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Princeton - PWB 092799 - Math helps explain protein folding

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Princeton Weekly Bulletin September 27, 1999 Vol. 89, No. 3 [Page one] • Shapiro offers fanfare for '03 • Prizes reward excellence • Math helps explain protein folding • Macedo to direct program in Law, Public Affairs • Registrar Broh to go to COFHE • Summer labors • Water, water everywhere • People • Athletics • ERISA information • Grants available • Employment • Calendar Math helps explain protein folding Christodoulos Floudas (Photo by Pryde Brown) By Steven Schultz For Christodoulos Floudas, professor of chemical engineering, the watchwords of his research are "divide and conquer." This has nothing to do with heavy-handed politics -- it's a bold mathematical technique he is applying to a question that has tantalized scientists for years: how do proteins fold? Understanding the way proteins fold -- what three-dimensional shape they have -- is a problem that rears its head in fields from biology and chemistry to engineering and math and has major implications

Princeton - PWB 092799 - Math helps explain protein folding Princeton Weekly Bulletin September 27, 1999 Vol. 89, No. 3 [Page one] • Shapiro offers fanfare for '03 • Prizes reward excellence • Math helps explain protein folding • Macedo to direct program in Law, Public Affairs • Registrar Broh to go to COFHE • Summer labors • Water, water everywhere • People • Athletics • ERISA information • Grants available • Employment • Calendar Math helps explain protein folding Christodoulos Floudas (Photo by Pryde Brown) By Steven Schultz F

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