Olivia DrakeCarl West ’11, Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, and Tomas Prosen of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, are the co-authors of an article titled “PT-Symmetric Wave Chaos,” published in Physical Review Letters 104 in 2010. "This work studied the universal properties of this crossover and demonstrated that a simple scaling function could embody the effects of such dramatically different changes as increasing the system size, varying the initial energy, or having varying degrees of imperfections / disorder in the system," West explains. "While these results were obtained from a toy model, they carry direct applications to optics where…
Richard Grossman, professor of economics, is the author of the book, Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800, published by Princeton University Press in June 2010. The 400-page book provides a comparative history of banking focusing on four types of events that have been central to the lifecycle of banking systems: crises, bailouts, mergers and regulatory reform.
Irina Russu, professor of chemistry, and chemistry graduate student Xiaoli Weng are the co-authors of an article titled, “Structural Enegetics of the Adenine Tract from an Intrinsic Transcription Terminator,” published in the Journal of Molecular Biology 397, pages 677-688, in 2010.
Richard Grossman, professor of economics, discusses financial reform in an op-ed.