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"Brigitte Irma Servatius (born 1954) is a mathematician specializing in matroids and structural rigidity. She is a professor of mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and has been the editor-in-chief of the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal since 1999. Education and career Servatius is originally from Graz in Austria. As a student at an all-girl gymnasium in Graz that specialized in language studies rather than mathematics, her interest in mathematics was sparked by her participation in a national mathematical olympiad, and she went on to earn master's degrees in mathematics and physics at the University of Graz. She became a high school mathematics and science teacher in Leibnitz. She moved to the US in 1981, to begin doctoral studies at Syracuse University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1987, and joined the Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty in the same year. Her dissertation, Planar Rigidity, was supervised by Jack Graver. Contributions While still in Austria, Servatius began working on combinatorial group theory, and her first publication (appearing while she was a graduate student) is in that subject. She switched to the theory of structural rigidity for her doctoral research, and later became the author (with Jack Graver and Herman Servatius) of the book Combinatorial Rigidity (1993). Another well-cited paper of hers in this area characterizes the planar Laman graphs, the minimally rigid graphs that can be embedded without crossings in the plane, as the graphs of pseudotriangulations, partitions of a plane region into subregions with three convex corners studied in computational geometry. Servatius is also the co- editor of a book on matroid theory. With Tomaž Pisanski she wrote the book Configurations from a Graphical Viewpoint (2013), on configurations of points and lines in the plane with the same number of points touching each two lines and the same number of lines touching each two points. Other topics in her research include graph duality and the triconnected components of infinite graphs. Selected publicationsReferencesExternal links *Home page * 1954 births Living people People from Graz Austrian mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American women mathematicians Group theorists Graph theorists University of Graz alumni Syracuse University alumni Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians Mathematicians from New York (state) "
"The 1941 Cal Aggies football team represented the Northern Branch of the College of AgricultureUniversity of California, Davis was known as Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture from 1922 to 1959. in the 1941 college football season. The team was known as either the Cal Aggies or California Aggies, and competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).The Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) was known as the Far Western Conference (FWC) from its founding in 1925 to 1982. The Aggies were led by fifth-year head coach Vern Hickey. They played home games at A Street field on campus in Davis, California. The Aggies finished with a record of two wins, two losses and four ties (2–2–4, 2–1 FWC). In this very low scoring season they outscored their opponents 61–47. They scored more than ten points twice and gave up double digits only once. ScheduleNFL Draft No Cal Aggies players were selected in the 1942 NFL Draft. NotesReferences Cal Aggies UC Davis Aggies football seasons Cal Aggies football "
"Karura Hydroelectric Power Station, commonly referred to as Karura Power Station, also Karura Dam, is a planned 90 MW hydropower station in Kenya. Location The power station would be located across River Tana, in Embu County, sandwiched between Kindaruma Hydroelectric Power Station upstream and Kiambere Hydroelectric Power Station downstream. Karura Power Station, is about downstream of Kindaruma Power Station. This location is approximately , by road, north-east of Nairobi, the capital and largest city of Kenya. Overview The power station is a run of river, hydropower installation, with capacity of 90 Megawatts. The design calls for the waters of River Tana to be diverted through a "dug-out channel" and then delivered to the power- generation site, thereby reducing the "displacement of communities". Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), a company, owned 70 percent by the government of Kenya, is the developer and owner of this power station. The development, decided upon circa 2012, is being developed to stabilize the national electricity grid with increased hydro-power, in view of the increased intermittent sources in the country's energy mix, including solar and wind. Feasibility and ESIA studies were conducted in the 2009 to 2012 time-frame. Karura and Mutonga were two locations that were identified as potential sites for hydro-power station development. Construction timeline , the development was entering the tendering process, after which the construction cost and timeline would be determined. As of January 2020, the dam was in its early planning stage, and was expected to be operational by 2025. See also * Africa Dams * Kenya Power Stations ReferencesExternal links * Approximate Location of Karura Hydropower Station At Google Maps *KenGen in hunt for consultant Hydroelectric power stations in Kenya Embu County Proposed hydroelectric power stations "