PRESIDENT HSU WELCOMES PARTICIPANTS

ELSC welcomes

Jeff Hsu

With the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Zambia increasing at a harrowing rate, the development of more cost-efficient, effective medicines is undeniably important. Yet paralleling the need for such development is an urgent need for cheaper and more reliable diagnostic methods. Analyzing factors such as viral load and CD4 count are crucial in delivering effective treatments to those suffering from HI...

Clustering Daniel Hsu COMS 4772

Let (X , ρ) be a metric space. Goal: given a set S ⊂ X , find a set C ⊂ X (" centers ") that has small cardinality, and " represents " the set S well (as measured by a cost function).

The Galactic center welcomes black hole immigrants

We simulate the inner 100 pc of the Milky-Way Galaxy to study the formation and evolution of the population of star clusters and intermediate mass black holes. For this study we perform extensive direct N -body simulations of the star clusters which reside in the bulge, and of the inner few tenth of parsecs of the super massive black hole in the Galactic center. In our N -body simulations the d...

Infection and Immunity Welcomes the New Microbiology.