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Describing the Oceans

Imagine trying to describe the circulation and temperatures across the vast expanse of our oceans. Good models of our oceans not only benefit fishermen on our coasts but farmers inland as well. Until recently, there were neither adequate tools nor enough data to construct models. Now with new data and new mathematics, short-range climate forecasting for example, of an upcoming El Nino is possible.There is still much work to be done in long-term climate forecasting, however, and we only barely understand the oceans. Existing equations describe ocean dynamics, but solutions to the equations are currently out of reach. No computer can accommodate the data required to approximate a good solution to these equations. Researchers therefore make simplifying assumptions in order to solve the equations. New data are used to test the accuracy of models derived from these assumptions. This research is essential because we cannot understand our climate until we understand the oceans. For More Information: What.s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol 1, Barry Cipra.




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Catching and Releasing: Part 2

There.s more mathematics involved in juggling than just trying to make sure that the number of balls (or chainsaws) that hits the ground stays at zero. Subjects such as combinatorics and abstract algebra help jugglers answer important questions, such as whether a particular juggling pattern can actually be juggled. For example, can balls be juggled so that the time period that each ball stays aloft alternates between five counts and one? The answer is Yes. Math also tells you that the number of balls needed for such a juggling pattern is the average of the counts, in this case three. Once a pattern is shown to be juggleable and the number of balls needed is known, equations of motion determine the speed with which each ball must be thrown and the maximum height it will attain. Obviously the harder a juggler throws, the faster and higher an object will go. Unfortunately hang time increases proportionally to the square root of the height, so the difficulty of keeping many objects in the air increases very quickly. Both math and juggling have been around for millennia yet questions still remain in both subjects. As two juggling mathematicians wrote, .A juggler, like a mathematician, is never finished: there is always another great unsolved problem.




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Catching and Releasing: Part 1

There.s more mathematics involved in juggling than just trying to make sure that the number of balls (or chainsaws) that hits the ground stays at zero. Subjects such as combinatorics and abstract algebra help jugglers answer important questions, such as whether a particular juggling pattern can actually be juggled. For example, can balls be juggled so that the time period that each ball stays aloft alternates between five counts and one? The answer is Yes. Math also tells you that the number of balls needed for such a juggling pattern is the average of the counts, in this case three. Once a pattern is shown to be juggleable and the number of balls needed is known, equations of motion determine the speed with which each ball must be thrown and the maximum height it will attain. Obviously the harder a juggler throws, the faster and higher an object will go. Unfortunately hang time increases proportionally to the square root of the height, so the difficulty of keeping many objects in the air increases very quickly. Both math and juggling have been around for millennia yet questions still remain in both subjects. As two juggling mathematicians wrote, .A juggler, like a mathematician, is never finished: there is always another great unsolved problem.




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Finding Friends: Part 1

Facebook has over 700 million users with almost 70 billion connections. The hard part isn.t people making friends; rather it.s Facebook.s computers storing and accessing relevant data, including information about friends of friends. The latter is important for recommendations to users (People You May Know). Much of this work involves computer science, but mathematics also plays a significant role. Subjects such as linear programming and graph theory help cut in half the time needed to determine a person.s friends of friends and reduce network traffic on Facebook.s machines by about two-thirds. What.s not to like? The probability of people being friends tends to decrease as the distance between them increases. This makes sense in the physical world, but it.s true in the digital world as well. Yet, despite this, the enormous network of Facebook users is an example of a small-world network. The average distance between Facebook users the number of friend-links to connect people is less than five. And even though the collection of users and their connections may look chaotic, the network actually has a good deal of structure. For example, it.s searchable. That is, two people who are, say, five friend-links away, could likely navigate from one person to the other by knowing only the friends at each point (but not knowing anyone.s friends of friends). For More Information: Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World, David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, 2010.




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Thinking Outside the Box Score - Math and basketball: Part 1

Muthu Alagappan explains how topology and analytics are bringing a new look to basketball.




