Daniel Castellon is a second-generation immigrant, raised in Texas by his father who is from El Salvador. He talks about his life growing up with his family in the U.S.
Creator:
Castellon, Daniel
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-09-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Widespread application of modern machine learning has increased the need for robust statistical algorithms. One fundamental geometric quantity in robust statistics is known as a data depth, which generalizes the notion of quantiles and medians to multiple dimensions. This talk will discuss recent work (in collaboration with Martin Molina-Fructuo...
Creator:
Murray, Ryan (North Carolina State University)
Created:
2021-10-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The Data Science group at The New York Times develops and deploys machine learning solutions to newsroom and business problems. Re-framing real-world questions as machine learning tasks requires not only adapting and extending models and algorithms to new or special cases but also sufficient breadth to know the right method for the right challen...
Creator:
Wiggins, Chris (Columbia University)
Created:
2021-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Imposter Syndrome intensifies each day with growing expectations of being a data scientist. You need to have strong quantitative and technical skills (mathematics, statistics, computer science, operations research, optimization, machine learning), business knowledge and consulting skills (problem formulation and framing), relationship and commun...
Creator:
Dhamodaran, Sharath (OptumLabs)
Created:
2021-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
David Peal was born on the West Coast of Africa and moved to the U.S. because of a civil war in his country. He grew up in Massachusetts and then attended Gustavus Adolphus College. He reflects on his successes.
Creator:
Bradley, Andrew
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Data with low-dimensional nonlinear structure are ubiquitous in engineering and scientific problems. We study a model problem with such structure—a binary classification task that uses a deep fully-connected neural network to classify data drawn from two disjoint smooth curves on the unit sphere. Aside from mild regularity conditions, we p...
Creator:
Wright, John (Columbia University)
Created:
2021-03-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This photograph was taken on the first floor of the library, at the main entrance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, library patrons were directed to enter through one lane of the entrance and exit through another, to aid with physical distancing. The sticker reads: "ENTRANCE ONLY DO NOT EXIT." The sticker was originally red and gold, UMD's colors, ...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Consider a particular quantitative trait, and suppose we want to discover a function that maps how n participating genes (or even environmental influences) interact to express the trait. Under plausible assumptions of how they evolved, certain traits can be viewed as “smooth” functions on the n-dimensional Boolean lattice of possibl...
Creator:
Herman, Matthew (Fourier Genetics)
Created:
2021-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
These two large masks are on the wall near the theatre space at the Duluth Depot. In this photograph, they are each wearing two disposable face masks, one each over their noses and mouths. A bottle of hand sanitizer is on a pillar between the masks. This photograph was taken while a vaccination clinic was being run in the Great Hall at the Depot.
Created:
2021-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Elena Hernandez in Mexico in 1977. At the age of 19 she gave birth to her first daughter and travelled to the United States to live with her father using a relative's documents. Elena's story is told by her daughter and details the dangers that migrants can face when crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Creator:
Hernandez, Sinai
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
The identification of nodes in a network that will enable the fastest spread of information is an important if not fundamental problem in network control and design. It is applicable to the optimal placement of sensors, the design of secure networks and the problem of control when network resources are limited. We consider a discrete time model...
Creator:
Hunt, Fern (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Created:
2021-04-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
What is the next big thing in AI? What does one need to know and prepare for to remain relevant as the industry undergoes transformation? Why is this industry transformation a necessity? In this talk, we will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of traditional Deep Learning approaches to knowledge-centric tasks and look at a blueprint hybrid arc...
Creator:
Grinberg, Tetiana (Intel Corporation)
Created:
2021-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
When searching for signals of new astrophysical phenomena, astrophysicists have to account for several sources of non-random uncertainties which can dramatically compromise the sensitivity of the experiment under study. Among these, model uncertainty arising from background mismodeling is particularly dangerous and can easily lead to highly misl...
Creator:
Algeri, Sara (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2021-09-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Henry Chacon Arevalo was born in Honduras in 2004. His dad moved to the U.S. when he was 2 months old and Henry was able to move there with him when he was 13.
Creator:
Chacon Arevalo, Henry Jeovany
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Adrian Lowe is a white male activist, organizer, and prison abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of this interview, he was a Senior Staff Attorney at the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania and a community organizer with Hearts on a Wire, a grassroots organization he co-founded that supports transgender incarcerated people ...
Andy Marra is a Korean-American trans woman, activist, educator, and public policy advocate based in New York City. At the time of this interview, she was the Executive Director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF,) an advocacy and legal services organization serving and lobbying for trans and gender nonconforming people. ...