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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarity%20%28physics%29
In quantum physics, unitarity is (or a unitary process has) the condition that the time evolution of a quantum state according to the Schrödinger equation is mathematically represented by a unitary operator. This is typically taken as an axiom or basic postulate of quantum mechanics, while generalizations of or departu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Are%20the%20Physics
We Are the Physics was an indie band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band drew influences from new wave, pop, indie, and math rock, and had a "B-movie" aesthetic. History We Are the Physics hailed from Glasgow, Scotland, and were founded in 2005. Originally known as We Are the Physics Club And Therefore, Everything We Say...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-binding
Non-binding or nonbinding may refer to Nonbinding allocation of responsibility (NBAR) in a superfund Non-binding authority in law Non-binding arbitration Non-binding constraint, mathematics Non-binding opinion in patent law: International preliminary report on patentability objective Non-binding opinion (Unite...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMF
In cryptography, CDMF (Commercial Data Masking Facility) is an algorithm developed at IBM in 1992 to reduce the security strength of the 56-bit DES cipher to that of 40-bit encryption, at the time a requirement of U.S. restrictions on export of cryptography. Rather than a separate cipher from DES, CDMF constitutes a ke...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%20%28chemistry%29
In chemistry, folding is the process by which a molecule assumes its shape or conformation. The process can also be described as intramolecular self-assembly, a type of molecular self-assembly, where the molecule is directed to form a specific shape through noncovalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, metal coo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylarsine
Trimethylarsine (abbreviated TMA or TMAs) is the chemical compound with the formula (CH3)3As, commonly abbreviated AsMe3 or TMAs. This organic derivative of arsine has been used as a source of arsenic in microelectronics industry, a building block to other organoarsenic compounds, and serves as a ligand in coordination...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-polynomial
In mathematics, a quasi-polynomial (pseudo-polynomial) is a generalization of polynomials. While the coefficients of a polynomial come from a ring, the coefficients of quasi-polynomials are instead periodic functions with integral period. Quasi-polynomials appear throughout much of combinatorics as the enumerators for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ%20Altman
Russ Biagio Altman is an American professor of bioengineering, genetics, medicine, and biomedical data science (and of computer science, by courtesy) and past chairman of the bioengineering department at Stanford University. Education Altman holds an A.B. from Harvard College in 1983, a Ph.D. in medical information sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittag-Leffler%20star
In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Mittag-Leffler star of a complex-analytic function is a set in the complex plane obtained by attempting to extend that function along rays emanating from a given point. This concept is named after Gösta Mittag-Leffler. Definition and elementary properties Formally, th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, Anderson's theorem is a result in real analysis and geometry which says that the integral of an integrable, symmetric, unimodal, non-negative function f over an n-dimensional convex body K does not decrease if K is translated inwards towards the origin. This is a natural statement, since the graph of f ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shephard%27s%20problem
In mathematics, Shephard's problem, is the following geometrical question asked by Geoffrey Colin Shephard in 1964: if K and L are centrally symmetric convex bodies in n-dimensional Euclidean space such that whenever K and L are projected onto a hyperplane, the volume of the projection of K is smaller than the volume o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%27s%20first%20inequality%20for%20convex%20bodies
In mathematics, Minkowski's first inequality for convex bodies is a geometrical result due to the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski. The inequality is closely related to the Brunn–Minkowski inequality and the isoperimetric inequality. Statement of the inequality Let K and L be two n-dimensional convex bodies in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MA%20plot
Within computational biology, an MA plot is an application of a Bland–Altman plot for visual representation of genomic data. The plot visualizes the differences between measurements taken in two samples, by transforming the data onto M (log ratio) and A (mean average) scales, then plotting these values. Though original...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveh%20Pahlavan
Kaveh Pahlavan ( born in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran), is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and the director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. Pahlavan started doing research on Wi-Fi when it was in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate
Rate or rates may refer to: Finance Rates (tax), a type of taxation system in the United Kingdom used to fund local government Exchange rate, rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another Mathematics and science Rate (mathematics), a specific kind of ratio, in which two measurements are related to each...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo%20Sarrey
Domingo Sarrey (Santander, Cantabria, Spain 1948) is a visual artist and video artist. His first video art piece was generated in the Computing Centre of Madrid Complutense University in 1968, while studying physics, although he had already carried out other cinematic creations in 8 mm. He was the first artist in cre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%20series%20representation
In mathematics, the principal series representations of certain kinds of topological group G occur in the case where G is not a compact group. There, by analogy with spectral theory, one expects that the regular representation of G will decompose according to some kind of continuous spectrum, of representations involvi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidation%20of%20primary%20alcohols%20to%20carboxylic%20acids
The oxidation of primary alcohols to carboxylic acids is an important oxidation reaction in organic chemistry. When a primary alcohol is converted to a carboxylic acid, the terminal carbon atom increases its oxidation state by four. Oxidants able to perform this operation in complex organic molecules, featuring other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20valve
A sun valve (Swedish: solventil, "solar valve") is a flow control valve that automatically shuts off gas flow during daylight. It earned its inventor Gustaf Dalén the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics. Subsequently other variants of sun valve were developed for different uses. Dalén's valve The valve was the key component ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanxin
Hanxin () was an notorious Chinese academic fraudulence case, committed in the name of a digital signal processing (DSP) microchip. Chen Jin, a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University claimed to have developed the chip in 2003. The Hanxin 1 was reportedly the first DSP chip to have been wholly developed in China. Ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section%20%28category%20theory%29
In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a section is a right inverse of some morphism. Dually, a retraction is a left inverse of some morphism. In other words, if and are morphisms whose composition is the identity morphism on , then is a section of , and is a retraction of . Every section is a monomorphism ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed
Closed may refer to: Mathematics Closure (mathematics), a set, along with operations, for which applying those operations on members always results in a member of the set Closed set, a set which contains all its limit points Closed interval, an interval which includes its endpoints Closed line segment, a line segm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20of%20Congress%20Classification%3AClass%20Q%20--%20Science
Class Q: Science is a classification used by the Library of Congress Classification system. This article outlines the subclasses of Class Q. Q - Science (General) 1-390.......Science (General) 1-295......General 300-390....Cybernetics 350-390...Information theory QA - Mathematics 1-939..............Mathematics 1-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Hunter%20%28trader%29
Brian Hunter (born c. 1974) is a Canadian former natural gas trader for the now closed Amaranth Advisors hedge fund. Amaranth had over $9 billion in assets but collapsed in 2006 after Hunter's gamble on natural gas futures market went bad. Early life Hunter grew up near Calgary, Alberta, and earned a master's degree i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelfand%E2%80%93Graev%20representation
In representation theory, a branch of mathematics, the Gelfand–Graev representation is a representation of a reductive group over a finite field introduced by , induced from a non-degenerate character of a Sylow subgroup. The Gelfand–Graev representation is reducible and decomposes as the sum of irreducible representa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%20Needs%20a%20303
"Everybody Needs a 303" is the debut single by British big beat artist Fatboy Slim, released in 1996 from his debut album Better Living Through Chemistry. The original version of the single peaked at number 191 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was remixed as "Everybody Loves a Carnival" and released as a single; this ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul%20Penin
Jean-Paul Penin is a French conductor. Biography Jean-Paul Penin is a graduate of the Strasbourg Conservatory of Music (double bass, chamber music, 1978) and the University of Strasbourg where he obtained a PhD. in biophysics in 1974 and a Master's degree in musicology in 1978. He went on to the Paris Conservatoire Na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20zeta%20function
In mathematics, the prime zeta function is an analogue of the Riemann zeta function, studied by . It is defined as the following infinite series, which converges for : Properties The Euler product for the Riemann zeta function ζ(s) implies that which by Möbius inversion gives When s goes to 1, we have . This is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokon
