Downtown Manor and Outer Limits July Schedule

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Limits on Fundamental Limits to Computation

An indispensable part of our lives, computing has also become essential to industries and governments. Steady improvements in computer hardware have been supported by periodic doubling of transistor densities in integrated circuits over the last fifty years. Such Moore scaling now requires increasingly heroic efforts, stimulating research in alternative hardware and stirring controversy. To help evaluate emerging technologies and enrich our understanding of integrated-circuit scaling, we review fundamental limits to computation: in manufacturing, energy, physical space, design and verification effort, and algorithms. To outline what is achievable in principle and in practice, we recall how some limits were circumvented, compare loose and tight limits. We also point out that engineering difficulties encountered by emerging technologies may indicate yet-unknown limits.Comment: 15 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl

Inequity and Violence: Indigneous Women and Sex Trafficking Policies

This paper explores the the root causes of disproportionate rates of sex trafficking amongst Indigenous women, current policies and legislation that attempt to protect victims of sex trafficking, and policy recommendations to help mitigate sex trafficking amongst Indigenous women

The Sexual Division of Labor and Its Ramifications

The traditional sexual division of labor is typically viewed as a solely feminist issue, and thus widely ignored are its racist, classist, and homophobic ramifications. While somewhat less obvious, these latter lenses reveal the more nuanced harms of this patriarchal tool. This paper dissects the sexual division of labor through the viewpoints of race, class, and sexuality to illustrate the wider array of harms it causes. Various topics explored include undue pressure faced by Black women as they balance gendered household activities with financially supporting their households, an examination of the market dependency model and the ways this leads to economic entrapment, and the stigmatization of gender roles within LGBTQ+ relationships. Overall, it is obvious that a wide range of people suffer under the sexual division of labor outside of the white, middle-class, heterosexual women that this struggle is typically associated with

Sickle Cell Disease Inequity and Inequality

This paper aims to introduce a gendered approach to understanding the lack of research, funding, and personable care for individuals with Sickle Cell Disease. The intersection between race, gender, and health is explored through a lens of the historical and concurrent views surrounding sickle cell disease. Women in the African American community, particularly mothers, experience the largest burden of blame for the transmission and lack of care available for managing the disease. The paper explores the comparison to other similar conditions and the lack of both communal and institutional support for those suffering from the condition

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal care: The Black Woman’s Experience

Epidemiological studies show that there are disparities in epidural use and failure for Black women (Morris 2014). For my project, Black women of different ages, prematernal health and economic statuses will be interviewed to assess their quality of maternal medical care in the state of Oklahoma. Research will be done on the history of maternal care and pain management for Black women in the United States that could have led to a misconceived idea of pain tolerance and to a disparity in epidural and anesthesia use. My project will include IRB approved interviews with Black women as well as outside research regarding medical care in Oklahoma

Limits of geometries

A geometric transition is a continuous path of geometric structures that changes type, meaning that the model geometry, i.e. the homogeneous space on which the structures are modeled, abruptly changes. In order to rigorously study transitions, one must define a notion of geometric limit at the level of homogeneous spaces, describing the basic process by which one homogeneous geometry may transform into another. We develop a general framework to describe transitions in the context that both geometries involved are represented as sub-geometries of a larger ambient geometry. Specializing to the setting of real projective geometry, we classify the geometric limits of any sub-geometry whose structure group is a symmetric subgroup of the projective general linear group. As an application, we classify all limits of three-dimensional hyperbolic geometry inside of projective geometry, finding Euclidean, Nil, and Sol geometry among the limits. We prove, however, that the other Thurston geometries, in particular $\mathbb{H}^2 \times \mathbb{R}$ and $\widetilde{\operatorname{SL}_2 \mathbb{R}}$, do not embed in any limit of hyperbolic geometry in this sense.Comment: 40 pages, 2 figures. new in v2: figure 2 added, minor edits to Sections 1,2,