PPT-Testing with Alternative Distances

Gautam G Kamath FOCS 2017 Workshop Frontiers in Distribution Testing October 14 2017 Jayadev Acharya Cornell Constantinos Daskalakis MIT John Wright MIT Based on joint works with. Recap. Canvas homework due Wednesday. Lab this week: Parallax. Overview of the Universe. Solar System, Galaxy, Universe. Largest scales. Expanding Universe. Evidence for a Big Bang. Evidence for an accelerating Universe . Recap. Distances in astronomy. Measuring distances directly with light travel time. Measuring distances geometrically with parallax. Measuring distances using . brightnesses. Distances using brightnesses. Jigang. Sun. PhD studies finished in July 2011. PhD Supervi. s. or. : . Prof.. Colin Fyfe, Malcolm Crowe. University of the West of Scotland. I will briefly talk about …. Multidimensional . Scaling (MDS);. Key Ideas. Distance is the most important & most difficult quantity to measure in Astronomy. Method of Trigonometric Parallaxes. Direct geometric method of finding distances. Units of Cosmic Distance:. Location Logistics. Dr. Gary M. Gaukler. Fall 2011. Setup of a Facility Location Problem. Locate new facilities. Considering:. Interaction with existing facilities. Customer demands. Customer locations. Location Logistics. Dr. Gary M. Gaukler. Fall 2011. SFMS with Rectilinear Distances. Rectilinear distance:. Total cost:. SFMS with Rectilinear Distances. Properties of total cost function:. Graph:. Consequences:. Robert Krauthgamer, . Weizmann Institute of Science. WorKer. 2015, . Nordfjordeid. TexPoint. fonts used in EMF. . Read the TexPoint manual before you delete this box.: . A. A. A. Graph . Sparsification. Universe. Imagine that you find a star with an unknown distance, but you notice that it has a distinctive characteristic that tells you that it is a specific type of star. And let’s imagine that all stars of that type have the same luminosity, and you happen to know the value of that luminosity. You can then estimate the distance for the star you found from the inverse square law of light:. AMA Stats Day – November 2016. Sarah Howell (. Kaihautū. M. ātauranga – Pāngarau). AND. Michelle freeman(Senior Teacher). The purpose of the unit . How far until it stops?. To guide Year 10 students (and teachers). HIP . Estimators for. Massive . Graphs Analysis. Edith Cohen. Microsoft Research . Presented by:. Thomas . Pajor. Microsoft Research . Very Large Graphs. Model many types of relations and interactions. Scientists (and the world) use the metric system. Units. Convert km to miles = multiply by .6. Convert meters to feet = 3 ft / meter.. Scale Model of Solar System. Solar System Distances. Kilometer is too small. 150,000,000 km to Sun.. Since the averages are the same, can we assume that the students in both classes all did pretty much the same on the exam?. The answer is… No.. The average (mean) does not tell us anything about the distribution or variation in the grades.. Izri A, Temmam S, Moureau G, Hamrioui B, de Lamballerie X, Charrel RN. Sandfly Fever Sicilian Virus, Algeria. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008;14(5):795-797. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1405.071487. R. Ellis & S. G. Djorgovski. Winter 2011. Class Logistics. All info, lecture notes, useful links, . homeworks. , exams, announcements, etc., will be on the class website:. http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~schenker/ay124.