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Getting Inside Your Head - The brain's communication pathways: Part 1

Van Wedeen talks about the geometry of the brain's communication pathways.




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Making an Attitude Adjustment: Part 1

Nazareth Bedrossian talks about using math to reposition the International Space Station.




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Unifying Diverse Cities: Part 1

Despite the considerable variety among cities, researchers have identified common mathematical properties that hold around the world, regardless of a city.s population, location or even time.




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Scheduling Sports

Michael Trick talks about creating schedules for leagues.




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Treating Tremors - Helping with Parkinson's disease - Part 1

Researcher: Christopher Butson, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah. Christopher Butson talks about work he's done to help treat Parkinson's disease.




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Going Over the Top - Designing roller coasters

Researcher: Meredith Greer, Bates College. Going Over the Top Description: Meredith Greer talks about math and roller coasters.




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Holding the Lead Description

Researcher: Sidney Redner, Santa Fe Institute
Moment: Moment Title: Holding the Lead Description: Sidney Redner talks about how random walks relate to leads in basketball.




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Adding a New Wrinkle Description

Researcher: Norbert Stoop, MIT
Title: Adding a New Wrinkle
Description: Norbert Stoop talks about new research on the formation of wrinkles.




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Scanning Ancient Sites

Researcher: Jackson Cothren, University of Arkansas
Moment Title: Scanning Ancient Sites
Description: Jackson Cothren talks about creating three-dimensional scans of ancient sites.




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Working With the System: Part 2

Researcher: Cristina Stoica, Wilfrid Laurier University
Description: Cristina Stoica talks about celestial mechanics.




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Thwarting Poachers: Part 2

Researcher: Thomas Snitch, University of Maryland
Description: Thomas Snitch talks about nabbing poachers with math.
Audio files: podcast-mom-poaching-1.mp3 and podcast-mom-poaching-2.mp3




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Dis-playing the Game of Thrones: Part 2

Researcher: Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College
Moment Title: Dis-playing the Game of Thrones
Description: Andrew Beveridge uses math to analyze Game of Thrones.




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Explaining Rainbows

Researcher: John A. Adam, Old Dominion University. John A. Adam explains the math and physics behind rainbows.




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Designing Better Bicycles

Researcher: Jim Papadopoulos, Northeastern University
Description: Jim Papadopoulos talks about his years of research analyzing bicycles.




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Hunting for Planets

Researcher: Konstantin Batygin, Caltech
Description: Konstantin Batygin talks about using math to investigate the existence of Planet Nine.




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Generating Patterns Part 2

Researcher: Michel C. Molinkovitch, University of Geneva Description: Michel C. Milinkovitch used math, physics, and biology for an amazing discovery about the patterns on a lizard's skin.




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Scoring with New Thinking

Researcher: Andy Andres, Boston University Moment: http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/mm136-baseball.pdf Andy Andres on baseball analytics.




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Going Into a Shell

Researcher: Derek Moulton, University of Oxford Moment: http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/mm138-shells.pdf Description: Derek Moulton explains the math behind the shapes of seashells.




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Revolutionizing and Industry

Researchers: Christopher Brinton, Zoomi, Inc. and Princeton University, and Mung Chiang, Purdue University Moment: http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/mm139-netflix.pdf Description: Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang talk about the Netflix Prize competition.




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Unbunching Buses

Researchers: Vikash V. Gayah and S. Ilgin Guler, Pennsylvania State University Description: Gayah and Guler talk about mitigating the clustering of buses on a route.




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Screening for Autism

Researcher: Jordan Hashemi, Duke University Description: Jordan Hashemi talks about an easy-to-use app to screen for autism.




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Making Beautiful Mathematics

Rob Schneiderman talks about the metaphorical connections between math and music




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Unmasking Deepfakes

Hany 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."




