James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. (Wikipedia).
Bill Crowell: National Security in the Information Age
Bill Crowell is the Former Deputy Director of National Security Agency (NSA) and Chairman of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group. In this video, lecturer Ernestine Fu interviews Bill Crowell on the NSA’s approach to security during the emergence of digital c
From playlist Silicon Valley and the U.S. Government
Great Minds: James Clerk Maxwell, Electromagnetic Hero
Saturn’s rings, colored photography, and the discovery of electromagnetic waves all have have one thing in common. James Clerk Maxwell. Discover for yourself all the amazing contributions Maxwell made to science. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Pat
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Bill Perry: The Department of Defense and the National Security Ecosystem
Bill Perry was the 19th US Secretary of Defense, serving under Bill Clinton. Prior to this role, Secretary Perry was also Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley electronics firm. Currently, Secreta
From playlist Silicon Valley and the U.S. Government
James Polk: Best Mullet Ever (1845 - 1849)
Although James Polk was a strong figure in the oval office, he will always be remembered for that sweet, sweet hairstyle. Business in the front, party in the back. But lest we overlook his actual political accomplishments, let's dig a little deeper into his life and presidential term, shal
From playlist American History
James Baker: President-Maker (US President Documentary) | Real Stories
James Baker: President-Maker (US President Documentary) | Real Stories The Man Who Made Washington Work is the story of a remarkable politician and statesman who represents a time when a divided Congress got things done, and when presidents and politicians worked together. James A. Bake
From playlist Biographical Documentaries
James Madison: Father of the Constitution (1809 - 1817)
James Madison was a tiny fellow, but he packed a political punch. He was absolutely pivotal in the drafting of both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and he started the Democratic-Republican Party with Thomas Jefferson, all before becoming president in 1809. We wrap up a lot of the
From playlist American History
Back to the thesis: Francis Collins
In the first of this ‘Back to the thesis’ series from Nature Video, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, takes us back to the 1970s and his PhD - a time when his interests were less biomedical, and more quantum chemical. Read more: http://www.nature.com/news
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Lyndon B. Johnson: A Tragic Figure (1963 – 1969)
Lyndon Johnson ascended to the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He was a large, imposing man, who had been an influential Senate Majority Leader and Vice President. And as President, it is difficult to say whether he is remembered better for his incredible domestic acc
From playlist American History
The Life and Times of Aaron Burr, Hamilton's Nemesis
Soldier, attorney, Vice President, Aaron Burr is often seen as a villain of early American history. But historians have revisited his legacy in the last twenty years. The life and forgotten history of Aaron Burr deserves to be remembered. This is original content based on research by The
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Defining the Humanities: Democracy
Josiah Ober, a professor of classics and of political science, discusses how a reexamination of democracy's ancient origins sheds light on the values and limitations of democracy in contemporary politics.
From playlist Defining The Humanities
Mae West and the 445th Bombardment Group
The self inflated life preserver called the "Mae West" saved countless lives during the Second World War, and continues in service today. A vest sent by a viewer illustrates both the history of the life saving equipment, and the experience of the pilot who owned it. Special thanks to Jame
From playlist Aviation
A (2+1)-dimensional Anisotropic KPZ growth model with a smooth phase by Sunil Chhita
PROGRAM :UNIVERSALITY IN RANDOM STRUCTURES: INTERFACES, MATRICES, SANDPILES ORGANIZERS :Arvind Ayyer, Riddhipratim Basu and Manjunath Krishnapur DATE & TIME :14 January 2019 to 08 February 2019 VENUE :Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bangalore The primary focus of this program will be on the
From playlist Universality in random structures: Interfaces, Matrices, Sandpiles - 2019
Explained: The strange journey of Oliver Cromwell's Head
Weird title and subject, but bear with me. This is going to need some explaining... (Oh and sorry for the 14+ day wait, am currently doing my exams and put more effort into this than any other video ever. Hurray for progression!) Subscribe ➤ https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?ad
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Jeremy Quastel (Toronto) -- Convergence of finite range exclusions to the KPZ fixed point
We will describe a method of comparison with TASEP which proves that both the KPZ equation and finite range exclusion models converge to the KPZ fixed point. For the KPZ equation and the nearest neighbour exclusion, the initial data is allowed to be a continuous function plus a finite num
From playlist Columbia Probability Seminar
Jeremy Quastel: "Integrable fluctuations in 1+1 dimensional random growth"
High Dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs 2020 Workshop IV: Stochastic Analysis Related to Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs "Integrable fluctuations in 1+1 dimensional random growth" Jeremy Quastel - University of Toronto Abstract: We survey the asymptotic fluctuation processes for the one dimensional K
From playlist High Dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs 2020
The Galerkin-truncated Burgers equation: crossover from inviscid-thermalized... by Marc E. Brachet
PROGRAM TURBULENCE: PROBLEMS AT THE INTERFACE OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS ORGANIZERS Uriel Frisch (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur and CNRS, France), Konstantin Khanin (University of Toronto, Canada) and Rahul Pandit (IISc, India) DATE & TIME 16 January 2023 to 27 January 2023 VENUE Ramanuj
From playlist Turbulence: Problems at the Interface of Mathematics and Physics 2023
2020.04.30 Jeremy Quastel - Integrable fluctuations in 1+1 dimensional random growth
We survey the asymptotic fluctuation processes for the one dimensional KPZ universality class. In particular, we will describe the formulas for the transition probabilities of TASEP and the KPZ fixed point — the special scaling invariant Markov process at the centre of the class. We will
From playlist One World Probability Seminar
"There's never been a president that..." w Stephen Fry
Your greatest risk of death might surprise you, and there's a good chance you can prevent it. Plus, new research shows how to end the coronavirus pandemic. Voiced by Stephen Fry Masks at pinfact.org Support us and enjoy exclusive videos at patreon.com/pindex Receive our videos via ema
From playlist Data Science
The search for objective reality - with Jim Peebles
Join P. J. E. Peebles as he explores the big questions about the nature of science, and how we are discovering the nature of reality in successive approximations through increasingly rigorous scrutiny. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/jCMs2LH3Jp4 Jim's latest book 'The whole truth: a
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The voice of Henry Herbert Asquith - 1909
Henry Herbert Asquith's budget speech of 1909.
From playlist Voices of History