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Topological Manifolds, Grant Wilson
Topological Manifolds, Grant Wilson
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
Topological Manifolds are abstract spaces that locally resemble Euclidean space. For example, consider a round globe and a flat map. The map is a 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional space. Given any point on the globe we can find a corresponding position on the map, and vice versa. This correspondence is called a chart. With a sufficient number of charts, we can describe the whole space. Such a collection of charts is called an Atlas. It is possible to construct different Atlases for the same space, allowing us to move from one chart, to the space, to another chart. This …
An Outdoor Classroom To Improve The Student Experience And Connect The Community, Chelsea Malacara
An Outdoor Classroom To Improve The Student Experience And Connect The Community, Chelsea Malacara
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
An opportunity to learn outdoors unites students to their surroundings and closes the gap between human and nature. Outdoor spaces contribute to ecological literacy and are critical to a well-rounded education. The University of Southern Maine community places emphasis on environmental stewardship through classroom instruction and campus projects. The Gorham campus has 9 acres of wooded area plus unused greenspace. I am proposing the construction of an outdoor classroom. The proposal will include interviews from various stakeholders, a site assessment, and a digital and 3D model of the outdoor classroom that will be created per the Site Planning and Design …
Remote Sensing Of Beachrock And Other Geomorphological Indicators Of Sea-Level Rise On Lesvos, Greece, Frankie St. Amand
Remote Sensing Of Beachrock And Other Geomorphological Indicators Of Sea-Level Rise On Lesvos, Greece, Frankie St. Amand
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
While research has shown the possibility of seafloor mapping at depths of up to 30m, a number of factors restrict exploration of bathymetry such as pixel size, sun azimuth, season, water turbidity and suspended sediments, as well as seafloor topography13. Though the 30m composite images of Lesvos were able to penetrate shallow water to expose submerged features, pixel size prevented mapping of beachrock outcrops because they couldn’t be differentiated from other sediments or underwater features. Higher resolution aerial images enabled accurate beachrock mapping. These images were obtained by a helicopter but increasingly, remote drones are a cost effective way of …
Accuracy Of Optical Character Recognition Software Google Tesseract, Joshua A. Suitter
Accuracy Of Optical Character Recognition Software Google Tesseract, Joshua A. Suitter
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
Tesseract is an open-source OCR (Optical Character Recognition) softwareengine originally developed by HP between 1985 and 1995, it is now sponsored by Google Projects (Google Tesseract). While Tesseract is known as one of the most accurate free OCR enginesavailable today, it has numerous limitations that dramatically affect its performance; its ability to correctly recognize characters in a scan or image. During my research I have found that certain fonts are accepted more than others, and font size, spacing, and image quality all play a role in how Tesseract performs. In this project, I will also be looking into Wolfram’s Mathematica …
An Investigation To Remotely Sense Mineral Leeching Through Soils, Paul C. Shaffer
An Investigation To Remotely Sense Mineral Leeching Through Soils, Paul C. Shaffer
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
Satellite data on Earth's surface provide a wealth of information on landscape conditions. I use Landsat data to determine an important geologic process that influences the composition of the soils. My project focusses on the experimental hypothesis that we can use plant vigor as a proxy to document mineral washing downslopes through soils. I constructed a Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) composite image from Landsat data to help assess vegetation heath in my target location - a national park south of Mount St. Helens. This location was selected because of its steep inclines, dense undisturbed vegetation, and fertile soils. It …
The Truman Show: Scalable Generation Of Artificial Network Traffic For Cyber Security Research, Adam Wirth
The Truman Show: Scalable Generation Of Artificial Network Traffic For Cyber Security Research, Adam Wirth
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
Network traffic generation is a key component of the creation of a network simulation environment. In order to create a realistic simulation of a large scale network in action, it is necessary to have a large volume of user traffic. Past methods for providing user traffic, such as hiring users to manually generate traffic, or recording existing traffic of an active network, provide limited control. Managing and directing users is time consuming, and using existing traffic is restricted by recorded conditions. The Truman Show project provides an infinitely adjustable alternative by utilizing agent based modeling of individual users. An agent …
Habitat Fragmenta-On In The Sebago Lake Watershed, Jared Lank
Habitat Fragmenta-On In The Sebago Lake Watershed, Jared Lank
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
The goal of this research was to evaluate the extent of land use change occurring in the Sebago lake watershed of southern Maine. The primary data set used was Landsat 7 Near Infrared satellite imagery of the region which was analyzed with ESRI’s ArcGIS soQware. Data was clipped to the Portland Water District’s sub watershed shape file and analyzed with the soQware’s image analysis ‘difference’ tool which calculates the differences in pixel values between to raster datasets. The 2013 Landsat reclassifica-on was compared to 1987, 1995 and 2009 reclassifica-ons. NOAA’s Habitat Priority Planner plugin tool was also u-lized in order …
Inside Out: Properties Of The Klein Bottle, Andrew Pogg, Jennifer Daigle, Deirdra Brown
Inside Out: Properties Of The Klein Bottle, Andrew Pogg, Jennifer Daigle, Deirdra Brown
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
A Klein Bottle is a two-dimensional manifold in mathematics that, despite appearing like an ordinary bottle, is actually completely closed and completely open at the same time. The Klein Bottle, which can be represented in three dimensions with self-intersection, is a four dimensional object with no intersection of material. In this presentation we illustrate some topological properties of the Klein Bottle, use the Möbius Strip to help demonstrate the construction of the Klein Bottle, and use mathematical properties to show that the Klein Bottle intersection that appears in ℝ3 does not exist in ℝ4. Introduction: Topology