Display Week 2018 Snapshots

Culture , politics clash at World Week display

The Albany Slate wrestling team continued on their record setting pace by finishing seventh in the country and having four wrestlers earn All-American honors. The Danes competed in the NCAA Division 111 National Championships in Whcaion, Illinois last Friday and Saturday and came back to Albany sporting their finest performance ever in the nationals. Andy Seras was named an All-Amcrican for the...

Snapshots.

Announcement: National Birth Defects Prevention Month and Folic Acid Awareness Week — January 2018

The Zika virus outbreak and response led to renewed focus on how infections can increase the risk for having a baby born with a birth defect. “Prevent Infections for Baby’s Protection” is the theme of January 2018’s National Birth Defects Prevention Month. Birth defects are common, costly, and critical conditions that affect one in 33 U.S. babies annually (1). Not all birth defects can be preve...

CombinaTexas 2018 February 10 – 11 , 2018

In this talk we give combinatorial proofs of q-Stirling identities using restricted growth words. This includes a poset theoretic proof of Carlitz’s identity, a new proof of the q-Frobenius identity of Garsia and Remmel and of Ehrenborg’s Hankel q-Stirling determinantal identity. We also develop a two parameter generalization to unify identities of Mercier and include a symmetric function versi...

Lazy Snapshots

Determining the global state of distributed systems is an important problem in the absence of global memory and global clocks. Several algorithms have been proposed for collecting global states. This paper presents an optimization to the algorithm proposed by Chandy and Lamport that lets processes in a distributed system take a lazy approach to recording their state. The lazy optimization relax...