Time So Alive

So Many WAM Variations, So Little Time

So Many Zebras, So Little Time:

So much to do, so little time.

On October 15, we met to listen to a presentation by Marques Griffin from ChevronTexaco. He gave an overview of the entire oil production process and gave an idea of what types of positions his company had available. We also had this semester’s officer auction, where bidders could hire an officer for an hour to do such as things as cleaning or yard work. Our volleyball tournament to be held on ...

So many questions, so little time.

Fifteen years have elapsed since the first human infections with H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus were detected in Hong Kong SAR, China [1, 2]. Many of these human infections were fatal and represented the first documented outbreak of severe disease due to HPAI viruses. The hallmark of these H5N1 viruses is their hemagglutinin genes inherited from A/goose/Guangdong/1996, a vi...

So Much Data, So Little Time

Motivated by the need to cope with floods of data, algorithm design is undergoing profound changes. Self-improvement, online property-preserving filtering, uncertainty, sublinearity and property testing are all parts of the story. I will discuss some of these exciting developments with an emphasis on its geometric aspects.