In the committee coordination problem, a committee consists of a set of professors and committee meetings are synchronized, so that each professor participates in at most one committee meeting at a time.
Your committee, aside from being the people that grill you for extended periods for your oral examinations (in some cases), and your research proposal and thesis defense (in all cases), is the set of professors that will deem you ready to be awarded those three special letters: The big P, the little h, and the big D.
"People are in effect branching off an existing set of tastes," Professor Lieberson says.
"Our study shines new light on the genetic complexity of prostate cancer as it develops and spreads – revealing it to be not a single disease, but many diseases each driven by their own set of mutations," Professor de Bono said.
It is intriguing that in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, written thirteen years later, Nietzsche invokes the comparable imagery of a lion nuzzling warmly at the knees of Zarathustra in the book's concluding and inspirational scene, as if to acknowledge that his proper audience is, indeed, not a set of university professors.
"If a Gravenstein apple could be sold for 10 times what a Red Delicious could, just as a Sonoma County grape can be sold for 10 times what a Fresno County grape is, you'd be set," said Daniel Sumner, professor of agricultural economics at the University of California, Davis.
Game, set, match Professor Stein.
"Once New York really grasped the rules of the game, it set the agenda," Professor Castellani added.
The computer game was based on scientific principles that are known to "train" the brain in episodic memory, which helps people to remember events such as where they parked a car or placed a set of keys, said Professor Barbara Sahakian of Cambridge University, the lead author of the study.
In the Doctor Who episode "Cold War" (set in 1983), the character of Professor Grisenko David Warnerr) is a fan of Western pop music (particularly Duran Duran and Ultravox).
