In this talk, Hande will give an overview of some of the best practices a data scientist should know. These will include topics like virtual environments, utilizing functions, code documentation and other things that you could start incorporating in your data science projects or coding in general. She will also include some quick tips and advice...
Creator:
Tuzel, Hande (Sabre Corporation)
Created:
2022-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Value creation in private equity investment portfolios is fundamental to delivering results for PE customers. Our focus is in the energy and transportation sectors, and by having deep understanding of how these industries work, we explore applications where advanced analytics and better use of data can create more efficient operations and growth...
Creator:
Einset, Erik (Global Infrastructures Partners)
Created:
2022-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
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:
Kileel, Joe (The University of Texas at Austin)
Created:
2022-02-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Food has always been a part of Emilee Xayanourom's life. She grew up making and eating authentic Lao dishes, and now owns a food truck with her family so that she can share her love of food with others in Minnesota.
Creator:
Xayanourom, Emilee
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-04-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ernesto's granddaughter Isabel talks about her experienes being from an immigrant family. Then, Ernesto is interviewed about his life in the Philippines and his perspective on his life as an immigrant in the U.S.
Creator:
Laderman, Isabel
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Clustering algorithms based on mean shift or spectral methods on graphs are ubiquitous in data analysis. However, in practice, these two types of algorithms are treated as conceptually disjoint: mean shift clusters based on the density of a dataset, while spectral methods allow for clustering based on geometry. In joint work with Nicolás ...
Creator:
Craig, Katy (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Created:
2022-02-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Modern learning algorithms such as deep neural networks operate in regimes that defy the traditional statistical learning theory. Neural networks architectures often contain more parameters than training samples. Despite their huge complexity, the generalization error achieved on real data is small. In this talk, we aim to study the generalizati...
Creator:
Seroussi, Inbar (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Created:
2022-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Many diseases are complex heterogeneous conditions that affect multiple organs in the body and depend on the interplay between several factors that include molecular and environmental factors, thus requiring a holistic approach in understanding the complexity and heterogeneity. In this talk, I will present some of our current statistical and ma...
Creator:
Safo, Sandra (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2022-02-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
In the context of numerical linear algebra algorithms, where it is natural to sacrifice accuracy in return for quicker computation of solutions whose errors are only slightly larger than optimal, the time-accuracy tradeoff of randomized sketching has been well-characterized. Algorithms such as Blendenpik and LSRN have shown that carefully design...
Creator:
Gittens, Alex (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Created:
2022-01-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Margaret Deirdre O'Hartigan is an Irish Catholic transsexual woman, transsexual health and rights activist, writer, and retired secretary and typesetter living in Portland, Oregon. Prior to her retirement, O'Hartigan was involved in a number of trans civil rights and nondiscrimination campaigns in Oregon, Washington, and Minnesota, including suc...
Creator:
O'Hartigan, Margaret Deirdre (interviewee)
Contributor:
Billund-Phibbs, Myra (interviewer, project manager, and transciber)
Created:
2022-04-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Lillian Gamm arrived at Ellis Island from Russia on April 19, 1910. While living in Manhattan, she worked hard as a bookkeeper, raised a family, and pursued her dreams.
Creator:
Feldman, Jonah
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-05-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Luu Nhat Tam Ngyuen moved to the U.S. with her mom and dad in 2019. Unfortunately, her sister was not able to join them because of her age. Luu Nhat Tam is the only person who can speak English in her family.
Creator:
Nguyen, Luu Nhat Tam
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-05-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
In this talk, I focus on the multivariate method of moments for parameter estimation. First from a theoretical standpoint, we show that in problems where the noise is high, the number of observations necessary to estimate parameters is dictated by the moments of the distribution. Second from a computational standpoint, we address the curse of di...
Creator:
Pereira, Joao (The University of Texas at Austin)
Created:
2022-04-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Adversarial training is a framework widely used by machine learning practitioners to enforce robustness of learning models. Despite the development of several computational strategies for adversarial training and some theoretical development in the broader distributionally robust optimization literature, there are still several theoretical quest...
Creator:
Garcia Trillos, Nicolas (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Created:
2022-03-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The assumption that high dimensional data is Gaussian is pervasive in many statistical procedures, due not only to its tail decay, but also to the level of analytic tractability this special distribution provides. We explore the relaxation of the Gaussian assumption in Single Index models and Shrinkage estimation using two tools that originate i...
Creator:
Goldstein, Larry (University of Southern California)
Created:
2022-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Sarah Reyes was born in the Phlippines and moved to the U.S. when she was in middle school. Though she faced a lot of racial discrimination in her first years of being here, she eventually found a Filipino American community that she is proud to be a part of now.
Creator:
Haakonsen, Malia
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-05-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
In recent years, the need to accommodate non-Euclidean structures in data science has brought a boom in deep learning methods on graphs, leading to many practical applications with commercial impact. In this talk, we will review the mathematical foundations of the generalization capabilities of graph convolutional neural networks (GNNs). We will...
Creator:
Levie, Ron (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Created:
2022-02-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The game of football is undergoing a significant shift towards the quantitative. Much of the progress made in the analytics space can be attributed to play-by-play data and charting data. However, recent years have given rise to tracking data, which has opened the door for innovation that was not possible before. In this talk I will describe ho...
Creator:
Eager, Eric (ProFootballFocus
Created:
2022-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Multimorbidity, the coexistence of two or more health conditions, has become more prevalent as mortality rates in many countries have declined and their populations have aged. Multimorbidity presents significant difficulties for Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS), particularly in cases where recommendations from relevant clinical guideline...
Creator:
Michalowski, Martin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2022-03-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Yeshi Gongpatsang was forced to flee her home country of Tibet in 1969 when the Chinese Communist Party invaded. When she came to the U.S., she still risked her life by doing a hunger strike to raise awareness about injustices in Tibet.
Creator:
Lobsang, Ngawang
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Yubin Sun was born in South Korea, went to college in Japan, and is now an international student at the University of Minnesota. Her journey was delayed because of Covid-19, but she is grateful for her experiences.
Creator:
Sun, Yubin
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
The Metropolis Algorithm is an extremely useful and popular method of approximately sampling from complicated probability distributions. "Adaptive" versions automatically modify the algorithm while it runs, to improve its performance on the fly, but at the risk of destroying the Markov chain properties necessary for the algorithm to be valid. I...
Creator:
Rosenthal, Jeffrey (University of Toronto)
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
In many scientific areas, a deterministic model (e.g., a differential equation) is equipped with parameters. In practice, these parameters might be uncertain or noisy, and so an honest model should provide a statistical description of the quantity of interest. Underlying this computational question is a fundamental one - If two "similar" functio...
Creator:
Sagiv, Amir (Columbia University)
Created:
2021-01-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Going from a scientific background into something that people haven't done comes with moments where you don't know what you're talking about... if you talk, that is. Admitting the times you don't know how your work can help and introducing your work when it may be able to help - that timing can be hard. I went from the field I was trained in...
Creator:
Oliver, Dean ( NBA's Washington Wizards)
Created:
2021-09-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Betula Ali's family moved from Somalia to Ethiopia during a war. They came to the U.S. in 2012. Though it has taken them some time to navigate the new culture, weather, and language, they have overcame all of their challenges by supporting each other.
Creator:
Ali, Betula
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-12-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Bridget Feeney grew up in the rural countryside of Ireland. She moved to the U.S. in 1900 to follow in her older sister's footsteps, and made a life for herself in Boston. Her great great granddaughter tells her story.
Creator:
Ferry, Jack
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-12-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Christopher Chavez's grandmother was born in El Salvador and his grandfather was born in Mexico. They met in Texas and moved into a house that Christopher was raised in. He reflects on his life with his family.
Creator:
Chavez, Christopher
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-09-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This sign was on the doors to the Library Annex building throughout Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. It reads: "The Library Annex is Closed for the Fall Semester. Need to connect with our Archives & Special Collections Department? If you need to connect with our Archives & Special Collections Department, please reach out to our Archives staff at: [con...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
3D printing and design allows us to physically experience complex mathematical objects. In this talk we’ll take a 3D-printed tour of mathematical knots, tessellations, fractals, and polyhedra. Using code and generative design we can create parametric models that leverage randomness to achieve structural variety or even organic-looking behavior. ...
Creator:
Taalman, Laura (James Madison University)
Created:
2021-02-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
The leading eigenvalue problem of a differential operator arises in many scientific and engineering applications, in particular quantum many-body problems. Due to the curse of dimensionality conventional algorithms become impractical due to the huge computational and memory complexity. In this talk, we will discuss some of our recent works on d...
