Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor SHEN Zuowei has been selected as a SIAM Fellow (Class of 2019) for his contributions to approximation theory, wavelet theory, and image processing.
Provost Chair Professor Dinh Tien Cuong has been elected the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award. The Humboldt Research Award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.
The paper "Conservation relations for local theta correspondence" by Binyong Sun and Chen-Bo Zhu, published in the Journal of the American mathematical Society, 28 (2015), 939-983, has been selected for a 2018 award from the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), as one of the best mathematical papers published in the past five years, with at least one author of Chinese descent.
Professor TAN Eng Chye has been awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Southampton, UK in recognition of his passion and excellence as an award-winning educator and leader.
Dr Vincent TAN has been appointed as Dean's Chair Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering.
Professor TAN Eng Chye has been honoured for his outstanding achievements with the prestigious Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, the highest award that can be bestowed on an alumnus by Yale University and the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association.
Professor SUN Yeneng, who is jointly appointed with the Department of Economics, has assumed his appointment as acting director of the NUS Risk Management Institute (RMI) on 1 September 2018. RMI is a university-level research institute dedicated to the area of financial risk management, and was established in 2006 with the support of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under its program on Risk Management and Financial Innovation.
Congratulations to our staff members for receiving the National Day Award 2018. The Singapore National Day Awards recognize various forms of merit and service to the nation.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Mdm CHAN Lai Chee, Mdm SIM Choo Geok, Lilian and Mr Muhammad Ghazali Bin SUNGIT on winning the Department Quality Service Award 2018.
The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Provost Chair Professor TOH Kim Chuan, Professor SUN Defeng and their former graduate student Dr YANG Liuqin (PhD, 2016) on winning the triennial Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming 2018 by the Mathematical Optimization Society. The award recognizes their work on SDPNAL+, which is a MATLAB solver for large-scale semidefinite programming with bound constraints.
Distinguished Professor GAN Wee Teck has been named as a fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS), among 10 individuals who have distinguished themselves in the field of science.
Dr WANG Fei has won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for the Academic Year 2016/2017. The award is given by the University to recognize faculty members who have demonstrated a very high level of commitment to, and achievement of, good teaching.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Professor CHONG Chi Tat and Professor TOH Kim Chuan on being conferred the University Outstanding Service Award and the University Research Recognition Award respectively, at the University Awards Ceremony on 14 May.
In a career spanning over four decades, Professor CHONG has made numerous major contributions in the areas of education, research and administration, both within NUS and beyond. His passion and dedication in research has also inspired generations of students and young staff in the Department of Mathematics.
Professor TOH is among the world's leading figures in semidefinite programming. The University Research Recognition Award is a fitting recognition of his outstanding research in and fundamental contributions to the theory, practice and application of convex optimisation.
Provost Chair Professor TOH Kim Chuan has been selected as a SIAM Fellow (Class of 2018) for his contributions to the development of algorithms and software for semidefinite programming and, more generally, conic programming.
A/P Roger TAN Choon Ee will be appointed Associate Vice President at the Office of the President (UPR) from 1 April 2018. A/P Tan will head the Organisational Excellence Transformation Unit (OETU) within UPR.
Mathematics Adjunct Prof YU Chien Siang received the Hall of Fame Award in Singapore's inaugural Cybersecurity Awards. Professor Yu developed Singapore's first secure email system and PC security system and pioneered the implementation of public key systems for the Singapore Government.
Recent progress on the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjectures was the subject of a Bourbaki Seminar in January 2018 presented by Raphaël BEUZART-PLESSIS. The Séminaire Nicolas Bourbaki (Bourbaki Seminar) is a series of seminars (in fact public lectures with printed notes distributed) that has been held in Paris since 1948. It is one of the major institutions of contemporary mathematics, and a barometer of mathematical achievement, fashion, and reputation.
Congratulations to Dr Vincent TAN on his promotion to Associate Professor, with effect from 1 January 2018.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Dr Vincent TAN who has been awarded the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship. The NRF Fellowship Scheme is a competitive programme that seeks to attract, recruit and root outstanding young scientists from around the world to conduct independent research in Singapore.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Emeritus Prof Louis CHEN, Founding Director of NUS' Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) on being conferred the NUS Distinguished Alumni Service Award 2017 for his service to NUS and contributions to the advancement of science. Prof CHEN built up IMS into one of the finest institutes in the world. His research on the Chen-Stein method has grown into one of the most important areas of discrete probability.
The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Professor GAN Wee Teck on being conferred the President's Science Award (2017), for his illustrious contributions to the field of mathematics, and his outstanding work on the Langlands programme and the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture. The President's Science Award (PSA) is presented to research scientists and engineers in Singapore who have made outstanding contributions in basic research leading to the discovery of new knowledge or the pioneering development of scientific or engineering techniques and methods.
Congratulations to Professor ZHANG De-Qi and Professor ZHAO Gong Yun for receiving the 2017 National Day Awards - The Long Service Medal. The Singapore National Day Awards recognize various forms of merit and service to the nation.
The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Provost Chair Professor TOH Kim Chuan on winning the 2017 Farkas Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society.
Prof. TOH was an (double) alumnus of NUS (B.Sc, First Class Honours and M.Sc in Mathematics), and began his academic career as a Senior Tutor in the Department of Mathematics in 1991. The 2017 Farkas Prize was awarded to Prof. TOH for his fundamental contributions to the theory, practice, and application of convex optimization, especially semidefinite programming and conic programming.
The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates our alumnus Professor LIM Lek-Heng of the University of Chicago on winning the 2017 James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing and the 2017 Stephen Smale Prize of the Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics. Prof. LIM received B.Sc. (Honors) in Mathematics from NUS in 1996.
Professor DINH Tien Cuong's co-authored paper "Unique ergodicity for foliations in P2 with an invariant curve" will appear in Inventiones Math.
Professor Gan Wee Teck's co-authored paper "Local theta correspondence of tempered representations and Langlands parameters" will appear in Inventiones Math.
Professor LOKE Hung Yean's co-authored paper "Local theta correspondences of supercuspidal representations" will appear in Annales scientifiques de l'École normale supérieure.
Dr TONG Xin's co-authored paper "Robustness and Accuracy of finite Ensemble Kalman filters in large dimensions" will appear in Communications on Pure and Applied Math.
Professor ZHANG Louxin's co-authored paper "Reconciliation with non-binary gene trees revisited" will appear in the Journal of the ACM.
Professor TAN Eng Chye will become the next NUS President. A 1st Class Honours graduate in mathematics, Professor Tan began his academic career as a Senior Tutor with the Department of Mathematics in 1985, and rose through the ranks to become a full professor in 2006.
Professors Sanjay JAIN (School of Computing, NUS) and Frank STEPHAN, and their collaborators, Dr LI Wei from NUS' Department of Mathematics, and Professors Cristian Calude and Bakhadyr Khoussainov from the University of Auckland, won the STOC 2017 Best Paper Award for their paper, 'Deciding Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time', at STOC 2017 Theory Fest: the 49th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Mdm Rubiah Bte TUKIMIN and Mdm SIM Choo Geok, Lilian on winning the Department Quality Service Award 2017.
Professor DINH Tien Cuong has been appointed as Provost's Chair from 1 July 2017. Provost's Chair appointments are for a three year period, and are made in recognition of the recipients' outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments which are internationally acknowledged. Professor Dinh is considered one of the world's top analysts working on Complex Dynamics of Several Variables. He has been invited as a sectional speaker for "Analysis and Operator Algebras" at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is a singular honour to be invited to speak at the ICM, and the achievement is widely acclaimed by the international mathematical community as a mark of excellence.
Professor GAN Wee Teck has joined the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics/Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, from January 2017.
Professor CHAN Heng Huat has joined the editorial board of the Ramanujan Journal, from May 2017.
Professor YU Shih-Hsien has joined the editorial board of the International Journal of Mathematics, from May 2017.
Shuichiro TAKEDA of the University of Missouri has been awarded the prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. Takeda's research focuses on automorphic forms and representations of p-adic groups, especially from the point of view of the Langlands program. He will use the Centennial Fellowship to visit the National University of Singapore during the academic year 2017-2018.
Our warmest congratulations to Professor DINH Tien Cuong on being selected as a sectional speaker for "Analysis and Operator Algebras" at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The ICM is the largest and the most prestigious international congress in the mathematics community and is held once every four years.
For more information on ICM 2018, please see the link.
Mr ZHAO Quan (PhD student, 2013 cohort) and Mr ANG Yan Sheng (Undergraduate student, 2015 cohort) have been selected to participate in the 5th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, to be held from September 24 to 29, 2017 in Heidelberg, Germany. About 200 highly talented young researchers will participate in the forum.
A/P Victor TAN has been elected as the President of the Singapore Mathematical Society (SMS). Other key members of the SMS Management Committee include Vice Presidents A/P CHAN Song Heng (NTU), Professor GAN Wee Teck (NUS), Dr Hang Kim Hoo (Jurong Junior College), and Honorary Secretary Dr Tang Wee Kee (NTU).
Congratulations to A/P Victor TAN for winning an Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY2015/2016. The award is given by the University to recognize faculty members who have demonstrated a very high level of commitment to, and achievement of, good teaching.
Congratulations to Dr ZHANG Louxin on his promotion to Professor, with retrospective effect from 1 January 2017.
Professor SHEN Zuowei has been elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, for contributions to approximation theory, wavelet theory, and image processing. The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. The list of 2017 Class of the Fellows of the AMS is here.
Congratulations to Dr REN Weiqing on his promotion to Professor and Dr WANG Fei on his promotion to Senior Lecturer, both effective from 1 January 2017.
Professor SHEN Zuowei has been named among the most prominent researchers in the world by Clarivate Analytics in The Highly Cited Researchers 2016 report. A total of eleven NUS scientists and engineers made it to the list. The NUS News Highlight is here.
Dr ZHANG Hong has been awarded the inaugural Louis Chen Hsiao Yun Best Dissertation Prize (2016). Established in the Academic Year 2015/2016, this prize is awarded annually to the student with the best PhD thesis in mathematics and its applications, and is open to all graduating PhD students from the Department of Mathematics, NUS. Dr Zhang's thesis is entitled "Conformal Metrics on the Unit Ball with the Prescribed Mean Curvature" and is written under the direction of Professor XU Xingwang.
Congratulations to the Singapore IMO team lead by A/P Wong Yan Loi for the fantastic results in the 57th IMO held in Hong Kong (July 2016): overall country ranking at No. 4, with 4 gold medals, 2 silver medals.
Professor Steven KOU has been appointed as a Class of '62 Professor , with retrospective effect from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2019 . This appointment is in recognition of his excellence and international recognition in research as well as significant and impactful leadership in raising standards of the University with respect to research, teaching and service.
Professor TOH Kim Chuan has been appointed as Provost's Chair from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2019. This appointment is in recognition of his outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments which are internationally acknowledged.
Professor GAN Wee Teck has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of the University, from 23 June 2016. The Distinguished Professorship is awarded to a senior faculty member who has demonstrated excellence and international recognition in research and creative activity, together with significant and impactful leadership in raising standards of the University with respect to research or creative activity, education and service.
New papers in top journals by Department members: Congratulations to DINH Tien Cuong, GAN Wee Teck , SHEN Weixiao, ZHANG De-Qi, BAO Weizhu, Steven KOU for papers accepted by the prestigious Annales de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, Inventiones Mathematicae, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Physical Review Letters, and Management Science.
DINH's co-authored paper is "Equidistribution speed for Fekete points associated with an ample line bundle", to appear in Ann. Sci. Ec. Norm. Super..
Gan's co-authored papers are "Globalization of supercuspidal representations over function fields and applications", to appear in J. Eur. Math. Soc., and "The Gross-Prasad conjecture and local theta correspondence", to appear in Invent. Math..
Shen's co-authored paper is "The Lyapunov exponent of holomorphic maps", to appear in Invent. Math..
Zhang's co-authored paper is "Effectivity of Iitaka fibrations and pluricanonical systems of polarized pairs", to appear in Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS.
Bao's co-authored paper is "Hubbard model for atomic impurities bound by the vortex lattice of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate", to appear in Physical Review Letters.
Kou's co-authored paper is "Jumps in Equity Index Returns Before and During the Recent Financial Crisis: A Bayesian Analysis", to appear in Management Science.
Mr WANG LiuQuan (PhD student, 2014 cohort) has been selected to participate in the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2016). Held annually since 2013, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum connects highly talented young researchers with the best scientists in their research fields: mathematics and computer science (Abel, Fields, Turing, and Nevanlinna Laureates).
Dr KU Cheng Yeaw has won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for the Academic Year 2014/2015. The award is given by the University to recognize faculty members who have demonstrated a very high level of commitment to, and achievement of, good teaching.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Dr LOKE Hung Yean on his promotion to Professor, and Dr NG Wee Seng on his promotion to Senior Lecturer, effective from 1 January, 2016.
Dr CHAN Song Heng [BSc (Hons) Class of 2001, NUS] has been appointed as Head, Division of Mathematical Sciences, in the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the Nanyang Technological University, from 1 January, 2016.
Professor DAI Min has joined the editorial board of the "SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics", from January, 2016.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates its alumnus Dr Peng Yinhe (PhD, class of 2013) on winning the 3rd Mary Ellen Rudin Young Researcher Award, for his work on some open problems in set theoretic topology using techniques from set theory. First introduced in 2013, this is an annual award recognizing talented young researchers in any of the areas central to topology.
The Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC) series is a major mathematics conference held every 4-5 years under the auspices of the South East Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS). The 7th AMC will take place in Bali, Indonesia, in July 25-29, 2016 and is hosted by the Indonesian Mathematical Society. Invited speakers from the NUS community are GAN Wee Teck (plenary speaker), and YANG Yue, DINH Tien Cuong, BAO Weizhu, Adrian Roellin, Vincent TAN and TOH Kim Chuan.
- Ms Chan Lai Chee and Mr Muhammad Ghazali Bin Sungit on winning the Department Quality Service Award 2015.
- Mdm Nor'Aini Bte Maulud, Mdm Tay Lee Lang, Ms Lynette Wong on winning the Faculty Outstanding Service Award 2015, and Mdm Sim Choo Geok the Faculty Commendation Award 2015.
Professor Steven KOU, who is jointly appointed with the Risk Management Institute (RMI), has been appointed as a co-area editor of Financial Engineering for the journal Operations Research, from Nov 1, 2015 to Oct 31, 2020. Operations Research is one of the flagship journals of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science, and analytics.
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to establish a new University-level award titled "Louis Chen Hsiao Yun Best Dissertation Prize", with effect from AY2015/2016. This prize is awarded annually to the student with the best PhD thesis in the field of mathematics or applied mathematics, and is open to all graduating PhD students from the Department of Mathematics. The first award will be given out at Commencement 2016.
Associate Professor Ren Weiqing has been awarded the Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing (2015) by the Chinese Academy of Sciences for his significant contributions in numerical methods for the study of rare events, multiscale modeling and simulation, the moving contact line problem. The award ceremony was held at the General Assembly of the Chinese Society for Computational Mathematics, Guangzhou, 19-22 September, 2015. The Feng Kang Prize, awarded every other year, is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor FENG Kang, the founder and pioneer of Chinese computational mathematics.
The Singapore Mathematics Symposium is an annual one-day event organized by the Singapore Mathematical Society to promote interaction within the mathematical community and to showcase some of the exciting developments originating from Singapore. Prof Dai Min and Prof To Wing Keung are among the four featured speakers of this year's event, which will take place on Friday 25 September, 2015 in NTU's School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences. The full programme can be viewed here.
