PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 2 -- The American Mathematical Society issued the following news release: David Mumford and Adi Shamir received 2023 Basic Science Lifetime Awards at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), held in Beijing on July 16-July 28, 2023. The ICBS, the first international congress for basic science wholly conceptualized and hosted within China, focused on three branches of basic science: mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer an  more

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts, Aug. 3 -- The New England First Amendment Coalition issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2023: The New England First Amendment Coalition and the ACLU of Rhode Island called on the Warwick City Council to recognize the public's freedom of speech after a resident was recently escorted out of an open meeting by police. During the public comment period of the Council's July 17 meeting, Warwick resident Robert Cote was barred from speaking and escorted out of the  more