shi, S.-H. 2009. Specific synapses develop preferentially among sister excitatory neurons in the neocortex. Nature, 80, 123518 (2009).
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 Neal Weiner
Age: 36
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, New York University
Hometown: Portland, Oregon, USA
Selected Publications
N.Arkani-Hamed, D.P.Finkbeiner, T.R.Slatyer and N.Weiner. A Theory of Dark Matter. Phys. Rev. D, 79, 015014 (2009).
I.Cholis, G.Dobler, D.P.Finkbeiner, L.Goodenough and N.Weiner. The Case for a 700+ GeV WIMP: Cosmic Ray Spectra from PAMELA, Fermi, and ATIC. Phys. Rev. D, 80, 123518 (2009).
N.Arkani-Hamed and N.Weiner. LHC Signals for a SuperUnified Theory of Dark Matter. JHEP, 0812, 104 (2008).
S.Chang, G.D.Kribs, D.Tucker-Smith and N.Weiner. Inelastic Dark Matter in Light of DAMA/LIBRA. Phys. Rev. D, 79, 043513 (2009).
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 Yaron Lipman
Age: 33
Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics and the Computer Science Department, Princeton University
Hometown: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Selected Publications
Lipman Y., Funkhouser T. Möbius Voting for Surface Correspondence. ACM Trans. Graph., Volume 28, Issue 3, August 2009 (SIGGRAPH 2009 Proceedings).
Lipman Y., Levin D. Derivation and Analysis of Green Coordinates. Computational Methods and Function Theory 10 (2010), No. 1, 167-188.
Lipman Y. Stable Moving Least-Squares. Journal of Approximation Theory, Volume 161, Issue 1, November 2009.
Lipman Y., Chen X., Daubechies I., Funkhouser T. Symmetry Factored Embedding and Distance. ACM Trans. Graph., July 2010 (SIGGRAPH 2010 Proceedings).
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Recent Updates
Current Position: Tenure-Track Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
 Haitao Liu
Age: 32
Position: Postdoc Research Associate, Columbia University
Hometown: Linyi, P. R. China
Selected Publications
Liu H., Jin H., Tang J., Liu H., Pang P., Cao D., Lindsay S., Nuckolls C. Translocation of Single-Stranded DNA through Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Science, Vol. 327, 2010, Pages 64-67.
Liu H., Ryu S., Chen Z., Steigerwald M.L., Nuckolls C., Brus L.E. Photochemical Reactivity of Graphene. J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 131, 2009, Pages 17099-17101.
Liu H., Steigerwald M.L., Nuckolls C. Electrical Double Layer Catalyzed Wet-Etching of Silicon Dioxide. J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 131, 2009, Pages 17034-17035.
Liu H., Owen J.S., Alivisatos A.P. Mechanistic Study of Precursor Evolution in Colloidal Group II-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystal Synthesis. J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 129, 2007, Pages 305-312.
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 Nicolas Reyes
Age: 33
Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medical College
Hometown: Montevideo, Uruguay
Selected Publications
Reyes N, Ginter C, and Boudker O. 2009. Transport mechanism of a bacterial homologue of glutamate transporters. Nature, 462: 880-885.
Takeuchi A, Reyes N, Artigas P, and Gadsby DC. 2008. The ion pathway through the opened Na(+),K(+)-ATPase pump. Nature, 456: 413-416.
Reyes N and Gadsby DC. 2006. Ion permeation through the Na+,K+-ATPase. Nature, 443: 470-474.
 Daniela Schiller
Age: 37
Position: Postdoctoral Associate, New York University
Hometown: Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Publications
Schiller D, Monfils M, Raio CM, Johnson D, LeDoux JE, Phelps EA 2010. Blocking the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms. Nature, 463:49-53.
Schiller D and Delgado MR 2010. Overlapping neural systems mediating extinction, reversal and regulation of fear. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14:268-276.
Schiller D, Freeman JB, Mitchell JP, Uleman JS, Phelps EA 2009. A neural mechanism of first impressions. Nature Neuroscience, 12:508-514.
Schiller D, Levy I, Niv Y, LeDoux JE, Phelps EA 2008. From fear to safety and back - reversal of fear in the human brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28:11517-11525.
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 Agnel Sfeir
Age: 31
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University
Hometown: Beirut, Lebanon
Selected Publications
A. Sfeir, S. Kabir, M. van Overbeek, G.B. Celli, T. de Lange 2010. Loss of Rap1 induces telomere recombination in the absence of NHEJ or a DNA damage signal. Science, 327: 1657-1661.
A. Sfeir, S.T. Kosiyatrakul, D. Hockemeyer, S.L. MacRae, J. Karlseder, C.L. Schildkraut, T. de Lange 2009. Mammalian telomeres resemble fragile sites and require TRF1 for efficient replication. Cell, 138:90-103.
D. Hockemeyer, A. J. Sfeir, J.W. Shay, W.E. Wright, and T. de Lange 2005. POT1 protects telomeres from a transient DNA damage response and determines how human chromosomes end. EMBO J., 24: 2667-2678.
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