[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, May 2nd - Eddie Haam - (Please RSVP)

[Harvard STS]

*STS Circle at Harvard*
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*Eddie Haam*
*Applied Mathematics*
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* Pattern Recognition Algorithm for Climate Sciences *
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Monday, May 2nd
12:15-2:00 p.m.
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts <sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<sts at hks.harvard.edu>
 by 5pm Thursday, April 28th.

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*Abstract:* Eddie Haam’s research focuses on a probabilistic pattern
recognition algorithm (called ‘MCTEST’) for time-uncertain series data. The
MCTEST algorithm has a range of applications, including speech recognition,
electrocardiogram signals or gene expression time series. The algorithm can
also be used to analyze climate proxy records, such as ice cores, ocean
sediments, and speleothem growth in a cave, all of which have large time
uncertainties. Carbon dating, for example, carries +/-2000 year uncertainty.
 Since real climate events created the climate proxy records, the use of
MCTEST to analyze these records may provide a more robust analysis of
climate systems than that generated by a computer simulated General
Circulation Model (GCM).  This talk will focus on the mechanisms of abrupt
warming climate events that occurred during the last glacial periods based
on an MCTEST analysis of proxy records.  It will also cover how the MCTEST
algorithm, which is under consideration for a United States patent, is
viewed by businesses and the legal community.


*Biography*: Eddie Haam is currently completing his doctorate in Applied
Mathematics at Harvard.  He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from
Columbia University and Masters degree from MIT.  He has recently won a
postdoctoral fellowship funded by National Science Foundation, Division of
Mathematical Sciences.


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Samuel A. Evans, DPhil
Postdoctoral Fellow
& Chair of the STS Circle
Harvard University

Program on Science, Technology, & Society
Kennedy School of Government

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