2017 George Richardson Lecture

George Armstrong Lecture 2000.

I am honored to accept the Ambulatory Pediatric Association’s (APA’s) George Armstrong Lecture Award 2000 on behalf of Greenpeace. We greatly appreciate your recognition of Greenpeace’s global efforts to protect the earth and its children. Because of my campaign’s work on toxic pollution, and the effects of chemicals on the health of children everywhere, Greenpeace asked me to accept this award...

Publications for Jacob George 2017

Obeid, S., Wankell, M., Charrez, B., Sternberg, J., Kreuter, R., Esmaili, S., Ramezani-Moghadam, M., Devine, C., Read, S., Bhathal, P., Ahlenstiel, G., Qiao, L., George, J., Hebbard, L., et al (2017). Adiponectin confers protection from acute colitis and restricts a B cell immune response. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 292(16), 6569-6582. [...

2017 Lecture 4 : October 9 , 2017

We consider a set of random variables in a particular relationship and its consequences for mutual information. An ordered tuple of random variables (X, Y, Z) is said to form a Markov chain, written as X → Y → Z, if X and Z are independent conditioned on Y. Here, we can think of Y as being sampled given the knowledge of X, and Z being sampled given the knowledge of Y (but not using the “history...

2017 SNMMI Highlights Lecture: Neuroscience.

Lecture 6 — April 14 , 2017

A zero sum game is a simultaneous move game between 2 players. Such a game is represented by a matrix A ∈ Rm×n. The strategies of the “row” (resp. “column”) player are the rows (resp. columns) of A. If the row player plays strategy i ∈ [m] and the column player plays j ∈ [n] then the outcome is Aij . 1 Interpret this as that the row player pays Aij amount of money to the column player, therefor...