The Bulletin—March 20, 2013

UBC CPSC 536 N : Sparse Approximations Winter 2013 Lecture 20 — March 20 , 2013

Definition 1.1. Given a (undirected) graph G = (V,E), the maximum cut δ(U) for U ⊆ V is the cut with maximal value |δ(U)|. The Maximum Cut Problem consists of finding a maximal cut. We let MaxCut(G) = max{|δ(U)| : U ⊆ V } be the value of the maximum cut in G, and MaxCut′ = MaxCut(G) |E| be the normalized version (note that both normalized and unnormalized maximum cut values are induced by the s...

18.783 Elliptic Curves Spring 2013 Lecture #20 04/25/2013 20.1 The Hilbert class polynomial

Let O be an order of discriminant D in an imaginary quadratic field K. In Lecture 19 we saw that there is a one-to-one relationship between isomorphism classes of elliptic curves with complex multiplication by O (the set EllO(C)), and equivalence classes of proper Oideals (the group cl(O)). The first main theorem of complex multiplication states that the elements of EllO(C) are algebraic intege...

CS 229 r : Algorithms for Big Data Fall 2013 Lecture 20 — November 7 , 2013

2nd Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies, SLATE 2013, June 20-21, 2013 - Porto, Portugal

While computers are linguistic machines moving symbols around, Informatics is BY and FOR people. I claim here that the gap between Computer Languages and Human Languages is, as a matter of fact, filled by a wide spectrum of Software Languages. My point is that the notion of Software Language goes far beyond Programming Languages; just like Informatics is indeed much more than Computer Science. ...

International Society for Extracellular Vesicles: Second Annual Meeting, 17–20 April 2013, Boston, MA (ISEV 2013)

s and focused on exosomes, microvesicles, and outer membrane vesicles from bacteria. This progress came together with a significant increase in cross-talk between and among different disciplines. One strong message coming out of this year’s meeting, M. Wauben said, is that microvesicles ‘‘offer a tremendous opportunity for clinical applications.’’ Next, J. Lötvall announced that the site for th...