The Ursinus Weekly, April 10, 1939

All-Ursinus conference, starting Friday, will bring eminent authorities on music, art, and literature • Bartha\u27s orchestra, Love-in-a-mist to share junior week-end spotlight • Dr. Willauer to speak at Wednesday forum • 5th annual open house will be held May 6-7 • Price addresses Phila. otolaryngological society • Student finds Iturbi extremely devoted to his art, in tune with the universe • There\u27s that list again! • Weekly wins third in advertising contest • Ursinus women discuss marriage and budgeting • Seven freshmen accepted into women\u27s Debate Club • Ursinus group to attend conference on government • Ursinus nine to open season on Wednesday with Temple • Brodbeck again cops intramural honors • Von Kleeck named co-ed court capt. • Men, women tennists begin action this week • Varsity Club to banquet • Placement Bureau assists in job hunting • Goldfish gulper writes of downing 462 piscine delicacieshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1866/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, April 25, 1938

Coeds choose Lees, Poling, Claflin leaders • Harrisburg group hears Ade, Toll at conclave • Dictators main peace threat say conference leaders • Plays Saturday night week-end feature • May sports hop makes lucky Friday 13 • Wimer new YM head; appoints cabinet • Alumnus develops Sweden in Forefathers address • Stoudt, Craigie to play leads in First lady • Girls hear vocation charts by career women • Embryo lawyers discuss organization of club • Mikado again in rehearsal • Temple leads • Charm, attractiveness, especially a mysterious allurement • Musical variety features club\u27s Easter program • Pre-meds to hear Dr. Eger at next week\u27s meeting • Clawson addresses Berks County math club • Sheeder, Old, Ursinus visit Lansdale, Camden schools • Batsmen beat Lehigh, but lose to Lafayette • Stine close victory in intramural tourney • Cindermen place third in meet at Drexel • Ware\u27s racketeers down Bryn Mawr Sat. 3-2 • \u27Sinus second college in U.S. with cricket team • Hill defeats bear J.V.s 9-5; meet Villanova today • Musical organizations hold concert in Bomberger • Witmer addresses faculty club at April meeting • Frosh parade makes College Humor • Women end forensic season • Baird, Martin, DeWire to enter graduate schools • Biology students spend week-end in New York • Ursinus line coach to wed during football seasonhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1897/thumbnail.jp

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, Spring 1948

Give the steward a break! • President\u27s page • College has full extra-curricular program: Dr. Miller forum speaker; Religious Emphasis Week; Ray Eberle for junior prom • Mrs. Smith resigns alumni secretaryship • College is recipient of paintings and furniture • Congratulations, alumni basketeers! • Women\u27s Club entertains Ursinus senior girls • New associate professor joins college faculty • Nineteen alumni attain doctorates • Still room for students in certain categories • College librarian resigns • A successful season was had by all: Men\u27s basketball; Girls\u27 basketball; Wrestling; Swimming • News about ourselves • Cost of living increase voted faculty members • News around town • Ursinus curriculum undergoes revision • Women\u27s rules liberalizedhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1032/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, March 21, 1938

Peace to be topic of all-Ursinus conference • Dr. Graves stresses value of education for leadership • War is inevitable, peace group fears • Sophisticated Swing for junior prom • Name-forgetting theme of junior play • Local thespians offer double bill Friday • Former Ursinus athlete to address Ys Wednesday • May Day finery for rent; see committee members • Women hear Sweden lecture this afternoon • Men and women debaters argue at six colleges during week • Science blind spot topic of lecturer tomorrow • Chamber music, speaker featured at vespers • Comprehensive grade three-tenths of senior\u27s final mark • Commencement in the gymnasium? • Letters to the editor: Student avers majority do not want speakers; A six point program for introduction to science; A reader criticizes the Weekly\u27s news evaluation • Co-ed undergraduates vote to start junior women\u27s club • Chemical Society to send delegates to I. S. C. meet • Faculty club hears Miller at March 9 meeting • Fraternity row • Michael sends list of expectant teachers to schools • Recordings, solos heard at meeting of Music Club Monday • Roberts\u27 Northwest Passage reviewed for English Club • Students\u27 attitudes toward peace strike movement to be IRC topic • Barnard encourages organization of pre-law society at Y tea • Notices • Alumni note • Questionnaire reveals alumni most help in informing prospective students • Wrestlers choose Meklos 1939 captain • Coed basketeers end lucrative year with 35-20 win from Temple • Astheimer high scorer during mat season • 35 infielders, outfielders report for practice • Winter sports summaries • Women pick class captains for basketball tourney • Day is dorm champion by defeating Brodbeck • Frosh courtmen win single game in hapless season • Ys combat ho-hum Saturdays with informal bingo party • Sheeder names committee for open house day • Apes take plaque • Wreath placed on Bomberger grave by son • Ys old fashioned dance attracts 150 personshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/3113/thumbnail.jp

