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.
Why Philosophy Here and Now? Critical and Transformative Challenges to a Conservative Discipline—Decolonial, Feminist, and Critical Race Perspectives. Academic philosophy has been the home of the allegedly generic rational European man, with epistemology at the center of that home. Join in a conversation with two epistemologists who are commit...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dotson, Kristie; Scheman, Naomi
Created:
2016-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why People Laugh, or, When Did Laughter Meet the Sense of Humor? Animals don't laugh. A guffawing cow has reality only on a label for processed cheese. By contrast, people have always laughed: at births and at funerals, in joy and in sorrow, while viewing scenes of cruelty and acts of kindness, or simply when tickled. But one day laughter became...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liberman, Anatoly
Created:
2014-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why People Laugh, or, When Did Laughter Meet the Sense of Humor? Animals don't laugh. A guffawing cow has reality only on a label for processed cheese. By contrast, people have always laughed: at births and at funerals, in joy and in sorrow, while viewing scenes of cruelty and acts of kindness, or simply when tickled. But one day laughter became...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liberman, Anatoly
Created:
2014-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
In contrast to the positive definite Helmholtz equation, thedeceivingly similar looking indefinite Helmholtz equation is difficultto solve using classical iterative methods. Applying directly a Krylovmethod to the discretized equations without preconditioning leads ingeneral to stagnation and very large iteration counts. Using classicalincomplet...
Creator:
Gander, Martin J. (Universite de Geneve)
Created:
2010-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Vacant taxi drivers’ cruising behavior to seek the next potential passenger in a road network generates additional vehicle traveled miles, adding congestion and pollution into the road network and the environment. This study aims to employ reinforcement learning to model idle e-hailing drivers’ optimal sequential decisions in passenger-seeki...
Creator:
Di, Sharon (Columbia University)
Created:
2018-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Where is the Human in the Data? This workshop is the launching point for a critical data science study project that is jointly sponsored by the University of Minnesota Informatics Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study. The workshop will include lightning talks by graduate students, table discussions, and developing 10 Questions for Crit...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hiland, Emma; MacKenzie, Lars; Coral, Deniz; Krieg, Katelin; Fink, Alexander; Van Oort, Madison; Hassoun, Amelia; Savigano, Stephen; Swanson, Link
Created:
2016-09-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
When: The Art of Perfect Timing. Carlson School of Management Professor Stuart Albert discusses his latest work, When: the Art of Perfect Timing (Jossey-Bass, 2013), a book on how timing affects all aspects of business, including how to determine the right time to act.Timing is everything. Act too early—or too late—and the results can be dis...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Albert, Stuart
Created:
2013-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
When: The Art of Perfect Timing. Carlson School of Management Professor Stuart Albert discusses his latest work, When: the Art of Perfect Timing (Jossey-Bass, 2013), a book on how timing affects all aspects of business, including how to determine the right time to act.Timing is everything. Act too early—or too late—and the results can be dis...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Albert, Stuart
Created:
2013-12-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
It is now well understood that there is a minimal requirement on the channelquality in feedback stabilization via a communication channel. In the case of SISO plant and SISO channel. This minimal channel quality is given in terms of the degree of instability of the plant to be stabilized. For a MIMO system controlled via a MIMO communication cha...
Creator:
Qiu, Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Created:
2015-10-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We develop computational and experimental methods to gain insights into visual functions and psychiatric disorders. We also build deep learning models that predict human behaviors and identify people with disorders. In this talk, I will share our recent innovations on data and models, aiming at understanding and predicting visual attention in na...
Creator:
Zhao, Catherine Qi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2017-02-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The Moving Cell: When Art and Science Collide How did an unlikely collaboration become so fruitful? David Odde, a biomedical engineer, and Black Label Movement, a collective of dance artists led by choreographer Carl Flink, team up to combine dance and science, shining new light on both. Odde studies the mechanics of cell division and migration....
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Odde, David
Created:
2014-04-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Moving Cell: When Art and Science Collide How did an unlikely collaboration become so fruitful? David Odde, a biomedical engineer, and Black Label Movement, a collective of dance artists led by choreographer Carl Flink, team up to combine dance and science, shining new light on both. Odde studies the mechanics of cell division and migration....
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Odde, David
Created:
2014-04-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
We explore a geometric and topological approach to understanding the structural significance of edges in a complex network. To do so, we embed the complex network (or the graph $G(V, E)$ representing it) into a Euclidean space determined by the eigen-space of the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse of the combinatorial laplacian (denoted by $\bb L^+(G)...
