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UrduEveryone knows 2 + 2 = 4, but what about mosquitoes plus malaria? Lauren Childs, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech, says there’s an equation for that too. Childs recently co-authored a report with a team from Harvard…
Tag: CALCULATIONS/PROBLEM-SOLVING
Exceptional engineering: Naval employees earn Black Engineer of the Year Awards
ARLINGTON, Va.–Four Department of the Navy (DoN) employees at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) won 2021 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) from the US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine. The magazine…
In response to Stephen Colbert, FAU professor says ‘spice it up’
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science professor makes complex equations more palatable using history
New research finds drive-through mass-vaccination clinics could alter COVID-19 trajectory
Researchers use data from the H1N1 pandemic to model pathway to achieve faster vaccination to stem COVID-19 crisis
3D model shows off the insides of a giant permafrost crater
Researchers from the Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and their Skoltech colleagues have surveyed the newest known 30-meter deep gas blowout crater on the Yamal Peninsula, which formed in the summer of 2020. The…
Comet or asteroid: What killed the dinosaurs and where did it come from?
New theory explains possible origin of the Armageddon-causing object.
Corn belt farmland has lost a third of its carbon-rich soil
UMass Amherst researchers used remote sensing to quantify the previously underestimated erosion
UrFU Mathematician’s new methods for solving optimal control problem of objects
Mathematician from Ural Federal University Yurii Averboukh, suggests new methods for solving optimal control problem of a group of objects by implementing the concept of dynamic stability by Krasovski and Subbotin
Scientists discovered new physical effects important for the ITER reactor operation
Researchers discovered new effects, which affect the energy flow in the reactor
Toshiba’s new algorithms quickly deliver highly accurate solutions to complex problems
Breaks the limitations of classical mechanics by introducing a quasi-quantum effect; expected to accelerate complex problem-solving in finance, pharmaceuticals and logistics
Solving complex physics problems at lightning speed
A calculation so complex that it takes twenty years to complete on a powerful desktop computer can now be done in one hour on a regular laptop. Physicist Andreas Ekström at Chalmers University of Technology, together with international research colleagues,…
Scientists develop method to detect fake news
Researchers develop robust approach for detecting market manipulation
Using zirconium as an additive in super-strong composite materials
Introducing a layer of zirconium atoms between sheets of aluminum oxide and tungsten carbide creates exceptionally strong composite materials
NSF awards Lehigh University $5.3M to renew NHERI experimental facility
Facility within Lehigh’s ATLSS Engineering Research Center will continue to provide unique experimental resources and data management for study of effects of natural hazards on civil infrastructure
Navigating uncertainty: Why we need decision theory during a pandemic
Modern decision theory can assist policymakers in critical times such as the COVID-19 crisis, argue Bocconi University’s Massimo Marinacci and Valentina Bosetti in a paper coauthored by Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen
When AI is used to set prices, can inadvertent collusion be a result?
New research points to the advantages and pitfalls of machine learning to set pricing
Using light to revolutionize artificial intelligence
An international team of researchers just introduced a new photonic processor
Scientists complete yearlong pulsar timing study after reviving dormant radio telescopes
RIT and IAR scientists outline the findings in a new Astrophysical Journal paper
Towards circular economy: European manufacturers tend not to report on their actions
After analyzing the data from 226 large manufacturing companies from the European Union, a team of researchers from Lithuania, Poland and Sweden have drawn a conclusion that organizations almost do not mention circular economy principles
New approach can improve COVID-19 predictions worldwide
Methods currently used for predicting the development of COVID-19 and other pandemics fail to report precisely on the best and worst case scenarios. Newly developed prediction method for epidemics, published in Nature Physics, solve this problem
Samara Polytech predicts the future of building structures exposed to heating
general mathematical model of the thermoelasticity equation is derived
Artificial intelligence sets sights on the sun
Scientists from the University of Graz and the Kanzelhöhe Solar Observatory (Austria) and their colleagues from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) developed a new method based on deep learning for stable classification and quantification of image quality…
Explained: Political polarization
Economic inequality can cause it; Reversing it is difficult
Bristol researchers publish significant step toward quantum advantage
Optimised quantum algorithms present solution to Fermi-Hubbard model on near-term hardware
Scientists model photoluminescence kinetics in semiconductor nanoplatelets for better optoelectroni
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues have built two models that accurately explain the light-emitting behavior of semiconductor nanoplatelets, minuscule structures that can become the building blocks for optoelectronics of the future. The paper was published in the journal Physical…
SPIE Press publishes Joe Goodman’s Fourier Transforms Using Mathematica®
The latest book from Fourier optics expert Goodman describes the properties of Fourier transforms and presents their modern applications utilizing this versatile software
The ever-elusive riddle: What’s the best way to cut Christmas cookies?
