Controversy preceded the founding of the College, with various groups competing to determine its location and religious affiliation. Advocates of New York City met with success on the first point, ...

Columbia has long been defined by its place at the heart of one of the world’s great cities. Each new generation of Columbians adds to that tradition through their unique experiences at an urban ...

Modified from a lab from the University of Washington Dept. of Astronomy (original) Summary The students will determine a value for Hubble's constant, based on their observations of the images and ...

Research Interests How to live better--Financial Engineering How to live longer--Stochastic Models in Medicine How to enjoy myself--Applied Probability ...

The IBM 1401 Data Processing System, a stored-program transistor-logic computer announced October 1959. At $2500 per month minimally configured, this was IBM's first affordable general-purpose ...

What Is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is ...

Columbia University is the oldest institution of higher education in New York, and the fifth-oldest in the United States. Today, it is one of the world’s leading research institutions and has a ...

I completed my PhD in Operations Research at Columbia University in 2023. I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Donald Goldfarb and Prof. Omar Besbes. My research interests include: - Optimization ...

The Cedar St subway was constructed in 1914-1916 by the Public Service Railway to bring streetcars into the lower level of the new Public Service Terminal in downtown Newark. The portal is in private ...

The brightest star in our sky is the Sun. Absorption lines in the solar spectrum were first noticed by an English astronomer in 1802, but it was a German physicist, Joseph von Fraunhofer, who first ...

Existing abandoned portions: 2 platforms (on tracks in service). Touring: 6 trains, running between Brooklyn Bridge and Canal St. Look out the side windows, or the front door window if possible. The ...

The website of Christian Kroer, associate professor at Columbia University.