Speaking Out: Lawrence Ferlinghetti@100

Mental handicapped nursing. Sexual abuse. Speaking out.

Lawrence Kruger

Higher Lawrence configurations

Any configuration of lattice vectors gives rise to a hierarchy of higher-dimensional configurations which generalize the Lawrence construction in geometric combinatorics. We prove finiteness results for the Markov bases, Graver bases and facet posets of these configurations, and we discuss applications to the statistical theory of log-linear models.

Lawrence Katz (1956–2005)

Lawrence C. Katz died of melanoma on November 26, 2005, at the age of 48. He was amongst the most creative and influential neuroscientists of his time. His contributions were both scientific and personal, providing as much to the development of people as to scientific discovery. These affections were always inextricably intertwined, his love of scientific beauty and discovery, and his caring fo...

The Aboo Lawrence School

This school was founded by Sir Henry Lawrence in 1854, and has completed the eighteenth year of its existence. The objects of the institution are to provide a refuge from the debilitating effects of a tropical climate, and a plain, practical education and Christian training for the children and orphans of soldiers serving in Rajpootana and Western India. The report for the year 1871-72, which h...