This talk deals with quantifying the rate of contraction of the relative entropy with respect to a reference probability measure under the action of a Markov kernel. Sharp contraction estimates for Markov kernels are useful in a variety of settings, including distributed communication and simulation, exact and approximate stochastic filtering, a...
Creator:
Raginsky, Maxim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Created:
2015-04-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Danika Ragnhild is a white trans woman from Crookston, MN. At the time of this interview, Ragnhild was living in Minneapolis. In this oral history, Ragnhild speaks about her childhood, disability, abuse, her process of naming, renewal, polyamorous relationships, dating, and partnerships. Ragnhild also talks about her involvement with organizatio...
Creator:
Ragnhild, Danika
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-02-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Binita Rai was born in a refugee camp in Nepal in 1997. Her parents were born in Bhutan but moved to Nepal because they were Nepali and could not stay during the civil war. In 2014, the family applied for resettlement in the United States. In September 2015, they resettled in Colorado. A year later they moved to Minnesota to join relatives alrea...
Creator:
Rai, Binita
Created:
2017-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center