Nucleon Spin Structure: New results from Jefferson Lab
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CP179
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A Multi-Probe STM Quest for Quantum Transport at 2D Materials Boundaries
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Location:
CP179
Event Series:
2nd Annual Graduate Conference in Linguistics
09:00-09:10 - Welcome
09:10-09:40 - Ben Jones
09:10-09:40 - Ben Jones
Performing Down East: Dialect, Impression, and Temp Tales
"Temp Tales," a series of animated YouTube shorts by O'Chang Comics, presents the experiences of a temp worker recently relocated to Maine. As part of the performance, imitations are made of the dialectal features of rural and coastal regions. This talk examines the phonetic features that are used by the main performer, a native of Maine, in presenting this dialect. Comparisons are made between the performer's non-dialectal and dialectal speech to determine what features of the dialect are considered important in rendering the dialect.
09:40-10:10 - Michelle Compton
I Ain’t Gonna Give Up My Language: How to Perform Research Investigating the Use of Contrastive Analysis as a Method to Assist the Transition from Appalachian English to Standard American English
This presentation will explore and critique the methods for investigating contrastive analysis as a tool for instructing Appalachian students. This use of contrastive analysis is meant to ease students' transition from Appalachian English to Standard American English in a way that prevents harmful and negative ideologies about their vernacular dialect. My presentation will examine and compare the methods required for a study of this sort on two age groups: college students and high school students. I will also postulate on the benefits and significance of the study as a whole, as well as those for each individual age group.
10:10-10:30 - Morning Break
10:30-11:00 - Razia Husain
10:30-11:00 - Razia Husain
Linguistic Tools for the University of Kentucky Writing Center: A Proposal
This presentation will propose a collaboration between the UK Writing Center, Linguistics program, and department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies in order to get more linguistics-based tools into the Writing Center so as to facilitate teaching and learning the composing process.
11:00-11:30 - Nathan Hardymon
English Becomes More Analytic?: A Proposal
This presentation will give a proposal for research that looks at English as becoming more of an analytic language with special attention paid to the auxiliary verbs "do" and "did" and the periphrastic superlatives and comparatives. Through corpus investigation, I hope to find some evidence of these verbs gaining some traction with uses like modals and of the superlatives and comparatives gaining more traction in the periphrastic forms diachronically.
11:30-12:30 - Lunch Break
12:30-13:00 - Sophie Moradi
How to Do Things with Verbs
Forthcoming
13:00-13:30 - Amber Thompson
Luvale Causative Morphology
Luvale is a Bantu language spoken by more than 600,000 people in Zambia and Angola. However, it has been widely understudied and almost no current literature is available on the language. In order to lessen this information gap, this presentation will focus on the description of one feature of Luvale Verbal Morphology--the causative derivations--which seems to be undergoing a change in usage since the time of the last complete grammar in 1949. This presentation represents the current stage of Amber's ongoing research for her M.A. thesis.
13:30-14:00 - Parker Brody
Morphological Agreement in Basque
Summary
14:00-14:20 - Afternoon Break
14:20-15:20 - Plenary Speaker - Mark Lauersdorf
Who used what language with whom and when? -- data-driven pattern identification, social network analysis, and other historical sociolinguistic 'hocus pocus'
Summary
15:20-16:00 - Closing
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Location:
Bingham Davis House
Event Series:
"The Embarrassment of Being a Subject: From St. Paul to Internet Porn" With Jennifer Fleissner
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Location:
Niles Gallery
Topology Seminar
Title: Cobordism and Thom Spectra
Abstract: Building on previous seminar talks, we will show that Thom spectra are the spectra that correspond to the homology theory of cobordism.
Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower
Event Series:
Dissertation Defense
Title: Subfunctors of Extension Functors
Abstract: In this talk we examine subfunctors of Ext relative to covering (enveloping) classes and the theory of covering (enevloping) ideals. The notion of covers and envelopes by modules was introduced independently by Auslander-Smalo and Enochs and has proven to be beneficial for module theory as well as for representation theory. First we will focus on subfunctors of Ext and their properties. We show how the class of precoverings give us subfunctors of Ext. Later, we investigate the sunfunctor of Hom called ideals. The definition of cover and envelope carry over to the ideals naturally. Classical conditions for existence theorems for covers led to similar approaches in the ideal case. Even though some theorems such as Salce's Lemma were proven to extend to ideals, most of the theorems do not directly apply to the new case. We show how Eklof-Trlifaj's result can partially be extended to the ideals generated by a set. Moreover by relating the existence theorems for covering ideals of morphisms by identifying the morphisms with objects in A_2 we obtain a sufficient condition for the existence of covering ideals in a more general setting and finish with applying this result to the class of phantom morphisms.
Date:
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Location:
318 Patterson Office Tower
Event Series:
Algebra Seminar--Master's Talk
Title: Duals of Skew θ-Constacyclic Codes
Abstract: We generalize cyclic codes to skew θ-constacyclic codes using skew polynomial rings. We provide a useful tool for exploring these codes: the circulant. In addition to presenting some properties of the circulant, we use it to re-examine a theorem giving the dual code of a θ-constacyclic code first presented by Boucher/Ulmer (2011).
Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower
Event Series:
Master's Talk
Title: Bounds on the Entries of Matrix Functions
Abstract: Consider a banded matrix A and a smooth function f defined on the spectrum of A. We use Bernstein's Theorem to show that the entries of f(A) are bounded in an exponentially decaying manner away from the main diagonal. Then by representing the entries of f(A) in terms of Riemann-Stieltjes integrals and using Gaussian quadrature rules, we can attain approximations for the entries of f(A). We will also look at some possible applications to preconditioning.
Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower
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Analysis and PDE Seminar
Title: Almost additivity of analytic capacity and boundedness of Cauchy operators
Abstract: The notion of analytic capacity was introduced in 1947 by Ahlfors in connection with the celebrated Painlev\'e problem: describe in metric/geometric terms the sets of removable singularities for bounded analytic functions. We give a shot survey of results and methods of this theory. They allow us to prove that under certain assumptions the analytic capacity of a union of sets is comparable with the sum of their analytic capacities. As an application we consider the problem of boundedness of the Cauchy operator generated by a union of measures, if the Cauchy operators of these measures are uniformly bounded. The results obtained jointly with Alexander Reznikov and Alexander Volberg.
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TBA
