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Tag: mathematics

  • Energy Dept to Fund Minnesota Chemistry Computation Centers

    University of Minnesota’s chemistry department received two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy for research on software and computational methods on materials from nanotechnology and systems for transporting solar energy. The two five-year grants total $13.1 million, and will be shared by other universities and national labs. The Nanoporous Materials Genome Center, headed by…

  • Math Model Identifies Network Source of Rumors, Epidemics

    Computer scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) devised mathematical routines to dissect interactions in a network to uncover the source of epidemics and rumors, as well as criminal masterminds. Results of the research led by Pedro Pinto of EFPL’s Audiovisual Communications Laboratory appear today in the journal Physical Review Letters…

  • Imaging Technology Devised to Identify Infection Response

    Researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville developed techniques using current imaging technologies to generate a three-dimensional view of the body’s response to infection. The findings of the team led by pathologist Eric Skaar (pictured right) appear in a recent issue of the journal Cell Host and Microbe; paid subscription required. The Vanderbilt team combines magnetic…

  • Control Algorithm Developed to Fly Robot Aircraft Indoors

    Aeronautical and computer engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology built and tested an autonomously driven fixed-wing model aircraft guided by algorithms that let it navigate a complex indoor flight space. The team from MIT’s Robust Robotics Group describe their invention in a paper presented in May at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.…

  • UC San Diego, Yale to Build Neuroscience Gateway

    University of California in San Diego and Yale University are developing an online gateway to provide high-performance computational tools for neuroscientists. The Neuroscience Gateway project is funded by a three year, $707,000 grant from National Science Foundation. UC San Diego will make available its supercomputer center and Neuroscience Information Framework for neuroscientists to access advanced…

  • Algorithm Taps Twitter Archive to Find Bullying Cases

    Researchers at University of Wisconsin in Madison developed a method for analyzing Twitter messages to find tweets, as Twitter messages are called, with evidence of childhood bullying. Educational psychologist Amy Bellmore (pictured left) and colleagues from Wisoconsin’s psychology and computer science departments presented their findings at a North American chapter meeting of the Association for…

  • Interactive Time-Lapse Landsat Images Now Available

    Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh developed a capability to assemble and view time-lapse images of earth collected from NASA Landsat satellites over the past 13 years. The team from CMU’s Robotics Institute, working with colleagues at Google and the U.S. Geological Survey, created this feature by extending GigaPan technology for capturing and assembling…

  • Start-Up Licenses National Lab-Developed Network Technology

    Two computer scientists at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee developed wireless network simulation technology, then started up a company to take that technology to market. Oak Ridge Lab licensed Radio Channel Simulator, or RCSim, technology for software development and commercialization to Networcsim LLC, a company formed by the technology’s inventors James Nutaro and Phani…

  • Computer Simulation Models Effects of HIV Policies

    A Brown University epidemiologist developed a computer simulation that can model the spread of HIV in New York City, under various scenarios of interventions. Brandon Marshall (pictured left) discusses his work in two sessions at this week’s International AIDS Society Conference in Washington, D.C. The model creates a community of individual actors, who engage in…

  • New Method Devised to Predict Distributed Grid Power

    Computer scientists at University of Southampton in the U.K. have developed mathematical techniques that encourage accurate predictions of distributed electric power contributions to regional power grids. The work of Valentin Robu and colleagues from Southampton’s Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group was presented this week at the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Toronto. As…