Emeritus Professor Louis Chen, Department of Mathematics, has been named in a list of Singapore scientific pioneers in a commemorative book about the country's science and technology efforts, as part of the SG50 celebration. The book lists a total of 25 scientists aged 50 and above who have made exceptional contributions to Singapore's scientific, engineering, medical and education sectors over the last five decades. The profile on Professor Louis Chen is entitled "A series of rare events", and is available here.
The International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) is the premier international congress in the field of applied mathematics held every four years under the auspices of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The 8th ICIAM took place in Beijing, China, from August 10th to 14th, 2015. Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor SHEN Zuowei, Department of Mathematics, was among the 27 invited speakers. Professor Shen spoke on "Image Restoration: A Data-Driven Perspective".
The fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2016) will take place in Tokyo, Japan, from August 6th to 11th, 2016. ICCOPT is a flagship conference of the Mathematical Optimization Society, organized every three years. Members of the OR group from the Department of Mathematics will play a notable scientific role in ICCOPT 2016: Professor SUN Defeng has been appointed as a member of the Programme Committee, and Professor TOH Kim Chuan as a cluster co-chair and Summer School Lecturer on Big Data Optimization.
Professor SUN Yeneng, who is jointly appointed with the Department of Economics, has been appointed as a Goh Keng Swee Professor from a period of 3 years from 1 July 2015. The Goh Keng Swee Professorship is an appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and conferred to faculty members in recognition of their outstanding and impacting scholarly accomplishments. Prof Sun previously held the title of Raffles Professor of Social Sciences from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2015.
Associate Professor JI Hui has been appointed as a Dean's Chair from 1 July 2015. This appointment recognizes A/P JI's work on sparse representation and signal recovery which has its significance in both fundamental and advanced application of vision and imaging science.
Dr Vincent TAN Yan Fu, who is jointly appointed with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been appointed as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications covering expertise in Finite Length Information Theory and Information-Theoretic Security, from June 2015.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Dr CHIN Chee Whye on his promotion to Associate Professor (Educator Track), and Dr HAN Fei on his promotion to Associate Professor (with Tenure), effective from 1 July, 2015.
SHEN Zuowei has been re-appointed as Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor for a further 3 years from January 2016 to December 2018. The Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professorships are amongst the most prestigious professorships of the University established with private funds. They are bestowed upon academics who have demonstrated an exceptional level of achievement in their field of study, as well as made significant contributions to the academic policies and programmes of the University.
The paper "A proof of the Howe duality conjecture", jointly authored by GAN Wee Teck, and Shuichiro TAKEDA, will appear in a future issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.
NUS launched a science and technology exhibition, entitled "Building Our Nation through Science and Technology" in April, 2015 in celebration of its 110th anniversary. Among the featured projects under the theme of Smart Nation is the work on Data Science by NUS colleagues, notably from the Department of Mathematics, which shows how science-based data research, data-driven science research, big data computing and data-driven decision sciences will together transform the way we live, work and play. A short video on NUS' leadership and advancements in Data Science is here.
LEE Soo Teck and Victor TAN have won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) 2013/2014, which recognizes faculty members who have displayed a high level of commitment to their teaching.
ZHANG Louxin has been invited to serve as Area Co-Chair for the Evolution and Comparative Genomics track of the ISMB/ECCB 2015 meeting (the World's Premier Conference on Computational Biology), to be held in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2015.
The Department of Mathematics heartily congratulates Professor Louis Chen Hsiao Yun on being conferred the title of Emeritus Professor by NUS, effective from July 1, 2015. The award of Emeritus Professorship is conferred to full professors on retirement in recognition of their sustained contributions to the University in terms of dedicated teaching, distinguished scholarship and conspicuous service.
The Department of Mathematics warmly congratulates Professor Gan Wee Teck on winning the University's Outstanding Researcher Award 2015. The University Awards honour and recognise members of the NUS community who, through their consistently high performance and resolute commitment, set new benchmarks in the areas of education, research and service. The award citation for Professor Gan is here.
Dr. Zhao Xiaofei (PhD, class of 2014, NUS) has been selected to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2015. Held annually since 2013, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum connects highly talented young researchers with the best scientists in their research fields: mathematics and computer science (Abel, Fields, Turing, and Nevanlinna Laureates).
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to establish a new University-level award titled "Medal of Excellence in Mathematics", with effect from AY2014/2015. Consisting of a gold medal and book prize of $500, this annual award will be awarded to a student in Mathematics who has obtained First Class honours and who has also demonstrated excellence and potential in the pursuit of Mathematics. The first award will be given out at Commencement 2015.
The paper "Polynomial chaos and scaling limits of disordered systems", jointly authored by Francesco Caravenna, Rongfeng Sun, and Nikos Zygouras, will appear in a future issue of the Journal of the European Mathematical Society.
The paper "Optimal tax-timing with asymmetric long-term/short-term capital gains tax", jointly authored by Min Dai, Hong Liu, Chen Yang and Yifei Zhong, will appear in a future issue of Review of Financial Studies.
"Network Communication with Synchronization Errors: Fundamental Limits and Codes", led by Vincent TAN Yan Fu, who is jointly appointed at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Mathematics, with total project value of $486K.
Prof SHEN Zuowei has joined the editorial board of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS), from January 2015.
Prof YU Shih-Hsien has joined the editorial board of the "Asian Journal of Mathematics", from January, 2015.
The inaugural Oppenheim Lecture, a distinguished lecture series jointly organized by the Department of Mathematics and IMS, takes place on January 28 (Wednesday, 2:00-3:00pm, Seminar Room 1) and is delivered by Prof Ngo Bao Chau, of the University of Chicago and Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics. Prof Ngo is best known for proving the fundamental lemma in the Langlands programme, which was selected by the Time magazine as one of the Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2009. He was awarded the Fields medal in the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010, held in India.
In conjunction with the Oppenheim Lecture, there is also a Workshop on Representation Theory & Automorphic Forms (January 27-29), with speakers from the Asia-Pacific region and the NUS community. Professor Ngo will also meet students on January 29 (Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm, Seminar Room 1).
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to introduce the ASEAN Mathematician Visit Programme, which aims to encourage collaboration and to support growth in mathematical research in the ASEAN region. Under the programme, mathematicians from the ASEAN countries will visit the Department of Mathematics, and will collaborate with members of the Department on research topics of mutual interests.
Prof ZHU Chengbo will join the editorial board of "Representation Theory" (An Electronic Journal of the AMS), from February, 2015.
Profs SHEN Zuowei will join the editorial board of the "Asian Journal of Mathematics", from January, 2015.
Prof CHAN Heng Huat has been invited to deliver a series of lectures on "Elliptic Functions" in 2015 at the East China Normal University (ECNU) as part of ECNU's Graduate Education Program by International Scholars.
"Future Resilient Systems" (FRS) is a research project under the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) to address the challenges with critical infrastructure systems that provide essential services to modern societies, which is of particular importance to innovation-driven economies like Singapore and Switzerland. A submodule of FRS, called Hidden Interdependencies, will be led by Dr XU Huan, Profs SUN Defeng and TOH Kim Chuan, with the total project value of $640K.
The Faculty of Science celebrates its 85th anniversary this year, and the celebrations culminated with the 85th anniversary celebration dinner on 8 November. This year's recipients for the Faculty's Distinguished Alumni and Outstanding Alumni awards received the awards from President Tony Tan at the dinner.
The MOE Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 funds significant research with a good potential for creating new knowledge that will benefit the larger academic community.
- "Quantitative Finance: Modeling, Mathematical and Statistical Issues", led by Dai Min and Steven Kou, with total project value $364K.
The NUS Young Investigator Award (YIA) offers research-funding to highly-promising young faculty members who are likely to make significant contributions to the development of research at NUS. Dr Vincent Tan Yan Fu, who is jointly appointed at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Mathematics, has won the 2014 NUS YIA for his project "An Information-Theoretic Understanding of Machine Learning Algorithms", with the total project value of $497K.
The Department and the IMS will jointly organize a distinguished lecture series, called the Oppenheim Lectures, beginning from the Academic Year 2014/2015. This is to be held annually and is in honour of Sir Alexander Oppenheim, who held the position of Professor and first Head of the Department from 1931, at the time of Raffles College, until 1959. The inaugural Oppenheim Lecture will be delivered by Prof Ngo Bao Chau (University of Chicago and 2010 Fields Medallist), entitled "Recent works on the Langlands functoriality conjecture". The event will take place in January 26-29, 2015.
The Department of Mathematics congratulates Profs BAO Weizhu, Gan Wee Teck, SHEN Weixiao and YU Shih-Hsien who will deliver invited lectures at the upcoming International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Seoul, Korea, August 13-21, 2014. They will respectively speak on their ground-breaking work on Bose-Einstein Condensation, Theta Correspondence, Interval Dynamics and Boltzmann Equation.
The Department also congratulates Prof SHEN Zuowei who will deliver an invited lecture at the 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), to be held in Beijing, China in 2015.
The Singapore National Day Awards recognise various forms of merit and service to the nation. Congratulations to our staff members who have received the honours this year.
The Department also congratulates its class of 2013 PhD student, TANG Qinglin for winning the Student Paper Prize (Second Prize) at The 10th East Asia SIAM Conference (EASIAM 2014), held in Thailand.
A summer school on the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjectures will take place in the Institut de Mathmatiques de Jussieu Paris, from June 18 - 27, 2014. Gan-Gross-Prasad refers to the conjectures of GAN Wee Teck, Benedict GROSS and Dipendra PRASAD, which among other things, predict relations between certain period integrals of automorphic forms and special values of L-functions.
The paper "Conservation relations for local theta correspondence", jointly authored by SUN Binyong and Zhu Chen-bo, will appear in a future issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.
KU Cheng Yeaw and Ng Kah Loon have won the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) 2012/2013, which recognizes faculty members who have displayed a high level of commitment to their teaching.
ZHU Chengbo has been elected as a fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science, "For his contributions to the representation theory of classical groups, in particular for proving the multiplicity one conjectures for smooth representations and conservation conjecture for local theta correspondence."
SUN Yeneng has been elected as a fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science, "For his path-breaking work in mathematical economics by providing a much needed mathematical foundation for modelling a large market with many agents under individual level uncertainty, and for his discovery of a series of surprising results in probability theory and economics."
In the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject (2014), NUS Math is ranked among the best mathematics departments in Asia.
SUN Defeng has joined "Mathematical Programming Journal, Series B" as an associate editor, effective from Jan, 2014.
SHEN Weixiao has joined "Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems" as an executive editor, effective from Jan, 2014.
The paper "The metamathematics of Stable Ramsey's Theorem for Pairs", jointly authored by CHONG Chi Tat, Theodore A. SLAMAN and YANG Yue, has appeared in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, on March 25, 2014.
The paper "Formal degrees and local theta correspondence", jointly authored by Gan Wee Teck and Atsushi Ichino, has appeared in the March 2014 issue of Inventiones mathematicae.
The paper "The regularized Siegel-Weil formula (the second term identity) and the Rallis inner product formula", jointly authored by GAN Wee Teck, QIU Yannan and Shuichiro TAKEDA, will appear in a future issue of Inventiones mathematicae.
The paper "Finsler metrics and Kobayashi hyperbolicity of the moduli spaces of canonically polarized manifold", jointly authored by TO Wing-Keung and YEUNG Sai-Kee, will appear in a future issue of the Annals of Mathematics.
NUS News, 11 November 2013 - Our alumni Dr Yeo Sze Ling received the NUS Outstanding Alumni Award.
The New Paper, 20 October 2013 - Our alumni Dr Yeo Sze Ling received the Her World Young Woman Achiever Award.
The Straits Times, 25 August 2013 - A Beautiful Mind: Our alumni Dr Yeo Sze Ling's grit moved Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to cite her as an inspiration in his National Day Rally speech.
The Straits Times, 21 June 2012 - Our alumni Dr Yeo Sze Ling receives the Singapore Youth Award 2012, the highest national accolade for youth.
The Straits Times, 25 Nov 2011 - Professors Louis Chen, Chong Chi Tat, Shen Zuowei and Tan Eng Chye have been conferred as inaugural fellows of the Singapore National Academy of Science, an umbrella organisation that represents the scientific community in Singapore.
AlumNUS, Oct-Dec 2011 - Prof Peter Lancaster, alumni and recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award, reminisces about his time spent in Singapore and at the Department.
The Business Times, 21 Jan 2011 - Prof Andrew Wee, Dean of the NUS Faculty of Science, said that the partnership between NUS and the Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) opens up opportunities for students at the NUS Dept of Mathematics and Dept of Statistics and Applied Probability to be attached to the CRA.
The Straits Times, 14 Sept 2007 - The winners of this year's National Science and Technology Awards hail from various disciplines such as biomedical sciences, IT and maths. But they share something in common - great aptitude in science.
The Straits Times, 7 July 2007 - Want to make it big in animation? Know your maths!
The Straits Times, 4 July 2007 - Of Brains and Brawn - Norwegian maths professor Helmer Aslaksen, 47, chats to Straits Times reporter Elaine Young about keeping fit, and Sudoku.
The Business Times and Lianhe Zaobao, 29 June 2005 - National University of Singapore and Peking University sign an MOU to train professionals in financial engineering and quantitative finance.
The Straits Times, 24 May 2005 - featured our graduate Miss YEO Sze Ling, who earned her Bachelor's degree (Honours) and a Master's degree from National University of Singapore (NUS), and who is now into research on coding mathematics theories and cryptography.
The Straits Times, 30 April 2005 - featured Prof Louis CHEN, Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, who had received the French government decoration for services to education.
The Straits Times, 23 April 2005 - featured Prof CHONG Chi Tat, Department of Mathematics, providing one-to-one undergraduate lessons one-to-one undergraduate lessons for GOH Jun Le who is currently studying in NUS High School.
The Straits Times, 6 July 2004 - featured an NUS student whose passion for Mathematics leads him to do a second degree.
The Straits Times, 16 Oct 2003 - featured Prof Louis CHEN, who was elected to head the California-based Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), a rare honour for someone outside the United States.
The Straits Times, 26 Sept 2003 - featured Prof Harald NIEDERREITER, Prof XING Chaoping and Assoc Prof LING San, winners of the National Science & Technology Award 2003.
The Straits Times, 26 June 2003 - featured Assoc Prof CHAN Heng Huat, winner of the Young Scientist Award (Science & Technology) 2003.
TheStraits Times, 1 Sept 2002 - featured Prof LAM Lay Yong, a retired professor of the Department of Mathematics, NUS, for her contributions to the history of mathematics. Prof LAM won the Kenneth O. May medal, the highest honour given by the International Commission on the History of Mathematics once every four years.
The Straits Times, 19 March 2002 - featured Prof Louis CHEN, father of the Chen-Stein method which played a crucial role in the mapping of the human genome.
The Straits Times, 18 Feb 2002 - featured Malaysian boy WONG Jiang Fung who made the news when he became a student of the National University of Singapore at the ripe old age of 15. Scroll down for the first report on him in 1999!
BusinessWorld, 4 Dec 2001 - featured 72 local and foreign professors, including Prof KOH Khee Meng, who converged in Manila recently to pay homage to renowned graph theorist Frank HARARY. His pioneering work in graph theory, an applied branch of mathematics, has touched on 36 disciplines, including psychology, economics, social sciences, art and architecture.
The Straits Times, 1 Sept 2000 - featured Prof SUN Yeneng, winner of the National Science & Technology Award 2000.
The Straits Times, 12 Dec 1999 - featured Malaysian boy WONG Jiang Fung, 15, Maths Whiz, and youngest student at NUS.
The Straits Times, 2 Sept 1999 - featured Assoc Prof CHAN Heng Huat, winner of the Young Scientist Award 1999.
The Straits Times, 17 Sept 1998 - featured the work on wavelets carried out by researchers of the Centre for Wavelets, Approximation and Information Processing (CWAIP). Prof LEE Seng Luan, Assoc Prof Wayne M. LAWTON and Prof SHEN Zuowei, all from the NUS Mathematics Department, won the National Science & Technology Award 1998 for their basic mathematical research on wavelets theory.
248-dimension maths puzzle solved - An international team of mathematicians has detailed a vast complex numerical "structure" which was described more than a century ago.


