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Intransitive Dice, Brian Conrey Apr 2015

Intransitive Dice, Brian Conrey

Colloquium

Suppose you have three dice, A, B, and C, and A beats B and B beats C. Is it necessarily true that A beats C? And what does 'beats' mean anyway? We will discuss a surprising conjecture about sets of intransitive dice.


Primes And Zeros: A Million Dollar Mystery, Brian Conrey Apr 2015

Primes And Zeros: A Million Dollar Mystery, Brian Conrey

Dalrymple Lecture Series

A prime number is an integer greater than one whose only positive divisors are 1 and itself. In 1859 G. F. B. Riemann proposed a way to understand how the prime numbers are distributed among the natural numbers. More than 150 years later mathematicians still have not proven Riemann's Hypothesis. The stature of this problem has continued to rise so that today it is widely regarded as the most important unsolved problem in all of mathematics. In this talk I will describe some of the colorful history that surrounds this question.


Gifted Middle School Students Probe Faux Crime Scene On Um Campus, Edwin Smith Apr 2015

Gifted Middle School Students Probe Faux Crime Scene On Um Campus, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Field trip to forensic chemistry program allowed seventh- and eighth-graders to examine evidence, present case


American Mathematics Institute Director Is Um Dalrymple Lecturer, Edwin Smith Apr 2015

American Mathematics Institute Director Is Um Dalrymple Lecturer, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

University of Bristol math professor Brian Conrey speaks April 9 at Overby Center


Um Electrical Engineering Alumnus Named Gates Cambridge Scholar, Edwin Smith Apr 2015

Um Electrical Engineering Alumnus Named Gates Cambridge Scholar, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Dozie Ibekwe was a junior entry into the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College


Educating Engineers, A. Louise Perkins Apr 2015

Educating Engineers, A. Louise Perkins

Journal of Contemporary Research in Education

In this paper we discuss educational pedagogy vis-á-vis its impact on preparing students for careers in engineering. We relate their learning needs to the field of Educational Psychology by defining this focus group in terms of IQ metrics and relate these metrics to child development theory. We point out where we believe the current educational system is failing them. We then present a vertical study that follows eight students from 1st through 5th grade, emphasizing the improvements gained between third and fifth grade after the new approach was used. The traditional pedagogy was used in grades 1-4, while the suggested …


Vol. 3, No. 3 (2015): Full Issue, Journal Editors Apr 2015

Vol. 3, No. 3 (2015): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Journal of Contemporary Research in Education

No abstract provided.


Teachers’ Needs And Preparation To Use Technology In The U.S. And Japan K-12: Learning From Teachers, Svjetlana Curcic, Makito Yurita, Kathryn Young, Lori Wolff, Ziazi Ziazi, Elena Garcia Ansani Apr 2015

Teachers’ Needs And Preparation To Use Technology In The U.S. And Japan K-12: Learning From Teachers, Svjetlana Curcic, Makito Yurita, Kathryn Young, Lori Wolff, Ziazi Ziazi, Elena Garcia Ansani

Journal of Contemporary Research in Education

A body of literature on the changing nature of knowledge acquisition, teaching, and learning with technology, has been rapidly growing within the last decade. In examining how teachers learn to use technology in the U. S. and Japan, it seems that those processes follow a similar pattern: to some extent, teacher preparation programs prepare future teachers in technology use. Frequently, however, many students learn how to use technology (e.g., various computing devices and software) on their own. Because technology is constantly evolving, it seems that those responsible for regular professional development, such as school districts (U.S.) and the Board for …


Um Team Wins North American Championship In Space Law, Staff Report Mar 2015

Um Team Wins North American Championship In Space Law, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Title is second major victory for school's moot court teams this year


Calling For The Renewal Of The Contract Of Chancellor Dan Jones, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate Mar 2015

Calling For The Renewal Of The Contract Of Chancellor Dan Jones, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Resolutions

A resolution expressing shock and disappointment at the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning decision not to renew Chancellor Jones' contract.


Teaching Program Fellows Study Education Policy In Nation's Capital, Andrew Mark Abernathy Mar 2015

Teaching Program Fellows Study Education Policy In Nation's Capital, Andrew Mark Abernathy

University of Mississippi News

Spring break trip offers policy perspective for education students


Welcoming Contract Negotiations With Chancellor Dan Jones, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate Mar 2015

Welcoming Contract Negotiations With Chancellor Dan Jones, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Resolutions

A resolution supporting the news of contract negotiations between Chancellor Jones and the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning.


