Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
After decades of effort, mathematicians now have a complete understanding of the complicated equations that model the motion of free boundaries, like the one between ice and water.
Chemistry Nobel Prize Honors Technique for Building Molecules
By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
How do scientists give molecules their marching orders? Benjamin List and David MacMillan, the recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, each discovered methods to produce simple, eco-friendly, inexpensive catalysts for making asymmetric molecular products.
Work on Earth's Climate and Other Complex Systems Earns Nobel Prize in Physics
By NATALIE WOLCHOVER
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann were honored for their work that led to reliable predictions of the effects of climate change. They share the Nobel with Giorgio Parisi, who made pioneering studies of chaotic physical systems.
Why Hawking Never Won a Nobel Hawking's prediction that black holes must grow in size with every meal was recently confirmed, but too late to put him in contention for a Nobel Prize, Dennis Overbye writes for The New York Times. Hawking's insight spawned a paradox regarding the fate of black holes. Netta Englehardt, a theorist working to resolve the contradiction, told Quanta about her efforts back during the summer.
Squaring the Schlep People's preferences for limiting travel are unexpectedly quantifiable, Viviane Callier reports for Scientific American: They follow an inverse square law, such that trips twice as long are half as likely. Other types of movement resist such simple treatment. Computer scientist Carlos Gershenson told Quanta about his work embracing the complexity of urban traffic last year.
