Capacity Upper Bounds for Deletion-Type Channels
Imperial College London
Mahdi Cheraghchi discusses the systematic approach, based on convex programming and real analysis, for obtaining upper bounds on the capacity […]
Sciences
Facing Down Emerging Viruses
Imperial College London
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has highlighted the threat of newly emerged viral infections. Michal Barski discusses why and […]
An introduction to a theory on the role of π-electrons of docosahexaenoic acid in brain function
Imperial College London
Six hundred million years ago, the fossil record displays the sudden appearance of intracellular detail and the 32 phyla. The […]
Global Plant Geography Models
Imperial College London
Colin Prentice FRS holds the AXA Chair in Biosphere and Climate Impacts at Imperial College London and an Honorary Chair […]
Dynamic Global Vegetation Modelling
Imperial College London
DGVMs exploit the power of modern computers and computational methods to yield a predictive description of land ecosystem processes that […]
Experience Driven Design of Creative Systems
Goldsmiths, University of London
Matthew Yee-King describes the novel application of grounded theory to the analysis of a human/machine music performance. Rather than attempting to […]
Constructionist Learning for Student Coders
Goldsmiths, University of London
For the last decade, there has been growing interest in the STEAM approach (essentially combining methods and practices in arts, […]
Oscillatory reactions in a simple organic system
Harvard University
Networks of organic chemical reactions are important in life and probably played a central part in its origin. Network dynamics regulate […]
A Visualization of the Classical Musical Tradition
City, University of London
Yang-Hui discusses his study of around 13,000 musical compositions from the Western classical tradition is carried out, spanning 33 major […]
Calabi-Yau Volumes and Reflexive Polytopes
City, University of London
Yang-Hui He discusses various geometrical quantities for Calabi-Yau varieties realized as cones over Gorenstein Fano varieties, obtained as toric varieties […]