Creator:
Ranjan, Gyan (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2012-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
What's Next for the Humanities? Amid rising concerns about the possibility of cuts to funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the question of who is safeguarding the future of the humanities is more important than ever. Join us for a conversation with Teresa Mangum, Secretary of the National Humanities Alliance, on current NHA ini...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Mangum, Teresa
Created:
2017-03-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sequential quadratic programming (SQP)methods a powerful and effective class of methods for awide range of nonlinearly constrained optimizationproblems. Given the scope and utility of nonlinearoptimization, it is not surprising that SQP methods arestill a subject of active research. Recentdevelopments in methods for mixed integer nonlinearprogra...
Creator:
Gill, Philip E. (University of California, San Diego)
Created:
2008-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Cellular structures coarsen according to a local evolution law,a gradient flow or curvature driven growth, for example,limited by space filling constraints, which give rise to randomchanges in configuration. Composed of volumes, facets, theirboundaries, and so forth, they are ensembles of singlularstructures. Among the most challenging and ancie...
Creator:
Kinderlehrer, David (Carnegie Mellon University)
Created:
2008-07-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
What's Modern about Visuals, Gestures, and Technology?. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Newman, Sara
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
It has been approximately twenty years since the initial germination ofnumerical continuation as an approach to finding solution points of systemsof polynomial equations and ten years since its flowering into numericalalgebraic geometry, which facilitates description of solution sets of anydimension and operations on these, such as intersection ...
Creator:
Wampler, Charles W. (General Motors Company)
Created:
2006-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We study the influence of individual neuronal dynamics and network topology on synchronization of bursting neurons. We demonstrate that the type and duration of bursting are the critical characteristics that determine the synchronization properties of the network. We show that the onset of synchrony in an excitatory-inhibitory network with any c...
Creator:
Belykh, Igor (Georgia State University)
Created:
2012-09-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
What is it that Makes a Body Whole?. Grigely wants to question what it is that makes the body 'whole' and how legislation, particularly the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fails to address this question. This talk is intended to describe situations and pose questions — Grigely doesn't ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grigely, Joseph
Created:
2009-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What is it that Makes a Body Whole?. Grigely wants to question what it is that makes the body 'whole' and how legislation, particularly the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fails to address this question. This talk is intended to describe situations and pose questions — Grigely doesn't ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grigely, Joseph
Created:
2009-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What is/was a book? Some answers from the Romantic period. Nearly two decades ago William Paulson declared that electronically stored and retrieved text, in comparison with its printed predecessor, is almost infinitely malleable and labile; his contrast between the digital text's openness to modification and recontextualization and the stasis of...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lynch, Deirdre
Created:
2015-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Consider the Vietoris-Rips complex for n evenly-spaced points around a circle. For small choices of the connectivity parameter, this complex is homotopy equivalent to a circle. For n even and for a connectivity parameter slightly less than the diameter of the circle, this complex is the boundary of a cross-polytope and is homeomorphic to the (n/...
Creator:
Adams, Henry (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2013-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The importance of spatial and spatio-temporal data mining is growing with the increasing incidence and importance of large datasets such as trajectories, maps, remote-sensing images, census and geo-social media. Applications include Public Health (e.g. monitoring spread of disease, spatial disparity, food deserts), Public Safety (e.g. crime hot ...
Creator:
Shekhar, Shashi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2017-01-24
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
A National Research Council report has called attention tomathematicians the problem of protein folding. Here we will give a settingfor the problem by putting a geometrical structure on the space of proteins.A significant question in the understanding of the folding process is this.Which pairs of positions in a linear string representing the pro...
Creator:
Smale, Stephen (City University of Hong Kong)
Created:
2013-10-09
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
There are many different queueing policies, and they tend to be defined inmodel-specific ways that differ in form from policy to policy. While eachform is suitable for the task at hand (e.g. steady-state derivation,scaling-limit theorem, or proof of some other property), the specificity ofthe policy definition can sometimes limit the scope of wh...
Creator:
Gromoll, Christian (University of Virginia)
Created:
2015-06-26
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
What Do We Think the Book is Now? 2000 Students Weigh In. Although it is indisputable that we are now—and will be for the foreseeable future—reading increasingly from digital sources, what is less clear is how we adapt to the shift away from interactions with the familiar and durable media of paper and print. This talk reports on more than 2...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Prendergast, Catherine
Created:
2011-10-13
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What Do We Think the Book is Now? 2000 Students Weigh In. Although it is indisputable that we are now—and will be for the foreseeable future—reading increasingly from digital sources, what is less clear is how we adapt to the shift away from interactions with the familiar and durable media of paper and print. This talk reports on more than 2...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Prendergast, Catherine
Created:
2011-10-13
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Economists have traditionally viewed futures prices as fully informative about future economic activity and asset prices. We argue that open interest could be more informative than futures prices in the presence of hedging demand and limited risk absorption capacity in futures markets. We find that movements in open interest are highly pro-cycli...
