Science Research Groups
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Reddy Lab at Loyola University Chicago Apr 22, 2017 BioCircuits Institute at UC San Diego Mar 31, 2017 MIALAB: Medical Image Analysis Lab Feb 22, 2017 |
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NASA Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan Jan 15, 2017 Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Jan 04, 2017 USGS Astrogeology Science Center Dec 31, 2016 |
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Culham Centre for Fusion Energy Mar 28, 2017 Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics Mar 11, 2017 |
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Data & Society Apr 25, 2017 UC Boulder Information Science Apr 17, 2017 MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Apr 10, 2017 |
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Banff International Research Station Jan 16, 2017 Mathematical Biosciences Institute Jan 07, 2017 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics Jan 07, 2017 |
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Submitted Mar 09, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Computer Science The Mizar project started around 1973 as an attempt to reconstruct mathematical vernacular in a computer-oriented environment.
Since 1989, the most important activity in the Mizar project, apart from continual improvement of the Mizar System, has been the development of a database for mathematics. International cooperation (the main partners: Shinshu University in Nagano and University of Alberta in Edmonton) resulted in creating a database which includes more than 9400 definitions of mathematical concepts and more than 49000 theorems (see Megrez MML Browsing for more statistics). |
Submitted Mar 09, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Science and Society Our department is located within the College of Arts and Sciences, and offers degrees in General and Computational Linguistics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The department's primary interests lie strongly in grammatical theory (syntax, phonology, and semantics), and in phonetics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, and second language acquisition theory.
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Submitted Mar 03, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Computer Science In the HIPS group, we are interested in building intelligent algorithms. What makes a system intelligent? Our philosophy is that "intelligence" means making decisions under uncertainty, adapting to experience, and discovering structure in high-dimensional noisy data. The unifying theme for research in these areas is developing new approaches to statistical inference: uncovering the coherent structure that we cannot directly observe and using it for exploration and to make decisions or predictions. We develop new models for data, new tools for performing inference, and new computational structures for representing knowledge and uncertainty.
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Submitted Feb 26, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Computer Science The Lab is the major innovation department at the UK Met Office, combining scientists, technologists and designers to make environmental science and data useful across multiple sectors. The team works with the likes of NASA, Amazon, Microsoft and UK Government Departments to build prototypes and create new approaches and tools to solve problems and deliver transformation.
We rapidly develop prototypes which explore how we can use new technology, science and design to make our data useful. We innovate by making things which explore and demonstrate new ideas. Our group comprises people with backgrounds in data science, technology and design. However, we leave our job titles at the door, and all pitch in working closely together to make things happen. In additon, we explore new ways of working to find out how we can be productive and innovative. |
Submitted Feb 22, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Biology MIALAB, headed by Dr. Vince Calhoun of the Mind Research Network, focuses on developing and optimizing methods and software for quantitative analysis of structure and function in medical images with particular focus on the study of psychiatric illness. We work with many types of data, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), electroencephalography (EEG), structural imaging and genetic data.
Much of our time is spent working on new methods for flexible analysis of brain imaging data. The use of data driven approaches is very useful for extracting potentially unpredictable patterns within these data. However such methods can be further improved by incorporating additional prior information as constraints, in order to benefit from what we know. To this end, we draw heavily from the areas of image processing, adaptive signal processing, estimation theory, neural networks, statistical signal processing, and pattern recognition. |
Submitted Feb 19, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Physics ATLAS is one of the four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It is a general-purpose particle physics experiment run by an international collaboration and, together with CMS, is designed to exploit the full discovery potential and the huge range of physics opportunities that the LHC provides.
ATLAS' scientific exploration uses precision measurement to push the frontiers of knowledge by seeking answers to fundamental questions such as: What are the basic building blocks of matter? What are the fundamental forces of nature? Could there be a greater underlying symmetry to our universe? ATLAS physicists test the predictions of the Standard Model, which encapsulates our current understanding of what the building blocks of matter are and how they interact. These studies can lead to ground-breaking discoveries, such as that of the Higgs boson, physics beyond the Standard Model and the development of new theories to better describe our universe. The years ahead will be exciting as ATLAS takes experimental physics into unexplored territories – maybe with new processes and particles that could change our understanding of energy and matter. |
Submitted Feb 18, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Earth Science EarthByte is an internationally leading eGeoscience collaboration between several Australian Universities, international centres of excellence and industry partners. One of the fundamental aims of the EarthByte Group is geodata synthesis through space and time, assimilating the wealth of disparate geological and geophysical data into a four-dimensional Earth model including tectonics, geodynamics and surface processes. The EarthByte Group is pursuing open innovation via collaborative software development, high performance and distributed computing, “big data” analysis and by making open access digital data collections available to the community.
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Submitted Feb 18, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Science and Society Our interdisciplinary institute focuses on diverse problems and solutions in network science, in the social, physical, biological, and engineering sciences. Our weekly interdisciplinary seminar series involves an outstanding lineup of presenters drawn from throughout Yale and around the world. We are pleased to provide information here about the seminar series and other events at YINS; research by YINS faculty, post-docs, and students; classes and other resources at Yale related to network science; and news about our institute and the field of network science.
