VSI secretary's report 2017

ERI Summer 2017 Fellowship Report

Introduction Ocean island basalts (OIB) are thought to sample the Earth’s deep mantle, whereby thermochemical plumes entrain lower mantle material and bring it to the surface where it erupts. By measuring the isotopic compositions of global OIB—which record the isotopic compositions of OIB mantle sources—geochemists can “map” the isotopic heterogeneity of the Earth’s deep mantle (e.g., Gast et ...

Activity-Net 2017 Challenge Report

In this year’s competition, we use Temporal Context Network (TCN) for precise temporal localization of human activities. To improve performance for the metric used for evaluating proposals (i.e. area under the Average Recall vs. Average Number of Proposals per Video (AR-AN) curve with 100 proposals), we study the influence of two major hyper-parameters: the IOU threshold for NMS and the number ...

2017 American Brachytherapy Society’s Annual Meeting Report

The American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) and its membership seeks to benefit patients by promoting the highest possible standard for brachytherapy practice, support health care professionals through the encouragement of state of the art technology and education, promote clinical and laboratory research, and advocate for the socioeconomic aspects of brachytherapy. The 2017 ABS Annual Meeting too...

Report on DATE 2017 in Lausanne

Dr. Doug Burger from Microsoft, who talked about “A New Era of Hardware Microservices in the Cloud.” In addition, a keynote lecture by Prof. Giovanni De Micheli (Professor at EPFL and Director of Nano-Tera.ch) was given on “Distributed Systems for Health and Environmental Monitoring” within the Nano-Tera.ch initiative. On the same day, an Executive Panel Session and three Innovative Technologie...

2017 ACVIM Forum Research Report Program