Abstract: Despite the futuristic intonation of many critical AI discussions, tech companies have long histories of trading user rights when it is strategic: Cisco built software to suppress a... Read more
Abstract: Finding a polynomial-time relaxation of the traveling salesman problem whose integrality gap better matches what is seen in practice has been an outstanding open problem in combinatorial... Read more
Abstract: The competitive exclusion principle states in its simplest form that a number of species competing for a smaller number of resources cannot coexist. Nevertheless, in nature there are many... Read more
Colloquium to resume on April 10, 2020. Read more
Colloquium to resume on April 10, 2020. Read more
Abstract: The interplay of spatial discreteness and nonlinearity in many physical and biological systems often results in formation of traveling waves. Such solutions of lattice dynamical systems can... Read more
Abstract: Locusts are devastating pests that infest and destroy crops in regions of the world already afflicted by drought and food shortage. Hopper bands are groups of locusts composed of flightless... Read more
