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Ingrid Daubechies Caps a Semester of Internationally Renowned Speakers
Professor Ingrid Daubechies, the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University, will be giving the Convocation lecture on May 1. Professor Daubechies research interests focus on the mathematical aspects of time-frequency analysis, in particular wavelets, as well as applications. Her research was the breakthrough which made applications of wavelets to...
Blanchard Goes GAGA for Compressed Sensing
Asst. Prof. Jeff Blanchard and his collaborator Prof. Jared Tanner (Oxford) recently launched www.gaga4cs.org as the platform for the first release of their compressed sensing software. The software, GAGA: GPU Accelerated Greedy Algorithms for Compressed Sensing, solves large compressed sensing problems with millions of unknowns in fractions of a second by...
Professors Jeff Blanchard, Joe Mileti, and Jen Paulhus spent some, or all, of spring break working on research outside of the United States.
Jeff Blanchard visited a collaborator in Edinburgh for a week of intensive writing for an ongoing project. The trip to Scotland paid off with a 50 page paper submitted at the end of Spring Break.
Joe Mileti spent a month and a half in Argentina participating in the Buenos Aires Semester in...
Students Have Global Impact with GPU K-selection Article and Software
Grinnell Mathematics and Statistics majors Tolu Alabi ('13), Brad Gordon ('12), and Russel Steinbach ('12) are having a global impact on GPU computing. From their 2011 MAP with Professor Jeff Blanchard, the four authored a paper which recently appeared in the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. Since its publication in October 2012, the paper has 29 downloads...
Dr. Kuiper's creative and engaging games and labs exemplify reform efforts in Statistics Education, and she is highly deserving of a MERLOT Classics Award.