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Fish declared 'un-extinct' after surprise comeback
Conservationists are celebrating the return of the Tequila fish to Mexico's rivers nearly two decades after going extinct
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The Tequila fish has been successfully reintroduced into the wild some 18 years after it was first reported as "missing" from its native habitat in Mexico and declared extinct, potentially offering a lifeline to other species.
While describing the Tequila fish as "little" and "not very colorful," the successful conservation effort is being viewed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as an example of how animals could be saved from permanent extinction.
Freshwater habitats are described as some of the most threatened areas on Earth by the IUCN, as the species that live there are "going extinct more rapidly than terrestrial or marine wildlife."
"We couldn't have done this without the local people - they're the ones doing the long-term conservation," said Professor Omar Dominguez of Mexico's Michoacana University.
This is the first time an extinct species of fish has ever been successfully reintroduced in Mexico, so it's a real landmark for conservation
Seeking to "set an important precedent for the future conservation" of fish species, experts working on the project released 1,500 fish into the river system, with the population now expanding.
"This just goes to show that animals can re-adapt to the wild when reintroduced at the right time and in the right environments," Chester Zoo's Dr Gerardo Garcia said.
The project was a dual effort between Mexico and the UK, dating back to 1998, when the Mexican university received five pairs of fish from Chester Zoo. The Aquatic Biology Unit at Michoacana University of Mexico then eventually grew the population in artificial ponds to around 10,000, allowing them to be reintroduced into the wild.
The Tequila fish project could now be used as an example for aiding the survival of other species living in freshwater habitats, with the Achoque salamander among those facing a similar threat.
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Last week, our Alan Prendergast wrote about an inmate who claims accused Aurora theater killer James Holmes told him his murder spree had been spurred by a homicidal directive implanted by a therapist.
Earlier today, the National Enquirer published its version of the story -- and the tone and substance are very different.
Prendergast notes that the inmate, Steven Unruh, 38, has what he describes as "a long history of drug and theft charges" -- among them meth and credit-card-fraud offenses for which he served six years behind bars. Moreover, Unruh admits to having been diagnosed with bipolar condition.
At present, Unruh is facing habitual criminal allegations that he'd like to address via mental-health treatments rather than an extended stay in stir. He hoped his observations would convince the authorities to offer him a deal -- and his narrative included anecdotes about Holmes trying to injure himself by banging his head before reports about him doing so surfaced in relation to a postponed hearing.
But no such agreement has been offered, presumably due to doubts that Unruh could have had an extended conversation with Holmes immediately after he was taken into custody for allegedly killing twelve people and wounding 58 at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. A representative of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office and the person in charge of the booking operation both flatly reject Unruh's tale, which Prendergast synopsizes like so:
[Unruh] says that Holmes told him "he felt like he was in a video game" during the shooting, that "he wasn't on his meds" and "nobody would help him." He says Holmes also mentioned NLP -- presumably, neuro-linguistic programming, a much-scorned and outmoded approach to psychotherapy -- and claimed to have been "programmed" to kill by an evil therapist.
"When he got out to his car, he wasn't programmed no more," Unruh says. "It sounded kind of crazy. He was trying to run it by me, basically."
No such caveats are shared by the Enquirer in an article headlined "'Batman' Killer's Incredible Confession." There's mention of an inmate with whom Holmes is said to have spoken through a ventilation pipe in an adjoining cell, but Unruh isn't named, and no information is provided about his background or the poo-pooing of law enforcers. Instead, the information is credited to an anonymous individual referred to as either an "insider" or a "source."
Are these people Unruh, too? Hard to say....
Continue to read more about the National Enquirer's James Holmes story. Here are some of the piece's assertions, presented Enquirer-style....
"Holmes said he initially went into the theater for the sole purpose of finding his therapist, who he believed would be waiting there for him," the insider revealed.
"While he said he was programmed to commit a shooting spree, he wasn't exactly sure if he was supposed to do it on that particular night.
"But once he got inside the theater, Holmes claimed that he heard something in the movie's musical score that told him it was time to shoot certain people, though not everyone."
There's also this:
"Incredibly, Holmes said he didn't mean to shoot that particular person but was too amped up on adrenaline to take good aim," said the source.
"He showed no emotion in describing how the bullet hit the victim in the eye, and it exploded like glass. And he didn't even wince as he recalled seeing brain matter splatter on the people sitting directly behind the person. After that, he said everything was just a blur."
By presenting this material without contextualizing it, the Enquirer lives up -- or down -- to its journalistic reputation. Don't be surprised, though, if its account travels far and wide. Even though the judge in the case has unsealed some documents, and the University of Colorado has released a few others, there's essentially an informational vacuum in the case at this point that's begging to be filled. And the Enquirer appears happy to oblige.
More from our Aurora Theater Shooting archive: "James Holmes case: Judge lifts gag order related to University of Colorado."
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LUMBERTON, TX , March 25, 2016	(Newswire.com) - Altus Emergency Centers, led by Chariman & CEO Taseer Badar of ZT Wealth, will be joining community Easter events in their respective communities, and invites everyone to join them during the free family-fun festivities.
BAYTOWN: The Easter Egg Hunt will take place on Saturday, March 26, 2016. Activities will begin at 10 a.m. at Town Square, located at 213 Texas Avenue, Baytown.
LUMBERTON: The Easter Egg Hunt will take place on Saturday, March 26, 2016. Activities will begin at 10 a.m. in the park behind Lumberton Primary School.
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A leading provider in high-quality emergency healthcare, Altus Emergency Center currently operates successful freestanding emergency rooms in Baytown, Lake Jackson and Lumberton; with new centers opening in Lufkin and Waxahachie later this year. Every Altus Emergency Center is equipped with first-class equipment, including X-ray, CT scans and a diagnostic lab on-site. With physicians and nurses trained in emergency medicine, each Altus team is highly efficient in treating chest and abdominal pains, pediatric emergencies, flu symptoms, sports injuries, bone breaks and fractures, as well as all other major and minor injuries. All services are available 24/7, including weekends and holidays.
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The political action group Let's Move Seattle wants voters to approve spending nearly $1 billion in taxes to pay for a long list of transportation projects. The money would expand metro bus service, pave pockmarked streets and reinforce the city's creaky, traffic-laden drawbridges before the next big earthquake takes them out.
How did I miss that there was a walking tunnel under busy Aurora Avenue not too far from the neighborhood I have lived in for more than a decade?
The old pedestrian tunnel survives as one of those little oddities hiding in plain sight in Seattle. If you deliberately look, it's easy to spot near the Dollar Store at the intersection of North 79th Street and Aurora Avenue. Steel railing frame the tops of the stairwell sealed off by rusty steel plates littered with a flotsam of discarded coffee cups and an empty vodka bottle. There is even a "Stairway Closed" sign dangling at one entrance.
The pedestrian tunnel dates back to the 1920s, another time when Seattle was bursting at the seams and civic and business leaders were lobbying voters to approve more road projects. Around that same time, the multi-lane Aurora Avenue "speedway" was built through Woodland Park. Soon after, motorists were driving on the new Aurora Bridge erected across the Ship Canal to ease congestion on the city's network of drawbridges on the north end.
Then as today neighborhood groups also were concerned about school children crossing busy streets. Back in the 1920s, a group of parents and teachers promoting a series of "safety tunnels" near schools.
The first tunnel was open by 1929 at North 79th Street, allowing neighborhood kids to cross under Aurora and walk to nearby Bagley School. With heavy support from parents and teachers, the city considered adding more tunnels.
But the city balked in the face of heavy pushback from residents worried about higher taxes and pubic safety. A Seattle Daily Times article from June 1929 captures the tone of the opposition from an attorney hired by residents to fight the tunnel projects. The attorney told the City Council that similar tunnels in Portland "have become hangouts for mashers and thugs," requiring increased police presence. Another article a day later raised concerns that the tunnels would be "lurking places for sluggers and mashers." The word "mashers" was a reference to men who made unwanted sexual advance to women in public places.
There also were veiled references to muggings, prostitutes and their johns, as well as people urinating in the tunnel.
The 79th Street underpass remained open through World War II. But not without problems. In the spring of 1946, parents and teachers at Bagley School complained of "unsanitary" conditions and questionable people loitering nearby. They demanded more police supervision of the tunnel. A few months later, according to the Times archives, the city painted the tunnel a brilliant, aluminum-chrome color, added more lights and installed gates that were to be unlocked only during school hours. The city handed over the keys to the locks and delegated responsibility of opening and closing the gates to the school staff. Sometime afterward, the problematic underpass was shut down and sealed off.
For decades the safety tunnel was mostly forgotten. But now the group behind Proposition 1 says an unspecified amount of a proposed $930 million property tax levy should be spent to study reopening the North 79th Street tunnel to make it safer for kids walking to school.
The backers of Proposition 1 include heavyweights like e-commerce giant Amazon and super developers Paul Allen and Greg Smith. They are the folks who have brought Seattle the shiny new condo buildings and corporate office towers that have transformed large swaths of the city. They have benefitted greatly from the growth. And so too has Seattle, which has a booming economy and an unemployment rate hovering around 3 percent.
Seattle also is a city groaning under the pressures of growth, and you can see the strain on the faces of motorists locked in traffic jams. So it makes sense to invest in roads, bridges and better bus service.
But Proposition 1 is not primarily about "safer streets" or "safe routes to school." It's about easing the commute of the growing herds of workers who are coming to town as more corporations move or expand their offices here. Studying reopening an obscure tunnel shuttered more than a half-century ago seems like a hasty attempt to pad a list to make it more palatable to voters.
If we want to make it safer for children walking to and from school, lets add more neighborhood sidewalks and pedestrian overpasses over busy roads instead of tacking on projects unlikely to see the light of day. That goes for daylighting the ancient Aurora Avenue "safety tunnel," long ago banished as a public nuisance because it of lurking thugs, sluggers and mashers.
That tunnel was open into the late '80s or early '90s at least.


