Quantum mechanical electronic structure calculations are playing an increasingly useful role in many areas of mineralogy and geochemistry. This review introduces the density functional method for such calculations, gives an overview of the density functionals developed at the University of Minnesota, and summarizes selected applications using these density functionals that are relevant to miner...

When Game Theory began to take off, the games that propelled it were The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Colonel Blotto. The Prisoner’s Dilemma, perhaps the most popular of games, thrived through much of its history, because of its broad applications. Its lesser known cousin, Blotto, sadly did not fare so well. In this paper, I show that equilibria can be found computationally by playing a large number ...

In this paper, two games that play a role in creating a cancer tumor and suppression are studied using evolutionary game theory and its different modes are analyzed. The first game is the competition between a cancer cell and a healthy cell to receive food through the blood. In the second game, the interaction between the two oncogenes Ras and Myc is examined for cellular deformation

The idea that a seemingly frivolous activity such as play can promote children's literacy development is very intriguing and has prompted a large amount of research activity over the past several decades. In order to assess the status of this line of inquiry and provide guidance for future research, we undertook a critical analysis of 20 recent investigations of the playliteracy interface. We f...

Generalized Pareto distribution play an important role in reliability, extreme value theory, and other branches of applied probability and statistics. This family of distributions includes exponential distribution, Pareto distribution, and Power distribution. In this paper, we established exact expressions and recurrence relations satisfied by the quotient moments of generalized order statistic...

We introduce a misere quotient semigroup construction in impartial combinatorial game theory, and argue that it is the long-sought natural generalization of the normal-play Sprague-Grundy theory to misere play. Along the way, we illustrate how to use the theory to describe complete analyses of two wild taking and breaking games.

Effective field theories are playing an increasing role in the study of a wide variety of physical phenomena, from W and Z interactions to superconductivity. Regarding the subject of this talk, we have known for years that the low energy strong interactions of nucleons and pions are well described in the tree approximation by an effective field theory, with Lagrangian[1] Leff = − ∂μ~π · ∂~π 2(1...