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Modeling the neighborhood boosts landslide prediction

1 min read · Sun, Dec 13 2020

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A prediction model that considers multiple landslides over time in a given region may improve the accuracy of early warning systems.

Star light, star bright…as explained by math

1 min read · Sun, Apr 25 2021

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The evolving periodicity of the brightness of certain types of stars can now be described mathematically.

Competition sheds light on approximation methods for large spatial datasets

1 min read · Thu, Jan 20 2022

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Marc Genton, Huang Huang and colleagues from KAUST organized a global competition with 21 competing teams to compare different approximation methods for analyzing large spatial datasets.