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    6/29/2009

    Usnews (new) World Top 400 Universities....

    From Usnews.com (http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/worlds-best-colleges/2009/06/18/worlds-best-colleges-top-400.html), They updated this (brand new) ranking mid year (well yeah it's time for them to publish some world type ranking) based on the data from Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings in 2008.  I picked out those in the United States and those in Greater China (including Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan).  The ranking itself though is quite..... how I should put it.... I don't know :) no comment so far....
    Rank Name Location
    1 Harvard University United States
    2 Yale University United States
    5 California Institute of Techonology United States
    8 University of Chicago United States
    9 Massachusetts Institute of Techonology United States
    10 Columbia University United States
    11 University of Pennslvania United States
    12 Princeton University United States
    13 Duke University United States
    13 Johns Hopkins University United States
    15 Cornell University United States
    17 Stanford University United States
    18 University of Michigan United States
    21 Carnegie Mellon University United States
    26 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
    27 Brown University United States
    30 University of California, Los Angeles United States
    33 NorthWestern University United States
    36 University of California, Berkeley United States
    39 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Hong Kong
    40 New York University United States
    42 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
    46 Boston University United States
    50 Peking University Mainland
    54 Dartmouth College United States
    55 University of Wisconsin, Madison United States
    56 Tsinghua University Mainland
    58 University of California, San Diego United States
    59 University of Washington United States
    60 Washington University in St. Louis United States
    62 Emory University United States
    70 University of Texas, Austin United States
    71 University of Illinois United States
    78 Rice University United States
    83 Georgia Institute of Technology United States
    89 University of California, Davis United States
    90 Case Western Reserve University United States
    96 University of Virginia United States
    97 University of Pittsburgh United States
    98 University of California, Santa Barbara United States
    99 Purdue University United States
    101 Vanderbilt University United States
    102 University of North Carolina United States
    102 University of Southern California United States
    105 Pennsylvania State University United States
    110 Georgetown University United States
    113 Fudan University Mainland
    119 University of Rochester United States
    121 Ohio State University United States
    122 University of Maryland United States
    124 National Taiwan University Taiwan
    127 Stony Brook University United States
    132 University of California, Irvine United States
    137 Texas A&M University United States
    141 University of Science and Technology of China Mainland
    143 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Mainland
    146 University of Arizona United States
    147 City University of Hong Kong United States
    151 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey United States
    157 Tufts University United States
    165 University of Florida United States
    168 University of Notre Dame United States
    170 Indiana University Bloomington United States
    174 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute United States
    180 University of Colorado, Boulder United States
    185 Brandeis University United States
    191 University of Massachusetts, Amherst United States
    203 Michigan State University United States
    218 Wake Forest University United States
    219 North Carolina State University United States
    219 University of Iowa United States
    224 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong
    229 Zhejiang University Mainland
    233 Tulane University United States
    235 University of California, Santa Cruz United States
    237 University of Miami United States
    246 George Washington University United States
    246 University of Utah United States
    260 Arizona State University United States
    262 University of California, Riverside United States
    262 University of Hawaii United States
    268 University of Cincinnati United States
    276 Virginia Polytechnic Institute United States
    281 National Tsing Hua University Taiwan
    289 Iowa State University United States
    300 Florida State University United States
    308 University of Tennessee United States
    320 City University of New York United States
    337 University of New Mexico United States
    338 Drexel University United States
    340 Colorado State University United States
    341 National Yang Ming University Taiwan
    345 Howard University United States
    349 University of Kansas United States
    354 National Cheng Kung University Taiwan
    354 University of Alabama United States
    359 University of Connecticut United States
    361 University of Georgia United States
    365 Washington State University United States
    366 University of Delaware United States
    366 Yeshiva University United States
    370 Loyola University Chicago United States
    373 University of Oregon United States
    382 College of William & Mary United States
    382 University of Oklahoma United States
    386 Tianjin University Mainland
    389 University of Missouri United States
    391 University of South Carolina United States
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    6/6/2009

    My Plan for the next 3 or 4 years....

    It's been a while, actually quite a while, since I wrote my last blog about my current life in Pittsburgh.  The past semester proved to be quite a busy and yet a fruitful one.  My time had soley spent on going to 4 classes (11 credits with only 4 credits counted toward my PHD study), assisting in two recitations (cal2 and cal3) and preparing for two prelim exams.  And luckily enough, I've passed both of them with one in mid 70% and one in mid 80% (the passing scores for both were set at 66%, I know I screwed up at analysis :(, please don't yell at me).  So having eventually settled down in Pittsburgh, I spent the summer doing my first ever research thingie: deconvolution operator and sparse grid implementation. I also have to take one class (parallel computing) which offers me such a wonderful opportunity to appreciate the beauty of Fortran 90 (should've been 95 or 2003, well, I'm pretty comfortable coding in Fortran 90 now).  Hopefully I'll have the draft paper ready by the end of August, and then get prepared for a brand new semester at Pitt.  And yeah it snowed quite crazily in Pittsburgh for the past winter, which's why I got some cold and kept coughing for a while (over a month?). Looking forward to taking first ever advanced courses in numerical analysis (NSEs in advanced scientific computing, and numerical PDE), and I have to start plan for my comprehensive exams, which's the second key set of exams before dissertations.  two months left for summer, and begin a new academic year :)
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