Showing posts with label modeling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modeling. Show all posts
Saturday, June 16, 2018

"Female Drosophila melanogaster Respond to Song-Amplitude Modulations"

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One of my papers came out in final published form a few days ago. Here are some details. (Also see the paper's supplementary material f...
Monday, June 06, 2016

A Video of My Seminar on "A Simple Generative Model of Collective Online Behavior"

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On Friday 27 May, I gave a talk at the Oxford Internet Institute on "A Simple Generative Model of Collective Online Behavior". The...
Monday, August 31, 2015

14th-Order Differential Equations

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The setup of today's SMBC takes a while, but the punchline is worth it --- and, um, way too close to the truth.
Thursday, July 23, 2015

A Model of Motion Sickness

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In my latest blog entry for the Improbable Research blog, I report on a model for motion sickness. (This, of course, is an example of a Rot...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Ant Fight Club

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In my latest post for the Improbable Research blog, I discuss modeling of combat in ants. One of the reasons I chose to write about this ...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Elevator Action

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The elevator problems in Oxford's new Mathematical Institute have gotten so severe that one of the building's denizens has tried to ...
Monday, September 22, 2014

"Big Data" is a Religion

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As far as I can see, "Big Data" seems more like a religion than anything else. I like "Good Data" (which is far from t...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Tales from the ArXiv: Herbivore Meltdown

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I love the main label of the caption of Figure 5 (on page 12) of this new paper . It starts with the bold text "Meltdown of the herbiv...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Our Work on Modeling of Bipolar Individuals in The Guardian

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The title of the entry basically already says everything, but Marc Abrahams (of Ig Nobel Prizes fame) has written an article about our work...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Videos of Two of My Talks

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In February 2013, I gave a talk on Cascades and Social Influence on Networks at Cornell University. I was giving the Center for Applied Ma...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

"This is the first serious modeling application in the field of love dynamics."

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That is the first highlight listed for this paper , which is called A mathematical model of "Gone with the Wind" . (Tip of the c...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

"Multi-Stage Complex Contagions"

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I just blogged about my new paper on billiards , which just got published in final form today in Chaos . Well, the very next article in the...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Tales from the ArXiv: Heavy Metal Edition

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I just saw a new paper on the arXiv that looks like it will be a promising contender for an Ig Nobel Prize. Title: Collective Motion of ...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Tales from the ArXiv: Statistical Physicists Conclude that Love is Universal

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Here is a new paper about love. Title: A model about love in human dynamics Authors: Bin Zhou, Shujia Qin, Xiao-Pu Han, Bing-Hong Wan...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Fluid Dynamics and Penguin Huddling

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Recently published in the journal PLoS One is a mathematical model for penguin huddling that takes some inspiration from fluid dynamics. ...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Applied Mathematics and Statistics are Not the Same!

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Applied mathematics is not statistics. And vice versa. Personally, I think this is an obvious statement, but at least one prominent sexy...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Order and Disorder in Pastry Displays

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Perhaps strange dreams beget strange ideas, and here's my idea for the day. I was at Green's Cafe today, and I noticed that the or...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Congratulations to the 08-09 mathematical modelling MSc students!

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Today we finished the vivas (thesis defenses) and awarded the diplomas for the mathematical modelling and scientific computation MSc (Master...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Quote of the Day

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The following comment just occurred in one of the modeling week talks: "If you ignore the bad parts, then it's a good model." ...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Poland so far

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I've been a bit silent for a few days, so here are some of the things going on in Wroclaw. I'll post pictures later (aside from the...