by U-M MICDE | Feb 23, 2023
The prediction of risk is emerging as a research focus in a broad set of fields, ranging from economics and evolutionary biology to propulsion. The risk in these systems arises from the possibility of anomalous or rare events given a macroscopic initial state. Such...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 23, 2023
The electrical power grid is a backbone of the US infrastructure: Every year, about $400 billion of electricity is being transmitted across the country. The operation underlying the electrical infrastructure has been, and remains, a success story for optimization...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 23, 2023
In traditional numerical methods for partial differential equations (e.g. finite-difference, finite-element methods), the equation is discretized and the resulting sparse linear system is solved by multigrid or Krylov iteration. Spectral methods, another well known...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 23, 2023
The brain routinely integrates polymodal sensory inputs into a coherent representation of events that can be subsequently consolidated into long lasting memories. A long-standing question is how fleeting experiences, encoded by the action potentials of small, sparse...
