What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long
yams made by the Nyamikum Abelam in Papua New Guinea examines how these artefacts …

Large-area self-assembled monolayers of nanoparticles are fabricated on the surface of
deionized water by controlled evaporation of nanoparticles dispersed in a binary solvent …

Shape is an objective characteristic of an object. A boundary separates a physical object
from its surroundings. It defines the shape and regulates energy flux into and from an object …

Fractals in analysis, geometry, and generally in science are nowadays very popular
concepts. The appearance of such concepts in science is due essentially to Mandelbrot by …

We present the first general purpose framework for marginal maximum a posteriori
estimation of probabilistic program variables. By using a series of code transformations, the …

We present variational inference with sequential sample-average approximation (VISA), a
method for approximate inference in computationally intensive models, such as those based …

Excerpt This book grew out of multiple stimulating conversations with Nathan Kutz while I
was a postdoc at the University of Washington. It began with joking about taking our favorite …

These days computer-generated fractal patterns are everywhere, from squiggly designs on
computer art posters to illustrations in the most serious of physics journals. Interest continues …

This book presents concisely the full story on complex and hypercomplex fractals, starting
from the very first steps in complex dynamics and resulting complex fractal sets, through the …

Coagulation-flocculation, the physicochemical process widely used for purification a
wastewater, is affected both by chemical details of involved polymers and by the statistics of …