On October 15th, 2016, Choosing Wisely Japan kickoff seminar was held in Suidobashi, Tokyo, Japan. Choosing Wisely is a global campaign aiming reduction in overdiagnosis and overtreatment. In Japan, leaders in medical field gathered and took initiative in launching Choosing Wisely Japan, raising awareness of Choosing Wisely in Japan. At the same time, we, a group of interested medical students,...

These are notes for a talk given in the Student Analysis Seminar at the University of Michigan. The Laplacian on a bounded domain in Rn has a discrete set of Dirichlet eigenvalues, accumulating only at ∞. Let N(λ) be the number of eigenvalues less than λ, then Weyl’s law asserts that the first term of the asymptotic expansion of N(λ) depends only on the dimension and the volume of the domain. H...

Software design is becoming increasingly complex; yet great opportunity now exists with the proliferation of powerful APIs and other design toolkits. Here we describe an approach to software development that combines formal creativity methods with deliberative use of published APIs towards the development of a “micro-API”—a highly focused interface to a “radical product.” We have developed our ...

Today, evidence-based medicine (EBM) is proposed as the “natural” way of thinking and practicing medicine. Although it has been questioned with several arguments (little humanist, elitist, disdainful of experience, functional to the health commerce, etc.), criticism has not moved its structure. EBM was born at the beginning of the nineties; it is undoubtedly the dominant thought in today’s medi...

These are notes from a talk given in the algebraic geometry student seminar at the University of Utah in December 2016. In this talk, we discussed the basic definitions in the theory of algebraic D-modules, and we explored a family of simple examples. The intent of this talk was to give the flavor of the theory without many details. No results are proven in this document. For a detailed constru...

Students in a first year Master’s degree seminar were asked to find the answer to the question “Do Class and School Size Matter as A Crucial Issue to School Improvement?” The paper the students wrote is based on a review of the literature. The students determined that the question had several issues to be addressed before they could answer the question. The issues researched were Student to Tea...

Peer bias is recognised as a primary factor in negative student perceptions of peer assessment strategies. This study trialled the use of classroom response systems, widely known as clickers, in small seminar classes in order to actively engage students in their subject’s assessment process while providing the anonymity that would lessen the impact of peer pressure. Focus group reflection on th...