Nova Jiang creates work that encourages the tactile and creative participation of the audience, resulting in structurally open systems in which joy, disorder and improvisation can thrive. She holds a...

Jessica Pressman (SDSU, Ph.D. UCLA), Mark Marino (USC) and Jeremy Douglass (UCSB) will discuss their jointly authored Reading Project (University of Iowa, 2015), a book of digital humanities literary criticism...

Hinduism’s adherents, particularly in the United States, have displayed in recent years a marked tendency to turn towards various forms of digital media, and in particular the internet, to forge...

Alison Mudditt will talk about the barriers, sensitivities, and practical challenges surrounding open access monographs and about the ways in which UC Press is addressing them via its innovative Luminos...

Understanding short texts is crucial to many applications, but challenges abound. First, short texts do not always observe the syntax of a written language. As a result, traditional natural language...

Network data analysis is an important area in modern statistics. How to do community detection and parameter estimation in provably optimal ways are two key questions in analyzing network data....

Emily Drabinski , of LIU Brooklyn, will give a talk on “Infrastructures of Practice: Standards & Everyday Librarian Life”.

This talk examines the problem of iconic blues women who’ve been “lost” to history, Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, as well as the critics who’ve loved and chased after them....

Speaker: Kristina Lerman, Ph.D. Affiliation: University of Southern California Abstract: Individuals often estimate the opinions and behaviors of others from the local observations of their friends. Social networks, however, have...

Pinar Yoldas is a cross-disciplinary artist/researcher who lives and works between Durham,NC and Berlin. Pinar’s research explores the collaborative potential between art and biological sciences at the age of the...