Shannon TL Kearns is a white trans man, playwright, and ordained priest based in Minneapolis. At the time of this interview, he was the founder and artistic director of Uprising Theatre Company, and a co-founder of QueerTheology.com. His plays include Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin...
Shawn Demmons, MPH is a Black trans man, community organizer, public health and HIV/AIDS advocate, and trans health activist based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, he worked for the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies providing technical assistance to AIDS service organizations, and with the UCSF Center of Excellence fo...
Stephanie Luz Hernandez, LMFT is a queer Latinx trans-femme licensed mental health therapist, gender health specialist, and trans health activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the time of this interview, she worked at a clinic in Oakland, California supporting trans and gender nonconforming adolescents and adults in accessing gender-af...
John and Martha Nygaard immigrated from Norway. After living briefly in Montreal, Minneapolis, and Fridley, they finally settled in Grand Park, Minnesota and managed a farm. Their great great granddaughter tells the story of their life in this video.
Creator:
Hensel, Megan
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-10-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This photo was taken in the Spring of 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when some staff and students had returned to campus and some were still working and attending school from home. A student employee wearing a face mask is seated behind clear plexiglass at the Kirby Student Center Technology Services help desk. Signs on the plexiglass and de...
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This sign was on the door of a lab. It has a cartoon image of a bear sleeping in a snowy cave, and reads: "This Lab Has Been Placed Into Temporary Hibernation. Critical equipment and experiments have been properly shut down and chemicals/samples are properly stored. No activity is occurring in this lab as of: March 17, 2020." The sign also inclu...
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This talk is about the conflicts of interest within the law enforcement bodies of our institutions, and the devastating consequences for organizations and society in general. It will look at the structural flaws in the gatekeeping apparatus from an abstract perspective, and at specific examples, especially from the speaker’s personal exper...
Creator:
Ben-Artzi, Eric (Gannuity)
Created:
2021-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging method wherein a solution containing biological macromolecules is frozen in a thin layer of ice and imaged in a transmission electron microscope. The resulting tomographic projections are then assembled into density maps depicting the 3D structure of the molecule. While many molecules can be ...
Creator:
Anden, Joakim (Royal Institute of Technology
Created:
2021-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
As the role of data and analytics is expanding very rapidly in creating new business models or changing existing ones, demand for data science and analytics professionals is growing at an increasing rate. However, almost every company in the industry has a unique way of defining roles and assigning titles in data related positions. For any given...
Creator:
Hamutcu, Hamit (Initiative for Analytics and Data Science Standards
Created:
2021-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Liz Fierst is a Korean American adoptee. She was raised in Minneapolis and has traveled to many places throughout her adult life. She is now a prinicpal for a Middle School in San Francisco.
Creator:
O'Hagan, Ruby
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-10-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are all practices implemented by humans in the context of a complex and ever-changing world. This talk will focus on the challenges of long-term, seasonal, multicyclic time series forecasting in logistics. I will discuss algorithms and implementations including STL, TBATS, and Prophet, ...
Creator:
Taipale, Kaisa (CH Robinson)
Created:
2021-10-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We present machine learning (ML) approaches for approximately solving optimal transport problems in the high-dimensional setting. Problems of this kind frequently arise in statistics, Bayesian inference, and generative modeling, yet progress has been limited due to the curse-of-dimensionality. As our learning framework tackles the optimal cont...
Creator:
Ruthotto, Lars (Emory University)
Created:
2021-04-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This photograph shows the entrance to a grocery store with several pink-and-white signs reading "Due to CDC Recommendations & Guidelines MASKS REQUIRED FOR ALL Including those vaccinated [and] unvaccinated." Description from the creator: "This photograph was taken on August 2, 2021 at the Hillside Whole Foods Co-op. With cases rising and the del...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-08-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Content of a digital sign that was displayed on screens around the University of Minnesota Duluth Campus. The sign reads "Stop the Spread of COVID-19" at the top. Below is a graphic of a face mask next to the words "Mask Pick Up." To the right of this content are the words "Students will receive two free, university-branded face masks. Pick up l...
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This poster was displayed on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reads: "Stop The Spread Of COVID-19. Maximum Occupancy. Wear Your Face Covering. Maintain Physical Distance From Others." At the bottom of the poster is a hyperlink for all University of Minnesota Duluth safety guidelines.
