Photograph of a plastic cup of quarters at a laundry room. A handwritten sign in the cup reads: "Free to anyone who needs them, we are in this TOGETHER :)". Small handwritten notes near the cup read: "Thank you :)" and "Grateful for NICE neighbors :) Stay safe, everyone". The contributor describes this photo: "Act of Kindness we did for elderly ...
Creator:
Rehbein, Rachel
Created:
2020-05-29
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This essay by a University of Minnesota Duluth faculty member documents the day of September 23, 2020, six months into the COVID-19 pandemic. It is written in the style of a timeline, with activities described along with the time of day they occur. Included are details about working from home, assisting children with online schooling, exercise, ...
Creator:
Dauner, Kim
Created:
2020-09-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
These ten embroidered patches were created by Advantage Emblem & Screen Printing, a local business in Duluth, Minnesota. From the creator: "Advantage Emblem creates embroidered patches and lapel pins for organizations nationwide. As of 2020 we have we have over 5000 different patch designs. We create patches for different activities, historical ...
Creator:
Advantage Emblem & Screen Printing
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Advertisement shows instructions for three at-home cocktail kits, which were available for pick-up during the COVID-19 pandemic. The kits are for Vikre Gals of November, Vikre Spruce Gin Gimlet, and Vikre Honor Brand Old Fashioned. Vikre Distillery is a local business in Canal Park in Duluth, Minnesota.
Creator:
Vikre Distillery
Created:
2020-03-18
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this talk I will introduce the back-and-forth method, a new algorithm to efficiently solve the optimal transportation problem for a general class of strictly convex transportation costs. Given two probability measures supported on a discrete grid with n points, the method computes the optimal map in O(n log(n)) operations using O(n) storage s...
Creator:
Jacobs, Matthew (University of California, Los Angeles)
Created:
2020-11-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Data classification, where the goal is to divide data into predefined classes, is a fundamental problem in machine learning with many applications, including the classification of 3D sensory data. In this paper, we present a data classification method which can be applied to both semi-supervised and unsupervised learning tasks. The algorithm ...
Creator:
Rapinchuk, Ekaterina (Michigan State University)
Created:
2020-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Photograph of a colorful drawing that includes work-at-home activities such as student consultations, research help, and book selection, as well as "tea," "lunch," "snacks," and "girlfriend." From the creator: "I created this in response to library director Matt Rosendahl's suggestion that we use National Library Week as a way to highlight our s...
Creator:
David, Mags
Created:
2020-04-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this short essay, Native elder Sharon Doolittle Shuck discusses driving, running errands, and gathering with family during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the essay describes a trip she took from Duluth to East Bethel, Minnesota to attend her niece's daughter's graduation party in July of 2020. Originally she had planned to take the bus and st...
Creator:
Shuck, Sharon Doolittle
Created:
2020-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
An instrumental song arranged and performed by Gaelynn Lea Tressler. In her interview for Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Seperation (SWaBS) Gaelynn, a professional musician, discusses the role in her life of writing and performing music during the COVID-19 pandemic. This song was originally released in 2015. This item is related to "Interview ...
Creator:
Tressler, Gaeylnn Lea
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A video of Israel Malachi flying his small plane on a route following the St. Louis River to the Thomson Dam in Thomson, Minnesota, then north and east back to the Duluth International Airport. Malachi wrote and recorded the original music in this video. In his interview for Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Seperation (SWaBS) Malachi, a musician...
Creator:
Malachi, Israel
Created:
2020-05-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Image compression, as a subset of image processing, intersects many areas of applied mathematics. In this talk, I will describe and compare the "classic" view of image compression, such as the JPEG algorithm and it's variants, against the "new kid on the block", namely compression using neural networks (NN). I will survey the relative merits of ...
Creator:
Finlay, Chris (Deep Render)
Created:
2020-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We study the problem of prediction of binary sequences with expert advice in the online setting, which is a classic example of online machine learning. We interpret the binary sequence as the price history of a stock, and view the predictor as an investor, which converts the problem into a stock prediction problem. In this framework, an investor...