Creator:
Lu, Jianfeng (Duke University)
Created:
2021-03-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
There are two signs on the door. The larger sign is red and gold (UMD's colors) and has a line drawing of a face mask. It reads: "+ STOP THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 + FACE COVERING REQUIRED. SEE ALL SAFETY GUIDELINES: [URL]." The smaller, postcard-sized sign is blue with yellow lettering and has an illustration of blue string lights. It reads: "THANK...
Creator:
Aue, Shana
Created:
2021-03-23
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
A small group of people waiting to be vaccinated in the Great Hall at the Duluth Depot. Also visible are chairs for waiting the required fifteen minutes after receiving a shot.
Created:
2021-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
These photographs were taken at the Duluth Curling Club on women's league night. Four of the photographs are of players on the ice at various points during a game. All players are wearing face masks. Appearing in the photos are Kristin Trelstad, Bethany Nyland, Jenna Pernu, and Mariah Davis-Vitiritto. The fifth image is of a sign at the curling ...
Creator:
Trelstad, Kristin; Trelstad, Jesse
Created:
2021-02
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Securing cyber systems is paramount, but cyber defenders lack evidence-based techniques required to make high-consequence decisions. With lack of principled and rigorous measurements and models, cyber defenders resort to heuristics and expert intuitions. Cyber experimentation is commonly used in security, and we approach this problem as a new ...
Creator:
Pinar, Ali (Sandia National Laboratories)
Created:
2021-02-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
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
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. ...
Beau Larsen is a white trans educator, scholar, and forensics coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, they were the Director of Forensics at Macalester College, where they directed and coached the mock trial, ethics bowl, and debate teams. Prior to their work at Macalester, Larsen was a graduate student and debate coac...
Bran Fenner is a Black transmasculine activist, consultant, educator, and ER and hospice nurse based in Brooklyn, New York. At the time of this interview, he was Director of People and Organizational Culture at the Transgender Law Center. Prior to his work at TLC, Fenner was the founder of the Education for Liberation Project, a co-director of F...
Canyon Carballosa is a white Cuban queer trans nonbinary dancer and movement maker based in Los Angeles. At the time of this oral history interview, they were working as a professional dancer, choreographer, and Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (YPAD)-educated dance instructor. In this oral history interview with Macalester College students H...
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.
Devi Peacock is a South Asian non-binary storyteller, performing artist and community organizer based in Oakland, California. At the time of this interview, they were the founding Artistic and Executive Director of Peacock Rebellion, an Oakland-based BIPOC, queer- and trans-led arts organization, as well as the co-organizer of the Liberated 23rd...
Dominique Morgan is a Black trans woman, prison abolition activist, and artist based in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time of this interview, Morgan was the Executive Director of Black and Pink, a nationwide prison abolitionist organization that provides direct services and support to currently and formerly incarcerated LGBTQIA+ people. Prior to her w...
Dr. Andrew D. Badley is Chair of the Mayo Clinic task force on SARS-CoV2 / COVID-19 research, where he oversees all research activities including clinical trials related to the virus and the disease. In this oral history interview, he discusses organizing the Mayo Clinic task force, research needs, priorities, and challenges relating to the pand...
Creator:
Badley, Dr. Andrew D (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-07-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Dr. Marci Bowers is a white woman with a lived trans experience, OB/GYN, and plastic surgeon specializing in gender affirming surgeries. At the time of this interview, she was the president-elect of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH,) and was in surgical practice in Burlingame, California, having previously practic...
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.
Dr. Rhys Preston is a white trans man, chiropractor, and trans health activist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time of this interview, he was practicing at his chiropractic clinic in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. In addition to his chiropratic work, Preston has taught on topics of anatomy, nutrition, trans health, and holistic ...
Creator:
Preston, Rhys (interviewee)
Contributor:
Billund-Phibbs, Myra (interviewer and project manager); Brenner-Adam, Katherine (transcriber)
Created:
2021-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Emerson Steiner Hayward is a white, Ashkenazi Jewish, trans-masc, and nonbinary individual based in St. Paul, Minnesota. In this oral history interview with Macalester College student Sarah Garrett-Engele, Hayward discusses their upbringing and early experiences of gender, their process of transition and coming to understand themself as a trans ...