At some point in life, most people have stood over a rolled-out slab of cookie dough and pondered just how to best cut out cookies with as little waste as possible. Now, even math experts have given up on finding…
Optimal horse racing speed pinpointed by mathematical analysis
Article Title: “Optimal speed in Thoroughbred horse racing” Funding: QM funder: LabEx AMIES (ANR-10-LABX-0002-01) of Université Grenoble Alpes no grant number, program PEPS https:/ / www. agence-maths-entreprises. fr/ . The funders had no role in study design, data collection and…
AI reduces computational time required to study fate of molecules exposed to light
Light-induced processes are critical in transformative technologies such as solar energy harvesting, as well as in photomedicine and photoresponsive materials. Theoretical studies of the dynamics of photoinduced processes require numerous electronic structure calculations, which are computationally expensive. Scientists from the…
COVID19 A research of Politecnico di Milano discovering the secrets of viral sequences
The search engine ViruSurf discloses the changes of the genome of the virus responsible for the pandemics
Optimizing complex modeling processes through machine learning technologies
Texas A&M University researchers look for ways to solve complex modeling problems more accurately and efficiently
Lehigh’s Plasma Control Group awarded $1.5 million DOE grant for fusion research
Professor Eugenio Schuster leads new project at the National Spherical Torus Experiment Upgrade (NSTX-U) that will contribute to the eventual design of energy-producing tokamak reactors
Higher efficiency and longer lifetime for the next generation OLED
Shorter period of development realized by materials informatics
Palladium, meet copper: Skoltech researchers use machine learning to improve catalysts
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from Germany and the US have studied the properties and behavior of a palladium-copper alloy under changing temperatures and hydrogen concentrations, with highly relevant implications of this research for catalyst design. The paper was…
Scientists map and forecast apex predator populations at unprecedented scale
Where the wild things are: Scientists map and forecast apex predator populations at unprecedented scale. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), together with national and international collaborators, have developed statistical methods that allows mapping and forecasting of…
Hundreds of copies of Newton’s Principia found in new census
Findings suggest that Isaac Newton’s 17th-century masterpiece was more widely read
Russian scientists created a chemical space mapping method and cracked the mystery of Mendeleev number
Scientists had long tried to come up with a system for predicting the properties of materials based on their chemical composition until they set sights on the concept of a chemical space that places materials in a reference frame such…
Stanford-led team creates a computer model that can predict how COVID-19 spreads in cities
A study of how 98 million Americans move around each day suggests that most infections occur at “superspreader” sites, and details how mobility patterns help drive higher infection rates among minority and low-income populations.
Global fisheries could alleviate a global food emergency in extreme situations
A new international study argues that, if managed sustainably in advance, global fisheries could alleviate food shortages even after a nuclear war.
NIA awards Cleveland Clinic $2.6 million grant to develop automated screening for cognitive decline
Researchers aim to create, validate risk calculator and screening tool to identify and test high-risk individuals
Mathematical modeling of processes in neurons to assist the treatment of epilepsy and depression
Mathematical modeling of electro-mechanical processes in neurons to assist the treatment of epilepsy and chronic depression by focused ultrasound
Assessing consistency in meta-analysis: a new measure considers statistical power
Researchers have improved the assessment of consistency in meta-analysis. The improved consistency measure considers statistical power, and it has potential to alter the interpretation of meta-analyses. The new measure was published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science . Meta-analysis…
For the first time: Realistic simulation of plasma edge instabilities in tokamaks
Trigger and course of plasma instability explained / agreement with the experiment
Everyday Chaos by Brian Clegg, now available from the MIT Press
The mathematics of unpredictability, from the weather to the stock market
Hidden states of the COVID-19 spike protein
Computational and experimental research by joint UC Berkeley-ITU team seeks unknown vulnerabilities of coronavirus
Utilizing telemedicine in the ER can reduce wait times and patient length of stay
INFORMS Journal Information Systems Researc h New Study Key Takeaways: Increasing telemedicine availability in the emergency room (ER) significantly reduces the average patients’ hospital stay. Using telemedicine if there is a demand surge or supply shortage rapidly decreases ER hospital…
NYUAD study uses mathematical modeling to identify an optimal school return approach
Fast facts: In a recent study, NYU Abu Dhabi faculty Alberto Gandolfi proposes alternate weeks of in-classroom and remote teaching as a way to allow students to learn in the classroom while protecting them from COVID-19. The optimal strategy results…
Earthquake forecasting clues unearthed in strange precariously balanced rocks
Precariously balanced rocks (PBRs) are formations found throughout the world where a slender boulder is balanced precariously on a pedestal boulder. They form as blocks preserved on cliffs, or when softer rocks erode and leave the harder rocks behind. They…
Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum – Experiment to Experience
Over the past week, the diverse program of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) materialized one session at a time. Many aspects of the actual Forum were mirrored and though replicating the depth of in-person exchanges is impossible, compelling alternatives…
NYU Tandon releases 3-D data tracking human interactions outside of COVID hotspots
Study sets groundwork for machine learning models for virus transmission prediction