This math puzzle will help you plan your next party
Let's say you're planning your next party and agonizing over the guest list. To whom should you send invitations? What combination of friends and strangers is the right mix?
Let's say you're planning your next party and agonizing over the guest list. To whom should you send invitations? What combination of friends and strangers is the right mix?
Mathematics
Aug 4, 2017
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Greater Sage-Grouse depend on large, intact tracts of the sagebrush habitat. Current sage-grouse conservation plans focus on protecting selected "priority areas," but these areas vary in size and proximity to each other—will ...
Ecology
Jan 11, 2017
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Searching for recurring patterns in network systems has become a fundamental part of research and discovery in fields as diverse as biology and social media. KAUST researchers have developed a pattern or graph-mining framework ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 28, 2016
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Since the popular game came out this past summer, the number of videos about it on YouTube has skyrocketed. In a demonstration of the incredible power of network modeling, Kirell Benzi, a PhD student at EPFL, catalogued them ...
Internet
Oct 18, 2016
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(Phys.org)—One of the most ambitious endeavors in quantum physics right now is to build a large-scale quantum network that could one day span the entire globe. In a new study, physicists have shown that describing quantum ...
This may sound like a familiar kind of riddle: How many brilliant mathematicians does it take to come up with and prove the Kelmans-Seymour Conjecture?
Mathematics
May 25, 2016
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Using a new computer program, EPFL researchers offer unusual insight into the universe of Star Wars, which includes more than 20,000 characters spread among 640 communities over a period of 36,000 years.
Computer Sciences
Feb 10, 2016
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1323
Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Polytechnic University of Valencia, UPV) have developed a new tool that can detect the sex and age range of the authors behind posts and other comments on social networks. ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 23, 2015
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9
(Phys.org)—László Babai with the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Chicago has caused a lot of excitement in the computer science community by announcing recently during a lecture that ...
Quality criteria for a readable graphic representation of complex relationships are high. For example, the node points have to be located at sufficient distances in order to be identifiable. At the same time, the graph drawing ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 19, 2015
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