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, Summer 1947

Word of appreciation • Old Timers\u27 Day • President\u27s page • Alumni Association tables special committee\u27s report • Student union chosen as war memorial • Women\u27s Club • Dr. Clawson new Ursinus Dean • Board of Directors creates new committee, adds five members • Campus to be used for astronomical observation • Kuhrt Wieneke named coach of football • Three resign from faculty • Fourteen members added to faculty • Dr. Distler addresses graduating class • Sports: Men\u27s basketball; baseball; men\u27s tennis; track; women\u27s swimming; women\u27s basketball; women\u27s tennis • Local alumni associations meet • Work progressing on alumni register • Summer assembly • News about ourselves • Necrology • News around townhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1031/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, May 16, 1938

College to confer two honorary degrees • Y\u27s invite students, profs to spring doggie roast • Loan fund established by Varsity Club • 110 couples dance Friday at May sports hop • Stoudt, Plunkett star in Mother\u27s Day play; pageant, dinner other Saturday activities • Glatfelter chosen to head men\u27s council • Ursinus gains victory over Penn on radio • McClure, Poling speak at two Sunday vespers • June issue of Lantern to feature commencement • Presenting the \u27sinus senior: a preview of the 1938 Ruby questionnaire • Works of contemporary Philadelphia painters displayed in exhibit • Bears trim Albright, Gettysburg in league tilts • Trackmen poor fifth in Lancaster meet • Records broken as school trackmen meet here • Peg Claflin installed as new WAA head • Power leads batsmen • Todt succeeds Bodley as Varsity Club leader • Curtain clubbers dine and dance in Norristown • Power elected president of pre-legal society • Laucks conducts current events quiz of IRC • Germantown boy awarded sixth open scholarshiphttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1900/thumbnail.jp

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, Winter 1947

An auspicious beginning for a worthwhile project • President\u27s page • Committees plan new position at college • Status of the war memorial campaign • 964 students enrolled at Ursinus • Miss Moll resumes duties at Ursinus • General Arnold Founders\u27 Day speaker • Three faculty promotions, one appointment announced • New gymnasium nearing completion • Questionnaires outstanding from 900 alumni • Sports: football, soccer, hockey • The shape of things to come? • The attack on illiteracy in British Guiana • News around town • News about ourselves • Faculty members complete laboratory manual • Necrologyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1029/thumbnail.jp

Shift invariant preduals of ℓ₁(ℤ)

The Banach space ℓ<sub>1</sub>(ℤ) admits many non-isomorphic preduals, for example, C(K) for any compact countable space K, along with many more exotic Banach spaces. In this paper, we impose an extra condition: the predual must make the bilateral shift on ℓ<sub>1</sub>(ℤ) weak<sup>*</sup>-continuous. This is equivalent to making the natural convolution multiplication on ℓ<sub>1</sub>(ℤ) separately weak*-continuous and so turning ℓ<sub>1</sub>(ℤ) into a dual Banach algebra. We call such preduals <i>shift-invariant</i>. It is known that the only shift-invariant predual arising from the standard duality between C<sub>0</sub>(K) (for countable locally compact K) and ℓ<sub>1</sub>(ℤ) is c<sub>0</sub>(ℤ). We provide an explicit construction of an uncountable family of distinct preduals which do make the bilateral shift weak<sup>*</sup>-continuous. Using Szlenk index arguments, we show that merely as Banach spaces, these are all isomorphic to c<sub>0</sub>. We then build some theory to study such preduals, showing that they arise from certain semigroup compactifications of ℤ. This allows us to produce a large number of other examples, including non-isometric preduals, and preduals which are not Banach space isomorphic to c<sub>0</sub>

A comparison of variational and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for inference in partially observed stochastic dynamic systems

In recent work we have developed a novel variational inference method for partially observed systems governed by stochastic differential equations. In this paper we provide a comparison of the Variational Gaussian Process Smoother with an exact solution computed using a Hybrid Monte Carlo approach to path sampling, applied to a stochastic double well potential model. It is demonstrated that the variational smoother provides us a very accurate estimate of mean path while conditional variance is slightly underestimated. We conclude with some remarks as to the advantages and disadvantages of the variational smoother. © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media LLC