Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America. How and why do zoos provoke shame? This talk considers the history of feeling bad at the zoo by focusing on the shape of postwar animal displays in U.S. urban regions. Beginning in the late 1950s, shame was a common zoo-going experience, echoed by zoo professionals, urban reformers...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Uddin, Lisa
Created:
2009-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America. How and why do zoos provoke shame? This talk considers the history of feeling bad at the zoo by focusing on the shape of postwar animal displays in U.S. urban regions. Beginning in the late 1950s, shame was a common zoo-going experience, echoed by zoo professionals, urban reformers...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Uddin, Lisa
Created:
2009-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This talk investigates the role of feedback in a network of amplifiers. We start by revisiting the theory of the individual feedback amplifier. Then, taking inspiration from neuronal behaviors, we present a simple architecture that makes the network amplification zoomable, allowing for a versatile modulation of the resolution of the network ampl...
Creator:
Sepulchre, Rodolphe (University of Cambridge)
Created:
2015-09-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the award-winning founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Urban Bush Women. Unflinching, provocative, and truth-telling, Zollar is celebrating her 25th anniversary as one of the most important artists and social agents of our generation. Jawole will d...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Created:
2010-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the award-winning founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Urban Bush Women. Unflinching, provocative, and truth-telling, Zollar is celebrating her 25th anniversary as one of the most important artists and social agents of our generation. Jawole will d...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Created:
2010-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
In this talk, I will discuss some issues and recent results related to the viscous boundary layer theory. In particular, I will present a global existence result on classical soluition to the 2-dimensional unsteady Prandtl's boundary system; some convergence results on viscous solutions when the viscosity becomes small. Both non-slip and Navier-...
Creator:
Xin, Zhouping (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Created:
2010-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
For a zero-sum stochastic game which does not satisfy the Isaacs condition, we provide a value function representation for an Isaacs-type equation whose Hamiltonian lies in between the lower and upper Hamiltonians, as a convex combination of the two. For the general case (i.e. the convex combination is time and state dependent) our representatio...
Creator:
Hernandez-Hernandez, Daniel (Center of Investigations in Mathematics (CIMAT))
Created:
2018-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
In joint work with Carla Savage, we studied the inversion sequence representation of Eulerian polynomials and their generalizations. This led us to new recurrences for the generalized Eulerian polynomials and their refinements. These recurrences, combined with a relaxed notion of interlacing polynomials, called compatible polynomials, can be use...
Creator:
Visontai, Mirkà³ (Google Inc.)
Created:
2014-11-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This lecture will focus on the situation when gradients of the objective function are not available to an optimization algorithm. We summarize algorithms for local optimization of a deterministic function, with particular attention directed to model-based trust-region methods. We provide foundations for the theory underlying these algorithms and...
Creator:
Wild, Stefan (Argonne National Laboratory)
Created:
2016-08-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Collisions of Debt and Interest: Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration and the Best Interests of the Child. Childhood and Youth Studies Across the Disciplines IAS Research Collaborative presents Lauren Heidbrink, Anthropology, National Louis University -- Chicago.Amidst a shift from the state's enforcement and surveillance of the migrant ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Heidbrink, Lauren
Created:
2013-12-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collisions of Debt and Interest: Youth Negotiations of (In)debt(ed) Migration and the Best Interests of the Child. Childhood and Youth Studies Across the Disciplines IAS Research Collaborative presents Lauren Heidbrink, Anthropology, National Louis University -- Chicago.Amidst a shift from the state's enforcement and surveillance of the migrant ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Heidbrink, Lauren
Created:
2013-12-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
We discuss properties of distributions that are multivariate totally positive of order two (MTP2). Such distributions appear in the context of positive dependence, ferromagnetism in the Ising model, and various latent models. We show that maximum likelihood estimation for MPT2 exponential families is a convex problem. Hence, if the MLE exists, i...
Creator:
Uhler, Caroline (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created:
2016-01-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Yan Fu Between Tradition and Modernity. Daoism, translation, and science on the cusp of the modern era. Kirill O. Thompson, IHS, National Taiwan University. Yan Fu (1853-1921) translated important philosophic and scientific texts of Victorian England into refined Classical Chinese. He made the ideas palatable to Chinese intellectuals by interlac...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thompson, Kirill
Created:
2013-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Yan Fu Between Tradition and Modernity. Daoism, translation, and science on the cusp of the modern era. Kirill O. Thompson, IHS, National Taiwan University. Yan Fu (1853-1921) translated important philosophic and scientific texts of Victorian England into refined Classical Chinese. He made the ideas palatable to Chinese intellectuals by interlac...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thompson, Kirill
Created:
2013-10-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The property enhancements associated with dispersion of nanoparticles in polymers will depend not only on the state of dispersion achieved during the synthesis or formulation of the nanocomposite, but also on the degree and direction of particle alignment induced during subsequent processing. Here we present data on flow-induced orientation in t...
