Analyses in Greek geometry are traditionally seen as heuristic devices. However, many occurrences of analysis formal treatises difficult to justify such terms. I show that analysies geometrics can also serve mathematical purposes, which arguably incomplete without their associated syntheses incomplete. Firstly, when the solution a problem is preceded by an analysis, latter proves rigorously the...

Next year should mark some milestones in the depar tment . O u r i mpor t a nt new t ele scope projec t s , SK A and CCAT, are moving forward through rigorous reviews as part of the inf luential Astro2010 decadal survey. CCAT continues to benefi t immensely from the terrifi c generosity and energetic support of Fred Young. And in 2010 we will inaugurate the Yervant Terzian Lectures in Astronomy...

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDING OF PROBABILITY DI...

A rigorous statistical-mechanical approach is adopted to derive general quantitative expressions that allow for the effects of thermodynamic nonideality in equilibrium measurements reflecting interaction between dissimilar macromolecular reactants. An analytical procedure based on these expressions is then formulated for obtaining global estimates of equilibrium constants and the corresponding ...

The problem of estimating probabilistic deformable template models in the field of computer vision or of probabilistic atlases in the field of computational anatomy has not yet received a coherent statistical formulation and remains a challenge. In this paper, we provide a careful definition and analysis of a well defined statistical model based on dense deformable templates for gray level imag...