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Smashing Particles up Against Mathematics
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - March 08, 2024 18:33 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsDr. Abiy Tasissa of Tufts University, discusses the mathematics he and colleagues used to study particle collider data, including optimal transport and optimization. Collider physics often result in distributions referred to as jets. Dr. Tasissa and his team used "Earth Mover's Distance"...
Supporting Wildlife with Statistics
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - February 16, 2024 14:33 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsDr. Outi Tervo of Greenland Institute for Natural Resources, shares how mathematics helps recommend speed limits for marine vessels, which benefits narwhals and Inuit culture. Narwhals "can only be found in the Arctic," said Outi Tervo, a senior scientist at GINR. "These species are going...
Explaining Wildfires Through Curvature
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - October 17, 2023 14:33 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsDr. Valentina Wheeler of University of Wollongong, Australia, shares how her work influences efforts to understand wildfires and red blood cells. In Australia, where bushfires are a concern year-round, researchers have long tried to model these wildfires, hoping to learn information that ...
Bridges and Wheels, Tricycles and Squares
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - October 13, 2023 14:33 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsDr. Stan Wagon of Macalester College discusses the mathematics behind rolling a square smoothly. In 1997, inspired by a square wheel exhibit at The Exploratorium museum in San Francsico, Dr. Stan Wagon enlisted his neighbor Loren Kellen in building a square-wheeled tricycle and accompany...
Bringing Photographs to Life
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - July 13, 2023 15:49 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsDr. Rekha Thomas from the University of Washington discusses three-dimensional image reconstructions from two-dimensional photos. The mathematics of image reconstruction is both simpler and more abstract than it seems. To reconstruct a 3D model based on photographic data, researchers and...
Giving Health Care Policy a Dose of Mathematics
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - April 05, 2023 14:49 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImelda Flores Vazquez from Econometrica, Inc. explains how economists use mathematics to evaluate the efficacy of health care policies. When a hospital or government wants to adjust their health policies — for instance, by encouraging more frequent screenings for certain diseases — how do...
Using Math to Support Cancer Research
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - December 29, 2022 06:39 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsStacey Finley from University of Southern California discusses how mathematical models support the research of cancer biology. Cancer research is a crucial job, but a difficult one. Tumors growing inside the human body are affected by all kinds of factors. These conditions are difficult (...
Keeping the Lights On
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - November 15, 2022 14:38 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsRodney Kizito from U.S. Department of Energy discusses solar energy, mathematics, and microgrids. When you flip a switch to turn on a light, where does that energy come from? In a traditional power grid, electricity is generated at large power plants and then transmitted long distances. B...
Driving Up Air Pollution
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - June 28, 2022 14:38 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsKaren Rios Soto explains how mathematics illuminates the link between air pollution from motor vehicle emissions and asthma. Air pollution causes the premature deaths of an estimated seven million people each year, and it makes life worse for all of us. People with asthma can experience c...
Deblurring Images
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - May 19, 2022 14:38 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsMalena Espanol explains how she and others use linear algebra to correct blurry images. Imagine snapping a quick picture of a flying bird. The image is likely to come out blurry. But thanks to mathematics, you might be able to use software to improve the photo. Scientists often deal with ...
Exploring Thermodynamics with Billiards
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - February 14, 2022 18:38 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsTim Chumley explains the connections between random billiards and the science of heat and energy transfer. If you've ever played billiards or pool, you've used your intuition and some mental geometry to plan your shots. Mathematicians have gone a step further, using these games as inspira...
Pinpointing How Genes Interact
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - October 21, 2021 18:38 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsLorin Crawford explains how he uses math to analyze interactions between genes. Your DNA (the biological instruction manual in all of your cells) contains a mind-boggling amount of information represented in roughly 20,000 genes that encode proteins, plus a similar number of genes with ot...
Securing Data in the Quantum Era
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - September 01, 2021 18:38 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsAngela Robinson explains the math behind the next generation of cryptographic algorithms. Whenever you log in to a website, send an email, or make an online purchase, you're counting on your data being sent securely, without hackers being able to crack the code. Our standard cryptographic...
