Sow-Hsin Chen, emeritus professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE) at MIT, died peacefully on June 26 in West Newton, Massachusetts. Photos from left to right: My ex-wife, Ilavenil Subbiah, is an avid bearophile, with a family of well over a hundred bears. Its about nature too, right? Ilavenil Subbiah's ex-husband was born Steven Arthur Pinker on September 18, 1954, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was unique in the world.. 24-111 Eugeny Sosnovsky Over the span of his 50-year career, Chen was instrumental in advancing the understanding of the dynamical properties of supercooled and interfacial water, and the development of new methods for data analysis. Whats amazing is that when you add such driving, it can exhibit some very fancy phenomena, Li says. Real progress in nuclear arms verification and other areas of nuclear security requires not just technological breakthroughs, but a willingness to embrace these new approaches. He has made many contributions to the design, operation, and experimental investigation of tokamaks a toroidal magnetic confinement device intended to replicate and harness the fiery thermonuclear reactions in the plasma of stars for carbon-free energy on Earth. A PhD student in Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), Ravichandran first encountered the laws of thermodynamics as a middle school student in Chennai, India. A drive to understand natural science phenomena ignited MIT graduate student Changhao Lis love of quantum physics. Add a New Bio. dfparker@psfc.mit.edu. MIT engineers find specialized nanoparticles can quickly and inexpensively isolate proteins from a bioreactor. Powerful magnets are essential for containing the superhot plasma; the MIT group developed an experiment with a magnetic field more than 150,000 times the strength of the Earth's magnetic field. Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec Canada on the 18th of September 1954. Pinker's brother, Robert Pinker, helps develop and analyze policy for the Canadian government and his sister, Susan Pinker, is a psychologist. Because the system is a quantum system, the spins can be found not only in one of the levels, but also in a combination of both energy levels, like Schrodingers theoretical cat, which can be both alive and dead at the same time. This was a major development of the high-magnetic field approach to fusion, says Hutchinson. 24-102 To that end, Danagoulian is working with partners in the national labs, scholars, and policy decision-makers. With that lesson safely tucked away, Li found high school to be a little more challenging and initially placed toward the middle of the nearly 1,000 students. If you want to find out how much fuel is left in your reactors, you could use NRTA to sample the enrichment level of fuel pellets, says Naqvi, mentioning one potential application. This could prove vital in nuclear safeguards program, where determining precise quantities of uranium and plutonium, help distinguish between the real thing and a fake. The field of applied sciences selected for the 2011 award is nuclear power technology. However, if too many bubbles form on the surface, enveloping the fuel rods in a layer of vapor, heat transfer is greatly reduced. FOR THE PSFC COMMUNITY. Notable critics include the famed, and sadly missed, paleobiologist, were as yet insufficient to support all of his claims and that other possible influences on the brains development existed." The MLK Visiting Professor studies the ways innovators are influenced by their communities. Back at my university in India, only 2 to 3 percent of the mechanical engineering students were women, and there were no women on the faculty. And the novelty of this work, Wang says, is also that we introduce a tool that can be used to characterize any quantum information platform, not just nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds. A typical experiment lasted two minutes, but it took more than three weeks to pick out every bubble that formed and track its growth and evolution, Ravichandran explains. Some of their down-to-Earth realism comes from me, and perhaps some of their aspirations have been molded by their work with me.. One engineering application is in quantum computers, systems that manipulate qubits, bits that can be not only 0 or 1, but a combination of 0 and 1. What is very impressive is that they can show that they have this incredible control over the quantum system, Engelhardt says. To streamline this process, she and Bucci are implementing a machine learning approach, based on neural network technology. After an interval in Britain, he returned to MIT with a faculty position in NSE, and soon, a leadership role in developing the next phase of the Institutes fusion experiment, the Alcator-C Mod tokamak. For his work, Pinker has received both praise and criticism in equal measures. The program leverages MITs research expertise and Takedas industrial know-how for research in artificial intelligence and medicine. With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter. Today's spotlights: Stephen Hawkings building a career: one building at a time: The MIT home page changes often; you can see a gallery of past variations. This marriage also fell apart and they also, sadly divorced. The trips reinforced one of Lis favorite quotes: The man who travels far, knows more.. Klein, who is devoting his doctoral research to this project, spent months simulating the envisioned technology: a deuterium-tritium generator beaming neutrons through a tube at the target material, with a detector placed just behind. 