Creator:
Steiner Hayward, Emerson (interviewee)
Contributor:
Garrett-Engele, Sarah (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager)
Created:
2021-11-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Hailey A Ockinga is an Alaskan Native / Tlingit trans woman, anti-incarceration activist, and community organizer based in Washington state. At the time of this interview, she was Executive Director of Beyond These Walls, a direct support and political advocacy organization run by and for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated transgender and ge...
Creator:
Ockinga, Hailey (interviewee)
Contributor:
Billund-Phibbs, Myra (interviewer and project manager); Chamness, Daria (transcriber)
Created:
2021-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
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...
Jack Martin is a co-founder and director of Southside Harm Reduction Services. Nicholas Henderson is program director of Southside Harm Reduction Services. In this oral history interview, they discuss their initial thoughts on the pandemic in relation to Southside Harm Reduction Services and its programming, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the role of Mi...
Creator:
Henderson, Nicholas (interviewee); Martin, Jack (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Jacqueline Ann Dionne is American Indian Health Director and a Tribal Liaison with the Minnesota Department of Health and a member of the MDH's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Advisory Group. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts about the pandemic for Minnesota's Native American populations, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, her r...
Creator:
Dionne, Jacqueline Ann (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-08-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Jacsen Callanan is a white masculine trans health organizer and educator based in rural Vermont. At the time of this oral history interview, he was working in the NICU (newborn/neonatal intensive care unit) at the University of Vermont Medical Center while preparing for medical school, and as a swim coach for a youth team in northern Vermont. Pr...
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 ...
Jonathan Hanft is the Ryan White Community Health Program Supervisor in the Hennepin County Public Health Department, leading the Twin Cities metro area's Ryan White Part A program. In this oral history interview, he discusses his initial thoughts about the pandemic as a public health professional, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the role of the Ryan Whi...
Creator:
Hanft, Jonathan (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-12-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kathleen Clark is a nurse, Executive Director of the Augsburg Health Commons, and Assistant Professor of Nursing at Augsburg University. In this oral history interview, she discusses nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges therein, the interplay and similiarities between HIV/AIDS, SARS, and COVID-19, healthcare through the...
Creator:
Clark, Kathleen (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Katie Burgess is a white trans woman, community organizer, social worker, trans activist, and theatre artist based in Minneapolis. At the time of this oral history interview, she was a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Open Flame Theatre, an all-trans theatre ensemble based in Minneapolis and western Wisconsin, and additionally worked as a social wo...
Creator:
Burgess, Katie (interviewee)
Contributor:
Billund-Phibbs, Myra (interviewer and project manager); Brenner-Adam, Katherine (transcriber)
Created:
2021-11-16; 2021-11-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kelly V. Robinson is a Nurse Care Coordinator with Westat Research and founder of the Minnesota chapter of Black Nurses Rock, Inc. In this oral history interview, she discusses the pandemic's occurrence in the first months of founding Minnesota's Black Nurses Rock chapter, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the work of Black nurses in Minnesota during the p...
Creator:
Robinson, Kelly V (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-16
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.
Kristie Rathmanner is a Wright County Public Health Nurse in the Health Promotion Unit and a member of the MDH's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Advisory Group. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts on the pandemic as a public health nurse, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic on public health, the role of t...
Creator:
Rathmanner, Kristie (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Mary C. Turner is an ICU Nurse in the COVID unit of North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, the President of the Minnesota Nurses Association, and the only RN appointed to President Biden's COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts on the pandemic as an ICU nurse, HIV/AIDS an...
Creator:
Turner, Mary C (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-08-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Masen Davis is a white trans man, political organizer, and nonprofit executive based in Berlin. At the time of this interview, he was the Executive Director of Transgender Europe (TGEU,) a network of European trans advocacy and activist organizations. Prior to his work with TGEU, he was the Executive Director of the advocacy and lobbying group F...
Nico Amador is a Latinx trans man, community organizer, trainer, educator, and writer based in Vermont. At the time of this interview, he was the Director of Operations at People's Hub, an online movement school and training hub, and was also pursuing an MFA at Bennington College's Writing Seminars. Prior to his time in Vermont, Amador worked as...
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 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 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.
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