Mokon is a division of Protective Industries, Inc. from Buffalo, New York, United States. It is also the brand name of the circulating liquid temperature control systems delivering fluid temperatures from that are designed and manufactured by this division. Created from the need for "mold control", the company's cor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics%20conventions
There are many conventions used in the robotics research field. This article summarises these conventions. Line representations Lines are very important in robotics because: They model joint axes: a revolute joint makes any connected rigid body rotate about the line of its axis; a prismatic joint makes the connecte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20von%20Siemens
Ernst Albrecht von Siemens (9 April 1903 in Kingston upon Hull, England – 31 December 1990 in Starnberg) was a German industrialist. Life Siemens was born in England when his father Carl Friedrich von Siemens was director of Siemens Brothers and returned to Germany after his father became head of Siemens-Schuckertwer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive-definite%20function%20on%20a%20group
In mathematics, and specifically in operator theory, a positive-definite function on a group relates the notions of positivity, in the context of Hilbert spaces, and algebraic groups. It can be viewed as a particular type of positive-definite kernel where the underlying set has the additional group structure. Definiti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%202%20organometallic%20chemistry
Group 2 organometallic chemistry refers to the chemistry of compounds containing carbon bonded to any group 2 element. By far the most common group 2 organometallic compounds are the magnesium-containing Grignard reagents which are widely used in organic chemistry. Other organmetallic group 2 compounds are rare and are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage%20theorem
In mathematics, particularly in the field of differential topology, the preimage theorem is a variation of the implicit function theorem concerning the preimage of particular points in a manifold under the action of a smooth map. Statement of Theorem Definition. Let be a smooth map between manifolds. We say that a p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano%20Cristiani
Stefano Cristiani, (born 4 November 1958) is an Italian astronomer and astrophysicist. Career Cristiani graduated in Physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, carrying out his thesis work at the Asiago Astrophysical Observatory. He held a post-doctoral and staff positions at the European Southern Observatory, La ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra%20Singh%20%28RSS%29
Rajendra Singh Tomar (29 January 1922 – 14 July 2003 ), popularly called Rajju Bhaiya, was the fourth Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He was chief of that organisation between 1994 and 2000. Rajju Bhaiya worked as a professor and head of the Department of Physics at University of Allahabad but...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kon%20Flood
Håkon Flood (25 September 1905 – 9 October 2001) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, Norway, from 1953 to 1975. He also worked as the director of the Institute of Silicate Research (Institutt for Silikatforskning) at NTH. Professor Flood was one of the pioneers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Lux
Hermann Lux (3 September 1904, in Karlsruhe – 8 July 1999), was a prominent inorganic chemist from Munich, Germany. Lux studied chemistry in the University of Karlsruhe where he graduated with honors in 1928 and then completed his education in the University of Bonn in 1929. He returned to Karlsruhe and worked there u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Nebylitsyn
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nebylitsyn, Russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Небылицын (1930, Chelyabinsk region — 1 October 1972, near Adler) was a Soviet psychologist, one of Boris Teplov's disciples, professor (1968), associate member of the Russian Academy of Pedagogy. Based on Teplov's researches, he studied problems of experim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty%20of%20Science%2C%20Mahidol%20University
The Faculty of Science was founded as a Pre-medical School in 1958 by Stang Mongkolsuk, and took the name of Faculty of Science, Mahidol University in 1969. The Faculty is located in Thanon Rama VI, Bangkok, Thailand. Currently, the Faculty consists of 12 departments: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendant%20group
In IUPAC nomenclature of chemistry, a pendant group (sometimes spelled pendent) or side group is a group of atoms attached to a backbone chain of a long molecule, usually a polymer. Pendant groups are different from pendant chains, as they are neither oligomeric nor polymeric. For example, the phenyl groups are the pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Beale
Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale FRS (8 September 1928 – 23 December 1985) was an applied mathematician and statistician who was one of the pioneers of mathematical programming. Career He was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in mathematics in 1949 and g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20quantum-mechanical%20potentials
