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A year ago, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory unveiled a fundamentally new way of managing memory on computer chips, one that would use circuit space much more efficiently as chips continue to comprise more and more cores, or processing units.

Research news Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have achieved unprecedented transmission capacity and spectral efficiency in an optical field trial with a new modulation technique.

Fewer than half of young secondary school pupils think their views are taken seriously by those educating them, a major new study has found, while the majority of their teachers disagree.

Research news Major events such as the German Oktoberfest in Munich are a huge challenge both for the organizers and the security forces: millions of visitors want to arrive and depart, want food and enjoy entertainment.

Unsolvable problems, the nature of the infinite and the question of whether and how mathematics can be definitively substantiated - these issues are the focus of the Bernays Lectures 2016. The speaker for this year's honorary lectures at ETH Zurich is W. Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Harvard University.

Stanford Professor Emeritus Joseph Keller, an applied mathematician whose work investigated atomic explosions and oscillating ponytails, dies at 93 Keller's foundational theories were deeply creative

A team of statisticians from the Universities of Bristol and Southampton and the Office for National Statistics have been chosen to present a prestigious Read (Discussion) Paper at a plenary session of the Royal Statistical Society's international conference in Manchester today (Tuesday, September 6).

Without sound data and the error-proof means in which we gather that data, we are no closer to uncovering the knowledge that will help scrub our world of chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease and AIDS.

Australia's official interest rates have gone as low as they need to and should remain on hold in September, the ANU RBA Shadow Board has found.

Twenty-five images go on display in Cornell's Malott Hall Sept. 12 in the exhibition, 'SymmetryScapes: An Exhibition of Mathematical Art.' Artist Frank Farris created the display's aluminum prints, purchased by Cornell's math department to celebrate the beauty and diversity of symmetry.

For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you can trust a very simple equation to calculate the force required to push a shovel - and any other 'intruder'' through sand.

Statisticians have created a model to work out the answers to one of the biggest questions asked by sports fans around the world - what were the best track athletics performances of all time?

Research news Two more researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) managed to secure European Research Council (ERC) grants in the 2015 round of awards.

By Shilo Rea / 412-268-6094 / shilo [at] cmu (p) edu With more than 205 trillion ways to teach and learn , it's easy to understand why going back to school can be overwhelming for students and their instructors.

Students at King's College London Mathematics School (KCLMS) celebrated their A-level results today with 100 per cent receiving an A* or A grade in Mathematics, including 83% gaining an A*.

Scientists use an app to analyse behaviour and showed how humans routinely sacrifice their short-term happiness for their long-term welfare. Most theories of motivation have championed the pleasure principle, where our choices of daily activities aim to maximize our short-term happiness. However, it was not clear to researchers how to reconcile this idea with the fact that we all have to engage routinely in unpleasant, yet necessary activities.

Australia's official interest rates should remain on hold in August as the lowest inflation rate for 17 years continues to make it unlikely that rates will need to rise, The Australian National University (ANU) RBA Shadow Board has found.

New research, using computer models of wave chaos, has shown that three-dimensional tangled vortex filaments can in fact be knotted in many highly complex ways. The computer experiments, by academics at the University of Bristol, give rise to a huge variety of different knots, realising many that have been tabulated by pure mathematicians working in the field of knot theory.

T'he sounds of languages that died thousands of years ago have been brought to life again through technology that uses statistics in a revolutionary new way.'' As a word is uttered it vibrates air, and the shape of this soundwave can be measured and turned into a series of numbers John Aston No matter whether you speak English or Urdu, Waloon or Waziri, Portuguese or Persian, the roots of your language are the same.

Researchers used a new computational design tool to make this high-heel shoe. The base of the shoe was 3-D printed, and the upper part was fashioned from auxetic material.

Two young mathematicians from France are among the ten recipients of the 2016 European Mathematical Society (EMS) prize: Vincent Calvez, chargé de recherche CNRS at l'Unité de mathématiques pures et

A Penn State mathematician heads a team awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) focused research group grant to further our understanding of operator algebras and their connections with dynamical systems.

Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use.

Australia's official interest rates should remain on hold in July against a backdrop of political uncertainty over the Australian election and Britain's vote to leave the European Union, the ANU RBA Shadow Board has found.

What's the best way to prepare high schoolers for jobs in the 21st century? Education leaders and the general public have been debating this question with more heat in recent years, clashing over whe

In a first-of-its-kind study, UM researchers created a mathematical model in an attempt to determine how much of a role sexual transmission plays in the spread and control of Zika.

As a cash-strapped college student completing a summer internship in the notoriously expensive city of San Francisco, Joshua Meier discovered he could save money by using Uber for his commute.

World leaders in the mathematical sciences are visiting Melbourne for a series of research programs at Australia's first international research institute for mathematics and statistics.

A transistor, conceived of in digital terms, has two states: on and off, which can represent the 1s and 0s of binary arithmetic. But in analog terms, the transistor has an infinite number of states, which could, in principle, represent an infinite range of mathematical values. Digital computing, for all its advantages, leaves most of transistors' informational capacity on the table.

McGill Newsroom It's all math: How Professor Alan Evans is using cutting-edge statistics to unravel the complexity of brain disorders.

If you're expecting to hear from aliens from across the universe, it could be a while. Deconstructing the Fermi paradox and pairing it with the mediocrity principle into a fresh equation, Cornell astronomers say extraterrestrials likely won't phone home - or Earth - for 1,500 years.

Overlooking the sea, the Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS) held a workshop on marine microzooplankton from 23 to 27 May, 2016.

A new equation, showing how our happiness depends not only on what happens to us but also how this compares to other people, has been developed by UCL researchers funded by Wellcome. The team developed an equation to predict happiness in 2014, highlighting the importance of expectations, and the new updated equation also takes into account other people's fortunes.

At the contest hosted by the MRI Society, researchers compete against each other. This year, mathematicians from the University of Graz and medical engineers from TU Graz won first prize together.

Tiny and industrious, ants are models of teamwork and efficiency.

Gas bubbles in a glass of champagne, thin films rupturing into tiny liquid droplets, blood flowing through a pumping heart and crashing ocean waves-although seemingly unrelated, these phenomena have something in common: they can all be mathematically modeled as interface dynamics coupled to the Navier-Stokes equations, a set of equations that predict how fluids flow.

" .. if we know who communicates with whom in a country, we would be able to estimate how a virus would spread within that country," said Wang. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Mobile phone data may reveal an underlying mathematical connection between how we move and how we communicate that could make it easier to predict how diseases - and even ideas - spread through a population, according to an international team of researchers.

Discovered just five years ago, topological semimetals are materials with unusual physical properties that could make them useful for future electronics. In the latest , MIT researchers report a new theoretical characterization of topological semimetals' electrical properties that accurately describes all known topological semimetals and predicts several new ones.

Vikram Gadagkar, M.S. '10, Ph.D. '13, was recently awarded a three-year, $234,150 Simons Foundation fellowship with the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB).