by Jim Kennington | Feb 11, 2025 | Meetings
Admin Items Reminder of content schedule This Week’s Finds No finds this week. Focus Session: Joshua delivered a talk on how spinors arise in physics, including how they were discovered historically. Introduction to Spinors: An overview of what...
by Jim Kennington | Feb 4, 2025 | Meetings
Admin Items Reminder of content schedule This Week’s Finds No finds this week. Focus Session: Jim delivered a talk on simplicial complexes with the primary goal of laying the groundwork for our upcoming discussion on homology. Key points from the...
by Jim Kennington | Jan 27, 2025 | Meetings
For the fall semester of 2024, the weekly MAP Seminar notes were paused in favor of a more comprehensive set of lecture notes. These lecture notes have been drafted and shared with the MAP Seminar members, and are available upon request (not posted here since they are...
by Jim Kennington | Jun 27, 2024 | Meetings
Admin Items Summer Schedule: approximately 1 / mo This Week’s Finds Statistical Tests of Distribution Similarity Joshua introduced a problem originating from a research question on the distribution of black hole masses in the universe. The mathematical...
by Jim Kennington | Apr 23, 2024 | Meetings
Admin Items Feedback Survey Summer Survey This Week’s Finds We skipped finds this week to allow for a full focus session. Focus Session: Jim and Joshua presented on the application of this semester’s readings to cosmology, specifically on the...
by Jim Kennington | Apr 16, 2024 | Meetings
Admin Items Summer Survey Feedback Survey This Week’s Finds We had quite a few interesting finds this week. Heaviside Kernels and Physical Solutions Joshua introduced the the question of choice of kernel function, sometimes called a window function,...
