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Mixing by cutting-and-shuffling a hemispherical shell

Thomas F. Lynn
Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Mixing due to cutting-and-shuffling is studied at a fundamental level using 2D mappings known as Piecewise Isometries (PWI) which can create beautiful mixing patterns. The PWI studied here splits a hemispherical shell (HS) into four curved triangular pieces that are rearranged to make a shuffled HS. Applying the PWI repeatedly... View the visualization.

Visualizing the US congress

Vicky Chuqiao Yang
Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
I present an interactive visualization for the US Congress members' ideology. The data used are ideology scores of US Congress members 1789-2015. The ideology scores are quantified from the Congress members' voting records using the DW-NOMINATE method, which puts Congress members with similar voting patterns closer together. This interactive visualization... View the visualization.

Cubine, a Two-Dimensional Copper–Bismuth Nanosheet

Maximilian Amsler
Materials Science and Engineering
Using ab initio calculations, we discovered a quasi two-dimensional copper–bismuth nano sheet, which we call cubine. According to our predictions, single layers of cubine can be isolated from the recently reported high-pressure CuBi bulk material at an extremely low energetic cost, comparable to values to separate single layers of graphene... View the visualization.

Fractals by cutting-and-shuffling a hemispherical shell

Thomas F. Lynn
Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
A fractal is created by a Piecewise Isometry (PWI) which cuts a 2D object into pieces and rearranges those pieces to recreate the original object in a scrambled form. The PWI studied here splits a hemispherical shell into four pieces along cutting lines and rearranges them into a shuffled hemisphere.... View the visualization.

Time-of-flight Imaging with Superheterodyne Interferometry

Fengqiang Li
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Three-dimensional imaging techniques have been widely used in both industry and academia. Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors offer a promising method of 3D imaging due to compact size and low complexity. However, state-of-the-art ToF sensors only have depth resolutions of centimeters due to limitations in the modulation frequencies that can be used.... View the visualization.

Creating a Framework for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Various Search Strategies in the Small-World Phenomenon

Matt Nicholson, et al.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Milgram’s small-world experiments provided evidence for six degrees of separation, only a chain of five contacts separates any two random people. In theory, this small-world phenomenon is prevalent from a network structure perspective. However, empirical evidence shows that successful message chains are occasional, and the length of message chains are... View the poster.

Human-derived content of dust microbiota in athletic facilities reflects building design and operation

Ryan Blaustein, et al.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Building design and operation impact the accumulation and survival of microorganisms in indoor spaces. These microorganisms, together referred to as the indoor microbiome, have implications for human health and well being. However, the relative importance of factors like architecture compared to, e.g., human occupancy, remains unclear. This study aimed to... View the poster.

Comparison of transmission dynamics in different networks

Hyojun Lee, et al.
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Contagion processes arise broadly in the social and biological sciences, manifested as, for example the spread of infectious and the diffusion of innovations. Depending on the network structure, the transmission dynamics can have different. However, when the structure is too complex (e.g. multipartite networks), understanding the properties of the network... View the poster.

Insights into antibiotic-resistance gene dissemination in dust microbiomes

Sarah Ben Maamar, et al.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The advent of next-generation sequencing has made it increasingly feasible to survey microbes in situ, including inside buildings where many people spend extended periods of time. Microbes in buildings, and specifically in dust, are linked to various health outcomes, and the amount of antimicrobial chemicals in dust is associated to... View the poster.

Network Acuity: Social Perceptions in a Small-World Experiment

Sidhartha Jha, et al.
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
It is well documented that an individual’s ability to know who knows whom in their network has positive benefits in various facets of professional life. But people vary in their network acuity - that is, their ability to accurately assess who knows whom in their network. This poster seeks to... View the poster.

Programming Prescriptions: A Clinician Usable Patient-Oriented Prescription Programming Language

Spencer P. Florence, et al.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
A medical prescription is a set of health care instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient; it includes orders for drug therapy, diet, clinical assessment, laboratory testing, and more. Clinicians have long used algorithmic thinking to describe and implement these prescriptions but without the benefit of... View the poster.

SH-ToF: Micro Resolution Time-of-flight Imaging with Super-heterodyne Interferometry

Fengqiang Li, et al.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Three-dimensional imaging techniques have been widely used in both industry and academia. Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors offer a promising method of 3D imaging due to compact size and slow complexity. However, state-of-the-art ToF sensors only have depth resolutions of centimeters due to limitations in the modulation frequencies that can be used.... View the poster.

Life Sciences


Lighting Up the Mind

Jason Climer
Neurobiology
This visualization shows two-photon imaging of GCamp6f in hippocampal pyramidal neurons as a mouse navigates a virtual reality maze. These techniques give us an indirect measure of activity in neurons or small compartments of neurons in an awake, behaving animal. The hippocampus has been well characterized as playing an essential... View the visualization.