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Submitted Feb 15, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Biology The microbiology of the Built Environment network (aka microBEnet) is a project funded by a grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Program on the Indoor Environment to Jonathan A. Eisen at the University of California, Davis. The main goals of the microBEnet project are to:
1. Catalyze communication and collaboration among researchers funded in the Sloan Program on the Indoor Environment. 2. Reach out to researchers in related fields (e.g., microbial ecology, building sciences) and provide them with resources that would help them begin to study microbiology of the built environment. 3. Provide outreach to “stakeholders” outside of these fields (e.g., the general public, funding agency representatives, government staffers) A key collaborator on the project is Hal Levin at the Building Ecology Research Group. |
Submitted Jan 25, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Computer Science The Visualization and Graphics Lab is an informal group of faculty and students that meet regularly to discuss and work on research in the data visualization and graphics fields. If you are interested in joining our group, please contact us or stop by one of our regular meetings.
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Submitted Jan 19, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Science and Society The Social Media Research Foundation is the home of NodeXL – Network Overview Discovery and Exploration for Excel (2010, 2013 and 2016) – extending the familiar spreadsheet so you can collect, analyze and visualize complex social networks from Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flicker. A growing number of academics, market strategists and social media managers from around the world make use of this easy-to-handle tool. You can, too! If you can make a pie chart, you can now make a network map!
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Submitted Jan 19, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility is a multi-laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientific user facility, and a key contributor to national and international research efforts related to global climate change. ARM data are currently collected from three atmospheric observatories—Southern Great Plains, North Slope of Alaska, and Eastern North Atlantic—which represent the broad range of climate conditions around the world, as well as from the three ARM mobile facilities and ARM aerial facilities. Nine DOE national laboratories share the responsibility of managing and operating the ARM Facility. Along with these laboratories, several constituent groups help provide scientific guidance and develop ARM priorities. ARM also collaborates with many national and international partners.
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Submitted Jan 17, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences The Australian Institute of Marine Science is Australia’s tropical marine research agency. Established in 1972, AIMS was an explorer in its early years: defining the Great Barrier Reef and its biodiversity, and introducing Australians to remarkable marine ecosystems across northern Australia.
In the past 20 years, our focus has turned to monitoring and understanding the changes we see in these ecosystems, from Western Australia’s Scott Reef to Darwin’s coastal waters to the Great Barrier Reef. The next decade will be one of action: helping to sustain and repair these ecosystems in the face of a changing climate, and creating the tools to enable the best possible planning and decision-making for conservation and sustainable development of the energy, mineral, tourism and food resources in and under our tropical oceans. |
Submitted Jan 16, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Science and Society The Center for Open Science (COS) works to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research. COS developed and manages the Open Science Framework, a free software tool for open source research project management. COS also provides training in reproducible research practices and conducts a number of research projects on how to improve reproducibility and efficiency in scientific research.
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Submitted Jan 16, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Science and Society The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices. With the CivilServant software, communities on the internet can run your own experiments and grow collective knowledge on what works to maintain flourishing and fair conversations online. CivilServant is part of dissertation research by J. Nathan Matias, a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Center for Civic Media.
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Submitted Jan 16, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Mathematics The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) in Alberta, Canada addresses the imperatives of collaborative and cross-disciplinary research with a focus on the mathematical sciences and their vast array of applications in the sciences and in industry. Its modus operandi facilitates intense and prolonged interactions between scientists in a secluded environment, complete with accommodation and board, and the necessary facilities, for uninterrupted research activities in a variety of formats, all in a magnificent mountain setting. BIRS embraces all aspects of the mathematical, computational and statistical sciences from the most fundamental challenges of pure and applied mathematics, theoretical and applied computer science, statistics, and mathematical physics, to financial and industrial mathematics, as well as the mathematics of information technology, and the life sciences.
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Submitted Jan 15, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Bigelow Laboratory's research progresses on multiple fronts: from microscopic to global in scale, and local to international in scope. Our investigators believe that a shared spirit of exploration is at the core of the scientific endeavor. We host scientists from all over the world and travel around the globe -- from the Gulf of Maine to Earth's extreme polar environments -- to better understand our "Ocean Planet."
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Submitted Jan 15, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Space Sciences Launched from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 15, 1997, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will reach the Saturnian region in July 2004. The mission is composed of two elements: The Cassini orbiter that will orbit Saturn and its moons for four years, and the Huygens probe that will dive into the murky atmosphere of Titan and land on its surface. The sophisticated instruments onboard these spacecraft will provide scientists with vital data to help understand this mysterious, vast region. Cassini-Huygens is an international collaboration between three space agencies. Seventeen nations contributed to building the spacecraft. The Cassini orbiter was built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Huygens probe was built by the European Space Agency. The Italian Space agency provided Cassini's high-gain communication antenna. More than 250 scientists worldwide will study the data collected.
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Submitted Jan 15, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Physics Our group investigates electron transport in low dimensional systems. The behavior of electrons in low dimensions is inherently dominated by quantum effects and correlations between electrons, leading to a host of unusual properties, fascinating new states of matter and novel application possibilities. Our current projects involve thin films of metals, nanowires, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, graphene, topological insulators and organic semiconductors. The experimental techniques include low-noise electrical measurements at temperatures down to 7mK and magnetic fields of up to 10T, scanning probe microscopy and state-of-the-art nanofabrication.
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Submitted Jan 15, 2017 to Science Research Groups » Computer Science The Quantum Architectures and Computation group is a team of leading quantum computer scientists and engineers dedicated to developing real-world quantum algorithms, understanding their implications, and designing a comprehensive software architecture for programming such algorithms on a scalable, fault-tolerant, quantum computer. Our mission is to advance our understanding of quantum computing and its applications and implementation.
The QuArC group collaborates closely with Microsoft Research Station Q in Santa Barbara and several universities worldwide, including TU Delft (Leo Kouwenhoven), Niels Bohr Institute (Charlie Marcus), and the University of Sydney (David Reilly). |