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An account is presented of the special session on "Gender and Sexual Diversity Issues in Physics" which took place at the American Physical Society March Meeting 2012. The opinions of those who attended this session were solicited via an…
This is based on the after-dinner talk given at the 70th Birthday Conference for Michael E. Fisher at Rutgers in December, 2001. It is longer than the talk, incorporating additional text from the after-dinner talk I gave at Fisher's 60th…
A team of mobile agents, starting from different nodes of an unknown network, possibly at different times, have to meet at the same node and declare that they have all met. Agents have different labels and move in synchronous rounds along…
CIPANP 2009 is the tenth meeting of this series. I look back at some of the key events of past meetings, comment on a few of the presentations of this meeting, and look foward to the next CIPANP gathering, when first data from the LHC will…
We study a simple model of information propagation in social networks, where two quantities are introduced: the spread factor, which measures the average maximal fraction of neighbors of a given node that interchange information among each…
Rejoinder to ``Microarrays, Empirical Bayes and the Two-Groups Model'' [arXiv:0808.0572]
These are my lecture notes from a minicourse I gave at the Universite de Nantes about many-body scattering. I also discuss the relationship between many-body scattering and higher rank symmetric spaces, whose description is the result of…
GGR News: GGR program at the APS April meeting in Dallas We hear that..., 100 years ago, by Jorge Pullin Research Briefs: What's new in LIGO, by David Shoemaker LISA Pathfinder, by Paul McNamara Recent progress in binary black hole…
An exciting new algorithmic breakthrough has been advanced for how to carry out inferences in a Dempster-Shafer (DS) formulation of a categorical data generating model. The developed sampling mechanism, which draws on theory for directed…
These notes are a record of lectures given in the Workshop on Connections Between Algebra and Geometry at the University of Regina, May 29--June 1, 2012. The lectures were meant as an introduction to current research problems related to fat…
Invited review given at special session on Digitizing the Sky at 1994 Summer AAS meeting, Minnesota.
This is an expanded version of the notes of our lectures given at the conference "Current Developments in Mathematics 2003" held at Harvard University on November 21--22, 2003. We present an overview of the main definitions, results and…
Notes of an introductory course given at the conference "Torsors: Theory and Applications" in Edinburgh, January 2011.
These are notes based on a series of talks that the author gave at the "Interactions between hyperbolic geometry and quantum groups" conference held at Columbia University in June of 2009.
Research Briefs: Does the GSL imply an entropy bound?, by Warren G. Anderson A lightweight review of middleweight black holes, by Ben Bromley The physics of isolated horizons, by Daniel Sudarsky LIGO project update, by Stan Whitcomb Meeting…
These are the notes from my courses on the arithmetic of quadratic forms.
This rejoinder responds to discussions by of Caimo, Niezink, and Schweinberger and Fritz of ''A Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks'' by Krivitsky, Coletti, and Hens, all…
This is an extended abstract of my talk at the Oberwolfach Workshop "Algebraic Groups" (April 22 - 28, 2007). It is based on a joint work with H.Derksen and J.Weyman (arXiv:0704.0649v2 [math.RA]).
These are the expanded and detailed notes of the lectures given by the authors during the school and workshop entitled "Liaison and Related Topics," held at the Politecnico di Torino during the period October 1-5, 2001. In these notes we…
GGR News: The WYP speakers program, by Richard Price We hear that..., by Jorge Pullin 100 Years ago, by Jorge Pullin Research Briefs: What's new in LIGO, by David Shoemaker Recent developments in the information loss paradox, by Eanna…