Roundtable Seminar in Syracuse

9 Syracuse : 1949 – 1952

The year 1949 saw the publication of two papers by Peter Bergmann: Non-Linear Field Theories in the Physical Review [1] and, together with Johanna Brunnings, in the Reviews of Modern Physics [2], with the ambitious title Non-Linear Field Theories II: Canonical Equations and Quantization. These papers lay the foundation for the research of the Syracuse group working to quantize Einstein's theory...

The Roundtable

Is it possible to abstract a formal mechanism originating schisms and governing the size evolution of social conversations? In this work we propose a constructive solution to this problem: an abstract model of a generic N-party turn-taking conversation. The model develops from simple yet realistic assumptions derived from experimental evidence, abstracts from conversation content and semantics ...

Roundtable Discussion

Five experts respected for their work in the development of animal models of alcohol craving offer their perspectives in a roundtable discussion format. The panel members discuss the various definitions and theories of alcohol craving and the benefits and limitations of using animal models to study alcohol craving in humans. Animal models have helped further the understanding of craving by prov...

Algorithmes pour Vérifier La Conjecture De Syracuse

Reversal of the Northern Cities Shift in Syracuse, New York

Labov, Yaeger and Steiner (1972) describe the Northern Cities Shift (NCS), a chain shift involving the six lax vowels /ae/, /o/, /oh/, /e/, /uh/, and /ih/, in Upstate New York. We recorded 54 interviews with local speakers (ages 18-89) and extracted 14,026 tokens using FAVE (Rosenfelder et al. 2011), which we normalized in R using the Lobanov method (Kendall & Thomas 2010). Our study finds that...