Taking the "Temperature" of Languages
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - July 06, 2021 18:38 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsRicardo Bermudez-Otero and Tobias Galla discuss the mathematics describing the evolution of human languages. The sounds and structures of the world's approximately 7,000 languages never stop changing. Just compare the English in Romeo and Juliet or the Spanish in Don Quixote to the modern...
Doing the Math
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - May 24, 2021 18:38 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsMath may sometimes seem as if it's comprised of countless meaningless unconnected exercises, but in reality, it's much more. It's figuring out how to do something, and, even better, why something works the way it does. The math you're doing now can open doors for you so that you can answer deep q...
Making Room for Patients
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - April 26, 2021 18:38 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe've seen that the availability of hospital beds is important during a pandemic, and it's important during normal times as well. Whether it's for emergency medical help or for a scheduled procedure (for example, chemotherapy), access to hospital space, staff, and equipment can be a matter of lif...
Fighting Fires
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - March 22, 2021 18:38 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn many places, fire seasons keep getting longer with larger and ever more destructive wildfires. Teams of mathematicians, computer scientists, meteorologists, and firefighters are working to reduce the number of large fires before they happen and to contain those that do occur. Mark Finney talks...
Describing Dryland Vegetation Patterns
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - February 22, 2021 18:38 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsMath is often described as the science of patterns, which makes it a natural subject to help in the study of the underlying causes of patterns found in nature, for example, bands of vegetation that often occur on gently sloped terrains in certain near-desert ecosystems worldwide. We are starting ...
Mixing Math and Cooking
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - January 25, 2021 18:38 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsMath's connection with cooking extends beyond the mathematical constant that sounds like a dessert. For example, using differential equations to model fluid flow and heat transfer, research teams have found how spaghetti curls as it's cooked, how to rotate a pan to make the perfect crepe (thin pa...
Cracking Open Black Boxes
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - January 27, 2020 18:38 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsAlgorithms can be very useful, but lately, with so much data being created and shared, and with the increase in their use in critical areas such as hiring, credit, and health care, algorithms are under intense scrutiny about their fairness. People experience the effects of an algorithm's conclusi...
Solving the Mystery of the Wine Legs
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - October 21, 2019 18:38 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat causes wine legs (tears)? Andrea Bertozzi explains and describes how to generate legs.
Picturing Powehi
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - September 23, 2019 18:38 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsFumie Tazaki talks about creating the first image of a black hole and its shadow, which relied on Fourier transforms. About the work to make the image, she says, "Our collaboration has 200 members and we did it with all of our efforts."
Unmasking Deepfakes
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - September 23, 2019 18:35 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsHany Farid talks about fighting fake videos: "Mathematically, there's a lot of linear algebra, multivariate calculus, probability and statistics, and then a lot of techniques from pattern recognition, signal processing, and image processing."
Making Beautiful Mathematics
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - September 23, 2019 18:31 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsRob Schneiderman talks about the metaphorical connections between math and music
Keeping People Alive Part 2
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - August 19, 2019 19:23 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsSteven Strogatz and Mary Bushman talk about math's role in controlling HIV and understanding malaria, respectively. Mary Bushman says, "It's really cool to try and use math to nail down some questions that have gone unanswered for a really long time."
Keeping People Alive Part 1
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - August 19, 2019 19:20 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsSteven Strogatz and Mary Bushman talk about math's role in controlling HIV and understanding malaria, respectively. Mary Bushman says, "It's really cool to try and use math to nail down some questions that have gone unanswered for a really long time."
Making the Earth Flat
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - June 12, 2019 17:34 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsTom Patterson and Bojan Savric discuss the Equal Earth projection map that they created with Bernhard Jenny.
Screening for Autism
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - June 10, 2019 17:31 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsResearcher: Jordan Hashemi, Duke University Description: Jordan Hashemi talks about an easy-to-use app to screen for autism.
Unbunching Buses
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - June 09, 2019 17:24 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsResearchers: Vikash V. Gayah and S. Ilgin Guler, Pennsylvania State University Description: Gayah and Guler talk about mitigating the clustering of buses on a route.
Winning the Race
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society - June 02, 2019 17:16 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsResearcher: Christine Darden, NASA (retired) Description: Christine Darden on working at NASA.
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