617-253-3185 With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter. The Spotlight, with a changing graphic that calls attention to the new topic, supports MIT's mission . We are communicating our results to the scientific, technical, and policy communities, says Danagoulian. BACK ROW: Ilavenil Subbiah, Richard Lester, Ben Forget, Bo Feng, Stefano Passerini, Bao Truong, Joseph Yurko, Mark Reed. Chens innovative and novel contributions, employing small-angle neutron and X-ray scattering in fundamental studies of soft condensed-matter physics, established him as a distinguished scientist and expert in the international community. In this sense, he argues against the notion of tabula rasa ("clean/blank slate") notions of human mental development. And second, how do we characterize it? Spare time finds Li relearning Chinese cooking his parents do help with tips and playing mobile games such as Arena of Valor with friends. Chens collaborations with Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Brookhaven National Laboratories, as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technologies, contributed to the Department of Energys bold grand challenge, an initiative to focus research in five related areas to allow unprecedented control over the microscopic world. Computer Facilities Manager. In this sense, he argues that the development of the brain, "The Computational Theory of Mind (CTM) claims that the mind is a computer, so the theory is also known as, Pinker's academic career has mainly focussed on visual cognition and psycholinguistics. MISSING: Matthew Denman Nathan Gibson, Stephanie Kempf, Koroush Shirvan. This provided Pinker with a way to explain variousphenomena, such as logical thought and three-dimensional vision. 617-253-5456 In 2007, he wed his third and current wife, the philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein. Pinker has been married three times and has two step-daughters through his current wife. Placing top of his class in both middle and high school, Li went on to pursue physics at Xian Jiaotong University, about 600 miles west of Beijing. Pinker is currently the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology atHarvard University and has worked there since 2003. Webmaster: Anita Kafka Its goal is to demonstrate net energy gain from fusion, prove the viability of fusion as a source of carbon-free energy, and tip the scales in the race against climate change. Spouses. In addition, theyve identified the three main factors that trigger the boiling crisis. They initially ran experiments to determine how quickly bubbles form when water hits a hot surface, how big the bubbles get, how long they grow, and how the surface temperature changes. He has also written some other more technical science books. Scientists have developed a library of unique neutron resonance fingerprints for the isotopes of many elements, including metallic chemical elements found at the higher end of the periodic table such as uranium and plutonium, which figure in nuclear power systems and nuclear weapons, and elements from the middle, like silver and tungsten, which serve in industrial contexts. The program leverages MITs research expertise and Takedas industrial know-how for research in artificial intelligence and medicine. The Advanced Computing Users Survey, sampling sentiments from 120 top-tier universities, national labs, federal agencies, and private firms, finds the decline in Americas advanced computing lead spans many areas. I was thinking about the problem of verifying nuclear material in warheads, and it just dawned on me, this amazing technology could be applied to what were working on.. Amelia Trainer applied to MIT because she lost a bet. Its quite sentimental to me.. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Concretely, the quantum system consisted of a diamond crystal about a millimeter across. They were the two most painful times in my life and linger as a source of pain, regret, and remorse. . And you can characterize them using our method here.. And they continue to refine the apparatus to improve the resolution of measurements. A number of SPARCs leaders are students Hutchinson taught. Hutchinson took a particular interest in how to measure the plasma, notably the flow at the edges of tokamaks. Exploiting defects in material structures is one way to manufacture these qubits. From 1982 until 2003, Pinker taught at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and eventually became the director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. subbiah@mit.edu, Teva Regule Director of Strategic Initiatives. She is also an author and is best known for her books "The Sexual Paradox"and"The Village Effect.". Department of Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Rohit Karnik and Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Assistant Professor Felix Parra have been awarded Early Career Research Programgrants by the Department of Energy (DOE). Ilavenil Subbiah subbiah@mit.edu. Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the 18th of September 1954. Communications. The more data theyre fed, the better they perform. The networks were trained on experimental results pertaining to bubble formation on different surfaces; the networks were then tested on surfaces for which the NSE researchers had no data and didnt know what to expect. met an urgent worldwide need for accurate, reliable scientific and engineering . Pinkers work vision, language, and social relations have earned him many prizes throughout his career. But there was a problem: This method, called neutron resonance transmission analysis (NRTA), requires an enormous, expensive apparatus, limiting its utility for the kind of on-site nuclear material applications Danagoulian and his research colleagues focus on. They were the two most painful times in my life and linger as a source of pain, regret, and remorse. A recipient of a 2021-22 MathWorks Engineering Fellowship, she says, now it feels like the only limits on me are those that Ive placed on myself.. The National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy funded their research. They could look into a black box containing uranium and say what kind and how much, says Danagoulian, who directs MITs Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Physics (LANPh). For example,a sensor that could detect even a few hundreds of strands of the SARS-CoV-2 virusthat causes Covid-19 is one of the applications that Li is exploring with his colleagues. Such materials might find use someday in, for example, novel computer chips. This website is managed by the MIT News Office, part of the Institute Office of Communications. The MLK Visiting Professor studies the ways innovators are influenced by their communities. MIT offered a welcome contrast. This web graphic was designed by Ilavenil Subbiah (subbiah@attbi.com) of Subbiah Design. MIT team devises compact, affordable system for identifying elemental composition of nuclear and other materials. Chen was also awarded two honorary degrees in recognition of his global contributions to the field honorary doctor of science, honoris causa, from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and dottore di ricerca honoris causa in fisica (honorary doctorate in physics) from University of Messina in Italy. As a PhD student, her research has followed a similar path. Cappellaro is his inspiration she taught me how to think about research, I am very grateful, he says. Using satellite data provided by NASA, Hutchinson set about analyzing solar plasma as it whips by the moon. My divorces loom large in my consciousness when I think back. (Except for a one-year sabbatical at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995-6.) As an undergraduate at Indias Sastra University, she pursued research on two-phase flows, examining the transitions water undergoes between its liquid and gaseous forms. The basic unit of information in quantum computing, equivalent to a bit in classical computers, is called a qubit. $U2012g`$@ 1 endstream endobj startxref 0 %%EOF 527 0 obj <>stream There is, for instance, the constant rush of plasma highly charged ionized gases from the sun. Alcator C-Mod helped beat a new path in fusion research, and has become the basis for theSPARCtokamak now under construction, he says. The Advanced Computing Users Survey, sampling sentiments from 120 top-tier universities, national labs, federal agencies, and private firms, finds the decline in Americas advanced computing lead spans many areas. Sean was in the MIT Outing Club with me. Pinker's earlier studies on the linguistic behavior of children led him to agree with Noam Chomsky's idea that humans possess an innate facility for understanding language. Klein had to monitor from afar when the other researchers conducted initial tests at Princetons Plasma Physics Laboratory, under the direction of Robert J. Goldston. Pinker earned his B.Sc. The experience afforded him his first opportunity for research on plasma confinement. His father was a lawyer while his mother became a high . This website is managed by the MIT News Office, part of the Institute Office of Communications. phenomena, such as logical thought and three-dimensional vision. Ilavenil Subbiah (1995 . We predicted instabilities and the generation of electron holes, he recounts. But he still has plans to explore new frontiers in plasma physics. FRONT ROW: Bryan Herman, Bren Philips, Jacob DeWitte, Eugeny Sosnovsky, Thomas Roomy. A diamonds spin can encode one qubit in its two energy levels. They used tungsten as the target material because of its strong resonances. His interests include, but are not limited to, language, communication, history, and psychology of violence. Born in pre-World War II Taiwan in the small rural town of Puzi (in Chiayi County), Chen excelled academically, receiving a BS in physics from National Taiwan University in 1956 and an MS in nuclear science from National Tsing Hua University in its first graduating class in 1958. Mark Reed Thats what made me decide that I want to be an educator. Shes also grateful for the opportunities that have opened up for her since coming to MIT. He is fondly remembered for his lifelong passion for science, good sense of humor, and love of fine food and wine. Thats not only diminishes power generation, it can also be dangerous because the fuel rods must be continuously cooled to avoid a dreaded meltdown accident. Massachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA. Teva Regule 24-306 617-253-5612 teva@mit.edu. They changed my sense of