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Plant species persistence in the face of climate change

Climate change threatens the persistence of native plants across California, and strategies are needed to facilitate resilience and conserve the most vulnerable species. Conserving species under climate change is complicated, however, because the state’s native flora are threatened by other global changes, including altered disturbance regimes, land use change, and invasive species. We developed an...

Scientific Data: a Chemical Engineer’s Perspective

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Estimating the determinants of child growth faltering: notes on measurement, models and microdata

Prof. Joseph Cummins Department of Economics, UCR Abstract: Early life growth faltering due to nutritional deficiencies and disease environment currently affects the health, productivity and lifespan of hundreds of millions of adults worldwide, with another 150 million children currently experiencing stunted growth. In this talk, I survey methods for estimating the effects of various individual-...

Some optics-related data science and machine learning problems

In this talk, I'll first present a broad overview of several established fields in physical and quantum optics that are ripe for data science and machine learning applications. Secondly, I'll present some metadata related to different fields of optics in a mini science-technology-and-society study. I'll end by speaking about my current research, which presents novel...