Presence of Dirofilaria immitis in Mosquitoes around Lynchburg, VA

Undergraduate Theoretical Proposa

Money on the Table: State Initiatives to Improve Financial Aid Participation

Describes media, technology, and outreach campaigns to improve financial aid participation at community colleges in California, Connecticut, North Carolina, and Texas. Highlights efforts to increase low-income and minority student enrollment

From Cracked Polytopes to Fano Threefolds

We construct Fano threefolds with very ample anti-canonical bundle and Picard rank greater than one from cracked polytopes - polytopes whose intersection with a complete fan forms a set of unimodular polytopes - using Laurent inversion; a method developed jointly with Coates-Kasprzyk. We also give constructions of rank one Fano threefolds from cracked polytopes, following work of Christophersen-Ilten and Galkin. We explore the problem of classifying polytopes cracked along a given fan in three dimensions, and classify the unimodular polytopes which can occur as 'pieces' of a cracked polytope.Comment: New introduction and section on the connection with the Gross-Siebert program. 46 page

High-efficiency crystalline silicon technology development

The rationale for pursuing high efficiency crystalline silicon technology research is discussed. Photovoltaic energy systems are reviewed as to their cost effectiveness and their competitiveness with other energy systems. The parameters of energy system life are listed and briefly reviewed

Bibliography of computational models of rat spatial behavior

A bibliography of computational models of rat spatial behavior