empathy. In addition to his numerous awards, Chen was also inducted in 2006 into the Academia Sinica, Taiwans preeminent academic research institution, which reports directly to and advises the president. MIT is a huge place, with a spirit to match. The energy level of the system is defined by its Hamiltonian, whose periodic time dependence the researchers engineered via microwave control. regular and irregular phenomena in language. Her. When you have more qubits, you have more complex symmetries, Li says. Jon Sachs, Ilavenil Subbiah, Andrea Golden . As Narang noted, "We bring scholarly rigor to the policy world." Combining theory with practice in the world The two midday panels centered on MIT's distinctive approaches to political science and on what's unique about conducting research at the Institute. There has been a lot of talk about China and a new Sputnik moment for America, but such talk ignores why the original Sputnik moment was so traumatizing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA. But the couple would later divorce in 1992. Director of Communications. 496 0 obj <> endobj 515 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<709B11ED912E437F898922AF8F8B9B3B><93BE560A66B84B23B571129C1A630DBA>]/Index[496 32]/Info 495 0 R/Length 89/Prev 547258/Root 497 0 R/Size 528/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream Internal site; Computers & Networks; Safety; Library; Plasma Science and Fusion Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, NW17 Cambridge, MA 02139 psfc-info@mit.edu Steven Pinker (1995 - 2006/03/20) Nationality. Pinker would later make connections between how the structure and semantics of language reflect the humanperceptionof reality. Pinker married his first wife, Nancy Etcoff, in 1980. In the meantime, Ravichandran and Bucci have made some important theoretical advances, which they report on in arecently published paperforApplied Physics Letters. The nucleus becomes a filter, essentially absorbing neutrons of a particular energy, and letting most other neutrons pass through, explains Danagoulian. The Advanced Computing Users Survey, sampling sentiments from 120 top-tier universities, national labs, federal agencies, and private firms, finds the decline in Americas advanced computing lead spans many areas. Here we explore the life and times of Professor Steven Pinker and explore his groundbreaking academic career. Ravichandran believes these standards may be overly cautious, owing to the fact that people arent yet sure of the conditions that bring about the boiling crisis. 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Soundings Magazine Published each Spring and Fall in Print and Online Editions (2008 - 2010) In 2010, Soundings Magazine evolved into the online monthly digest, Said and Done. The prize is the top honor within the field of communications technology. The program leverages MITs research expertise and Takedas industrial know-how for research in artificial intelligence and medicine. These tools for measuring dynamical symmetries, Engelhardt says, can be used to as a sanity check that your experiment is tuned correctly and with a very high precision. He notes the problem of outside perturbations in quantum computers, which he likens to a de-tuned guitar. He later worked as an assistant professor at Harvard and then jumped ship to Stanford University between 1981 and 1982. There are two problems we needed to solve, says Changhao Li, a graduate student in the lab ofPaola Cappellaro, a professor of nuclear science and engineering. After leadingAlcator C-Modfor 15 years and generating hundreds of journal articles, Hutchinson served as NSE's department head from 2003 to 2009. It is generally assumed that CTM is the main working hypothesis of cognitive science." 617-253-5612 Within this later book, Pinker presented his ideas for a scientific methodology that he termed "reverse engineering". Donations in Chens memory can be made to theSow-Hsin Chen Fellowship for Neutron Sciences Fund at MIT, and the Sow-Hsin Chen Distinguished Lectureship on Neutron Science and Technology of the National Tsing Hua University. MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Room E51-255 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 web.mit.edu/shass. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA. Our setup went from something that wasnt very sensitive to strong signals, to something sensitive to very faint signals, says Danagoulian. Quantum leaps We will identify both, fix the downsides, and pursue the opportunities.. He was born into a middle-class Jewish family. The MLK Visiting Professor studies the ways innovators are influenced by their communities. They aim for more than two energy levels three, or 10, or more. He then led its operation starting in 1993, creating a national facility for experiments that drew scientists and students from around the world. The goal within this program is to develop new forms of nuclear fuels that can tolerate heat. This allows me to explore the universe, to understand how nature works, Li adds. He was born in Canada and graduated from Montreal's Dawson College in 1973. Cambridge, MA 02139 In their studies, scientists employed novel heating and sustainment techniques using radio waves and microwaves. - Encyclopedia Britannica. She wasn't even "super sure" she wanted to go to college. There were challenges, though. But whenIan