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This online book contains the proceedings of a meeting held at Michigan State University to celebrate the career and contributions of Horace A Smith. The meeting focused on the areas of astronomy which Horace worked on over the years and…
Steven Weinberg was a giant of late 20th Century physics on whose shoulders we stand while groping for the science of the 21st Century. This article provides a too-brief summary of a selection of his many achievements -- eight decades of…
The article retraces major events and milestones in the mutual influences between mathematical logic and computer science since the 1950s.
We discuss the legacy of Alan Turing and his impact on computability and analysis.
GGR News: -we hear that..., by David Garfinkle -News from the GRG Society, by Abhay Ashtekar -LIGO/GEO/Virgo work together, by Peter Saulson -GWIC Ten Years on, by Stan Whitcomb Research Briefs: -Quasi-local energy, by Bjoern S. Schmekel…
This is a comment on "Universal Fluctuations in Correlated Systems", by Bramwell et al, Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 3744 (2000.
This paper summarizes and discusses the methodological research in human genetic linkage analysis, leading up to and following from the paper of C. A. B. Smith presented as a Royal Statistical Society discussion paper in 1953. This paper…
This a biographical essay about Edsger Wybe Dijkstra.
I comment on the paper hep-th/9808013 by A. Berkovich and B.M. McCoy.
Discussion on "Regression by Composition" by Farewell, Daniel, Stensrud, and Huitfeldt.
In this paper, we are interested in the estimates of the Dunkl Kernel on some special sets, following the work of M.F.E. de Jeu and M. R\"{o}sler in \cite{R3}.
These are abstracts of most of the papers up to publication no. [Sh:143] (and [Sh:217]), mostly compiled in 1980/81 with R. Grossberg. Also more details than in the originals were added in [Sh:5], [Sh:8] [Sh:217], and [C2], [C3] were added…
The Classification Literature Automated Search Service, an annual bibliography based on citation of one or more of a set of around 80 book or journal publications, ran from 1972 to 2012. We analyze here the years 1994 to 2011. The…
A brief remembrance of some aspects of the author's scientific interaction with Stephen Hawking. A contribution to Physics Today's March 14, 2018 web page in which Stephen Hawking is remembered by his colleagues.
This is a recollection of the UC Berkeley Postgres project, which was led by Mike Stonebraker from the mid-1980's to the mid-1990's. The article was solicited for Stonebraker's Turing Award book, as one of many personal/historical…
Contribution to the volume "In Memory of Steven Weinberg" to appear in Nuclear Physics B.
Discussion of "Bayesian Models and Methods in Public Policy and Government Settings" by S. E. Fienberg [arXiv:1108.2177]
For Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (Springer Verlag). No abstract. I. Definition and Introduction II. Methods III. Quantities and Exponents IV. Fractal Dimension; Incipient Infinite Cluster V. Simple Renormalisation Group…
Models of random phylogenetic networks have been used since the inception of the field, but the introduction and rigorous study of mathematically tractable models is a much more recent topic that has gained momentum in the last 5 years.…
A biographical profile of the theoretical physicist, Julian Schwinger, and a discussion of "The Memories of Julian" Centennial Celebration (held at Harvard University on February 12, 2018) is presented herein.