Research Assistant Professor, Genetics and Neurodevelopment, The Rockefeller University, 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow/Res. Associate, Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics, The Rockefeller University, 2004 Ph.D., Integrated program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1995 B.A. Biochemistry,U...

The problem is to identify a probability associated with a set of natural numbers, given an infinite data sequence of elements from the set. If the given sequence is drawn i.i.d. and the probability mass function involved (the target) belongs to a computably enumerable (c.e.) or co-computably enumerable (co-c.e.) set of computable probability mass functions, then there is an algorithm to almost...

In this video Q&A, we talk to Paul Wicks about the emergence of participant-led research, and discuss how this field may be expected to develop in the near future, particularly with regard to personalized medicine.

An increasing number of published accounts (e.g., Cress and Kimmerle 2008; Kane and Fichman 2009; Wagner and Majchrzak 2007; Yates et al. 2010) describe Wikis and their impact on knowledge aggregation from many contributors. In this appendix, we extend these accounts to explain the specific mechanisms that cause Wiki-based efforts to succeed in the creation and maintenance of knowledge assets w...

Accuracy in the philosophical theory of rationality demands that we recognize particular beliefs as arising within the context of larger units, the cultural or conceptual schemes, patterns, or practices, involvement in which itself provides standards and grounds for their rational evaluation. At the same time, though, a satisfactory account of rationality cannot hold the standards, values, or c...

Paul Conduit was a research assistant in John Kilmartin's lab at the MRC/LMB in Cambridge, UK, before beginning his PhD in 2006 with Jordan Raff. In 2010 he moved with Jordan from the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge to the University of Oxford, where he continued his work as a postdoctoral fellow. Paul is now a Sir Henry Dale Wellcome Fellow at the University of Cambridge and has been a group lea...

Abstract. Active subspaces can effectively reduce the dimension of high-dimensional parameter studies enabling otherwise infeasible experiments with expensive simulations. The key components of active subspace methods are the eigenvectors of a symmetric, positive semidefinite matrix whose elements are the average products of partial derivatives of the simulation’s input/output map. We study a M...

Three species of the genus Pseudovelia Hoberlandt, 1950 from China are described as new: Pseudovelia recava sp. nov. from Guizhou, P. sichuanensis sp. nov. from Sichuan and P. spiculata sp. nov. from Taiwan. Photographs of the male dorsal habitus, male forelegs, male middle legs, male hind legs, details of the fore tibia and hind tarsus, and genitalic structures are provided, accompanied by lin...