Creator:
Drenska, Nadejda (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2020-11-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Drawing of a rocket ship full of people and animals, in black ink. A sign hanging from the rocket reads "Apollo 4/8/20", and the drawing also includes the artist's name "Toko N." The artist is 11 years old. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project, a series of drawing prompts done at t...
Creator:
Nakajima, Toko
Created:
2020-04-08
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Drawing of a rocket ship about to launch, in black and orange ink. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project, a series of drawing prompts done at the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. DICTA consists of UMD participants from humanities, arts and sciences (faculty and staff...
Creator:
Minor, Elizabeth C
Created:
2020-04-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Drawing of the Caduceus (medical symbol), done in gold and black ink. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project, a series of drawing prompts done at the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. DICTA consists of UMD participants from humanities, arts and sciences (faculty and st...
Creator:
Twu, Krista Sue-Lo
Created:
2020-04-27
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
The starting point for this work is the following observation: there exists a phase field approximation of the Willmore flow that seems to prevent, at least numerically, the appearance of self-intersections. Recall that the phase field approximation method allows to approximate the singular energy of singular functions by smooth energies of smoo...
Creator:
Masnou, Simon (Université Claude-Bernard
Created:
2020-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
From the creator: "Used my own phone camera along with editing from my laptop to create a time lapse video of me working on my final projects in my last week of college at UMD. Instead of being on campus with my colleagues I was stuck at home and couldn't be with them for one last time and truly say goodbye."
Creator:
Willis, Luke
Created:
2020-05
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Photographs, poetry, musings, quotes, and a featured story are included in this mixed media digital zine created by Christopher O’Brien, who lives and works in the small, rural town of Finland, Minnesota. In his own words, Christopher describes his creative project in this way: “’A Space Between Seasons’ is a digital zine consisting of photos, v...
Creator:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph is one of a set of three. From the creator: "These photos were taken on April 7, 2020. They show signs teachers made and hung in the windows of Lester Park School for their students. These pictures were used in posts on the Department of Education Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook pages with the text "Heartwarming messages from t...
Creator:
Vigen, Brianne
Created:
2020-04-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This script and storyboard were written by Blake Thomas and created with the intention of being produced by the performers of Take It With You, the nonprofit organization that produces hour-long, originally scripted, live radio theatre podcasts. These productions include voice actors, original music, and sound effects and are normally performed ...
Creator:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Photograph of a schedule for the contributor's daughter's at-home school day on Friday, April 17, 2020. The schedule is written in several different colors on a whiteboard. Activities are: Wake up, PBS, Breakfast; Brush Teeth, Hair; Check School Email; Reading Homework; Math Homework; SNACK/BREAK TIME; Science Homework; Read 20 min; LUNCH - CLAS...
Creator:
Rehbein, Rachel
Created:
2020-04-17
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph shows the home workspace of a University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) employee, which she used while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The image includes a wooden desk and chair, a laptop sitting on a stack of books, a keyboard, an additional monitor, a notebook, and a ceramic mug. The laptop screen is displaying the C...
Creator:
Jones, Kayleen
Created:
2020-09-15
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Photograph taken at the creator's home in Cloquet, Minnesota. From the creator: "This picture captures my daughter enjoying minimal supervision while I'm working from home. Day 9 of quarantine.
Creator:
Radosevich, Tara
Created:
2020-03-26
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Cardboard boxes filled with paper bags of breakfast food, ready to be distributed to residents at the Steve O'Neil Apartments, which include CHUM's 6-unit Emergency Family Shelter and 44 units of permanent supportive housing for families with children who have experienced long-term homelessness.