This is a list of potential energy functions that are frequently used in quantum mechanics and have any meaning. One-dimensional potentials Rectangular potential barrier Delta potential (aka "contact potential") Double delta potential Step potential Periodic potential Barrier potential Gaussian potential Ecka...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus%20Salt%20School
Titus Salt School formerly called Salt Grammar School located in Baildon, West Yorkshire, England is a former grammar school, now a mixed comprehensive school, for students aged 11–18. It is a specialist school in Mathematics and Computing. The Headteacher is Ian Morrel, who took up the role in September 2012. Academi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie%20Kosloff
Ronnie Kosloff (born July 26, 1948, in Los Angeles, California) is a professor of theoretical chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry and Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Education and career Ronnie Kosloff grew up in Jerusalem and then moved to Haifa in Israel. He gra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Arrow
Red Arrow or Red Arrows may refer to: Biology A species of dragonfly, Rhodothemis lieftincki The red arrow crab Stenorhynchus yangi Business Red Arrow Diner, a diner in the U.S. state of New Hampshire Red Arrow Entertainment Group, the content, production, and distribution division of ProSiebenSat.1 Media Red Ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20S.%20Tan
James S. Tan (died May 25, 2006) was an American medical doctor who specialized in infectious diseases, immunology, and internal medicine. He was the author of several medical books and many medical articles. Tan was affiliated with Summa Health System. His books include Microbiology and Immunology (Mosby 2002), and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20A.%20Green
J. A. Green may refer to: Sandy Green (mathematician) (James Alexander Green, 1926–2014), professor of mathematics J. A. Green (photographer) (1873–1905), Nigerian photographer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy%20Green%20%28mathematician%29
James Alexander "Sandy" Green FRS (26 February 1926 – 7 April 2014) was a mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory. Early life Sandy Green was born in February 1926 in Rochester, New York, but moved to Toronto with his emigr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo%20Bernardi
Giacomo Bernardi is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California Santa Cruz. He earned his B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. at the University of Paris and did post-doctoral work from 1991 to 1994 at Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University. His research includes working on phylogeography, sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82odzimierz%20Ko%C5%82os
Włodzimierz Kołos (1928 - 1996) was a Polish chemist and physicist who was one of the founders of modern quantum chemistry, and pioneered accurate calculations on the electronic structure of molecules. Life and scientific work Kołos was born on September 6, 1928, in Pinsk. He received his M.Sc. in chemistry in 1950 a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%82os%20Medal
The Kołos Medal (Polish: Medal im. Włodzimierza Kołosa) is a prestigious medal awarded every two years by the University of Warsaw and the Polish Chemical Society for distinction in theoretical or experimental physical chemistry. It was established in 1998 to commemorate the life and career of Włodzimierz Kołos, one of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergasilidae
Ergasilidae is a widespread family of copepods and comprises many species. The type genus is Ergasilus. With a few doubtful exceptions all ergasilids are parasitic on fishes. Biology Various species of Ergasilidae parasitise hosts in various habitats, mostly freshwater, but some attack marine species, especially euryh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw%20Stieber
Zdzisław Stieber, (June 7, 1903 – October 12, 1980) was a Polish linguist and Slavist. He was born in Szczakowa, then part of the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia (since 1918 Poland). His family was of assimilated German descent in Poland for generations. He died in Warsaw. Initially a student of chemistry, Stiebe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ine
-ine is a suffix used in chemistry to denote two kinds of substance. The first is a chemically basic and alkaloidal substance. It was proposed by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in an editorial accompanying a paper by Friedrich Sertürner describing the isolation of the alkaloid "morphium", which was subsequently renamed to "mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Drohan
William N. Drohan (1946 – ) was an American microbiologist and academic known for his research in the field of hematology. Education Drohan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in bacteriology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a PhD in medical microbiology and immunology from UCLA School of Medicine. Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn%20Nelson%20%28mathematician%29
