Interview with Abel Laureate Karen Uhlenbeck

Yakov G . Sinai , Abel Prize Laureate 2014

A dynamical billiard is an idealization of the game of billiard, but where the table can have shapes other than the rectangular and even be multidimensional. We use only one billiard ball, and the billiard may even have regions where the ball is kept out. Formally, a dynamical billiard is a dynamical system where a massless and point shaped particle moves inside a bounded region. The particle i...

An interview with Nobel laureate Roy Glauber, Physics 2005.

The field of quantum optics rests on the work of Roy Glauber, who helped elucidate the nature of light as both particles and waves. According to Glauber, quantum optics allowed "all sorts of experiments...that never could have been done before." He suggests that it was not his "small revelation" that the Nobel Committee awarded, but rather the decades of research that followed his own. Nonethel...

JALDA's Interview with Peter Mühlhäusler

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

Argumentative Reasoning with ABEL

Most formal approaches to argumentative reasoning under uncertainty focus on the analysis of qualitative aspects. An exception is the framework of probabilistic argumentation systems. Its philosophy is to include both qualitative and quantitative aspects through a simple way of combining logic and probability theory. Probabilities are used to weigh arguments for and against particular hypothese...

Formal Development with ABEL