EPS Prize Lecture

EPS Prize Lecture Characterizing congenital amusia

The ability to make sense of the music in our environment involves sophisticated cognitive mechanisms that, for most people, are acquired effortlessly and in early life. A special population of individuals, with a disorder termed congenital amusia, report lifelong difficulties in this regard. Exploring the nature of this developmental disorder provides a window onto the cognitive architecture o...

Muller's Nobel Prize Lecture: when ideology prevailed over science.

This paper extends and confirms the report of Calabrese (Calabrese, E. J. (2011b). Muller's Nobel Lecture on dose-response for ionizing radiation: Ideology or science? Arch. Toxicol. 85, 1495-1498) that Hermann J. Muller knowingly made deceptive comments in his 1946 Nobel Prize Lecture (Muller, H. J. (1946). Nobel Prize Lecture. Stockholm, Sweden. Available at http://www.nobelprize.org/. Access...

GLUON CONDENSATE AND BEYOND The 1999 Sakurai Prize Lecture a

Nobel Lecture

Ladies and Gentlemen! It gives me great pleasure to be giving the Nobel Lecture before you. In it I shall be reporting on the results of my research for which the Royal Caroline Institute permit me here once again to give public expression of my deepest gratitude has awarded me the Nobel Prize. Naturally I can only present a fraction of these results and I shall have to content myself with tell...

Lecture 26 : Low Rank + Sparse and Fast Laplacian Solvers

subject to A = L+ S. Interestingly, this approach can be extended to situations in which a portion of the entries of A are missing or unknown. This is of great importance for recommender systems, which seek to use incomplete sets of user rankings to predict user preferences [1]. For a more detailed discussion, see Section 1.2 on the Netflix Prize in Lecture 25. Let Ω represent the set of known ...