• Carry the Two

  • Written by: IMSI
  • Podcast

Carry the Two

Written by: IMSI
  • Summary

  • Carry the Two pulls back the curtain to reveal the mathematical and statistical gears that turn the world. We’re the show for people who enjoy discovering hidden elements that impact our lives in the most unexpected ways, and math is certainly one of those! We are a curiosity-driven podcast that looks to find unique perspectives from the fields of mathematics and statistics. We use stories to convey how mathematical research drives the world around us, with each episode tackling a different topic. This can be anything from modeling how bees in a swarm make group decisions to how we can use textual analysis to reveal surprising changes in policy documents. You can also find Carry the Two on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Carry the Two is hosted by Sadie Witkowski and Ian Martin. Audio production by Tyler Damme. Music is from Blue Dot Sessions.
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Episodes
  • Maria Chan on ML for Material Structures
    Feb 12 2025

    Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. While we’re in between our more in-depth seasons, we like to bring you something a little different in mini-season format. And for this mini season, we are going to highlight some of the amazing researchers who have presented at IMSI over the past year. Our second guest is Maria Chan,a scientist at Argonnne National Laboratory working at the Center for Nanoscale Materials who focuses on computational research involving materials in chemistry using a combination of physics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Maria joined us at IMSI for a workshop on Machine Learning in Electronic Structure Theory where she presented a talk titled Theory-informed AI/ML for Microscopy & Spectroscopy. Host Sam Hansen joined Maria for a talk about the research in her talk and Maria’s time at IMSI.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

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    Maria Chan

    IMSI Talk: Theory-informed AI/ML for Microscopy & Spectroscopy

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (mastodon) https://sciencemastodon.com/@IMSI, (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) is funded by NSF grant DMS-1929348

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    24 mins
  • Thibaut Mastrolia on Auction Markets
    Jan 23 2025

    Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. While we’re in between our more in-depth seasons, we like to bring you something a little different in mini-season format. And for this mini season, we are going to highlight some of the amazing researchers who have presented at IMSI over the past year. Our first guest is Thibaut Mastrolia, an assistant professor at the Industrial Engineering and Operation Research Department at UC Berkeley Thibaut joined us at IMSI for a workshop on Decision Making and Uncertainty where he presented a talk titled Recent advances in auction markets design and regulation policies. Host Sam Hansen joined Thibaut for a talk about the research in this talk and how Thibaut’s time at IMSI has helped move it forward.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Thibaut Mastrolia

    IMSI Talk: Recent advances in auction markets design and regulation policies

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (mastodon) https://sciencemastodon.com/@IMSI, (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) is funded by NSF grant DMS-1929348

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    25 mins
  • Mathematics & Polling
    Oct 31 2024

    We in the United States are deep in the middle of a major national election, and over half of the world’s population also have elections in 2024. This is why Carry the Two is going to focus on the intersection of mathematics and democracy for our new season.

    In this, the sixth and final episode of our mathematics and democracy season, we dig into both how surveys and polls are conducted and how they are reported. For the former we are joined by David Dutwin Senior Vice President at NORC and Chief Scientist of Amerispeak and for the latter by Nathaniel Rakich Senior Editor and Senior Elections Analyst at FiveThirtyEight.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    David Dutwin

    NORC

    AmeriSpeak

    VoteCast

    Nathaniel Rakich

    FiveThirtyEight

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (mastodon) https://sciencemastodon.com/@IMSI, (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) is funded by NSF grant DMS-1929348

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    44 mins

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