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March 24, 2023
MEED Seminar
Humans and Artificial Muscles
In this seminar, I will review the main feature of the biomechanics of human muscles. I will further explain how we can compute the efficiency of representative locomotion tasks. Finally, I will present the main technologies developed by engineers to artificially mimic the dynamic of muscles...
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LFIN Seminar
Nestor Parolya, Delft University
will give a presentation on
Two is better than one: Regularized shrinkage of large minimum variance portfolios
Abstract:
In this paper we construct a shrinkage estimator of the global minimum variance (GMV) portfolio by a combination of two...
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IMAP Seminar
Coupling of electrical measurements with nanoindentation...
Thin film materials can be found in many application areas as they are essential for the development of microelectronic systems, solar cells, power devices, passivation coatings, etc. In order for these systems to perform their function while limiting their failure, two main types of properties...
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14:30 / Statistics Seminars
SEMINAR by Nicolas Verzelen (INRAE, Université de...
SEMINAR by Nicolas Verzelen (INRAE, Université de Montpellier) on "Optimal Permutation Estimation in Crowd-Sourcing problems"
Abstract:
Motivated by crowd-sourcing applications where we want to rank experts according to their abilities, we consider a model where we have partial observations...
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Défense de thèse
Genetic diversity of the cultivated vanilla in...
Natural vanillin extracted from cultivated vanilla pods is the most common flavour in the world, and the vanilla crop is crucial to Madagascar's socio-economy, providing a direct livelihood for over 80,000 families and representing the majority of the country's exports. However, local production...
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