My academic genealogy, back to Newton !

Link to the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Image of my academic genealogy back to Newton , with a mere 18 links ! (courtesy of C Chothia)

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Text of the above (18 links to Newton)

**1.** Mark Gerstein
2. Cyrus Chothia UCL (+ R Lynden Bell)
3. Peter Pauling P 1931-2003
4. John Kendrew P 1917-1997
5. Max Perutz P 1914-2002
6. John Desmond Bernal RI 1901-1971
7. William Henry Bragg T 1862-1942
8. J. J. Thompson T 1856-1940
- - - I Lord Rayleigh T 1842-1919
9. Edward Routh P 1831-1907
10. William Hopkins T 1793-1866
- - -Augustus De Morgan (T) 1806-1871
11. Adam Sedgwich T 1785-1873
- - - William Whewell T 1794-1866
- - - John Hudson T 1773-1843
12. Thomas Jones T 1756-1807
- - - John Cranke T 1746-1816
13. Thomas Postlethwaite T 1731-1798
14. Stephen Whisson T ~ 1718-1783
15. Walter Taylor T 1700-1744
16. Robert Smith T 1689-1768
17. Roger Cotes T 1682-1716
**18.** Isaac Newton T 1643-1727
Isaac Barrow T 1630-1677
James Duport T 1606-1679

T: Trinity College; P: Peterhouse; RI Royal Institution, London; UCL: University College, London

Trips to Europe '09

Here I've collected various things related to some trips to Europe in 2009.

* Pictures

Flickr photos galleries from London in Jan., Belgium in Oct., and Paris & Cambridge in Dec. (The analogous links in picasa: London, Belgium, & Paris .)

In addition to the usual tourist shots, I took some fairly abstract photos and some more general "concept" ones. My photos also added significantly to my burgeoning McDonald's photo collection.

* Tags & Routes

I tagged my photos quite extensively. Here's a listing of some of my more commonly used tags on the trips. One 'tag group' that was particularly hard to shoot were the panoramas and nighttime photos , where I was aided by my trusty new Sony. Here's an almost 360' panorama of the Louvre.

As might be expected, I geotagged many of the photos as well; thus, each of these galleries is associated with a nice map link -- e.g. here's an one for Paris . The geotagging has the side benefit of providing some tracks of where I went, viz: walking around Paris, Paris to London (via Chunnel), & walking around London (not necessarily in order).

* Links & Lectures

Here's a general collection of links of random information associated with the trips.

Some lectures that I gave during the trips: 1a, 1b, 2, 3, 4

Some of my own cryptic internal IDs with yet more links: i0wtsysbio, i0gencwinter08, i0vib

Trip to Greece

Pictures
* Overall ~100 pictures of things in Greece, organized on Flickr and Picasa
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbgmbg/sets/72157610294361788
http://picasaweb.google.com/bluehat/GreeceThings02 (map of this)

* Some nice subsets of the images

- Just of Santorini: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbgmbg/tags/santorini
(Map of the above: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbgmbg/tags/santorini/map)

- Visiting and looking at Parthenon
Some of the ruins in Greece were a bit beaten up (tag "ruinedruins")

- A particular specialization of the above is a focus on rather dynamic graffiti interposed with iconic architecture and well known sites. See tag "graffiti" and map of it. (This includes images in other locations than just Greece.)

- Some other fun tags to look at are "abstract" and "landscape"
(These include images in other locations.)