With regards to the tail of the turban and where it should be left to hang, many styles have been reported from the messenger of Allah peace be upon him and his companions, may Allah be pleased with them.
1. Between the shoulder blades.
The most common and authentic style is to let the loose end or tail of the turban hang from the back between the shoulder blades.
In a lengthy narration mentioned in the previous article, Abdur rahman ibn Auf mentions that the messenger of Allah peace be upon him tied for him a turban and let approximately four fingers length hang loose from behind.
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To feed the human spirit by sharing America's enduring story
P.O. Box 1776 Williamsburg, VA 23187
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Mitchell B. Reiss
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Accountability & Transparency 89.00 three stars
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world's largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia - the restored 18th-century capital of Britain's largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World. Here we interpret the origins of the idea of America, conceived decades before the American Revolution. In Colonial Williamsburg's 301-acre Historic Area stand hundreds of restored, reconstructed, and historically furnished buildings. Costumed interpreters tell the stories of the men and women of the 18th-century city - black, white, and native American, slave, indentured, and free - and the challenges they faced. In this historic place, we help the future learn from the past.
Administrative Expenses 17.3%
All data for Financial Performance Metrics calculations was provided by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation on recent 990s filed with the IRS.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (VA) 82.81 three stars
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (MD) 94.91 four stars
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (IL) 85.00 three stars
The Valentine Richmond History Center (VA) 87.28 three stars
Strawbery Banke Museum (NH) 89.59 three stars
Contributions, Gifts & Grants $52,426,171
Government Grants $1,512,879
Total Contributions $53,939,050
Program Service Revenue $37,122,169
Total Primary Revenue $91,061,219
Other Revenue $36,271,040
Program Expenses $100,266,396
Administrative Expenses $22,291,671
Fundraising Expenses $9,452,682
Excess (or Deficit) for the year $-4,678,490
Net Assets $1,073,145,225
Education, Research and Historical Interpretation $56,258,365 56.1%
Taverns and Colonial Houses $19,820,827 19.8%
Collections, Conservation and Museums $13,747,649 13.7%
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Girl Killed, 2 Other Children Critical in Mother's Suspected DUI Crash on I-15
The wreckage of the sedan on the I-15 embankment. Courtesy OnScene.TV
A 27-year-old mother faces potential DUI charges after she crashed her car down an embankment off Interstate 15 near Bonsall early Wednesday morning, killing her 5-year-old daughter and critically injuring her two toddlers.
The solo vehicle crash happened about 2:25 a.m. on northbound I-15 north of Gopher Canyon Road, California Highway Patrol Officer Juan Escobar said.
The woman was driving northbound in a 2009 Hyundai Genesis sedan with her three young children in the car when, for unknown reasons, she veered to the right and the car overturned down an embankment, Escobar said.
A 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old girl were ejected from the car, the officer said. A 1-year-old boy remained in a child restraint seat in the car.
The 5-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene, Escobar said.
The two other children were airlifted to Rady Children's Hospital, where they were admitted in critical condition, Escobar said. An update on their conditions was not immediately available.
The children's mother, whose name was not immediately available, suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital for treatment, Escobar said. Alcohol was a suspected factor in the crash.
Once medically cleared, she was expected to be arrested on multiple charges, including felony DUI causing death, Escobar said.
A SigAlert was issued about 3:05 a.m., shutting down the right two lanes on northbound 15 north of Gopher Canyon Road. The lanes were reopened by 8 a.m.
Updated at 11 a.m. July 14, 2021
Tagged: Bonsall, CHP, crash, DUI, fatality, Interstate 15


