Prof. Adrian Stokes

1 Adrian Stokes : Surface , Form , and ( Dis ) Content

Adrian Stokes is giving us a theory of the surface; this is his contribution to architectural analysis; it is a formalism that is not about plasticity, proportion, geometry, spatial deployment or spatial sequence. It is an appreciation of surface that isn’t incidental in its exclusions (interior spaces), but that sees the surface as uniquely 1) the place that unleashes another type of spatialit...

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Adrian Dumitrescu

This column is devoted to maximum (respectively, maximum weight) independent set problems in geometric intersection graphs. We illustrate with one example in each class: (I) The following question was asked by T. Rado in 1928: What is the largest number c such that, for any finite set F of axis-parallel squares in the plane, there exists an independent subset I ⊆ F of pairwise disjoint squares ...

Adrian Bird

comprised populations that differ genetically in their response to the environment at spatial scales of around 600–800 km, undetected by microsatellite DNA variations. They caught cod from four populations within the Atlantic and looked at larval growth in the laboratory. Among all four populations, growth increased with food supply and temperature but the influence of changes in food and tempe...

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This column is devoted to partitions of point-sets into convex subsets with interior-disjoint convex hulls. We review some partitioning problems and corresponding algorithms. At the end we list some open problems. For simplicity, in most cases we remain at the lowest possible interesting level, that is, in the plane.