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Education and Equality

Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Professor

Current educational policy discussions frequently invoke “equality” as the reigning ideal. But how clear a view do we have of what we mean by this? What exactly are we trying to achieve? In this lecture, Danielle Allen, UPS Foundation Professor in...

Legendrian contact homology (LCH) is a powerful holomorphic curves invariant for Legendrian submanifolds in contact manifolds. It is defined via a differential graded algebra (DGA), but the computation of its homology is often too difficult...

When objectivity became a goal for science in the early nineteenth century, natural philosophers had to invert epistemic virtues: idealization out, mechanical representation in. Twentieth-century scientists questioned image-based mechanical...