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From playlist Mathematics
INTERVIEW AT CIRM: PETER SARNAK
Peter Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics. He is known for his work in
From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair's guests - Interviews
INTERVIEW AT CIRM : MICHAEL ARTIN
Michael ARTIN participated in the "Artin Approximation and Infinite dimensional Geometry" event organized at CIRM in March 2015, which was part of the Jean-Morlet semester held by Herwig Hauser. Michael Artin is an American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Ins
From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair's guests - Interviews
Pierre de Fermat: Biography of a Great Thinker
As a mathematician, Pierre de Fermat is known as the "Prince of Amateurs." He was actually a lawyer, but worked on math as a hobby. He helped found probability theory and analytic geometry, and made many contributions to number theory. He is possibly best known for "Fermat's Last Theore
From playlist It Starts With Literacy
Michael Levitt: 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Press Conference
Michael Levitt, professor of structural biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shares the prize with Martin Karplus of Université de Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern Cal
From playlist Stanford 2013 Nobel Prize Winners
Rubik, Escher, Banks - Brian Conrad (Stanford University)
The idea of geometric symmetry in architecture goes back to ancient times, but there is a rich mathematical theory of symmetry with many applications in the modern world. The mathematics of symmetry provides answers to natural questions that arise in topics as diverse as Rubik's Cube, the
From playlist Mathematics Research Center
The story of mathematical proof – with John Stillwell
Discover the surprising history of proof, a mathematically vital concept. In this talk John covers the areas of number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, topology, and logic, and peer into the deep chasm between natural number arithmetic and the real numbers. Buy John's book here: https://g
From playlist Livestreams
Arnaud Guyader: Rare event simulation for molecular dynamics
Abstract: This talk is devoted to the presentation of algorithms for simulating rare events in a molecular dynamics context, e.g., the simulation of reactive paths. We will consider ℝ^d as the space of configurations for a given system, where the probability of a specific configuration is
From playlist Probability and Statistics
The Two Silos: Literature, Science, and Agents of Overlap in Twenty-first-century Science Studies
The Franke Visiting Fellow Lecture with Steven Meyer, Washington University "The Two Silos: Literature, Science, and Agents of Overlap in Twenty-first-century Science Studies" Steven Meyer teaches English and American literature and modern intellectual history at Washington University in
From playlist Whitney Humanities Center
The Boneyard: The Chilling Discovery of Leonard Thomas Lake's Crimes | Real Stories
The Boneyard: The Horrible Story of Leonard Lake | Real Stories The true crime story of American serial killer Leonard Thomas Lake and his accomplice Charles Ng. The documentary starts with the cyanide poisoning suicide of Lake, the ensuing investigation, and the horrors that were discove
From playlist True Crime Stories
Exploring Acute Mania: A Bipolar Expedition (Mental Health Documentary) | Real Stories
The extraordinary story of Paul Downes, a 49-year-old businessman with bipolar disorder, who in 2009 invited 12 young Ukranian women, some of them part time models, to join him in a Jamaican castle. What at first appeared to be an innocent fantasy rapidly became ever more bewildering as P
From playlist Mental Health Documentaries
Model, 24, Marries Multimillionaire, 82: Age Gap Love Stories (Love Documentary) | Real Stories
Sugar Daddy, 82, Seeks 24-Year-Old Documentary series. Couples reveal the pros and cons of married life across the age gap, including an Austrian octogenarian multimillionaire wed to a young former Playboy bunny. 33 and Married to Grandpa. Includes a 57 year-old from Norfolk whose love aff
From playlist Family Documentaries
Marcus du Sautoy on John Tates' work
Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy is a British mathematician, author, and populariser of science and mathematics. You can view more content of Marcus du Sautoy here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYF21Xc9fSdqVWRxpBAOleQ/featured This video is a clip from the Abel Prize Announcement 2009
From playlist Popular presentations
Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Be well informed. Download the free Ground News app at https://ground.news/HOTU -------------------------------- Researched and Written by Leila Battison Narrated and Edited by David Kelly Animations by Jero Squartini https://www.fi
From playlist The Entire History of the Universe
NASA Twin Study Reveals Surprising Effects of Space On Human Body
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the results of a long study by NASA that used two twin Astronauts, Scott and Mark Kelly to study the effects of space on human body. You can read the study here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8
From playlist Interesting NASA Missions
Algebraic geometric codes and their applications - Gil Cohen
Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar Topic: Algebraic geometric codes and their applications Speaker: Gil Cohen Affiliation: Princeton University For more videos, visit http://video.ias.edu
From playlist Mathematics
A screencast of a Pi and Continued Fractions talk at Fat Frogg Bar and Grill on Pi Day Eve 03/13/18
From playlist Odds and Ends
Bertrand Eynard: Integrable systems and spectral curves
Usually one defines a Tau function Tau(t_1,t_2,...) as a function of a family of times having to obey some equations, like Miwa-Jimbo equations, or Hirota equations. Here we shall view times as local coordinates in the moduli-space of spectral curves, and define the Tau-function of a spect
From playlist Analysis and its Applications
TEDxCaltech - Stephen Hawking, John Preskill, Rives, Kip Thorne - Finding Things Out
Stephen Hawking is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved su
From playlist TEDxCaltech - 1/14/11
DEFCON 18: The Search for Perfect Handcuffs and the Perfect Handcuff Key 3/4
Speaker: Deviant Ollam The few handcuff talks which have appeared at conferences in the past have focused mostly on how these restraints function and how to open them without a key. While this talk is no exception (going into great detail about the specialized anti-pick protections used
From playlist DEFCON 18-2