Alexander Aitken

A moment with Aaron Sauers

Aaron Sauers is a bridge between Fermilab and industry. As Fermilab's patent and licensing executive, he works with the lab's inventors to find ways that their innovations can help tackle problems and improve our everyday lives. By exploring areas of common interest between the lab and pri

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IAS Friends Annual Meeting 5-20-22

Institute for Advanced Study Friends Meeting Date: May 20, 2022

From playlist Friends of the Institute

Interview at Cirm: Alex Eskin

Alex Eskin's research focuses on rational billiards and geometric group theory. Eskin earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1993, under the supervision of Peter Sarnak. He has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1999. He gave invited talks at the International C

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Scientists Discover A Mysterious Anomaly Inside Moon's Largest Crater

You can buy Universe Sandbox 2 game here: http://amzn.to/2yJqwU6 Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery of a strange mass anomaly inside South Pole Aitken Basin (largest crater in the solar system) on the Moon. Read the paper here: https://a

From playlist The Moon

Generalized Aitken-Steffensen Method

Generalized Aitken's delta-squared method and Generalized Steffensen's Method applying Fixed Point Iteration to Systems of Nonlinear Equations. Video goes step-by-step to derive Generalized Aitken-Steffensen and discusses induced and accelerated convergence behavior as well as quadratic or

From playlist Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations

Steffensen's Method with Aitken's Δ²

Discussion of Steffensen's Method and Aitken's Delta-Squared Method with their relation to Fixed Point Iteration including examples, convergence acceleration, order, and code. GitHub: https://github.com/osveliz/numerical-veliz Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:08 Aitken's Δ² Method History 0:23 Deriv

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The Massive Chunk of Metal Hiding in the Moon

The moon's South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest known crater in existence, and there's something big hidden underneath. Hosted By: Reid Reimers SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https

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You and AI - the future of work by Professor Joseph E Stiglitz

AI already supports many of the products and services we interact with on a daily basis, and technological advances are creating systems that can perform increasingly sophisticated tasks. Alongside these advances, come questions about the impact of AI on work and working life, and its impl

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Abel Award Ceremony 2012 - Endre Szemerédi

29:05 Acceptance speech by Endre Szemeredi [English] The programme of the Abel Ceremonies was mostly in Norwegian up to 2017. 00:00 Endre Szemerédi arrives 00:26 Academic procession 1:13 Music by Tine Thing Helseth 5:38 Speech by Nils Christian Stenseth, president of The Norwegian Academ

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Did Albert Einstein believe in God?

What made Albert Einstein one of the greatest scientific geniuses the world has ever known? His scientific breakthroughs revolutionized the way we understand the universe. The World Science Festival, in partnership with the 92Y’s 7 Days of Genius Festival, presents an in-depth look into th

From playlist The Life and Work of Albert Einstein

Does the Moon Have Larger Mountains Than Earth? | LRO 4K Episode 1

Exploring the tallest mountains on the moon, from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), images in 4K quality. https://brilliant.org/astrum/ ************** A big thank you to Brilliant for supporting this video. Sign up for free using the link above. That link will also get the first

From playlist Lunar South Pole Water Ice Playlist

Fixed Point Iteration

Fixed Point Iteration method for finding roots of functions. Frequently Asked Questions: Where did 1.618 come from? If you keep iterating the example will eventually converge on 1.61803398875... which is (1+sqrt(5))/2. Why not use x = x^2 -1? Generally you try to reduce the degree of the

From playlist Root Finding

Louis Nirenberg Acceptance speech - The Abel Prize

Acceptance speech by Louis Nirenberg from the 2015 Abel Prize Award Ceremony.

From playlist Louis Nirenberg

Steffensen's Method for Systems of Nonlinear Equations

Generalized Steffensen's Method for Simultaneous Nonlinear Systems originally credited to J. F. Traub. Video shows how to solve nonlinear systems by approximating the Jacobian. Example code on GitHub https://www.github.com/osveliz/numerical-veliz Chapters 0:00 Prerequisites 0:20 Intro 0:

From playlist Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations

Lisbeth Fajstrup interviewed by Martin Raussen (September 29, 2021)

Lisbeth Fajstrup interviewed by Martin Raussen (September 29, 2021) For more on the interview series, along with the advertisement posters, please see https://sites.google.com/view/aatrn/interviews

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Why Near and Far Sides of the Moon Are So Extremely Different, New Study

Good telescope that I've used to learn the basics: https://amzn.to/35r1jAk Get a Wonderful Person shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will tal

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Are AI Risks like Nuclear Risks?

Concerns about AI cover a really wide range of possible problems. Can we make progress on several of these problems at once? With thanks to my Patreon supporters: - Ichiro Dohi - Stefan Skiles - Chad Jones - Joshua Richardson - Fabian Consiglio - Jonatan R - Øystein Flygt - Björn Mosten -

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What Created The Largest Craters on the Moon

Hello wonderful person and welcome! My name is Anton and due to the 2020 housing crisis that's going on in some parts of the world, I ended up losing my apartment because the rent became too unbearable. As a result while I'm looking for a new place (probably 3-4 weeks or so), I made some p

From playlist The Moon

Fixed Point Iteration System of Equations with Banach

Fixed Point Iteration Method to solve Systems of Nonlinear Equations with discussion of Banach Fixed Point Theorem, finding the Jacobian, convergence, and order. Example code on GitHub: http://github.com/osveliz/numerical-veliz Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:25 Systems of Equations 00:33 Solvin

From playlist Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations

Beauty and Truth in Mathematics; a Tribute to Albert Einstein and Hermann Weyl - Sir Michael Atiyah

Sir Michael Atiyah Institute for Advanced Study November 8, 2010 For more videos, visit http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Mathematics