Creator:
Yogo, Motohiro (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Created:
2012-05-17
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Microseismic imaging is an important technology for tracking fracture creation and reactivation of pre-existing fractures occurring during various industrial operations, particularly hydraulic fracture treatments of unconventional reservoirs. Often microseismic locations are used to interpret the fracture geometry, although additional insights i...
Creator:
Maxwell, Shawn (Itasca Image)
Created:
2015-05-11
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Are They Important?. Have you ever wondered what the Dead Sea Scrolls are and why there is so much controversy surrounding them? This presentation will provide a general introduction to the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and explore where they come from, when they were composed, why they have become scanda...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Jassen, Alex
Created:
2010-03-24
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Are They Important?. Have you ever wondered what the Dead Sea Scrolls are and why there is so much controversy surrounding them? This presentation will provide a general introduction to the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and explore where they come from, when they were composed, why they have become scanda...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Jassen, Alex
Created:
2010-03-24
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Two types of wetting phenomena will be discussed: (i) Morphological wettingtransitions at chemically patterned or topographically structured substrates; and(ii) Wetting of flexible membranes such as lipid bilayers by aqueous phases.Morphological wetting transitions between different droplet shapes occur, e.g., as onevaries the amount of liquid d...
Creator:
Lipowsky, Reinhard (Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces)
Created:
2009-12-07
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Renegotiating Bodies: 'Minnesota Project' and Seoul National University Hospital, 1954-1968 Professor DiMoia considers the second of Korea's massive confrontations with Western biomedicine, occurring during and after the Korean War as Americans and other international actors contributed large amounts of aid to the Korean field of medicine. DiMoi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
DiMoia, John
Created:
2014-03-31
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Renegotiating Bodies: 'Minnesota Project' and Seoul National University Hospital, 1954-1968 Professor DiMoia considers the second of Korea's massive confrontations with Western biomedicine, occurring during and after the Korean War as Americans and other international actors contributed large amounts of aid to the Korean field of medicine. DiMoi...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
DiMoia, John
Created:
2014-03-31
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The talk will be based on a joint work with L. Ambrosio, G. Crippa and A.Figalli. First, some new well-posedness results for continuity andtransport equations with weakly differentiable velocity fields will bediscussed. These results can be applied to the analysis of a 2 x 2 systemof conservation laws in one space dimension known as the chromato...
Creator:
Spinolo, Laura Valentina (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Created:
2009-07-25
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We consider the question of global in time existence and uniqueness of solutions of the infinite depth full water wave problem. We show that the nature of the nonlinearity of the water wave equation is essentially of cubic and higher orders. For any initial data that is small in its kinetic energy and height, we show that the 2-D full water wave...
Creator:
Wu, Sijue (University of Michigan)
Created:
2010-02-23
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Given a model based on a conservation law, we study how the solutiondepends from the initial/boundary datum, from the flow and fromvarious constraints. With this tool, several control problems can beaddressed and the existence of an optimal control can beproved. Models describing escape dynamics of pedestrians, traffic attoll gates, open canals ...
Creator:
Colombo, Rinaldo Mario (Università di Brescia)
Created:
2009-07-31
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The form of accurate semiclassical surface hopping propagators and wave functions for processes involving more than one electronic quantum state is discussed. It is shown that conditions, which define the required non-classical events along trajectories, can be derived from the Schrödinger equation. These conditions also uniquely specify the dir...
Creator:
Herman, Michael F. (Tulane University)
Created:
2009-01-16
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Welcome and Opening Remarks byPaul Martin, Senior Vice President of Science Learning, Science Museum of MinnesotaAnn Waltner, Director of the IAS, University of MinnesotaPhyllis Messenger, Symposium Organizer, IAS, University of MinnesotaDiane Z. Chase, Pegasus Professor of Anthropology and Executive Vice Provost, University of Central Florida. ...
Welcome to the New Northrop Provost Hanson inaugurates Northrop as a multifaceted, state-of-the art cultural and intellectual center—the hearth of the University, reinvented for the 21st century. Now home to three University-wide academic programs, Northrop is poised to be a hub for interdisciplinary collaboration, enhanced teaching and learni...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hanson, Karen; Tschida, Christine
Created:
2014-04-07
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Welcome to the Hmong Across Borders Conference. Welcome and Opening Remarks by Mai Na M. Lee, History, University of Minnesota; Karen Hanson, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, University of Minnesota; Sia Her, Executive Director of the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans; Ian Baird, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Yan...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Baird, Ian; Dao, Yang; Hanson, Karen; Her, Sia; Lee, Mai Na M.; Vang, Yang Thai
Created:
2013-10-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.