Physicist's Studies Of Black Holes Spins Make Prestigious Journal, Edwin Smith Mar 2015

Physicist's Studies Of Black Holes Spins Make Prestigious Journal, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

Global research team's findings advance understanding, get international attention


Aaron Shirley, M.D. Posthumously Receives Community Service Award, Caron Blanton Mar 2015

Aaron Shirley, M.D. Posthumously Receives Community Service Award, Caron Blanton

University of Mississippi News

UMMC's professor named Diversity Educator of the Year


Centennial Of General Relativity Theory Topic For Feb. 17 Science Cafe, Edwin Smith Feb 2015

Centennial Of General Relativity Theory Topic For Feb. 17 Science Cafe, Edwin Smith

University of Mississippi News

UM physicist presents new perspectives on Einstein's theory


February 10, 2015, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate Feb 2015

February 10, 2015, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Meeting Minutes

Minutes for the February 10, 2015 meeting of the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate.


January 30, 2015, The Daily Mississippian Jan 2015

January 30, 2015, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.


January 27, 2015, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate Jan 2015

January 27, 2015, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Meeting Minutes

Minutes for the January 27, 2015 meeting of the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate.


Um Launches Professional Doctorates In Math, Higher Education, Andrew Mark Abernathy Jan 2015

Um Launches Professional Doctorates In Math, Higher Education, Andrew Mark Abernathy

University of Mississippi News

Three-year doctoral program designed for working teachers, administrators


The View From Ventress - 2015, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts Jan 2015

The View From Ventress - 2015, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

Special Section: Research and Create. The College of Liberal Arts’ 18 departments, eight interdisciplinary programs, and 13 centers/institutes range from the natural sciences and social sciences to the fine arts and humanities. Through individual and collaborative efforts, faculty and students push the boundaries of our understanding and appreciation of the world around us. They analyze and create; they publish, discuss, and perform.


Negative Effects Of Commycorrhizal Networks And Roots On Upland Oak Seedlings In Open-Canopy Woodlands And Closed-Canopy Forests, William Chase Bailey Jan 2015

Negative Effects Of Commycorrhizal Networks And Roots On Upland Oak Seedlings In Open-Canopy Woodlands And Closed-Canopy Forests, William Chase Bailey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

After extensive logging and fire suppression many oak dominated woodlands or forests are in danger of being replaced by a mix of non-pyrogenic and shade tolerant tree species that benefit from fire suppression. Successful advanced regeneration by oaks in forests and woodlands depends both on the persistence of seedlings in the shade and growth within canopy gaps. Through the sharing of carbon and/or water between adults and seedlings, connection to a commycorrhizal network potentially provides a mechanism by which oak seedlings could persist in shade and/or grow rapidly in dry soils within canopy gaps. A study was conducted to determine …


Language Policy Implementers: Faculty Perspectives On Language Policy At A Southeastern U.S. University, Jordan Nicholas Troisi Jan 2015

Language Policy Implementers: Faculty Perspectives On Language Policy At A Southeastern U.S. University, Jordan Nicholas Troisi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Faculty members, as language policy implementers, retain significant control of the enactment of policy in local contexts. In order to better understand the relationship between de jure language policies at multiple levels of the policy hierarchy, in addition to faculty members? acceptance or rejection of these policies, this study investigated faculty perspectives on language policy, specifically at a southeastern university in the United States. This study employed multiple methods of research including a policy examination and a survey. These methods were selected in order to inspect de jure language policies at the national, state, governing board, and institutional level as …


Efficient Utilization Of Solar Energy In Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells And In The Photocatalytic Reduction Of Carbon Dioxide, Aron Joel Huckaba Jan 2015

Efficient Utilization Of Solar Energy In Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells And In The Photocatalytic Reduction Of Carbon Dioxide, Aron Joel Huckaba

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

One of the most important questions humanity will face in the next 100 years is going to be "What will happen when oil runs out?" This dissertation describes efforts to utilize solar energy to improve renewable energy technology in two ways: First, through the improvement of dye sensitized solar cells by theimprovement of D-π-A dye subunits, the development of practical sensitizers, and progress towards stable, tunable redox shuttles. A novel indolizine donor subunit was synthesized that was shown to be the strongest reported donor. Dyes made from this novel donor and devices using the Γ-/I 3- reached up to 5.4% …


Hidden Treasure: Connecting Your Value With The Needs Of The Institution, Leslie Engelson, Christina Torbert Jan 2015

Hidden Treasure: Connecting Your Value With The Needs Of The Institution, Leslie Engelson, Christina Torbert

Library Publications

While traditionally libraries are very good at counting (books, patrons, reference questions, etc.), the question of value can no longer be answered by quantifying things and activities. In fact, it is challenging to try to assess and assign value to the services and resources provided by libraries. Increasingly libraries are asked to communicate their value to their stakeholders more effectively by providing evidence of outcomes related to user experience and institutional mission and goals. Several library associations have recently published reports delineating the value of libraries to the constituents.


