This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Weir, Helene
Created:
2021-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Harper Jean Tobin is a white trans woman, consultant, and policymaker based in Washington, D.C. At the time of this interview, she worked as an independent policy consultant and educator around issues of LGBTQ+ civil rights, employment rights, and nondiscrimination. Prior to that work, she led the policy team at the National Center for Transgend...
Dr. Nathan T. Chomilo is Director of Vaccine Equity at the Minnesota Department of Health, as well as the Medicaid Medical Director for the State of Minnesota, and a General Pediatrician & IM Hospitalist at Park Nicollet. In this oral history interview, he discusses social equity, systemic racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota, critical...
Creator:
Chomilo, Dr. Nathan T (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kristen R. Ehresmann is an epidemiologist and director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control Division at the Minnesota Department of Health. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts about the pandemic as a public health nurse and epidemiologist, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the role of MDH in the pan...
Creator:
Ehresmann, Kristen (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-06-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Jenna Rapues, MPH is a Filipina trans woman, activist, and leader in public and transgender health in government, research, academic and public health institutions. She lives in San Francisco. At the time of this interview, she was the Program Director of Gender Health SF, a program of the San Francisco Department of Public Health that provides ...
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Koontz, Lauren
Created:
2021-06-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Greenberger, Sharon
Created:
2021-06-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Ortiz, Lucria; Parsons, Monique
Created:
2021-06-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2021-06-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Debra DeBruin is Interim Director, Associate Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies for the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, the co-leader of the Minnesota COVID Ethics Collaborative, and a member of the MDH's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Advisory Group. In this oral history interview, she discusses the role of bioethics ...
Creator:
DeBruin, Debra (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-05-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2021-05-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Damanta Basnet was born in Beldangi 2 refugee camp in Damak, Nepal. Her parents moved there after the Lhotsampas were forced to leave Bhutan in the 1990s. Damanta and her family moved to Minnesota in 2011 and overcame many obstacales while adjusting to the new culture.
Creator:
Basnet, Damanta
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-05-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
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 is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Bolding, Kevin; Lamour, Ernest
Created:
2021-05-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2021-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2021-05-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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 is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2021-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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.
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...
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
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 is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Washington, Kevin
Created:
2021-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Perez, Jorge; Ives, Steve
Created:
2021-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
In the past, new conjectures about fundamental constants were discovered sporadically by famous mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, and Ramanujan. The talk will present a different approach – a systematic algorithmic approach that discovers new mathematical conjectures on fundamental constants. We call this approach “the Ram...
Creator:
Kaminer, Ido (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
Created:
2021-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas; Hazelbaker, Curt
Created:
2021-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This photograph shows a University of Minnesota Duluth employee's home workspace. From the creator: "This is a photo of my workspace at home, where I have been working almost exclusively since March 12, 2020 (with only occasional trips to the UMD campus). Besides the technological equipment (computer, two monitors, keyboard, mouse, laptop which ...
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2021-04-03
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Photographs from University of Minnesota Duluth Theatre’s 2021 production of Bare. Run dates: April 29-May 2, 2021. Venue: Marshall Performing Arts Center Mainstage Theatre. The actors all wore masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Director: Thomas Jacobsen. Cast list--Peter: Jake Nelson; Jason: Christopher Hoffmann; Ivy: Jenessa Iverson; Nadia: D...
Creator:
Montgomery, Derek
Created:
2021-04
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
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
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 is an episode of the Causenetic podcast, created by staff members of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas from 2019 to 2023. The podcast focused on promoting awareness of the YMCA’s mission to new audiences and providing conversation, inspiration, and influence on various timely community topics. The description that accompanied this Causenetic ...
Creator:
Ross, Rodrigua; Vinson, Keith
Contributor:
Leonard, La Shae; Frederick, David; YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas
Created:
2021-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
From the creator: "This is a photo of me getting my first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Saturday, March 27, 2021. I was on a list that a local pharmacist was maintaining of people who could come in on short notice and receive doses that were about to expire. This dose, which I received at around 4:30 pm, was scheduled to expire at 5 pm. There w...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-27
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.
This photograph was taken from inside a car at the Barnum Transportation Building (3888 County Road 61, Barnum, MN 55707) where the creator was receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It shows a view out the windshield of two lines of cars driving through the building and workers in yellow vests checking people in and administering the...
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph was taken from inside a car at the Barnum Transportation Building (3888 County Road 61, Barnum, MN 55707) where the creator was receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It shows a view out the windshield at lines of cars, as the creator waited until she could leave after receiving the vaccine. Her time, 3:23, is written ...
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2021-03-25
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
This photograph was taken from inside a car at the Barnum Transportation Building (3888 County Road 61, Barnum, MN 55707) where the creator was receiving her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It shows a sign reading "Rest Rooms Available Upon Request."
Creator:
Vavrosky, Laura
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph, taken inside the vaccination clinic, includes people waiting in line to receive vaccines and an area where people sat for the required fifteen minutes after being vaccinated. This clinic was held inside the curling club in Eveleth, MN. Visible on the walls are the flags of the USA, Canada, Minnesota, and other nations, as well a...
Creator:
Pittman, Kim
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This photograph, taken inside the vaccination clinic, includes tables where people completed registration forms prior to receiving vaccinations and an area where people sat for the required fifteen minutes after being vaccinated. This clinic was held inside the curling club in Eveleth, MN. Visible on the walls are the flags of the USA, Canada, M...
Creator:
Pittman, Kim
Created:
2021-03-25
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth