Basic Notions Seminars
AY2026-27
The Basic Notions seminar at the US Naval Academy hosts talks from faculty and midshipmen about the research they're doing. The goal is to explain the research at a very "basic" level; to introduce different types of problems you might think about in OR/applied math/pure math.
For midshipmen: This is a chance to think about what you might do for your honors, Trident or Bowman project, who you might want to work with, or what type of electives you want to take. Or, if you just like thinking about cool problems and how to solve them, stop by.
For faculty: If you would like to speak in the seminar please let me know! We're always looking for more speakers.
All talks are from 12:40-1:15 p.m. in the Seminar room, unless otherwise specified.
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Nov10
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Nov03
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Oct27
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Oct13
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Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization for Text Data: Incorporating Data Analysis Techniques into Strategic Concept WritingTimothy BrockUSNA-MathTime: 12:40 PM
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At USCYBERCOM, my job was to provide data analysis and mathematical expertise to wargaming analysis and the process of writing strategic concepts for Future Operations planning. This turned out to include far more text data than quantitative data and required me to step beyond my education and develop new data analysis skills. This talk summarizes my journey of learning how to analyze text data while performing initial exploratory data analysis and leading to cosine similarity calculations.