Evelyn Merle Nelson (November 25, 1943 – August 1, 1987), born Evelyn Merle Roden, was a Canadian mathematician. Nelson made contributions to the area of universal algebra with applications to theoretical computer science. She, along with Cecilia Krieger, is the namesake of the Krieger–Nelson Prize, awarded by the Cana...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Sarah%20Herz
Rachel Sarah Herz is a Canadian and American psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, recognized for her research on the psychology of smell. Background Rachel Herz completed her undergraduate degree in psychology and biology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and an MA and PhD in the Psychology Departmen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20End%20of%20Time%20%28book%29
The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe, also sold with the alternate subtitle The Next Revolution in Physics, is a 1999 popular science book in which the author Julian Barbour argues that time exists merely as an illusion. Autobiography The book begins by describing how Barbour's vi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20Students%20Learn
How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom is the title of a 2001 educational psychology book edited by M. Suzanne Donovan and John D. Bransford and published by the United States National Academy of Sciences's National Academies Press. The book focuses on "three fundamental and well-establ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWD
GWD may refer to: Biology and medicine Alpha-glucan, water dikinase Guinea worm disease Transport Gwadar International Airport, Balochistan, Pakistan Greenwood station (Mississippi), United States Other uses Gawwada language, spoken in Ethiopia Global Wind Day, celebrating wind power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%20%28disambiguation%29
A miner is the principal occupation in mining of mineral resources. Miner may also refer to: Biology Miner, Australian birds of the genus Manorina in the honeyeater family Miner, South American birds of the genus Geositta in the ovenbird family Leaf miner, the larva of an insect that lives in and eats the leaf tis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/693%20%28number%29
693 (six hundred [and] ninety-three) is the natural number following 692 and preceding 694. In mathematics 693 has twelve divisors: 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 21, 33, 63, 77, 99, 231, and 693. Thus, 693 is tied with 315 for the highest number of divisors for any odd natural number below 900. The smallest positive odd integer wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%20159001%E2%80%93160000
159001–159100 |-id=011 | 159011 Radomyshl || || Radomyshl, Ukraine || |-id=013 | 159013 Kyleturner || || In memory of Kyle Walter Turner, of Missouri City, TX || |} 159101–159200 |-id=102 | 159102 Sarahflanigan || || Sarah H. Flanigan (born 1985) is a supervising engineer at the Johns Hopkins University App...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Orleans%20Charter%20Science%20and%20Mathematics%20High%20School
New Orleans Charter Science & Math High School is an open enrollment charter school in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Students commonly refer to the school as "SciHigh", "Science & Math", or vice versa, "Math and Science". The organization, Advocates for Science and Mathematics Education, governs the school, which is l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina%20Lilley
Kristina Lilley (; born 31 August 1963) is an American and Colombian actress. Biography Kristina Lilley was born in New York City. She is the daughter of John Lilley, an American diplomat and Norwegian mother, Ellen Christensen, who was born in Bergen. Her family moved to Colombia when she was three years old. She ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron%20Science%20Center
Chevron Science Center is a landmark academic building at 219 Parkman Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The 15-story facility, completed in 1974, was designed by Kuhn, Newcomer & Valentour and houses the university's chemistry department. A three-story ad...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20King
Karen King may refer to: Karen Leigh King (born 1954), historian of religion Karen D. King (born 1970), African-American mathematics educator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urey%20Medal
The Urey Medal is given annually by the European Association of Geochemistry for outstanding contributions advancing Geochemistry over a career. The award is named after the physical chemist Harold Urey, FRS. Urey Medalists See also List of geology awards References European science and technology awards Geology...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval%20order
In mathematics, especially order theory, the interval order for a collection of intervals on the real line is the partial order corresponding to their left-to-right precedence relation—one interval, I1, being considered less than another, I2, if I1 is completely to the left of I2. More formally, a countable poset is a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Gould
Victoria Gould is a British actress, best known for playing the character of journalist Polly Becker on the BBC television soap opera EastEnders from 1997 to 1998. Gould moved on to professional theatre work, and is now a member of progressive physical theatre company, Complicite. She has an MSc in Mathematics; a sub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clar%27s%20rule
