Picturing Powehi
Fumie Tazaki talks about creating the first image of a black hole and its shadow, which relied on Fourier transforms. About the work to make the image...
Mathematical Moments from the American Mathematical Society
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The American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Moments program promotes appreciation and understanding of the role mathematics plays in science, nature, technology, and human culture. Listen to researchers talk about how they use math: from presenting realistic animation to beating cancer.
Unmasking Deepfakes
Hany Farid talks about fighting fake videos: "Mathematically, there's a lot of linear algebra, multivariate calculus, probability and statistics, and ...
Making Beautiful Mathematics
Rob Schneiderman talks about the metaphorical connections between math and music
Keeping People Alive Part 2
Steven Strogatz and Mary Bushman talk about math's role in controlling HIV and understanding malaria, respectively. Mary Bushman says, "It's really co...
Keeping People Alive Part 1
Steven Strogatz and Mary Bushman talk about math's role in controlling HIV and understanding malaria, respectively. Mary Bushman says, "It's really co...
Making the Earth Flat
Tom Patterson and Bojan Savric discuss the Equal Earth projection map that they created with Bernhard Jenny.
Screening for Autism
Researcher: Jordan Hashemi, Duke University Description: Jordan Hashemi talks about an easy-to-use app to screen for autism.
Unbunching Buses
Researchers: Vikash V. Gayah and S. Ilgin Guler, Pennsylvania State University Description: Gayah and Guler talk about mitigating the clustering of bu...
Winning the Race
Researcher: Christine Darden, NASA (retired) Description: Christine Darden on working at NASA.
Revolutionizing and Industry
Researchers: Christopher Brinton, Zoomi, Inc. and Princeton University, and Mung Chiang, Purdue University Moment: http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmo...