{"id":2027,"date":"2014-07-16T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2014-09-07T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T13:47:57","slug":"jean-taylors-70th-at-momath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/2014\/07\/16\/jean-taylors-70th-at-momath\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Taylor&#8217;s 70th at MoMath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.rutgers.edu\/~taylor\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2030 alignright\" alt=\"Taylor_Jean_Jan02\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2014\/07\/Taylor_Jean_Jan02.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>Friends, mathematicians, scientists, and the public celebrated the 70th birthday of distinguished mathematican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.rutgers.edu\/~taylor\/\">Jean Taylor <\/a>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/momath.org\/\">Museum of Mathematics<\/a> in New York City, Saturday evening, September 6, 8-10:30 pm. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Taylor\">Taylor<\/a> who proved Plateau&#8217;s rules for soap bubbles. I wouldn&#8217;t miss it. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/in.momath.org\/civicrm\/event\/info?id=234&amp;reset=1\">register<\/a> for $25 (additional donations completely optional and not specifically for Taylor celebration).\u00a0There was also a little <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/files\/2014\/07\/jean-taylor-symposium1.pdf\">symposium<\/a>\u00a0of 5- to 15-minute talks 1 pm Saturday afternoon at the Courant Institute at NYU (photos thanks to Christina Sormani). 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It was Taylor who proved Plateau&#8217;s rules for soap bubbles. I wouldn&#8217;t miss it. You can register for $25 (additional donations completely optional and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/Morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}