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When Your Passion Works Against You

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Housing Advocates Sound Alarm as May Rents Collide with Coronavirus

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The World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors

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In Effort to Stop Faulty Goods, China Asks Importers to Ensure PPE Meets Standards

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euromicron AG takes on Funkwerk as a strategic anchor investor

euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and specialist for networking business and production processes, has taken on Funkwerk AG, Kölleda, as a strategic anchor investor. Funkwerk AG is a leading provider of innovative communication, information and security systems and intends to acquire a total of up to around 28% of euromicron AG’s increased share capital following the implementation of the resolved capital measures.




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Letter from the Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, Evelyne Freitag, to shareholders

Dear Shareholders, As Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, I am contacting you personally today in advance of the Annual General Meeting to ask for your continued trust and support.




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euromicron AG improves earnings in first half of 2019

Consolidated sales of EUR 146.7 million EBITDA (before IFRS 16) increased strongly by EUR 3.8 million to EUR 2.1 million Forecast for 2019 as a whole confirmed Working capital ratio declines by 2 percentage points to 10.6% euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and specialist for the digital networking of business and production processes, published its preliminary figures for the first half of 2019 today.




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euromicron AG publishes 2019 Half-Year Report

Final half-year figures equivalent to the published figures EUR 3.8 million increase in EBITDA (before IFRS 16) shows improved quality of the margin Forecast for 2019 as a whole confirmed euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and specialist for the digital networking of business and production processes, published its report for the first half of 2019 today.




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euromicron AG bundles digital competencies and forms Digital Hub

euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and specialist for the digital support of business processes through secure infrastructures, is pooling its digital expertise at KORAMIS GmbH, the group subsidiary that specializes in cyber security and automation. With focus on digital platforms and services KORAMIS’ portfolio will also cover the areas Smart IoT, Smart Building as well as Data Management in the future. For this step the management of KORAMIS GmbH was extended by Andreas Schmidt.




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euromicron AG successfully completes 2019 capital increase

euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and expert on the digital networking of business and production processes, has now fully placed the capital increase it resolved on July 10, 2019.




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euromicron AG’s Annual General Meeting adopts all agenda items and elects new Supervisory Board

euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and expert on digital networking of business and production processes, held its Annual General Meeting 2019 in Frankfurt/Main on August 29, 2019. 42 percent of the share capital was represented. At the Annual General Meeting, the Executive Board reported on the operating performance in fiscal year 2018 and in the first half of 2019 and gave an outlook on the current fiscal year. One focus was on the implementation of the measures initiated to focus on and further develop the business model.




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euromicron involved in modernizing the campus of Kiel University

ssm euromicron GmbH, a system house subsidiary of euromicron AG, is involved in a project to provide the technical equipment for the new building for the Institute of Geosciences at Kiel’s Christian Albrechts University. The seven-story new building is part of a campus-wide modernization initiative that is one of the largest public high-rise projects in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.




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euromicron AG publishes its report on the third quarter of 2019

Final numbers for the first nine months match previously published figures Development of consolidated sales due to order postponements behind plan EBITDA (before IFRS 16) of €2.0 million and so slightly up year over year Capital increase completed successfully in the third quarter of 2019 Guidance for the whole of 2019 adjusted




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euromicron AG: New appointments to and expansion of the Executive Board of euromicron AG

The Supervisory Board of euromicron AG (WKN A1K030) announced a new appointment and expansion of the Executive Board of euromicron AG today, thus initiating a first step for a new phase in the realignment of the Group. Effective January 1, 2020, Dr. Michael Hofer will be appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Dr. Andreas Schmid Chief Operations Officer (COO) on the Executive Board of euromicron AG.




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Hydel blow away rivals to keep Champs title

Hydel, despite trailing their rivals for two straight days, easily retained their title




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'We are very, very satisfied'

Chris Gayle had every reason to celebrate West Indies' seven-wicket victory over Australia on Saturday




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Barnes no longer Jamaica's coach - Last-minute goal brings sweet victory over Panama

THERE'S nothing like the sweet taste of victory, especially when it's long in coming.