Collection of links
relevant to the trip (includes some useful guidebooks)
http://delicious.com/mbgmbg/fungreece
http://delicious.com/mbgmbg/funathens

Rough track
of walk up to Parthenon

Trip to Toronto (TripToronto + TripISMB08 + Fall08)

* Public shots of buildings and other stuff

http://picasaweb.google.com/bluehat/TripTorontoThings#
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbgmbg/sets/72157607038288351/

* Some relevant links to fun stuff and things at the conference

http://delicious.com/mbgmbg/FunTripISMB08
http://delicious.com/mbgmbg/link_ismb08
http://delicious.com/mbgmbg/bioinfoconfmg

* Some Lectures that I gave:

http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/ismb08pub-20080723-textmining
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/ISMB08-SS-20080721-Nets
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/ISMB08-SIG-20080721-GenomeTechAnnotate
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/ISCB-SC-20080718-motions

* Interesting quote

we should == I will

* Rough GPS track of a long Sunday Walk

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://gerstein.info/gps/TripISMB08-SunEdit.kmz

(Addendum)
Some more pictures from another visit in the fall
http://picasaweb.google.com/bluehat/AP20081109TorontoFallThings#
http://flickr.com/photos/mbgmbg/sets/72157610352978523

Midnight Run Timings

Lap	Wall clock	Delta	Time (min)	Mile	Minutes/mile
	12:00:00	0:02:46	0:19:47	0 to 2	0:09:54
1	12:02:46	0:17:01
2	12:19:47	0:10:15	0:10:15	2 to 3	0:10:15
3	12:30:02	0:08:12	0:09:13	3 to 4	0:09:13
	12:38:14	0:01:01
	12:39:15
Total		0:39:15

Graphs of the times with heart rates are here

Oenology: Red wine procyanidins and vascular health -- Nature

Looks like I should shift from California Reds to those from département of Gers in the Midi-Pyrenees in southwest France and those from Nuoro province, Sardinia.

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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/abs/444566a.html
Nature 444, 566 (30 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444566a; Received 29 August 2006; Accepted 9 November 2006; Published online 29 November 2006
Oenology: Red wine procyanidins and vascular health
R. Corder1, W. Mullen2, N. Q. Khan1, S. C. Marks2, E. G. Wood1, M. J. Carrier1 and A. Crozier1
Regular, moderate consumption of red wine is linked to a reduced risk of coronary heart disease and to lower overall mortality1, but the relative contribution of wine's alcohol and polyphenol components to these effects is unclear2. Here we identify procyanidins as the principal vasoactive polyphenols in red wine and show that they are present at higher concentrations in wines from areas of southwestern France and Sardinia, where traditional production methods ensure that these compounds are efficiently extracted during vinification. These regions also happen to be associated with increased longevity in the population....We used the 1999 census data to identify unusual patterns of ageing in France (see supplementary information) and found that there are relatively more men aged 75 or over in the département of Gers in the Midi-Pyrenees in southwest France.Wines from Nuoro and the Gers area have 2–4-fold more biological activity and OPC content than other wines (Fig. 1c, d). This difference remains (P < 0.001) when OPC measurements are extended to a wider selection of wines from the Gers area (2.9 0.1 mM, n = 58), from France (1.8 0.1 mM, n = 61) and from other parts of the world (1.5 0.04 mM, n = 227)....

American Culture’s French Connection -- NY Times

Why isn't there an AmericanCulture.org? The answer from France.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/books/26martel.html?ex=157680000&amp;amp;en=a4db9732c27a057e&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

American Culture's French Connection

By ALAN RIDING

Published: December 26, 2006

In "Culture in America," Frédéric Martel challenges the view that (French) culture financed by the government is good and that (American) culture shaped by market forces is bad.... Reviewing the book in Le Monde, Michel Guerrin and Emmanuel de Roux also said its strength lay in its emphasis on investigation over opinion. And another article in Le Monde took the American cultural statistics collected by Mr. Martel and compared them with similar figures for France. Its unexpected conclusion was that measured per capita the cultural infrastructures in the two countries were roughly similar... The first half of "Culture in America" — the title echoes Tocqueville's own "Democracy in America" — is built around a question that puzzles some French: Why doesn't the United States have a Culture Ministry?...He seemed to be looking forward to a fight. "That's why my book is about France," he said, "while being about America."