Dorothy Horstmann: Polio Pioneer
Yale researcher Dorothy Horstmann made seminal discoveries about the course of polio that supported the ultimate development of a vaccine. Her former mentee, George Miller reflects on Horstmann's science and life. Deputy Dean Carolyn Slayman talks about Horstmann's groundbreaking role as a
From playlist Bicentennial Voices
Barbara McClintock: professional pre-genetics geneticist, corn-experimenter, and award-collector.
From playlist Women of Science and Math
Donna Dubinsky: How did you grow your wealth?
In this clip Donna Dubinsky talks with Maxim Thorne and Yale students about her personal story and how her entrepreneurial pursuits helped her grow wealth. Ms. Dubinsky worked at Apple Computer in the 1980s before joining Jeff Hawkins to become the president and CEO of Palm in 1992. In 199
From playlist Philanthropy In Action
Donna Dubinsky: Are business talents translatable to the philanthropic sector?
In this clip Donna Dubinsky talks with Maxim Thorne and Yale students about how talents in the world of business translate in the world of philanthropy. Ms. Dubinsky worked at Apple Computer in the 1980s before joining Jeff Hawkins to become the president and CEO of Palm in 1992. In 1998,
From playlist Philanthropy In Action
How to Ask for a Raise at Work
Women have made great strides, but the startling truth is they are still making just 77 cents to every man's dollar. Evelyn Murphy is president of The WAGE Project, a national organization to end wage discrimination against working women. She reveals the secret to successfully asking for a
From playlist Find Your Value
Helen Keller: Biography of a Great Thinker
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor's degree. Her teacher and companion was Anne Sullivan, and the story of how Sullivan broke through Keller's isolation to teach her language was the subject of the play and Academy Award winning movie "The Mira
From playlist It Starts With Literacy
Donna Dubinsky: Why should philanthropists support wealthy organizations?
In this clip Donna Dubinsky talks with Maxim Thorne and Yale students in response to the questions of why people give to wealthy organizations like Yale when there are so many worthwhile organizations that need support. Ms. Dubinsky worked at Apple Computer in the 1980s before joining Jeff
From playlist Philanthropy In Action
We talk much more about KDE. I explain KDE bandwidth optimization as well as the role of kernel functions in KDE. I then show off seaborn's visualization tools surrounding KDE. Associated Github Commit: https://github.com/knathanieltucker/seaborn-weird-parts/commit/0edfed544cd1ba72cbfe01f
From playlist Seaborn: Understanding the Weird Parts
Elliptic Curves: Good books to get started
A few books for getting started in the subject of Elliptic Curves, each with a different perspective. I give detailed overviews and my personal take on each book. 0:00 Intro 0:41 McKean and Moll, Elliptic Curves: Function Theory, Geometry, Arithmetic 10:14 Silverman, The Arithmetic of El
From playlist Math
Donna Dubinsky: Skeptical about social entrepreneurship
In this clip Donna Dubinsky talks with Maxim Thorne and Yale students about her skepticism regarding social entrepreneurship. Ms. Dubinsky worked at Apple Computer in the 1980s before joining Jeff Hawkins to become the president and CEO of Palm in 1992. In 1998, she and Hawkins co-founded
From playlist Philanthropy In Action
Elliptic Curves - Lecture 0 - Class logistics, website, and tentative plan
This video is part of a graduate course on elliptic curves that I taught at UConn in Spring 2021. The course is an introduction to the theory of elliptic curves. More information about the course can be found at the course website: https://alozano.clas.uconn.edu/math5020-elliptic-curves/
From playlist An Introduction to the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves
Patrick Ingram, The critical height of an endomorphism of projective space
VaNTAGe seminar on June 9, 2020. License: CC-BY-NC-SA. Closed captions provided by Matt Olechnowicz
From playlist Arithmetic dynamics
Edward T. Cone Concert Talk - William Bolcom
William Bolcom Composer December 5, 2009 Renowned composer and pianist William Bolcom discusses his career as a composer and performer with Artist-in-Residence Derek Bermel. More videos on http://video.ias.edu
From playlist Edward T. Cone Concert Series Discussion
Essential Calculus with Applications by Silverman #shorts
Essential Calculus with Applications by Silverman #shorts This is the book on amazon: https://amzn.to/3kMCeG4 (note this is my affiliate link) Book Review #shorts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO1y6V1SXjjPqMhU21NyGnwVnlF0UIheP Full Book Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlis
From playlist Book Reviews #shorts
Initial Theta Data - part 02 - Transvections
In order to state the "technical part" of initial theta data we need to talk about bases of the l-torsion under the Tate uniformization. This can be found in Silverman's - Advanced Topics - Chapter V, section 6.
From playlist Initial Theta Data
Joseph Silverman, Moduli problems and moduli spaces in algebraic dynamics
VaNTAGe seminar on June 23, 2020. License: CC-BY-NC-SA. Closed captions provided by Max Weinreich
From playlist Arithmetic dynamics
Donna Dubinsky: What are the implications of having great wealth?
In this clip Donna Dubinsky talks with Maxim Thorne and Yale students about the implications of having great wealth. Ms. Dubinsky worked at Apple Computer in the 1980s before joining Jeff Hawkins to become the president and CEO of Palm in 1992. In 1998, she and Hawkins co-founded Handspri
From playlist Philanthropy In Action
Modern slavery: the size of the problem | Sir Bernard Silverman | TEDxWhitehall
Not long ago, modern slavery was thought to be a rare crime, until statistician Sir Bernard Silverman, then Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office, used a mathematical approach to model how many cases were under the surface, undetected by the authorities. Disturbingly, he found modern
From playlist TEDxWhitehall 2018: Changing Expectations
Karen K. Uhlenbeck - The 2019 Abel Prize Laureate
Produced by: Ekaterina Eremenko / EEFilms
From playlist Karen K. Uhlenbeck
CTNT 2020 - Curves over Finite Fields (by Soumya Sankar) - Lecture 1
The Connecticut Summer School in Number Theory (CTNT) is a summer school in number theory for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, to be followed by a research conference. For more information and resources please visit: https://ctnt-summer.math.uconn.edu/
From playlist CTNT 2020 - Curves over Finite Fields (by Soumya Sankar)