Comprehensive analysis of transcriptional response upon multiple drug treatments

Yizhen Zhong, et al.
Pharmacology
Investigating the drug response at the transcriptional level is powerful for understanding the mechanism of drug adverse effects, elucidating inter-individual drug response variability and developing personalized therapies. However, drug perturbation experiments are limited to immortal cell lines which do not reflect the true physiology and gene expression of the liver,... View the poster.

Computational tool for multimodal brain imaging

Runfeng Tian, et al.
Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences
After stroke, motor recovery usually occurs with functional changes in the sensorimotor network rather than healing damaged brain areas. Clinical assessments and structural brain imaging techniques (CT/MRI) provide an overview of stroke severity and anatomical damages but cannot reveal the dynamic changes of brain function. Electroencephalography (EEG) as a non-invasive... View the poster.

Identification of Sources of Platform Specific Bias in Single Cell RNA Sequencing

Rohan Verma, et al.
Pulmonary and Critical Care
High throughput single cell transcriptomics is a powerful tool for unbiased marker-free discovery of the new cell types and activation states. This process involves reverse transcribing RNA using beads containing oligonucleotide bar codes to perform whole genome amplification such that a barcoded cDNA library is produced. This library can then... View the poster.

Quantitative trait meta-analysis identifies rare noncoding variants associated with altered hormone levels in PCOS

Matthew Dapas, et al.
Medicine
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a complex genetic disorder characterized by hyperandrogenism, chronic anovulation, and polycystic ovarian morphology. PCOS affects up to 15% of premenopausal women worldwide, is the leading cause of anovulatory infertility, and is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes. A number of susceptibility loci have... View the poster.

Lost in translation: Mutating the ribosome active site in vitro

Anne d'Aquino, et al.
Interdisciplinary Program in Biological Sciences
The ribosome, a 2.5-MDa molecular machine that polymerizes α-amino acids into proteins, is the catalytic workhorse of the translation apparatus. The catalytic capacity of the translation machinery has attracted extensive efforts to repurpose it for novel functions. One key idea is that the natural translation machinery can be harnessed to... View the poster.

mutSignatures: An R Package For Extraction And Analysis Of Cancer Mutational Signatures

Damiano Fantini, et al.
Urology
Genetic instability is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Neoplastic cells accumulate somatic mutations in their genomes, resulting in aberrant homeostasis, cancer cell survival, and proliferation. Different genetic instability processes result in distinct non-random patterns of DNA mutations, also known as mutational signatures. The interest in the identification of mutational... View the poster.

Physical Sciences


Firefly

Alex Gurvich
Physics and Astronomy
Firefly is an interactive tool that allows users to fly through any 3 dimensional dataset by rendering it on-the-fly. Here we present simulation data created as part of the FIRE galaxy formation collaboration. Interactively exploring data generates powerful intuition and helps one isolate regions of interest in the data using... View the visualization.

Fluid dynamical levitation of heavy particles

Daniel Case
Physics and Astronomy
Levitation—the rising or hovering of an object in apparent defiance of gravity—is a captivating phenomenon with a wide range of applications. In this visualization, we demonstrate our newly discovered form of fluid dynamical levitation of small particles that may be 10, 100, or even 1000 times as dense as the... View the visualization.

Gravitational Waves from Illustris1 Massive Black Hole Mergers

Michael Katz
Physics and Astronomy
Massive Black Holes, millions to billions of times more massive than our sun, exist in the centers of most galaxies. However, the formation and evolution of these objects through accretion of gas and mergers with other black holes is still a great mystery. LISA, a future space-based gravitational wave detector,... View the visualization.

Portrait of the Galaxy as a Young Galaxy

Alex Gurvich
Physics and Astronomy
Portrait of the Galaxy is a snapshot from a 3d rendering of a galaxy that displays the complex structure of the gas component of the simulation. This gas component is difficult to observe in real telescopes but with visualizations and simulations like these we can begin to understand how to... View the visualization.

Stellar Feedback vs. Galaxy Formation

Alex Gurvich
Physics and Astronomy
This is a movie of three galaxy formation simulations I ran as part of my research. The color of each pixel represents the temperature of the gas (blue for cold and green for hot) and the brightness of each pixel represents the density (dim for low density bright for high... View the visualization.

Visualization of Reconstruction of CMS HGCal

Ziheng Chen
Physics and Astronomy
This is a visualization of an event reconstructed in CMS HGCal. This event is consist of 10 pions with a transverse momentum of 35 GeV. The reconstruction algorithm groups all valid energy deposits (hits) into clusters, each incoming particle having one or a few corresponding clusters, so that the energy... View the visualization.

