It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be asked to give this lecture in memory of a fine medical scientist, whose career was cut so sadly short by violence. In looking at the program today I cannot help but think of another scientist, to whom this field owes so much, whose life was also cut short unexpectedly. Alick Isaacs, the discoverer of interferon, was a brilliant medical scientist and...

S OF THE TALKS Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew U. Qualitative Laws of Large Numbers. Abstract: If X1,X2, . . . ,Xn, . . . is an iid sequence of non-singular matrices, and we form the ”random product” Yn = X1 ∗ X2 ∗ X3 ∗ ⋯ ∗ Xn and let n → ∞ we find that the Yn tend to have a certain form. We analyze this phenomenon. If X1,X2, . . . ,Xn, . . . is an iid sequence of non-singular matrices, and we form ...

In this paper, we present the TED Talks dataset which exposes all metadata and the actual transcripts of available TED talks as structured Linked Data. The TED talks collection is composed of more than 1800 talks, along with 35 000 transcripts in over 30 languages, related to a wide range of topics. In this regard, TED talks metadata available in structured, multilingual and HTTP-accessible for...

s of the talks April 3–7, 2016, Obergurgl, Austria

Despite the explicit and detailed reports of extensive financial ties between physicians and researchers on the one hand and device and drug companies on the other hand and notwithstanding a proliferation of conflict of interest policies by academic medical centers (AMCs) and professional medical societies, some recipients of industry largess continue to deny that these relationships are in any...

Combinatorial problems like TSP optimize a linear function over some polytope P. If we can obtain P as a projection from a larger-dimensional polytope with a small number of facets, then we get a small linear program for the optimization problem; if we obtain P as a projection from a small spectrahedron, then we get a small semidefinite program. The area of extension complexity studies the mini...

S OF TALKS Alessandro Andretta Descriptive set theory and the density point property Let (X, d) be Polish, μ a Borel measure on X that does not vanish on nonempty open sets, and A ⊆ X a measurable set. The density of a point x ∈ X with respect to A is DA(x) = lim ε→0+ μ(A ∩ B(x; ε))

Over the past few months, NASA has been in the news numerous times both for the exciting discoveries of the pair of Mars Rovers as well as the country’s “Vision for Space Exploration.” This vision focuses on the joint human and robotic exploration of the solar system starting with a return to the moon and then the human exploration of Mars. In addition, the vision includes a continued array of ...

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