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May 31, 2017

Envisioning a Place in Science

Jean Fan, a PhD student in Medical Sciences studying bioinformatics and integrative genomics, is a statistician, computer scientist, and founder of CuSTEMized, a nonprofit initiative that encourages young girls’ interests in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through personalized books designed to help girls envision themselves as active participants in STEM fields. Fan...

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Katie A. Mclaughlin, Lab Director, gives the 12th annual Edwards Lecture for the UW Department of Psychology

May 31, 2017

Each year, the Psychology Department hosts the Edwards Lecture series for the community.  In 2017, the topic of these lectures was Improving Society through Brain Science.  The lectures cover 3 topics each year, including one talk from a UW Psychology Professor paired with one talk from an outside expert. Katie A. McLaughlin, Lab Director, gave one of these lectures on the topic of Environmental Experience and Brain Development.  You can find a video recording of all six of the lectures...

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Ravenous Supermassive Black Holes May Sterilize Nearby Planets

May 31, 2017

Press coverage of a new paper in Scientific American: A new study sheds light on how damaging black holes can be to the habitability of planets throughout the Milky Way and the universe.

Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ravenous-supermassive-black-holes-may-sterilize-nearby-planets/

Astrobites: https://astrobites.org/2017/05/30/blown-away-by-black-holes-losing-planetary-atmospheres-to-quasar-radiation/

Image: This artist’s conception of a distant quasar shows how luminous they can be—an effect...

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CRCS Publishes New Paper, Presents at 9th Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing

May 31, 2017

Faculty Director Margo Seltzer, postdoc Thomas Paquier, and graduate student Xueyuan Han have co-authored a paper on fault-detection through runtime analyis of provenance: 

Xueyuan Han, Thomas Pasquier, Tanvi Ranjan, Mark Goldstein, and Margo Seltzer. 2017. "FRAPpuccino: Fault-Detection through Runtime Analysis of Provenance." 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 17). 

Han will present the paper at the 9th Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing on July 10 - 11 in Santa Clara, CA.

https://www.usenix.org/...

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