Category Archives: Lagniappe

Riley Juenemann’s three-year project to build a publicly available tool for categorizing single particle tracking trajectories is up and running! https://stochastics-lab.shinyapps.io/spt_dashboard/ In the “Instructions” section, you can download a sample .csv file and try it out. More details to come when we submit the associated manuscript.

An NSF-GRFP win and heading to Stanford Our honorary graduate student, Riley Juenemann, has had quite a year. It turns out that her first place prize for undergraduate research at the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology annual symposium in December was just a start. Since then she won her fourth first place prize for bestContinue reading “Congratulations, Riley!”

On April 7, I will be giving a public lecture for the Simons Foundation, sharing a few of my favorite ideas on microparticle movement in biological fluids. A familiar looking abstract, but I’m excited to announce some new work as well! “Simons Foundation Lectures are free public colloquia related to basic science and mathematics. TheseContinue reading “Simons Foundation public lecture”

This came across my desk this morning: theanalysisofdata.com. The author is former professor of Computer Science named Guy Lebanon, who is now, according to his website the Director of Product Innovation at Netflix.  The text appears to be very rigorous and is notable because he goes all the way from first principles to Limit TheoremsContinue reading “Online resource: The Analysis of Data”

If you happen to be in a bar and you need to quickly calculate , head over to a dartboard.  Draw a square that perfectly encloses the dartboard. (The length of its sides should be equal to the dartboard’s diameter.)  Start throwing darts randomly at the square. If you manage to distribute the darts uniformlyContinue reading “In celebration of pi”

Tonight I’ll nervously be watching the reboot of the television series, Cosmos, which was created and narrated by a science hero of mine, Carl Sagan.  The visual special effects and the soundtrack of the old series now come across as very dated but the concepts and the writing are timeless.  Much of what is presentedContinue reading “Cosmos rebooted”

“The dangerous, beautiful life of a Lego minifig photographer.” UK-based photographer Andrew Whyte specializes in dramatic light art and long exposures of the night sky, but some of his most striking work involves helping an inch-high fellow photographer get a good shot. For over a year, Whyte has been shooting what he calls the “Legography”Continue reading “Things I should have done during Spring Break …”

Before I lived here in Gainesville, I spent four years in Durham, NC. I lived downtown in a converted tobacco warehouse and could walk to minor league baseball games on a whim. This article in Slate brought back some great memories. “Capturing the Quiet Beauty of Baseball” The idea for the project came a fewContinue reading “Baseball and the Bull City”