One of the featured artists in "Mix, Melt, Mark, and Brush: a Color Show," Elizabeth Weber is also available to provide programming in association with the exhibition tour. Possible offerings include a gallery talks, Power Point presentation on her work; and painting workshops for tailored for students in grades 3-12, or for adults and seniors.
"I seek out the light in every aspect of my life. I search for that sliver of illumination in the midst of darkness. My paintings all start on a black canvas just as each day's journey starts by acknowledging my own inner shadows. It is only from having experienced a place of darkness that one can truly appreciate the spark of life. This ever present need for light, manifests as a longing for connection. Connection with my fellow man, to the life force within myself, between the heat of my heart with another… But it is through this longing to not just connect, but to become truly lost within the Light and Heat of the Divine, that I paint.
All AOT programs or workshops are contracted directly with the artist separately from the exhibition rental agreement. Workshops require venue coordination of enrollment/fees and provision of workshop materials after consulting with the artist.


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With the New Year approaching, you may be considering a resolution. Some of the most common resolutions involve a new diet or exercise. These resolutions generally have the goals of weight loss or body conditioning. However, such goals are symptom oriented rather than foundation oriented. If you focus on weight loss or conditioning, you will have to work much harder because you will be working against your own body. Your body is designed to maintain a certain weight and level of conditioning. If you are giving your body the building blocks it needs, it will do what it is designed to do. You may still desire to work at weight loss or conditioning, but your efforts will become much more effective. Therefore, your goal should be to give your body fuel and building blocks in the most natural form available. The following ten guidelines can help you avoid the plethora of toxins and artificial substances so prevalent on the market.
1. Don't Eat Processed Sugars and Flours: For sugar substitute stevia, birch xylitol, raw honey, and maple syrup.
2. Read Labels: Don't eat high fructose corn syrup, MSG, yellow vegetable oils (canola, corn, soybean (aka "vegetable oil"), sunflower oil, etc.
3. Eat Healthy Fats: These have to be naturally occurring fats (including saturated fats) not those made by people (hydrogenated oils and trans-fats).
4. Drink Pure Water: Stay away from water containing Fluorine. Using a Berkey water filter with the optional Fluorine filter is the best way to avoid Fluorine while still getting the minerals your body needs.
6. Eat living foods: This includes raw fruits and vegetables as well as properly fermented foods such as kefir, yogurt, kimchi, homemade sauer-kraut, pickles, etc. fermented with whey rather than vinegar.
7. Eat Products from Grass-fed and Pastured Animals: Animals raised in their natural environment provide plenty of Omega-3's (so you don't have to keep taking fish oil capsules), and are rich in vitamins A and D.
8. Eat Raw Grass Fed Dairy: When cows eat what they were designed to eat, they provide vitamins, minerals and enzymes in forms that the human body can readily use.
9. Make Your Own Broth: Use bones from healthy animals without antibiotics and steroids.
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Factor investing: marketing hype or a smarter strategy?
The rising popularity of factor investing has been driven by strong marketing and the underwhelming performance of active fund managers, according to Frontier Advisors Director of Research, Fraser Murray.
Factor investing, which attempts to select securities based on attributes such as value, momentum, low volatility, quality, and small market cap, is being pushed heavily and attracting significant flows internationally.
"There are so many different indices out there packaged wonderfully by fund managers… by ETF providers," Murray said at a Frontier Advisors panel. "This is being marketed heavily."
The long-term performance of the median active global equity manager, which has outperformed the index (before fees) by a miserly 0.2 per cent a year over the decade ended April 2017, has been another element driving the trend.
"That's incredibly underwhelming when it comes to active management," Murray said.
Factor investing has not been so prevalent in Australia where the median manager has delivered a more respectable 1.4 per cent outperformance over the same period.
The performance of factor investing, despite significant fee savings, has been hard to assess given many indices and investment products have been created retrospectively to produce strong back-tested results which ignore transaction costs.
For example, quality-based factor funds have only attracted inflows in the past 5-6 years but the MSCI World Quality series commenced in 1994.
"Lo and behold they've created a back-tested quality factor that has an outperformance of 3.5 per cent per annum," Murray said. "That's just farcical – it hasn't been investable since 1994 and yet there's a series out there being marketed, promoted, packaged up in an ETF and sold as the cure for all ills."
In Murray's opinion, the longest factor series with the most credibility is MSCI World Value, which started in the mid-1970s and has outperformed the MSCI World by 0.84 per cent a year with a tracking error of 3.3 per cent a year.
However, Murray cautioned even that factor index has underperformed in the past ten years and value/growth factors have both generated approximately market returns since 1994.
Despite those reservations, he said factor investing had some merit and many of Frontier's clients had implemented smart beta strategies in global equities, where there is significant breadth to exploit. They have tended to add a single factor then progress to additional factors over time. Low volatility has been the most common factor while value has also generated strong interest.
Anna Weickart, Senior Portfolio Manager, Equities at Cbus, said the fund has applied smart beta strategies (which take factor investing to the next level with a more efficient and nuanced implementation) since 2011.
She said the fund has implemented factor investing for "risk reduction, return enhancement but also the cost savings – everyone is under pressure here."
Cbus has included fundamental indexation (a form of value smart beta) and a low volatility exposure in its global equities portfolio (which also includes traditional active and passive managers). Weickart used the following schematic to show the full spectrum of options available to investors like Cbus.
Having established its desired factors in global equities, Cbus is also considering adding a manager combining both value and momentum factors to its emerging markets portfolio, which it has separated from its global equities allocation. ESG is another factor it is likely to incorporate within this emerging markets appointment, highlighting how a smart beta portfolio can have a multi-factor construct.
"We've tailored to make sure we don't have any unintended biases as a result of more naive factor exposures."
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Kat's Kuriosities: First full 5K!
5.22K to be exact! Down to Cherry Beach and along the MG Trail to the bridge.
Unfortunately, there were a couple of stops in the beginning, due to lights, but other than that, I ran straight through.
First off, it's a looong way. I know seasoned runners would find that paltry, especially marathoners, but I find it a long way, at the moment.
I also walked back from my destination point, making it 10K worth of exercise. My quads are pretty sore, that's for sure!
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TPG Readers Share Their Best Tips for Flying to the South Pacific on Points and Miles
by Kaeli Conforti
Ahhh, the South Pacific. A beautiful part of the planet that's home to tropical islands, gorgeous beaches and some of the most luxurious overwater bungalows in the world. It holds a well-deserved spot on many a travel bucket list, whether you're planning the honeymoon of your dreams, or an AvGeek hoping to take the legendary United Island Hopper for a spin.
And while this part of the world is sometimes considered to be too far away from the US or too pricey to visit properly, the good news is there are people out there who have made the journey affordably thanks to points and miles. We recently asked our TPG Lounge readers to share their best tips and go-to ways to fly to the South Pacific on points and miles. Here's what our readers had to say. (Some responses have been lightly edited for style and clarity).
Booking With Partner Airlines
There's more than one way to use points and miles to get from the US to the South Pacific, which, by the way, officially includes the islands of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. Transferring miles to partner airlines and being flexible about where you fly from are major factors that play into the planning process…
"Alaska miles on Fiji Airways [to fly] LAX-NAN [Nadi, Fiji]." — Noah R.
"United miles on EVA through TPE [Taipei]." — Michael A.
"ANA seems to be my go-to choice recently as I don't tend to collect Alaska miles." — Brett M.
Want to fly to Fiji? Alaska miles are a great way to do so.
We also love it when TPG readers get involved in the Lounge and start helping each other out. In this case, reader Mike S. wrote about something he's struggled with and fellow reader Justin O. was able to chime in with a helpful tip of his own.
"Not sure about economy, but to PPT [Tahiti] in J [business class] with miles on Air Tahiti Nui [TN], even though they have like 20 partners, it is basically impossible. I did this years ago and am doing it again this September. I've had a dozen availability/seat alerts on ExpertFlyer.com set for months, and nothing." — Mike S.
"If you can make it to Tokyo first, it's much easier to find availability in J, and it's a longer flight (and cheaper with miles)." — Justin O.
Creating Impressive Itineraries
We've heard it said that it's the journey that's important, not the destination — and the ones our readers have taken to the South Pacific on points and miles are more than a little inspiring.
"I went to Palau for 10 days, then Yap for four with enough time in Guam (approximately 0500 to 2300) to circumnavigate the island for one round-trip ticket with miles on United. They allowed two destinations for the miles of one. Loved both countries but the diving was phenomenally better in Palau." — Sheryl T.
"I added GUM-ROR-ICN-MNL-MPH-MNL-ICN-JFK [Guam-Palau-Seoul-Manila-Caticlan-Manila-Seoul-New York] on the way back from the Island Hopper (flew EWR [Newark]-HNL [Honolulu] direct out). Excellent, excellent trip." — Anusha R.
"22,500 United miles DEN-SFO-HNL + 25,000 United miles: HNL-MAJ-KWA-KSA-PNI-TKK-GUM [Honolulu-Majuro-Kwajalein Atoll-Kosrae-Pohnpei-Chuuk State-Guam]." — Bryan M.
Reader Mike S. replied to this post by sharing a "high five" and this humblebrag photo from his own South Pacific adventure…
Photo by Mike S. / TPG Lounge.
Planning the Perfect Honeymoon
There's no doubt that Fiji, Tahiti, Bora Bora or any of the other South Pacific islands would make an ideal honeymoon hotspot.
"We used our Alaska miles for Fiji Air for our honeymoon. It worked out great. It was around 100,000 miles for both tickets." — Derek K.
"Currently working on our honeymoon itinerary! Looking at SFO-NAN for 40,000 [miles] nonstop on Alaska via Fiji Air. Return will be 35,000 [miles] on United NOU-AKL-SFO [Nouméa-Auckland-San Francisco]." — Caroline T.
Anything for an Upgrade
One reader revealed how he was able to make the trip happen — and how he and his new spouse managed to get upgraded to business class for a mere $100 each.
"Transferred Alaska Air miles to partner Fiji Air, then paid around $100 each seat to get a business-class upgrade through Fiji Air directly within the 24-hour window before departure. We did it from LAX to Nadi, Fiji. It was just under 100,000 miles for two round-trip tickets. [It was a] last-minute upgrade. I find the best deals for upgrading during check-in online or at the airport. It never hurts to ask if they have anything available. … I told them we were on our honeymoon, we just got married the day before. I learned that from our travel agent that booked us our place. She said if you are on your honeymoon to let them know and you can usually get upgraded. It was a great deal." — Derek K.
For AvGeek Glory…
The United Island Hopper at Majuro (MAJ) in the Marshall Islands.
Of course, it was only a matter of time until the United Island Hopper flight was mentioned, with some folks chiming in about their own experiences and whether or not it's worth doing at all.
"Well, if they're not my points and miles, then I'd check the United Island Hopper off my list." — Jeffrey M.
"United's Island Hopper is just a fun bucket list item for us AvGeeks. So we'll fly out of the way to take it. The same plane, a 737-800, takes us from Honolulu to Guam but makes four or five stops along the way at remote islands!" — Bryan M.
…but is the United Island Hopper worth doing?
It seems to be one of those things that depends on your own experience.
"Just did that. Worth it." — Bryan M.
"Have done it for work. Not worth it. It's a pain and all you do is go east… slowly. At least sometimes I got off at the islands to meet with customers." — Jerrod K.
Featured photo of Tahiti by levente bodo / Getty Images.
Kaeli Conforti is a digital nomad and has been traveling solo around Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand since January 2018. She covers New Routes for TPG, among other points-and-miles projects.


