P. Burger, Monsterlijke Verhalen

What's in a burger?

In an attempt to confirm the presence or absence of central nervous tissue in commercially prepared beefburgers, four burgers were processed and stained using routine histological laboratory techniques. Constituent parts of the burgers could be identified readily. In this small sample no central nervous tissue was found. There is currently considerable general interest in the contents of foodst...

Equations and Burger ’ s Equation

Class Meeting # 24: Transport Equations and Burger’s Equation In these notes, we introduce a class of evolution PDEs known as transport equations. Such equations arise in a physical context whenever a quantity is “transported” in a certain direction. Some important physical examples include the mass density flow for an incompressible fluid, and the Boltzmann equation of kinetic theory. We discu...

2 Marc Burger and Pierre

The decomposition of unitary representations of a discrete group obtained by induction from a subgroup involves commensurators. In particular Mackey has shown that quasi-regular representations are irreducible if and only if the corresponding subgroups are self-commensurizing. The purpose of this work is to describe general constructions of pairs of groups ? 0 < ? with ? 0 its own commensurator...

Reflections on "Replicating Milgram" (Burger, 2009).

In "Replicating Milgram: Would People Still Obey Today?" Jerry M. Burger reported a high base rate of obedience, comparable to that observed by Stanley Milgram (1974). Another condition, involving a defiant confederate, failed to significantly reduce obedience. This commentary discusses the primary contributions of Burger's study in terms of (a) its novel methodological variation on Milgram's o...

Inverse Problems Winter 2007 / 08 Martin Burger