Portrait d’Otto Peters en lanceur d’alerte

Research Statement Emanuele Dotto 2015

My research interests range between algebraic K-theory and equivariant homotopy theory. I am currently extending the trace methods of [16],[30],[49] to the Real algebraic K-theory of rings and ring spectra with Wall antistructures of [39], in parallel with an equivariant theory of Goodwillie calculus of functors [35]. My current main objective is to prove a DundasGoodwillie-McCarthy theorem for...

Peters’ Anomaly

While conducting medical aid in Mozambique, a 41 year old African male presented to our eye clinic complaining of visual impairment. The male was found to have Peters' anomaly type 2, a rare congenital ocular malformation leading to sensory amblyopia and glaucoma.

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Born in 1944, I grew up in a world in which polio was both a gripping fear and real threat. Then in a matter of a few years-polio was eradicated by a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Later I learned that Salk's efforts were built on pioneering work of many others, including John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins (Nobelists, 1954), and David Bodian, who pioneered studies of polio patho...

Jan Peters and Jens

Reinforcement Learning is an essential ability for robots to learn new motor skills. Nevertheless, few methods scale into the domain of anthropomorphic robotics. In order to improve in terms of efficiency, the problem is reduced onto reward-weighted imitation. By doing so, we are able to generate a framework for policy learning which both unifies previous reinforcement learning approaches and a...

and Jörg Peters