But I liked understanding the nuts and bolts of how things work. So as an undergraduate at Duke University, I knew I wanted to study physics. The Human Genome Project had just come out, and I was ...

In her doctoral research at Columbia University, Ganguly creates models of the neuronal connections in the fruit fly brain ...

Much of mathematics involves so-called forward problems. These problems begin with a model of a physical system — say, a ball rolling down an incline plane — and researchers use parameters, such as ...