In organic and physical organic chemistry, Clar's rule is an empirical rule that relates the chemical stability of a molecule with its aromaticity. It was introduced in 1972 by the Austrian organic chemist Erich Clar in his book The Aromatic Sextet. The rule states that given a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, the r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Roundy
David Roundy is a physicist known primarily as the author of the Darcs version control system. His parents are Virginia (Giny) Miller Roundy & Willard (Bill) Roundy. He obtained a B.A. in Physics and Chemistry in 1995 and a Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley in 2001. Between 2001 and 2006 he did postdoctoral work at MIT a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap%E2%80%93add%20method
In signal processing, the overlap–add method is an efficient way to evaluate the discrete convolution of a very long signal with a finite impulse response (FIR) filter : where for m outside the region . This article uses common abstract notations, such as or in which it is understood that the functions should be t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Coates
Joseph Coates (13 November 1844 – 9 September 1896) was an English-born Australian schoolmaster and cricketer. Early life Coates was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, the son of Joseph, a cordwainer, and his wife Ellen. While at Huddersfield College he gained medals for mathematics and classics and matriculate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20W.%20Brockett
Roger Ware Brockett (October 22, 1938 – March 19, 2023) was an American control theorist and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, who founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983. Brockett became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1991 for outst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centimorgan
In genetics, a centimorgan (abbreviated cM) or map unit (m.u.) is a unit for measuring genetic linkage. It is defined as the distance between chromosome positions (also termed loci or markers) for which the expected average number of intervening chromosomal crossovers in a single generation is 0.01. It is often used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Dragon
Blue Dragon may refer to: Biology Glaucus atlanticus, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Glaucidae Glaucus marginatus, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Glaucidae Pteraeolidia ianthina, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae Media Franchise Blue Dragon ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primakoff%20effect
In particle physics, the Primakoff effect, named after Henry Primakoff, is the resonant production of neutral pseudoscalar mesons by high-energy photons interacting with an atomic nucleus. It can be viewed as the reverse process of the decay of the meson into two photons and has been used for the measurement of the dec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Electrician
The Electrician, published in London from 1861–1863 and 1878–1952, was the one of the earliest and foremost electrical engineering periodicals and scientific journals. It was published in two series: The original Electrician was published for three years from 1861–1863. After a fifteen year gap, a new series of the Ele...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20hull%20algorithms
Algorithms that construct convex hulls of various objects have a broad range of applications in mathematics and computer science. In computational geometry, numerous algorithms are proposed for computing the convex hull of a finite set of points, with various computational complexities. Computing the convex hull mean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram%20Burgard
Wolfram Burgard (born 1961 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a German roboticist. He is a full professor at the University of Technology Nuremberg where he heads the Laboratory for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He is known for his substantial contributions to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problems%20involving%20arithmetic%20progressions
Problems involving arithmetic progressions are of interest in number theory, combinatorics, and computer science, both from theoretical and applied points of view. Largest progression-free subsets Find the cardinality (denoted by Ak(m)) of the largest subset of {1, 2, ..., m} which contains no progression of k distinc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Glover
David Moore Glover (born 28 March 1948) is a British geneticist and Research Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He served as Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, a Wellcome Trust investigator in the Department of Genetics at the Universit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Spivey
Michael Spivey (commonly known as Mike Spivey) is a British computer scientist at the University of Oxford. Spivey was born in 1960 and educated at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in York, England. He studied mathematics at Christ's College, Cambridge and then undertook a DPhil in computer science on the Z notatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Weymouth