Creator:
Burghardt, Wesley R. (Northwestern University)
Created:
2009-09-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Ptychography comprises sampling and analyzing the object's spatial spectrogram by windowed (or "short-space") Fourier transforms. Its capability to reconstruct both image and illumination, as well as other experimental conditions including instabilities has proven promising for high-resolution X-ray microscopy. Practical implementation of X-ray ...
Creator:
Menzel, Andreas (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Created:
2017-08-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
In the search of a good story: Origins and continuities in writing the history of science. Ahmed Ragab is the Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School, and Affiliate Assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ragab, Ahmed
Created:
2015-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Writing Constitutions into British History. It has become a commonplace that Britain, unlike most other states, does not possess a written constitution. From the 1700s, a succession of politicians, jurists, political theorists and journalists have argued that the slow, piecemeal growth of Britain's system of government reflects a distinctive pre...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Colley, Linda
Created:
2009-11-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Writing Constitutions into British History. It has become a commonplace that Britain, unlike most other states, does not possess a written constitution. From the 1700s, a succession of politicians, jurists, political theorists and journalists have argued that the slow, piecemeal growth of Britain's system of government reflects a distinctive pre...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Colley, Linda
Created:
2009-11-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Recent experiments by Kantsler et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 178102 (2007)] have shown that the relaxational dynamics of a vesicle in external elongation flow is accompanied by the formation of wrinkles on a membrane. Motivated by these experiments we present a theory describing the dynamics of a wrinkled membrane. The formation of wrinkles is re...
Creator:
Turitsyn, Konstantin (University of Chicago)
Created:
2008-07-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The mechanics of a thin elastic sheet can be explored variationally, by minimizing the sum of 'membrane' and 'bending' energy. For some loading conditions, the minimizer develops increasingly fine-scale wrinkles as the sheet thickness tends to 0. While the optimal wrinkle pattern is probably available only numerically, the qualitative features o...
Creator:
Kohn, Robert V. (New York University)
Created:
2011-05-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
It is well known that elastic sheets loaded in tension will wrinkle, with the length scale of wrinkles tending to zero with vanishing thickness of the sheet [Cerda and Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 074302 (2003)]. We give the firstmathematically rigorous analysis of such a problem. Since our methods require an explicit understanding of the und...
Creator:
Bella, Peter (New York University)
Created:
2011-05-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This lecture provides an introduction to the IMA Workshop onLarge-scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty. Wepresent context and motivation for the workshop topic along with adiscussion of open research challenges. We will discuss workshop goalsand provide a brief overview of the workshop schedule.
Creator:
Ghattas, Omar (The University of Texas at Austin)
Created:
2011-06-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The Magdalene Project: The Ecstasy in Music. Baroque ensemble Consortium Carissimi will explore the name of Mary Magdalene, the role of women in early baroque Florentine culture, and the ecstasy in music, with historical framework provided by Kelley Harness, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Minnesota. Set for six solo voices, vio...
The Magdalene Project: The Ecstasy in Music. Baroque ensemble Consortium Carissimi will explore the name of Mary Magdalene, the role of women in early baroque Florentine culture, and the ecstasy in music, with historical framework provided by Kelley Harness, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Minnesota. Set for six solo voices, vio...
Young women in the 'Great Divergence': Textile labor, consumption, and marriage in Europe and China between the mid-17th and the mid-19th centuries. We focus on ideologies and practices around generational relations, the gendered life-cyclical transition between childhood and adulthood, and the arrangement of marriages or other forms of sexual u...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruce, Emily; Maynes, M. J.; Roubinek, Eric; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Young women in the 'Great Divergence': Textile labor, consumption, and marriage in Europe and China between the mid-17th and the mid-19th centuries. We focus on ideologies and practices around generational relations, the gendered life-cyclical transition between childhood and adulthood, and the arrangement of marriages or other forms of sexual u...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bruce, Emily; Maynes, M. J.; Roubinek, Eric; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2013-02-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women of Civil Rights Unionism: Organizing the Movement for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the Mid-1920s. Join us for a staged reading of Women of Civil Rights Unionism. The play grew out the Department of African American & African Studies' community-engaged research initiative on the activities of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Po...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Onishi, Yuichiro; Squires, Catherine
Created:
2015-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women of Civil Rights Unionism: Organizing the Movement for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the Mid-1920s. Join us for a staged reading of Women of Civil Rights Unionism. The play grew out the Department of African American & African Studies' community-engaged research initiative on the activities of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Po...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Onishi, Yuichiro; Squires, Catherine
Created:
2015-04-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Red Venus: From Alexandra Kollontai to Pussy Riot. A panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibit, Women in Soviet Art, at the Museum of Russian Art. Panelists will address the complex issues raised by the show--concerning the position and iconography of women in the Soviet Union and Russia over 75 years, feminist responses from Alex...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena; Hemenway, Elizabeth Jones; Malachowskaja, Natalia; Medvedev, Katalin; Rabinowitz, Paula; Zavialova, Maria
Created:
2013-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Red Venus: From Alexandra Kollontai to Pussy Riot. A panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibit, Women in Soviet Art, at the Museum of Russian Art. Panelists will address the complex issues raised by the show--concerning the position and iconography of women in the Soviet Union and Russia over 75 years, feminist responses from Alex...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Goscilo, Helena; Hemenway, Elizabeth Jones; Malachowskaja, Natalia; Medvedev, Katalin; Rabinowitz, Paula; Zavialova, Maria
Created:
2013-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women in Religious Texts and Contexts: New Voices in the Biographical Novel. Who were the women of sacred stories and histories, known as wives and daughters, through figures such as Muhammad, Noah or Jacob? Three authors discuss fiction, religious texts and the biographical novel with UM Morris professor Michael Lackey. Anita Diamant was first ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Diamant, Anita; Jones, Sherry; Kanner, Rebecca; Lackey, Michael
Created:
2013-09-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Women in Religious Texts and Contexts: New Voices in the Biographical Novel. Who were the women of sacred stories and histories, known as wives and daughters, through figures such as Muhammad, Noah or Jacob? Three authors discuss fiction, religious texts and the biographical novel with UM Morris professor Michael Lackey. Anita Diamant was first ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Diamant, Anita; Jones, Sherry; Kanner, Rebecca; Lackey, Michael
Created:
2013-09-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
I'll discuss a method for approximating the super-level set persistent homology of a Gaussian kernel density estimator for a point cloud data set, which is related to the witness complex. Instead of selecting elements of the data set, the witnesses are generated using quadratic programming, and the shifted Voronoi diagram (aka the power diagram)...
Creator:
Carlsson, Erik (University of California, Davis)
Created:
2022-08-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Optimization of energy by large aquatic animals (e.g., dolphins, whales, manta) requires adaptations that control hydrodynamic flow to reduce drag, and improve thrust production and efficiency. Although streamlining of the body and appendages minimizes drag, highly derived aquatic animals utilize mechanisms of propulsion and control based on lif...
Creator:
Fish, Frank E. (West Chester University)
Created:
2010-06-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest. A presentation by Marla Emery, Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. Her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Emery, Marla
Created:
2010-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest. A presentation by Marla Emery, Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. Her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Emery, Marla
Created:
2010-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collective Intelligence: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities. Loren Terveen is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where his research focuses on theory-based design of online communities: applying theories from the social sciences to create new interaction techniques and algorithms that elicit mor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Terveen, Loren
Created:
2012-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Collective Intelligence: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities. Loren Terveen is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where his research focuses on theory-based design of online communities: applying theories from the social sciences to create new interaction techniques and algorithms that elicit mor...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Terveen, Loren
Created:
2012-02-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Language learners at Wicoie Nandagikendan immersion pre-school open a Healing Place Collaborative event at the Institute for Advanced Study with song and ceremony.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Created:
2015-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Scientists Must Dance. John Bohannon, a correspondent for the journal Science and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, will make the case that scientists, now more than ever, must dance. As evidence, he will show the results of last year's Dance Your PhD contest, a viral YouTube phenomenon in which scientists around the world interpret ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Scientists Must Dance. John Bohannon, a correspondent for the journal Science and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, will make the case that scientists, now more than ever, must dance. As evidence, he will show the results of last year's Dance Your PhD contest, a viral YouTube phenomenon in which scientists around the world interpret ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.