Creator:
University of Minnesota Duluth
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This talk will describe a suite of physically inspired instruments we've developed to enable exploration of large-scale text data, illuminate collective behavioral patterns, and develop a science of stories. Along with our flagship efforts at http://hedonometer.org and https://storywrangling.org we show how Instagram photos reveal markers of dep...
Creator:
Danforth, Chris (University of Vermont)
Created:
2021-05-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This poster was displayed on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reads: "My M Community Is Safer Because I Do My Part. I Follow COVID-19 Safety Guidelines. I Properly Wash My Hands And Clean My Work Area. I Maintain Physical Distancing. I Wear A Face Covering. I Check My Temperature Each Morning And Evening...
Creator:
University of Minnesota
Created:
2021
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A common task in many data-driven applications is to find a low dimensional manifold that describes the data accurately. Estimating a manifold from noisy samples has proven to be a challenging task. Indeed, even after decades of research, there is no (computationally tractable) algorithm that accurately estimates a manifold from noisy samples wi...
Creator:
Aizenbud, Yariv (Yale University)
Created:
2021-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This sign directed students to online research help while library staff was working from home. It reads: "Looking for Research Help? Research Support is available online this semester. Email your question to [email address] or chat with the librarian on the library homepage, [URL]"
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Though ubiquitous in our daily lives, crumpling is a challenging process to understand and predict: As a thin sheet is confined, stresses spontaneously localize to produce a complex network of vertices and ridges in the sheet. However, past studies have uncovered surprising mathematical order to the length of creases that form as a sheet is crum...
Creator:
Andrejevic, Jovana (Harvard University)
Created:
2021-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Humans develop knowledge from individual studies and joint discussions with peers, even though each individual observes and thinks differently. Likewise, in many emerging application domains, collaborations among organizations or intelligent agents of heterogeneous nature (e.g., different institutes, commercial companies, and autonomous agents) ...
Creator:
Ding, Jie (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2021-10-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This talk will be an introduction to some recent research on PDE-inspired methods for graph-based learning, specifically for problems with very few labeled training examples. We'll discuss various models, including Laplace, p-Laplacian, re-weighted Laplacians, and Poisson learning, to highlight how connections between graph-PDEs and continuous P...
Creator:
Calder, Jeff (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2021-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The Burer-Monteiro method is one of the most widely used techniques for solving large-scale semidefinite programs (SDP). The basic idea is to solve a nonconvex program in Y, where Y is an n×p matrix such that X = YYT. We show that this method can solve SDPs in polynomial time in a smoothed analysis setting. More precisely, we consider an S...
Creator:
Cifuentes, Diego (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created:
2021-04-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This series of six photographs includes exterior and interior photographs of the post-vaccine observation area, including waiting areas, an information table, and a hand sanitizing station. The last photo is of a button that reads "St. Lukes, I GOT MY COVID-19 VACCINE." From the creator: "These photos show the post-vaccine observation area at th...
Creator:
Jones, Kayleen
Created:
2021-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
The creator and her husband after being vaccinated at the St. Louis County Public Health COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic held at the Range Recreation Center (curling club) in Eveleth, MN. Both are wearing face masks. The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame is visible in the background.
Creator:
Pittman, Kim
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Have you ever wondered how supply chains make decisions about purchasing and transport? Or perhaps you've stayed up at night wondering how energy companies plan for customer demand. Time series forecasting is a major component used to help business teams solve these problems. In this talk, I'll share my career journey in the world of industrial ...
Creator:
Broomfield, Jimmy (Target Corporation)
Created:
2021-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
One of the most ubiquitous problems arising across the sciences is that of solving large-scale systems of linear equations Ax = b. When it is infeasible to solve the system directly by inversion, light and scalable iterative methods can be used instead, such as, Randomized Kaczmarz (RK) algorithm, or Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). The classi...
Creator:
Rebrova, Elizaveta (University of California, Los Angeles)
Created:
2021-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
We present a framework for simulating a measure-preserving, ergodic dynamical system by a finite-dimensional quantum system amenable to implementation on a quantum computer. The framework is based on a quantum feature map for representing classical states by density operators (quantum states) on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), H, of f...