How Black Holes Shape Globular Clusters

Shi Ye, et al.
Physics and Astronomy
Numerical simulations have shown that black holes (BHs) have significant influence on the evolution of globular clusters (GCs), and therefore shape their observational features. Recently, a BH-main sequence star (MS) binary system has been observed in the Milky Way GC NGC 3201. Our group uses Cluster Monte Carlo (CMC) code... View the poster.

Is Classifying Secondary Seismic Signals Scalable and Automatable?

Vivian Tang, et al.
Earth and Planetary Science
Seismic waves from large-magnitude earthquakes sometime trigger small secondary earthquakes or tectonic tremor. These secondary signals are important to observe and study because their occurrence reflects on the state of stress of the subsurface, which is important for hazard assessment. Here we first report on how individual inspection by a... View the poster.

Multi-Index Attribution of Beijing's 2013 Airpocalypse

Christopher W. Callahan, et al.
Environmental Sciences
Poor air quality causes 2 to 4 million premature deaths per year globally. Individual high-impact events, like Beijing’s January 2013 “airpocalypse,” have drawn significant attention, as they have demonstrated that short-lived air quality events can have outsized effects on public health and economic vitality. Poor air quality events are the... View the poster.

Probing Massive Black Hole Populations and Their Environments with LISA

Michael Katz, et al.
Physics and Astronomy
ESA and NASA are moving forward with plans to launch LISA around 2030. With data from the Illustris large-scale cosmological simulation, we provide analysis of LISA detection rates accompanied by characterization of the merging massive black holes and their host galaxies. Massive black holes of total mass are the main... View the poster.

Simulating 3-D Biosignature Gases on Earths around other Stars

Howard Chen, et al.
Earth and Planetary Sciences
The search for life beyond Earth is one of the big questions in the modern science community, and a primary motivation behind a range of NASA's ground-based and space-bourne missions. In the near future, the James Webb Space Telescope, LUVOIR, and HabEx will characterize the atmospheres of nearby Earth-like exoplanets.... View the poster.

Drivers of Seasonal Variability of Atmospheric Stagnation Features Under Anthropogenic Forcing Using a Climate Model Ensemble (CMIP5)

Yuxi Suo, et al.
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Air pollution increases mortality risk up to 18 percent due to cardiovascular causes. Poor air quality occurs more when meteorological components prevent the dispersal of pollutants in the lower atmosphere. The atmospheric and hydrological patterns change as global warming alters the pattern of circulations seasonally. The purpose of this study... View the poster.

Prediction of Black Hole Populations in Globular Clusters

Newlin Weatherford, et al.
Physics and Astronomy
Recent discoveries of black hole (BH) candidates in galactic and extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) have ignited interest in understanding how BHs dynamically evolve in a GC and the number of BHs (NBH) that may still be retained by today's GCs. Numerical models show that even if stellar-mass BHs are retained... View the poster.

Social Sciences


Depression Survey Item Underestimates Symptoms in Low Health-Literacy Participants

Bayley Taple
Medical Social Sciences
Psychometric analyses can help illuminate how people approach clinical tests. To understand how health literacy (i.e., literacy for health information) might lead to biased assessment of emotional distress, we examined the psychometric properties of anxiety and depression questionnaires, using differential item functioning (DIF) analysis. Items were flagged for DIF if... View the visualization.

Fetching Water Around the Globe

Joshua Miller
Anthropology
Our research group is currently working to develop the first cross-culturally validated household water insecurity scale. In order to do this, we have partnered with numerous collaborators to implement the survey in diverse ecological settings. As part of the survey, participants are asked to recall how long it takes to... View the visualization.

Mixing by cutting-and-shuffling a hemispherical shell

Balint Neray
Medical Social Sciences
These images show how the Facebook networks of 121 LGBTQ youth (Mage = 24.13 years) differ depending on how “out” these young people are about their identities. Using cluster analysis of survey data, we found LGBTQ youth managed outness in one of four ways: high overall outness (63.82%), low overall... View the visualization.

TypeShift: A User Interface for Visualizing the Typing Process

Adam Goodkind
Linguistics
Typing is a complex process which draws on both cognitive and motor skills. By visualizing holistic trends in the typing process, TypeShift aims to elucidate the often-noisy information signals that are used to represent typing patterns. The importance of a tool such as TypeShift is that it can help answer... View the visualization.

Strategic failure? The impact of failed legislation on enacted legislation

Amanda Jadidi d'Urso
Political Science
In an environment with limited time and resources, why do some legislators repeatedly sponsoring the same bills that never pass? Are they only appealing to constituents or lobbyists, or do they reintroduce legislation for strategic purposes? Bachrach and Baratz (1962) characterize the second-face of power as having control over agenda-setting.... View the poster.