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.