Chapman Student’s Facebook Application Wins $500 in Technology Contest
It’s a small world, so the old saying goes. We’re all connected by six degrees of separation, according to the classic theory. And then there’s that whole Kevin Bacon thing. But what would happen if you tested out those ideas by using your Facebook connections? That’s what David Tyler ’15, a double major in mathematics
Metadata: Making Molehills out of Mountains
This presentation will examine the two prominent media sectors, Professional and Consumer, and show that in the near future, the amount of content created from the consumer space will exceed that created in the professional space. As a result, there is a vast amount of uncollated and disorganised media moving around the internet unchecked. As
Federal Grant Helps Professor Jason Keller Study Climate Change in Peatlands
Assistant Professor Jason Keller, Ph.D., along with a team of scientists, has been awarded a three-year, $1 million federal grant to study peatland warming. Their work is part of a long-term study organized by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and aimed at tracking bogs’ decomposition and impact on global warming. Chapman’s share of
Graduate Student Louis Ehwerhemuepha to Represent CU at Supercomputing 2012
Louis Ehwerhemuepha, a graduate student in the Master of Computational Sciences program, is presenting his research study titled “Codon Analysis on the Cloud: Making the Case for Local MapReduce Aggregation” at Supercomputing 2012 (SC12). To fund his trip to the Salt Lake City conference, Ehwerhemuepha applied for a travel grant. The conference awarded a grant to fully
CU and CSF to Host Third Joint Mathematics Colloquium
Chapman University and Cal State University Fullerton are hosting the third joint Mathematics Colloquium Thursday, November 15 in Von Neumann Hall. The seminar will cover a variety of mathematics topics with lectures from Chapman and Fullerton professors. Attendees are encouraged to meet at 1:30 in Von Neumann hall for a brief reception. PROGRAM 2:00 pm Lucy Odom (CSU
Prof. Walter Piper Interviewed on 'The Academic Minute'
Dr. Walter Piper, professor of Biological Sciences, will be featured on The Academic Minute, a nationally syndicated educational radio program, Wednesday, November 14. Dr. Piper will be speaking about his studies in loons and their territorial nature. Dr. Walter Piper has studied territoriality of Common Loons since 1993 in Oneida County, Wisconsin. Click here for the podcast of
Artist, Scientist Victoria Vesna to Speak at November 28 Lecture
Dr. Victoria Vesna is a media artist, Professor at the Department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts and director of the UCLA Art Sci center. Currently she is Visiting Professor at Art, Media and Technology, Parsons the New School for Design in New York. Her work can be defined
Interface Symposium
Chapman University and the Interface Foundation of North America invite you to participate in the Chapman University Symposium on Big Data and Analytics the 44th Symposium on the Interface of Computing Science and Statistics. The joint Chapman, Interface symposium welcomes scientific contribution dealing with Big Data in a way to advance the core scientific and technological means of
Axle Game, Students Featured in the Orange County Register
The Orange County register published an article November 1 highlighting the accomplishments of Chapman CS students in their development of the game ‘Axle’. The article details the way the students worked with the entrepreneurial start-up incubator eVillage to form an LLC and develop a business plan to continue to grow the game. The company they formed, Fallstreak
Professor Hesham El-Askary Creates an Image of Hurricane Sandy to Highlight its Magnitude
Those blue-marble satellite images of Earth during a natural disaster are among the most powerful pictures we have whenever a hurricane, dust storm or wildfire strikes our planet. Most of us turn to newscasts to see them. But as Hurricane Sandy churned toward the Eastern Seaboard, Associate Professor Hesham El-Askary made his own. El-Askary is