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Colleen:
🎵 The stars vs. creatures
#Colleen
https://colleencolleen.bandcamp.com/track/the-stars-vs-creatures
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rIYrgxKZKebDRozcULAL4

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Colleen:
🎵 Geometria del Universo
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https://open.spotify.com/track/6OvCEZwjflnBPjyPT3SANc

A survey of 1,047 US college students on GenAI: 55% use the tech for brainstorming ideas, 18% now question the value of college more than they used to, and more (Colleen Flaherty/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students…

Survey: College Students’ Views on AI
Key findings from Inside Higher Ed’s student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn’t diminished the value of college in their view, but it could affect their critical thinking skills.

Assessing Methodological Variability in Wastewater Surveillance: A Wavelet Decomposition Approach
Maria L. Daza-Torres, J. Cricelio Montesinos-Lopez, Rachel Olson, C. Winston Bess, Colleen C. Naughton, Heather N. Bischel, Miriam Nuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05539

Assessing Methodological Variability in Wastewater Surveillance: A Wavelet Decomposition Approach
Wastewater surveillance has emerged as a critical public health tool, enabling early detection of infectious disease outbreaks and providing timely, population-level insights into community health trends. However, variability in sample collection and processing, for example between wastewater influent and settled solids, can introduce methodological noise that differentially impacts true epidemiological signals and limits cross-site comparability. To address this challenge, we aimed to discern …

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Colleen:
🎵 What is a componium ? - Part 2
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https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZrCDayd6p7SDAMEQVGyeB

Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company (Colleen Slevin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-dominion-voting-defamation-2020-election-af473792a6e395d86ea6ca0f97742c3f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p153#a250616p153

Using LLMs to identify features of personal and professional skills in an open-response situational judgment test
Cole Walsh, Rodica Ivan, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Colleen Robb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13881

Using LLMs to identify features of personal and professional skills in an open-response situational judgment test
Academic programs are increasingly recognizing the importance of personal and professional skills and their critical role alongside technical expertise in preparing students for future success in diverse career paths. With this growing demand comes the need for scalable systems to measure, evaluate, and develop these skills. Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) offer one potential avenue for measuring these skills in a standardized and reliable way, but open-response SJTs have traditionally relied…

On Vanishing of Gromov--Witten Invariants
Igor Pak, Colleen Robichaux, Weihong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15715 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15715

On Vanishing of Gromov--Witten Invariants
We consider the decision problem of whether a particular Gromov--Witten invariant on a partial flag variety is zero. We prove that for the $3$-pointed, genus zero invariants, this problem is in the complexity class ${\sf AM}$ assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis (GRH), and therefore lies in the second level of polynomial hierarchy ${\sf PH}$. For the proof, we construct an explicit system of polynomial equations through a translation of the defining equations. We also need to prove an …

Bridging Research Gaps Between Academic Research and Legal Investigations of Algorithmic Discrimination
Colleen V. Chien, Anna Zink, Irene Y. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14954

Bridging Research Gaps Between Academic Research and Legal Investigations of Algorithmic Discrimination
As algorithms increasingly take on critical roles in high-stakes areas such as credit scoring, housing, and employment, civil enforcement actions have emerged as a powerful tool for countering potential discrimination. These legal actions increasingly draw on algorithmic fairness research to inform questions such as how to define and detect algorithmic discrimination. However, current algorithmic fairness research, while theoretically rigorous, often fails to address the practical needs of lega…

Development of an Open-Source Spacecraft Bus for the PULSE-A CubeSat
Graydon Schulze-Kalt, Robert Pitu, Spencer Shelton, Catherine Todd, Zane Ebel, Ian Goldberg, Leon Gold, Henry Czarnecki, Mason McCormack, Larry Li, Zumi Riekse, Brian Yu, Akash Piya, Vidya Suri, Dylan Hu, Colleen Kim, John Baird, Seth Knights, Logan Hanssler, Michael Lembeck, Tian Zhong

Development of an Open-Source Spacecraft Bus for the PULSE-A CubeSat
The undergraduate-led Polarization-modUlated Laser Satellite Experiment (PULSE-A) at the University of Chicago seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of circular polarization shift keyed satellite-to-ground laser communication. PULSE-A's low-cost open-source bus serves as the backbone of the mission and has been designed in tandem with the Payload, with design driven by strict requirements for pointing accuracy, component alignment, power demand, and thermal stability. This work presents the desi…