{"64330":{"#nid":"64330","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Faculty Takes Three Sloan Fellowships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree faculty members from\nthe Georgia Institute of Technology were awarded 2011 Sloan Research\nFellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Christopher J. Peikert, from the\nCollege of Computing, along with Silas D. Alben and Shina Tan in the College of\nSciences, were three of 118 outstanding researchers selected from across the\ncountry. They were the only recipients of the award from the state of Georgia. Awarded\nannually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early-career scientists and\nscholars in recognition of achievement and the potential to contribute\nsubstantially to their fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDrawn from 54 colleges and\nuniversities in the U.S. and Canada, this year\u2019s fellows represent an\nextraordinarily\nbroad range of research interests, including an astronomer who studies the\nbirth of new planets, a computer scientist who examines how changes in computer\nnetwork architecture can save energy, an economist who investigates the\ngame-theoretical foundations of cooperation, and a\nmathematician\nwho uses geometry to model how the brain represents stimuli.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe scientists and\nresearchers selected for this year\u2019s Sloan Research Fellowships represent the\nvery brightest rising stars of this generation of scholars,\u201d says Paul\nL. Joskow, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. \u201cThe\nFoundation is proud to be able to support their work at this important stage in\ntheir careers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESilas\nAlben, an assistant professor in the School of Mathematics, studies how fluids\nflow and exert forces on flexible solid bodies. His research is designed to enhance\nunderstanding of how fish swim in an effort to guide the design of swimming\nrobots. \u0026nbsp;He also investigates how thin\nsolid plates can deform to create novel three-dimensional structures.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EShina\nTan, an assistant professor in the School of Physics, studies the theory of\ndilute cold matter, which is millions of times thinner than the air and\nbillions of times colder than an average home freezer. His research may have\napplications to sensitive detection and precision measurements.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EChristopher\nPeikert, assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, focuses on\ngeometric \u201clattices\u201d as a new mathematical foundation for cryptography (the\nscience of developing secret codes and the use of those codes in an encryption\nsystem). In principle, quantum computers could break much of the cryptography\nin wide use today, so there is a strong need for alternative schemes. The\nlattice approach yields very simple schemes that are highly efficient and\nparallelizable.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAdministered and funded by\nthe Sloan Foundation, the fellowships are awarded in close cooperation\nwith the\nscientific community. Potential fellows must be nominated for recognition by\ntheir peers and are subsequently selected by an independent panel of senior\nscholars.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe $50,000 fellowships are\nawarded in chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics,\nevolutionary and\ncomputational molecular biology, neuroscience and physics. In 2012, in\nrecognition of the important work done by Sloan-sponsored researchers working\non the Census of Marine Life, the award program will be\nexpanded to include fellowships in ocean sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor a complete list of\nwinners, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sloan.org\/fellowships\/page\/21\u0022\u003Ewww.sloan.org\/fellowships\/page\/21\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdapted from a release by the\nAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Alfred P. Sloan\nFoundation \u003C\/strong\u003Eis\na philanthropic, not-for-profit grant making institution based in\nNew York City.\nEstablished in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive\nofficer of the\nGeneral Motors Corporation, the Foundation makes grants in support of original\nresearch and\neducation in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic\nperformance. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sloan.org\/\u0022\u003Ewww.sloan.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty from the Colleges of\nSciences and Computing are honored as outstanding researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Faculty from the Colleges of Sciences and Computing are honored as outstanding researchers."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2011-02-18 11:29:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:10","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-02-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64314":{"id":"64314","type":"image","title":"Silas Alben","body":null,"created":"1449176735","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:35","changed":"1475894567","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:47","alt":"Silas Alben","file":{"fid":"191991","name":"08C4204-P1-136.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/08C4204-P1-136_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/08C4204-P1-136_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1185305,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/08C4204-P1-136_0.jpg?itok=2_Uyb9FU"}},"64313":{"id":"64313","type":"image","title":"Shina Tan","body":null,"created":"1449176735","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:35","changed":"1475894567","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:47","alt":"Shina Tan","file":{"fid":"191990","name":"11P1000-P36-005.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11P1000-P36-005_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/11P1000-P36-005_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1056659,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/11P1000-P36-005_0.jpg?itok=jSHHRo6R"}},"64315":{"id":"64315","type":"image","title":"Christopher Peikert","body":null,"created":"1449176735","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:35","changed":"1475894567","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:47","alt":"Christopher Peikert","file":{"fid":"191992","name":"10C1000-P1-114.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10C1000-P1-114_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10C1000-P1-114_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1661733,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/10C1000-P1-114_0.jpg?itok=af-sXbc6"}}},"media_ids":["64314","64313","64315"],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11954","name":"Christopher Peikert"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166941","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"169333","name":"Shina Tan"},{"id":"169334","name":"Silas Alben"},{"id":"169413","name":"Sloan"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}