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How to Set Up Google's New Code-Less Two-Factor Authentication
Cameron Summerson @Summerson
Updated July 12, 2017, 2:09pm EDT
Two-factor authentication is an excellent way to make sure your account is secure, but having to input a code every single time you need to log in can be a real pain. Thanks to Google's new code-less "Prompt" authentication, however, getting access to your Google account can be a lot simpler—you just need access to your phone.
Essentially, instead of sending a code, the new "Prompt" actually sends a push notification to your phone asking if you're trying to log in. You verify, and that's pretty much it—it automatically logs you in with the tap of a button. And best of all, it's available for both Android and iOS (but requires the Google App on the latter).
First things first—you need to have two-factor authentication (or "2-Step Verification" as Google often refers to it) enabled on your account. To do that, head over to Google's Sign-in & Security page. From there, you can enable 2-Step Verification in the "Signing in to Google" section.
Once that's all set up—or if you already have 2FA enabled—just jump into the 2FA menu and input your password. On this page, there are a handful of different options, including your default option (whatever that may be—for me it's "voice or text message"), along with your list of 10 backup codes. To get started with the new Google Prompt method, scroll down to the "Set up alternative second step" section.
There are a variety of options here, but the one you're looking for is "Google Prompt." Click the "Add Phone" button to get started. A popup will appear, giving you details of what this option is: "Instead of typing verification codes, get a prompt on your phone and just tap Yes to sign in." Sounds easy enough—click "Get started."
On the next screen, you'll choose your phone from a drop-down list. It's worth noting that this requires a phone with a secured lock screen before it will work, so if you don't already use one, now's the time to enable it. If you're an iOS user, you'll need the Google App from the App Store.
Once you've selected the appropriate phone (or tablet), go ahead and click "Next." This will immediately send a push notification to the selected phone, asking you to verify that you're trying to log in.
Once you tap "Yes," you'll get a verification back on the PC. That's pretty neat.
This will also change your default second step to Google Prompt, which really makes a lot of sense because it's so much easier. Honestly, I wish I could use this option for every account I have 2FA enabled on. C'mon, Google, get on that.
Two-factor authentication is a extra layer of security that everyone should really be using on every account that offers it. Thanks to Google's new prompt system, it's a lot less hassle to ensure your Google Account is as protected as it can be.
Cameron Summerson
Cameron Summerson is the Editor in Chief of Review Geek and serves as an Editorial Advisor for How-To Geek and LifeSavvy. He's been covering technology for nearly a decade and has written over 4,000 articles and hundreds of product reviews in that time. He's been published in print magazines and quoted as a smartphone expert in the New York Times.


