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Space-time finite element methods (FEMs) are likely to grow in popularity due to the ongoing growth in the size, speed, and parallelism of modern computing platforms. The allure of space-time FEMs is both intuitive and practical. From the intuitive...

Kemeny's constant is an interesting and useful quantifier of how well-connected the states of a Markov chain are. Though it was first introduced in the 1960s, interest in this concept has recently exploded. This talk will provide an introduction to...

Prediction systems face exogenous and endogenous distribution shift -- the world constantly changes, and the predictions the system makes change the environment in which it operates. For example, a music recommender observes exogeneous changes in the...

Determining information about the state of a complex physical system from observations of its behavior is a fundamental problem in scientific inference and engineering design. Often, this can be formulated as the stochastic inverse problem of...

The behavior of quadratic twists of modular L-functions at the critical point is related both to coefficients of half integer weight modular forms and data on elliptic curves. Here we describe a proof of an asymptotic for the second moment of this...

Random geometric graphs were invented by E.N. Gilbert in 1961 to model communications networks. Bootstrap percolation was invented by Chalupa, Leath and Reich in 1979 to model magnetism. Both models have since been used to study many other things...

The ribosome exit tunnel is a sub-compartment of the ribosome that contains the nascent polypeptide chain and as such, is involved in the regulation of translation other essential functions such as protein folding. Analyzing and comparing the...

Random geometric graphs were invented by E.N. Gilbert in 1961 to model communications networks. Bootstrap percolation was invented by Chalupa, Leath and Reich in 1979 to model magnetism. Both models have since been used to study many other things...

Cell-free protein synthesis systems (CFPSS) constitute a powerful tool to study translation dynamics. We consider two different eukaryotic CFPSS (extracted from Rabbit Reticulocyte and Plasmodium Falciparum lysates), and compare how their translation...

Schrödinger operators with delta potentials are of longstanding interest for admitting solutions expressible in closed analytic forms. By some duality, these operators also receive new interest for solving moments of the continuum directed random...