Diagonals Of Tensor Products Of Banach Lattices With Bases., Byunghoon Lee Jan 2015

Diagonals Of Tensor Products Of Banach Lattices With Bases., Byunghoon Lee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, we investigate diagonals of tensor products of Banach lattices with bases. We first consider questions on the positive tensor products of l_p spaces. We characterize the main diagonals of the positive projective tensor product and the positive injective tensor product of l_p space. Then by using these two main diagonals, we characterize the reflexivity, the property of being Kantorovich - Banach spaces, and the property of being order continuous of n-fold positive projective and positive injective tensor products of l_p spaces. Next, we consider the diagonals of injective tensor product of Banach lattices with bases. Let E …


Progress Toward The Total Synthesis Of The Natural Product Herbicide Ascaulitoxin Aglycone, Jeffery Brian Morgan Jan 2015

Progress Toward The Total Synthesis Of The Natural Product Herbicide Ascaulitoxin Aglycone, Jeffery Brian Morgan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Ascaulitoxin aglycone is a structurally unique bis-amino acid isolated from the fungal species Ascochyta caulina, with herbicidal activity against Chenopodium album. Ascaulitoxin aglycone's potent herbicidal activity coupled with an unknown but novel mechanism of action makes it a perfect candidate for further study in the pursuit of new natural product herbicides. This dissertation research will illustrate three synthetic strategies towards the total synthesis of ascaulitoxin aglycone from chiral pool building blocks. Strategy 1 invokes the use of the Henry reaction as a key step for the construction of the central C4-C5 cis-aminohydroxy group, which was moderately successful, but abandoned in …


Comparing Anthropometric Methods To Quantify Relations Between Adiposity And Headache, Vanessa Lee Moynahan Jan 2015

Comparing Anthropometric Methods To Quantify Relations Between Adiposity And Headache, Vanessa Lee Moynahan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Obesity is associated with increased risk for chronic migraine and migraine progression, but associations with episodic migraine (em) and episodic tension-type headache (tth) are unclear. Most studies have relied on bmi as an indicator of adiposity. More accurate anthropometric measures that distinguish adipose tissue from other body tissue are critical to examine adiposity-headache associations, including validated measures of abdominal adiposity and established measurement formulas such as body adiposity index (bai) and body composition equations developed by Peterson et al. (2003) and Garcia et al. (2005). The present study explored adiposity-headache associations by employing established anthropometric measures of adiposity and comparing …


Fscan Code Development For Advanced Ligo Detector Characterization, Cody Arceneaux Jan 2015

Fscan Code Development For Advanced Ligo Detector Characterization, Cody Arceneaux

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is an experiment designed to provide direct detection of gravitational waves. Its searches for periodic gravitational waves are highly susceptible to long-duration noise that appears as spectral lines. FScan is a tool for finding spectral lines and is used to identify the lines that appear in the gravitational-wave data; it is also used to characterize LIGO's detectors. This thesis details work in rewriting the plotting portion of FScan, making improvements to the FScan driver script, and writing code to assist in the tracking of wandering spectral lines. In particular, this thesis presents the …


Testing Lepton Nonuniversality In Tau Neutrino Scattering, Hongkai Liu Jan 2015

Testing Lepton Nonuniversality In Tau Neutrino Scattering, Hongkai Liu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Recently hints of lepton flavor non-universality emerged in the BaBar and LHCb experiments. In this paper we propose tests of lepton universality in scattering. To parametrize the new physics we adopt an effective Lagrangian approach and consider the neutrino deep inelastic scattering processes tau neutrino+nucleon to tau + X and muon neutrino+nucleon to muon + X where we assume the largest new physics effects are in the tau sector. We also consider an explicit leptoquark model in our calculations. In order to make comparison with the standard model and also in order to cancel out the uncertainty of the parton …


Accurate Computation Of Molecular Properties From Novel Applications Of Quantum Mechanical Wavefunction Methods, James Coleman Howard Jan 2015

Accurate Computation Of Molecular Properties From Novel Applications Of Quantum Mechanical Wavefunction Methods, James Coleman Howard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

High-accuracy quantum mechanical (qm) wavefunction methods have been applied to compute molecular properties of weakly-bound clusters. This work focuses on both extending the applicability of robust theoretical methods to larger systems and also determining the inherent accuracy of ab initio methods when compared to experimentally measured properties. Described here is the development of an efficient many-body approach that offers the ability to reduce both the time and the computational resources normally required to compute these properties reliably. The n-body:many-body qm:qm technique has been extended to compute harmonic vibrational frequencies of clusters. Applying this methodology to small hydrogen-bonded clusters demonstrates that …