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Common Pathways Between PFS and Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction Could Be Useful in Designing Therapeutic Strategies for Both, Says New University of Milano Study
April 30, 2018 Dear Friends: Roberto Cosimo Melcangi, Ph.D., head of the Neuroendocrinology Unit in the Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Milano, has published a new paper in the current issue of Endocrine: International Journal of Basic and Clinical Endocrinology. Titled Post-finasteride syndrome and post-SSRI sexual dysfunction: two sides of […]
Regulatory Update: 'Muscle-related Disorders' Added to Canadian Finasteride Label in Response to Report by FDA-equivalent Agency
July 28, 2018 Dear Friends: Canada has taken an important first step toward keeping its citizens apprised of finasteride's many potentially serious and persistent side effects. In the June edition of its Health Product InfoWatch, Health Canada (Canada's version of the US Food and Drug Administration) reported that "New information regarding the risk of muscle-related […]
Leading German Paper Calls on Federal Institute for Drugs to Better Educate Doctors, Patients on PFS
March 12, 2018 Dear Friends: PFS is a growing concern in Germany, too. Ditto Albania. In December, we told you that the French National Agency for Drug Safety (ANSM) launched a public-awareness campaign warning against reported mood changes in Propecia patients, "particularly depression, and suicidal ideation." Now we're encouraged to report that Die Zeit, Germany's […]
Possible Epigenetic Changes in PFS Patients Is Focus of New Clinical Study
SOMERSET, N.J., Jan. 29, 2018 – The Post-Finasteride Syndrome Foundation today announced Phase II of the clinical research on post-finasteride syndrome (PFS) being conducted at the University of Milano. Led by Roberto Cosimo Melcangi, Ph.D., head of the Neuroendocrinology Unit in the Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, the new study will evaluate: —In PFS […]
French Warning of Propecia-Induced Depression and Suicidal Ideation Prompts Wave of Media Attention
Dec. 19, 2017 Dear Friends: France is taking PFS very seriously. On Oct. 26, the French National Agency for Drug Safety (ANSM) issued a warning that "Changes in mood, particularly depression, and suicidal ideation, have been reported by patients taking Propecia." The agency—France's equivalent of the US Food and Drug Administration—noted that "finasteride treatment should […]
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Men under the age of 40 who use finasteride for alopecia are at risk for suicide if they develop persistent sexual adverse effects and insomnia.
An important pattern of symptoms was common among all cases who committed suicide in the setting of finasteride use – insomnia and persistent sexual dysfunction after medication discontinuation. Insomnia and fatigue/tiredness were some of the most debilitating symptoms… Men under the age of 40 who use finasteride for alopecia are at risk for suicide if they develop persistent sexual adverse effects and insomnia.
—Finasteride and Suicide: A Postmarketing Case Series: Dermatology, January 14, 2020
Michael S. Irwig, MD, Attending Endocrinologist
Health care professionals should…conduct a full evaluation and a…risk-benefit assessment for patients before each prescription of finasteride.
As prescribers, our primary duty is to do no harm. Health care professionals should keep themselves abreast of these potential signals and, accordingly, conduct a full evaluation and a detailed, personalized risk-benefit assessment for patients before each prescription of finasteride.
—Ongoing Concerns Regarding Finasteride for the Treatment of Male-Pattern Androgenetic Alopecia: JAMA Dermatology, November 2020
Roger S. Ho, MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology
NYU Langone Health
Two subjects—eight percent—committed suicide during or after the study.
While the sexual side effects of 5ARIs are well known, there may be persistent genitourinary, physical, psycho-cognitive, anti-androgenic and penile vascular changes after 5ARI discontinuation. Use of 5ARIs for treatment of AGA may lead to persistent sexual, genitourinary, physical, psycho-cognitive, and anti-androgenic sequelae even after cessation of 5ARI therapy… Two subjects (8%) committed suicide during or after the study.
—Penile vascular abnormalities in young men with persistent side effects after finasteride use for the treatment of androgenic alopecia: Translational Andrology and Urology, April 2020
Mohit Khera, MD, Director, Laboratory for Andrology Research
FDA is concerned that use of finasteride by pediatric patients may pose long-term safety risks.
Finasteride inhibits Type II 5(alpha)-reductase, which metabolizes testosterone to the potent androgen 5(alpha)-dihydrotestosterone. FDA is concerned that use of finasteride by pediatric patients may pose long-term safety risks regarding growth, development and sexual function.
—FDA response to Merck & Co.'s citizen petition requesting that finasteride be added to the List of Approved Drugs for Which Additional Pediatric Information May Produce Health Benefits in the Pediatric Population: May 2000
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Description Developed by Price Headley, the Acceleration bands are based on the average trading range for each day. The values are plotted equidistant from an n-day simple moving average which serves as the center or middle band. The author indicates that successive days exceeding one of the bands tends to indicate an entry point.
Because the bands use the daily trading range (high-low) they will also expand and contract based on the volatility of the price.


