PICS Colloquium: “How reproducible is your research?”

Zoom - email kathom@seas.upenn.edu

Abstract: Each year vast international resources are wasted on irreproducible research. The scientific community has been slow to adopt standard software engineering practices, despite the increases in high-dimensional data, complexities of […]

PICS Colloquium: “Kinetic theory for superparameterization of sea ice dynamics”

PICS Conference Room 534 - A Wing , 5th Floor 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Arctic sea ice comprises of many ice floes whose dynamics is driven by oceanic/atmospheric currents and floe-floe interaction. Models of the effective sea ice dynamics  at large scales typically employ hydrodynamic equations of […]

CIS Seminar: “Sketching Algorithms”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Abstract: A "sketch" is a data structure supporting some pre-specified set of queries and updates to a database while consuming space substantially (often exponentially) less than the information theoretic minimum […]

MSE Seminar: “Lansdcapes of Glass”

Auditorium, LRSM Building 3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

If cooled sufficiently quickly, the disorder of a liquid can be "quenched" or locked in place; the resulting amorphous solid is glass. Although it appears to be solid on human […]