Session III

Cumulating evidence suggests that upregulation of corticoreticulospinal pathways following a stroke-induced loss of corticobulbar projections drives spinal motoneuro hyper-excitability. In turn, individuals with stroke experience increased muscl tone (i.e., hypertonia) and associated hyperactive stretch reflexes (i.e., spasticity). It has been shown that applying low-intensity (sub-motor-threshold) electrical stimulation to the skin reduces spasticity in individuals with hemiparetic stroke, as quantified by ... Read More

In 1926, Cartan introduced the concept of real symmetric spaces as a class of homogeneous Riemannian manifolds, where a symmetric space is defined as the homogeneous space $G/H$ with $G$ a reductive group and $H=G^{\theta}=\{g\in G|\theta(g)=g\}$, the fixed-point group of an $n$-automorphism. Of special interest are automorphism of order 2, also called involutions. In this project we focused on classifying ... Read More

In order to perform a statistical analysis of Higgs searches, datacards are used to encode the observed and expected events after event selection to discriminate between signal and background. We developed a framework to incorporate into our analysis group’s framework to automatically generate datacards. In addition, we utilized the Higgs Combine Tool to test combining multiple generated datacards. In the ... Read More

1.3 million people are killed in road accidents each year, and 94% of these accidents are caused by human error. This has motivated advancements in autonomous vehicle technology, and more recently, connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). CAVs communicate location and intention information with each other over the air, and the prospect of cooperative planning within a system of CAVs promises greater ... Read More