LOS ANGELES — At the SIGGRAPH show this week, PipelineFX will highlight two new additions to its Qube! render farm management family: a new app named Qube! MobileView, which makes viewing and managing render tasks on a mobile device easy; and a CPU core coordinator called QBLocker.
The company will also be sponsoring two workshops during the show. Today, August 6, Pipeline is presenting the Qube! Artist Workshop in room 301A of the Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 301A. It will run until 5pm.
On August 8, the company's "Birds of a Feather" discussion will cover various "Challenges and Solutions for Today's Render Pipeline." Topics will include the pain points, trends, and capacity scaling strategies tied to render pipelines, as well as cloud rendering options and hybrid render pipeline models. After a panel discussion, the room will be opened up to audience questions. The event will take place from 1:30-3:00pm in LACC room 402A.


Paul's services, They will be held on October 1st at the Doane Beal and Ames funeral home on Route 28 W. Harwich. Calling hours from 9am-10:30am.
The mass will be at the Holy Trinity Church on Route 28 W. Harwich at 11am.


Dallas-Fort Worth – You can write this down.
George Strait who has been wooing folks since 1981, is packing up his boots and riding off into the sunset after his final tour.
His farewell bow ends where it all began at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
This happens to be the hottest ticket in town because everyone wants to catch Saturday night's swan song.
But, conmen also want to grab some of the spotlight and score big bucks off of unsuspecting music lovers.
Cops in Terrell are already investigating one such burn, where a fan was taken for $1,500 after she responded to a craigslist ad, and ended up getting counterfeit concert tickets.
It looks like these scammers are putting a sour note on what should be a great, last goodbye.


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Q: casting Object array to Integer array error What's wrong with the following code?
Object[] a = new Object[1];
Integer b=1;
a[0]=b;
Integer[] c = (Integer[]) a;

The code has the following error at the last line :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException:
  [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.Integer;

A: java.lang.ClassCastException: [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.Integer;

you try to cast an Array of Object to cast into Array of Integer. You cant do it. This type of downcast is not permitted.
You can make an array of Integer, and after that copy every value of the first array into second array.

A: You can't cast an Object array to an Integer array.  You have to loop through all elements of a and cast each one individually.
Object[] a = new Object[1];
Integer b=1;
a[0]=b;
Integer[] c = new Integer[a.length];
for(int i = 0; i < a.length; i++)
{
    c[i] = (Integer) a[i];
}

Edit:  I believe the rationale behind this restriction is that when casting, the JVM wants to ensure type-safety at runtime. Since an array of Objects can be anything besides Integers, the JVM would have to do what the above code is doing anyway (look at each element individually).  The language designers decided they didn't want the JVM to do that (I'm not sure why, but I'm sure it's a good reason).
However, you can cast a subtype array to a supertype array (e.g. Integer[] to Object[])!

A: Or do the following:
...

  Integer[] integerArray = new Integer[integerList.size()];
  integerList.toArray(integerArray);

  return integerArray;

}

A: Ross, you can use Arrays.copyof() or Arrays.copyOfRange() too.
Integer[] integerArray = Arrays.copyOf(a, a.length, Integer[].class);
Integer[] integerArray = Arrays.copyOfRange(a, 0, a.length, Integer[].class);

Here the reason to hitting an ClassCastException is you can't treat an array  of Integer as an array of Object. Integer[] is a subtype of Object[] but Object[] is not a Integer[].
And the following also will not give an ClassCastException.
Object[] a = new Integer[1];
Integer b=1;
a[0]=b;
Integer[] c = (Integer[]) a;

A: When casting is done in Java, Java compiler as well as Java run-time check whether the casting is possible or not and throws errors in case not.
When casting of Object types is involved, the instanceof test should pass in order for the assignment to go through.
In your example it results
    Object[] a = new Object[1];
    boolean isIntegerArr =  a instanceof Integer[]
If you do a sysout of the above line, it would return false;

So trying an instance of check before casting would help.
So, to fix the error, you can either add 'instanceof' check
OR
use following line of code:
(Arrays.asList(a)).toArray(c);

Please do note that the above code would fail, if the Object array contains any entry that is other than Integer.

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The Mistri (or Mistry) are a Hindu caste found in state of Gujarat in India.

Castes known as Mistri

There are two different casts by the same name:-

1) Mistri, Mistri Gurjar - which are identified as Mistris, a community originally from Kutch.

2) Mistri-Suthar - which is another name of Suthar community of Gujarat.

Mistris

The Mistris ( also known as Kutch Gurjar Kshatriyas ) are a community of Kutch who migrated into Kutch in the early 7th Century from Rajasthan, to Saurashtra region of Gujarat. In the 12th Century they entered Kutch and established themselves at Dhaneti, later moving on to establish eighteen villages given to them by the then rulers of Kutch.

They are  a minority Hindu Gurjar Community of Gujarat and involved primarily in  the building of  forts, historical monuments, buildings of the Princely State of Cutch and railway lines and bridges.

Mistri Suthar

The Suthar community of Gujarat are also called as Mistris or Gurjar Mistri Suthar. They are a Hindu community belonging to the Vishwakarma group involved largely in carpentry works.

See also

 Mistri
 Mistry
 Mistry (surname)

References

Ethnic groups in India
Social groups of Gujarat
Tribes of Kutch
Indian castes
Social groups of India
Hindu communities

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