George Weymouth (Waymouth) () was an English explorer of the area now occupied by the state of Maine. Voyages George Weymouth was a native of Cockington, Devon, who spent his youth studying shipbuilding and mathematics. In 1602 Weymouth was hired to seek a northwest passage to India by the recently formed East India...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold%20Dumey
Arnold I. Dumey (1906-1995) was the co-inventor of the postal sorting machine and cryptanalyst first for SIS and then NSA. During World War II he worked for the Army Signal Corps and at Arlington Hall, headquarters of the US Army's Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) cryptography, under William and Elizabeth Friedman on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Rufimovich%20Vainberg
Boris Rufimovich Vainberg () is a professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was born in 1938. He received his Dr.S. from Moscow State University, under the supervision of Samarii Galpern. He taught mathematics at Moscow State University for nearly 30 years, then held a visiting profe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend%20surface%20analysis
Trend surface analysis is a mathematical technique used in environmental sciences (archeology, geology, soil science, etc.). Trend surface analysis (also called trend surface mapping) is a method based on low-order polynomials of spatial coordinates for estimating a regular grid of points from scattered observations - ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebon%20Fisher
Ebon Fisher is a pioneer of transmedia art, working at the intersection of art, biology and digital media. Informed by his exposure to cybernetics and feedback systems at the MIT Media Lab in the mid-1980s, Fisher has approached his work as an evolving collaboration with the world, culminating recently in a nervelike s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence%20Quinn
Terence John Quinn CBE FRS is a British physicist, and emeritus director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, where he was director from 1988 until 2003. Life He received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Southampton in 1959, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1963. He was at the Nat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corday%E2%80%93Morgan%20Prize
The Corday–Morgan Medal and Prize is awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for the most meritorious contributions to experimental chemistry, including computer simulation. The prize was established by chemist Gilbert Morgan, who named it after his father Thomas Morgan and his mother Mary-Louise Corday. From the awa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair%20Tauman
Yair Tauman (; born January 20, 1948) is a Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and the Director of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he obtained his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics, the la...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Skiles
William Skiles may refer to: William W. Skiles, U.S. Representative from Ohio William West Skiles, American missionary William Vernon Skiles, professor of mathematics Bill Skiles, of American stand-up comedy act Skiles and Henderson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generate
Generate may refer to: Creation (disambiguation) Science and math: Generate and test (trial and error) Generating function, in math and physics Generating primes Generating set Generating trigonometric tables Other: Generated collection, in music theory Generate LA-NY, digital entertainment studio "Generate"...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioTechniques
BioTechniques: the International Journal of Life Science Methods is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by Future Science Group. It covers laboratory methods and techniques that are of broad interest to professional life scientists, as well as scientists from other disciplines (e.g. physics, chemis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminization%20%28biology%29
In biology and medicine, feminization is the development in an organism of physical characteristics that are usually unique to the female of the species. This may represent a normal developmental process, contributing to sexual differentiation. Feminization can also be induced by environmental factors, and this phenome...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20extension
In order theory, a branch of mathematics, a linear extension of a partial order is a total order (or linear order) that is compatible with the partial order. As a classic example, the lexicographic order of totally ordered sets is a linear extension of their product order. Definitions Linear extension of a partial or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20A.%20Venkatachalam
Paruvachi Ammasai Venkatachalam is an Indian academic. Career Venkatachalam is among the first 3 people to do a PhD in Computer Science in India when Doctoral Degree in Computer Science was introduced in India for the first time by Professor Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1968-69 an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.%20K.%20Samaranayake
Vidya Jyothi V. K. Samaranayake, MBCS, MCS(SL), FNASSL, MIEEE (Sinhala:වී.කේ.සමරනායක) (1939 – 6 June 2007) pioneered computing & IT development industry and usage in Sri Lanka and thus considered as the "Father of Information Technology" in Sri Lanka. He was a Professor of Computer Science and former Dean of the Facult...