Creator:
Churches United in Ministry (CHUM)
Created:
2020-04-08
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This is the forth in a series of four podcasts that journalist Paul Lundgren created from interviews he conducted for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant funded project, Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Separation (SWaBS). For this project, Paul interviewed a number of business owners from the Lincoln Park Craft District in Dul...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
We consider the ramifications of utilizing biased latent position estimates in subsequent statistical analysis in exchange for sizable variance reductions in finite networks. We establish an explicit bias-variance tradeoff for latent position estimates produced by the omnibus embedding in the presence of heterogeneous network data. We reveal an ...
Creator:
Sussman, Daniel (Boston University)
Created:
2020-09-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Remote sensing data from hyperspectral cameras suffer from limited spatial resolution, in which a single pixel of a hyperspectral image may contain information from several materials in the field of view. Blind hyperspectral image unmixing is the process of identifying the pure spectra of individual materials (i.e., endmembers) and their proport...
Creator:
Lou, Yifei (University of Texas at Dallas)
Created:
2020-09-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This Boomerang video shows a healthcare worker wearing a face shield and walking towards the entrance of a building. The video is taken from a parking lot. The text over the video reads "This is what healthcare workers are doing to keep us safe. Wear A Mask." The video also includes an animated mask. From the creator: "Boomerang video I took out...
Creator:
Cirilli, Katherine
Created:
2020-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This Boomerang video shows a healthcare worker wearing a face shield and walking near a building. The video is taken from a parking lot. The text over the video reads "Riverwood is taking serious precautions. Want to help? Wear a mask. Wear A Mask." The video also includes an animated mask. From the creator: "Boomerang video I took outside my ho...
Creator:
Cirilli, Katherine
Created:
2020-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
From the creator: "My husband, Andrew Broadmoore, is a doctor (hospitalist at Essentia). With the PPE (personal protective equipment) shortage, several people, including his parents, brought him masks."
Creator:
Broadmoore, Amy
Created:
2020-04-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Drawing of two people walking on a sidewalk, one of whom is breathing out coronavirus molecules. The drawing also includes: the title, "Breathe"; the artist's name, "Toko Nakajima"; and the date "3-30-2020". The artist is 11 years old. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project, a series...
Creator:
Nakajima, Toko
Created:
2020-03-30
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Drawing of lungs with labeled parts. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project. DICTA consists of UMD participants from humanities, arts and sciences (faculty and staff), as well as Duluth community educators, artists, students of all levels, and hobbyists, brought together by our share...
Creator:
Twu, Krista Sue-Lo
Created:
2020-04-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Drawing of a human head and shoulders in profile, with a cloud containing stylized blue virus particles emanating from its nose. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project. DICTA consists of UMD participants from humanities, arts and sciences (faculty and staff), as well as Duluth commun...
Creator:
Minor, Elizabeth C
Created:
2020-04-06
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
From the creator: "This picture was taken during my trip to the Plaza Super One grocery store (15 S 13th Ave E, Duluth, MN 55802) on Friday, April 10, 2020. When I checked out I was pleased to see a transparent plastic shield between customers and the cashier; there was also a sign on it encouraging the use of credit and debit cards as they are ...
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2020-04-10
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This painting was commissioned and created in August 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In her interview for Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Seperation (SWaBS) Burns, a visual artist, discusses how during this pandemic time her creativity has increased and she has had more time to paint. The original painting is acrylic on canvas, and is of a ...
Creator:
Burns, Amber
Created:
2020-08
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ink and crayon drawing of two figures walking. Two rocket ships above them are flying a banner that reads "Cautious". The drawing also includes the date and the artist's name: "4/27/20 Toko N." The artist is 11 years old. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project, a series of drawing pr...
Creator:
Nakajima, Toko
Created:
2020-04-27
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Drawing of a mouse standing on a disc, done in black, gray, and pale pink ink. Created for the Duluth Interdisciplinary Chirographic Technology Association (DICTA) Pendemic project, a series of drawing prompts done at the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. DICTA consists of UMD participants from humanities, arts and sciences (facul...
Creator:
Twu, Krista Sue-Lo
Created:
2020-05-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