Creator:
Giannakis, Dimitris (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Created:
2021-01-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator provided the following description for the posters: "Sketches of things I did during COVID to have a sense of normalcy." The first poster contains a digital drawing of a bed covered in a blue blanket facing a dresser ...
Creator:
Meskan, Payton
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art related to wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of two dirty face masks with eyes. The blue mask is saying "I need a shower" and the tan mask is saying "Dude, same." The creator provided commentary on this poster, saying: "Masks ge...
Creator:
Amundson, Sarah
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital line drawing of a pair of lungs, with text around them reading "WHEN WILL IT END." Red text on the word "END" reads: "HOW COVID AFFECTED ME." The second poster contains a digital drawing of a w...
Creator:
Vylasek, Pacey
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a face with shoulder-length brown hair and closed eyes. Text at the top and bottom of the poster reads: "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind. Self care was at a peak during the pandemic but m...
Creator:
Arvidson, Abigail
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of the corner of a smartphone against a yellow background. Letters on the bottom of the phone spell out "SLEEP." There is another, unidentified object near the bottom of the page. The s...
Creator:
Harrell, Justin
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of two people hugging. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Don't take hugging your loved ones for granted." The second poster contains a digital drawing of an outdoor scene with tr...
Creator:
Krause, Peyton
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The creator provided the following description for the posters: "I designed different graphics and sketches that showcased my experiences during Covid. One being learning how to cook better, writing and sending handwritten letter...
Creator:
Kauffman, Lindsey
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a desk with a desk lamp and a book, set against a dark background. Text on the book reads: "Brian Downing, 4th year at UMD." Text above the desk reads: "During the Pandemic most of m...
Creator:
Downing, Brian
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a simple digital drawing of a turtle. Cursive text around the turtle's shell reads: "Imagine having just a turtle for company." The second poster contains a simple digital drawing of a brown mug. Text ab...
Creator:
Graves, Karley
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a face mask against a lavender background. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Masks have taken over our lives. I don't remember the last time I've walked into public without wo...
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital line drawing of three green coronavirus molecules with angry faces. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Small but deadly." The second poster contains a digital drawing of a small white hou...
Creator:
Blair, Logan
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This poster contains three panels, each containing a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first panel contains a digital drawing of a large mailing envelope under a smaller envelope. Text on a paper in the smaller envelope reads: "Let everything come to you." The second section contains a digital dra...
Creator:
Christenson, Ben
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a pair of gray lungs against a pink background. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "This pandemic has awakened people to how easy it is to get sick, especially the ones who have...
Creator:
Gilliland, Nicole
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital line drawing of three raised fists of different skin tones, above a black dollar sign. Text in a box between the fists and dollar sign reads: "NECROPOLITICS." The second poster contains a digit...
Creator:
Montgomery, Samantha
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a laptop computer with a Zoom meeting on the screen. The people in the grid are featureless andare set against colorful backgrounds. Keys on the keyboard spell out the word "caged." ...
Creator:
Sandstrom, Kaitlyn
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a calendar page for May 2020 and a planner page reading "TO DO" and "GOALS." Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "Keeping a schedule and making lists was very helpful during this...
Creator:
Simpson, Hannah
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art depicting an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a woman and a dog staring out a window. Text at the bottom of the poster reads: "I don't remember much of it." The second poster contains a digital drawing of a woman wearing a red s...
Creator:
Larson, Caitlin
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of the three panels on this posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first panel contains a drawing of a small blue fish in a plastic bag full of water. Text below the drawing reads: "We're all just swimming in circles." The second panel contains a drawing of a window with a red f...
Creator:
Casella, Ellie
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a person with long brown hair and glasses, wearing a blue face mask. A speech bubble reads: "Sorry about my glasses, they always fog up with my mask!" Text at the bottom of the poste...
Creator:
MacGillivray, Hailey
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of the interior of a room with a purple couch, a lamp, and a window with pink curtains. On the couch there are some papers and an open laptop with the word "WORKING..." on its screen. T...
Creator:
Tholkes, Abbie
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Each of these three posters contains a piece of digital art exploring an aspect of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first poster contains a digital drawing of a computer screen split into a grid as in a Zoom call, with a multicolored stick figure in each box. Text at the top of the poster reads: "Connected while disconnected." The creator ...
Creator:
Vowels, Jake
Created:
2021-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
