Jessica Priestley, Vasiliki

Priestley Rings and Priestley Order-Compactifications

We introduce Priestley rings of upsets (of a poset) and prove that inequivalent Priestley ring representations of a bounded distributive lattice L are in 1-1 correspondence with dense subspaces of the Priestley space of L. This generalizes a 1955 result of Bauer that inequivalent reduced field representations of a Boolean algebra B are in 1-1 correspondence with dense subspaces of the Stone spa...

Statement : Jessica

A 3–manifold is often described combinatorially, for example by a knot diagram, or by gluing a collection of polyhedra, or by attaching handles to a given manifold. Figure 1 shows a few examples. Just over a decade ago, Perelman posted the outlines of a proof of the Geometrization Theorem on the ArXiv [56, 57], and with his work and that of others it is now known that all 3–manifolds decompose ...

Jessica Hagelstein

In describing the evolution of statistical analysis in his book The Lady Tasting Tea, David Salsburg illuminates the ways in which the development of statistical analysis was shaped by the personal and political circumstances surrounding its pioneers. Each chapter focuses on the unique story of a particular statistical method and its discovery, providing the reader with a vivid sense of its tem...

Jessica J

Researchers have recently documented forest recovery and expansion in places previously dominated by net deforestation and contraction. The observations of forest recovery in Central America (Hecht et al. 2006; Klooster 2003; Southworth and Tucker 2001), the Caribbean (Grau et al. 2003; Rivera et al. 2000; Rudel et al. 2000), South America (Perz and Skole 2003; Rudel et al. 2002), and South Asi...

Jessica Lam