IIT Bhubaneswar India Organizes First Ph.D. Summer School

Municipal solid waste management in Bhubaneswar, India – A review

In view of fast paced economic growth accompanied with rapid urbanisation, management of municipal solid waste has emerged as one of the major environmental challenges of present times. Indian cities are often characterized by poorly rendered services including waste management-the most ignored of all basic services, on account of various reasons. The situation worsens with increasing populatio...

Connectionist Models Summer School

Binocular depth perception, or stereopsis, depends on matching corresponding points in two images taken from two vantage points. In random-dot stereograms the features to be matched are individual pixels. We have used the recurrent backpropagation learning algorithm of Pineda (1987) to construct network models with lateral and feedback connections that can solve the correspondence problem for r...

ICCL Summer School 2008

Jüngste Erkenntnisse deuten darauf hin, dass das menschliche Schlussfolgern wohl doch „logischer“ ist als lange Zeit angenommen wurde. Hierdurch motiviert boten neun Dozenten den Teilnehmern der ICCL Summer School ein inhaltlich tiefgreifendes und gleichzeitig vielseitiges Programm an Theorie-Tutorien in den Bereichen der Kognitionswissenschaften und formaler Logik. Der zweiwöchige Zeitrahmen e...

First Year PhD Transition

Forcing Summer School Lecture Notes

These are the lecture notes for the forcing class in the 2014 UCLA Logic Summer School. They are a revision of the 2013 Summer School notes. The most substantial differences are a new proof of the forcing theorems in section 10.3 and a final section on the consistency of the failure of the axiom of choice. Both write-ups are by Sherwood Hachtman; the former is based on the author’s notes from a...