Hutchinsonscans the cosmos, he takes in a great deal more. Then they directed various selected frequencies of microwave radiation at it and let it evolve, allowing it to absorb and emit the energy. My theoretical work also showed that these probes quite likely induce electron holes, he says. The 20+ fields, disciplines, projects, and areas of research at the School represent the most diverse range of scholarship at MIT. Qubits are delicate: they easily break down into simple bit, a 1 or a 0. At the time, it was the largest research group on campus at MIT. . brandyb@mit.edu. Hutchinson, a professor in the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), knows they exist because he found a way to measure them. Born in pre-World War II Taiwan in the small rural town of Puzi (in Chiayi County), Chen excelled academically, receiving a BS in physics from National Taiwan University in 1956 and an MS in nuclear science from National Tsing Hua University in its first graduating class in 1958. With knowledge of these unique fingerprints, it is possible to identify an unknown, nuclear-reactive material. He was always supportive of junior faculty, and passionate about the future strategic directions for the department. With supercomputers and machine learning, the physicist aims to illuminate the structure of everyday particles and uncover signs of dark matter. I sometimes feel there was a reason I went through those early hardships, Ravichandran says. He received a bachelor's degree in experimental psychology from McGill University in 1976, and then went on to earn his doctorate in the same discipline at Harvard in 1979. His parents encouraged his love of physics and a middle school teacher taught him to think critically, to spot errors in his textbooks and not swallow information as truths. The prize is the top honor within the field of communications technology. Fort these contributions he was awarded the Clifford G. Shull Prize in 2008 the highest award of the Neutron Scattering Society of America and the Guinier Prize in 2015 by the International Union of Crystallography for lifetime achievement and contribution to the field of small angle neutron scattering. NRTA rests on long-established science: When bombarded with neutrons at specific energy levels, the nuclei of some materials will undergo a resonant interaction with these neutrons, and achieve a transition to an excited state. Credits. Editor. She continues to study boiling and heat transfer, but Bucci gave this work some added urgency. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Creating dynamic symmetry in quantum systems. After Stanford, Pinker joined theDepartment of Brain andCognitiveSciences at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). Georg Engelhardt, a postdoc at the Beijing Computational Science Research, who was not involved in this work but whose own theoretical work served as a foundation, likens the symmetry to guitar harmonics, in which a string might vibrate at both 100 hertz and 50 Hz. Its important for new generations of students to be taught by people at the pinnacle of their mental and intellectual capacity, and when you reach my age, youre aware of the fact that youre slowing down, he says. Chens enthusiasm for his work was second only to his love of family. In 1995, Pinker re-married to Ilavenil Subbiah. Ilavenil Subbiah Psychologist, Person. Lis passion for the skies has since taken a more earthbound and microscopic form: It has translated into a love of quantum physics. This book's sequel "How the Mind Works" published in 1997, would earn Pinker the Pulitzer Price for general non-fiction. Brandy Baker Designer: Ilavenil Subbiah Writers: Kathryn O'Neill, Peter Dunn, Stephanie Schorrow, Terersa Pease, Lynda Morgenroth, Sarah Wright EXHIBIT Great Ideas Exhibit | Building 14 Lobby Advisors: Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Marc B. Jones, SHASS School Council Principal Designers: Emily Hiestand, Andrea Golden Then they directed various selected frequencies of microwave radiation at it and let it evolve, allowing it to absorb and emit the energy. Stefano Passerini MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Portable technology offers boost for nuclear security, arms control. Hutchinson discovered how to interpret signals from small probes to measure and track plasma velocity at the tokamaks edge. He wrote the standard textbook on measuring plasmas, and has more recently written A Students Guide to Numerical Methods (2015), which evolved from a course he taught to introduce graduate students to computational problem-solving in physics and engineering. He was 86. Pinker was born in September of 1954. RELATED:A LIST OF CANADIAN INVENTIONS THAT WILL CHANGE HOW YOU VIEW THE GREAT WHITE NORTH. Chen joined MIT in 1968 as an assistant professor in the Department Nuclear Engineering and became full professor in 1974. But he has also received criticisms from his peers from a philosophical point of view. Stephanie Kempf The prize is the top honor within the field of communications technology. The ultimate goal is to have a fully autonomous system that can not only predict the boiling crisis, but also show why it happens and automatically shut down experiments before things go too far and lab equipment starts melting. Thats how it started, and Ive sustained that interest ever since.. 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