Kamila Shamsie was born in Karachi, lives London, and has a strong affinity to the United States, having studied at Hamilton College University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author six novels, each shortlisted for prestigious literary prize; 2018 she won London Hellenic Prize Women’s Fiction.11 For further information about prizes, see entry on The Royal Society Literature web site, https://...

s — Wednesday, January 24th Nathan Ku (University of Washington) Data-driven discovery of governing physical laws and their parametric dependencies in engineering, physics and biology We consider a data-driven method whereby low-rank reduced order models can be directly constructed from data alone using sparse regression algorithms. The methods can be enacted in an online and non-intrusive fash...

s — Wednesday, January 24th Nathan Ku (University of Washington) Data-driven discovery of governing physical laws and their parametric dependencies in engineering, physics and biology We consider a data-driven method whereby low-rank reduced order models can be directly constructed from data alone using sparse regression algorithms. The methods can be enacted in an online and non-intrusive fash...

The aim of this paper is to review the performance of the family planning program initiated in 1989 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Following a quick look at the family planning program that existed before the Revolution (1967-1979), the paper documents the fate of the program during the first decade after the Islamic Revolution (1979-1988) and its official revival in 1989. It is shown that th...