Given a set of two-dimensional tiles, the nature of the planar tilings that they admit arises from a deep interaction between the local and the global.
Thanks to our generous funders, we purchased a 1-U rackmount server. It is a supermicro server with a 64-core AMD chip and 45TB zfs raid array. The primary use is hosting our PostGIS-enabled database. We wanted to train some neural networks and so purchased an NVIDIA 4090 GPU. The question is how to connect it to a 1-U server chasis. The solution I came up with is to run a PCIe cable out the back and attach the GPU externally with its own power supply. The blocker was that I did not know that the PSU will not power up without being plugged into a motherboard. In the end, I figured out that I Read more about Fitting an NVIDIA 4090 in a 1-U server
Olivia Conway and Nia Choi graduated with honors last Saturday. Olivia plans to attend Duke University in the fall and Nia Choi will be joining Baylor Medical School.
In an article newly published in the journal Social and Personality Psychology Compass we use the context of the COVID-19 pandemic to test a classic theory about how different levels of stress impact relationships. Tesser and Beach originally raised the possibility that moderate levels of stress Read more about New article in press in Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Dr. Alex Huth and colleagues in the department of Computer Science published a research article in Nature Neuroscience entiteld "Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings".
This research produced a non-invasive decoder that reconstructs continuous language from cortical semantic representations recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and revealed the viability of non-invasive language brain–computer interface.
Tang J, LeBel A, Jain S and Huth AG. Semantic reconstruction of continuous
Our paper on the likely important role of lower performance of the largest trees in temperate forest dynamics is out now in Forest Ecology and Management. This work on the Wind River forest dynamics plots was led by our own Emily Francis and done in collaboration with the fantastic Jim Lutz. We combined LiDAR data, traditional Read more about New paper on temperate forest dynamics
Congratulations to Dr. Williamson, who has received a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain. She will spend the 2023/2024 academic year as a visiting scholar at the Universidad de Granada, where she will be hosted by Dr. Inmaculada Valor-Segura, Professor of Psychology. Dr. Williamson’s Fulbright project focuses on diversifying and globalizing the scientific study of close relationships. An important step toward studying the family relationships of people who have been historically underrepresented in research is to
Undergraduate Katie Hale completed her honors thesis in the Williamson Lab this year, working with data from the Future First project, which is an evaluation of a youth sexual and relationship education program delivered in public high schools in Texas. She focused on sexual and gender minority youth participating in the program, finding that 25% of the students who participated in the program identified as a sexual or gender minority. These students had higher levels of knowledge about STDs after finishing the program than non-SMY youth, but report feeling less interested in the program than Read more about Congrats to Katie Hale for completing her honors thesis
