Podcast

Carry the Two

Mathematics, Science

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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#26
Episodes
65
Releases
Every two weeks
Typical length
25 min
On air since
2022
Latest episode
1 week ago

Episodes

65 episodes, newest first

  1. Mathematics & AI Episode 4: Andrew Lee

    Show notes

    Hosts Sadie Witkowski and Ian Martin return for this season of Carry the Two, where we are exploring the intersection of AI and mathematical research. In this episode, we are joined by researcher Andrew Lee about his work in mechanistic interpretability.

    Find our transcript here:Google Doc, or at imsi.institute

    Make sure to check out more abou Andrew Lee's research:
    https://ajyl.github.io/about

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    25 min
  2. Mathematics & AI Episode 3: Feng Fu

    Show notes

    Hosts Sadie Witkowski and Ian Martin return for this season of Carry the Two, where we are exploring the intersection of AI and mathematical research. In this episode, we are joined by Dartmouth professor Feng Fu about his work in evolutionary game theory.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc, or at imsi.institute

    Make sure to check out more about Feng Fu's research:
    https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/feng-fu

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    25 min
  3. Mathematics & AI Episode 2: Saptarshi Pal

    Show notes

    Hosts Sadie Witkowski and Ian Martin return for this season of Carry the Two, where we are exploring the intersection of AI and mathematical research. In this episode, we are joined by postdoctoral researcher Saptarshi Pal, who explains how he uses game theory to study social behavior in large language models.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc

    Make sure to check out more about Saptarshi Pal's research:
    https://saptarshi07.github.io/personal-website/index.html

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    22 min
  4. Mathematics & AI Episode 1: Jeremy Avigad

    Show notes

    Welcome to a new season of Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation.Hosts Sadie Witkowski and Ian Martin return for this season of Carry the Two, where we are exploring the intersection of AI and mathematical research. To kick off the new season, we are joined by the director of the newly-established Institute for Computer-Aided Reasoning in Mathematics (a National Science Foundation mathematical sciences research institute), Jeremy Avigad.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc

    Make sure to check out more about Jeremy Avigad's research and the new sister math institute, ICARM:
    https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/
    https://icarm.io/

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    23 min
  5. Mathematics & Gambling Episode 6: Online Gambling

    Season 6, Episode 6

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats intersect with the world of gambling. This episode is all about online gambling sites use of sign up bonuses and betting systems. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by David Taylor mathematician, Assistant Vice President at SUNY Erie, and creator of a course and author of a book on the mathematics, statistics, and probability of gambling.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Make sure to check out David's Book Games, Gambling, and Probability: An Introduction to Mathematics

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    19 min
  6. Mathematics & Gambling Episode 5: Yet More Sports Betting

    Season 6, Episode 5

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats intersect with the world of gambling. This episode is all about sports prop bets and parlays. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by David Taylor mathematician, Assistant Vice President at SUNY Erie, and creator of a course and author of a book on the mathematics, statistics, and probability of gambling.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Make sure to check out David's Book Games, Gambling, and Probability: An Introduction to Mathematics

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    15 min
  7. Mathematics & Gambling Episode 4: Sports Betting

    Season 6, Episode 4

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats intersect with the world of gambling. This episode is all about the sports bets of over/under, spreads, and moneylines. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by David Taylor mathematician, Assistant Vice President at SUNY Erie, and creator of a course and author of a book on the mathematics, statistics, and probability of gambling.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Make sure to check out David's Book Games, Gambling, and Probability: An Introduction to Mathematics

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    14 min
  8. Mathematics & Gambling Episode 3: Even More Casino Games

    Season 6, Episode 3

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats intersect with the world of gambling. This episode is all about craps, blackjack, and poker. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by David Taylor mathematician, Assistant Vice President at SUNY Erie, and creator of a course and author of a book on the mathematics, statistics, and probability of gambling.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Make sure to check out David's Book Games, Gambling, and Probability: An Introduction to Mathematics

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    20 min
  9. Mathematics & Gambling Episode 2: Casino Games

    Season 6, Episode 2

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats intersect with the world of gambling. This episode is all about casino slot machines and roulette. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by David Taylor mathematician, Assistant Vice President at SUNY Erie, and creator of a course and author of a book on the mathematics, statistics, and probability of gambling.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Make sure to check out David's Book Games, Gambling, and Probability: An Introduction to Mathematics

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    15 min
  10. Mathematics & Gambling Episode 1: Lotteries

    Season 6, Episode 1

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats intersect with the world of gambling. This episode is all about Lotteries. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by David Taylor mathematician, Assistant Vice President at SUNY Erie, and creator of a course and author of a book on the mathematics, statistics, and probability of gambling.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Make sure to check out David's Book Games, Gambling, and Probability: An Introduction to Mathematics

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    16 min
  11. Emerging Technologies Episode 6: Digital Twins

    Season 5, Episode 6

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. This episode is all about Digital Twins. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by Karen Willcox professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, Director of the Oden Institutefor Computational Engineering and Sciences, and external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and Anna Michalak founding Director of the Climate and Resilience Hub at the Carnegie Institution for Science and professor at the Stanford-Doerr School of Sustainability.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Toward predictive digital twins: From physics-based modeling to scientific machine learning Application of Digital Twins to Large-Scale Complex Systems Digital Twins Long Program Foundational Research Gaps and Future Directions for Digital Twins Digital twins in mechanical and aerospace engineering

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    33 min
  12. Emerging Technologies Episode 5: Computation Imaging

    Season 5, Episode 5

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. This episode is all about Computation Imaging. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by Rebecca Willett the Worah Family Professor of Statistics and Computer Science in the Wallman Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago, Stanley Chan Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Statistics Purdue University, and David Lindell Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Computer Science.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Panel Discussion: Computational Imaging: Who cares?

    Wavefront Estimation: How to Prescribe Glasses for your Telescope?

    Imaging Anytime Anywhere: Capturing Dynamic Scenes from Seconds to Picoseconds

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    47 min
  13. Emerging Technologies Episode 4: Materials Science

    Season 5, Episode 4

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. Our first episode is all about Computation Medicine. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by Danny Perez, a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico, Logan Ward, a PhD computational scientist, and Jason Hattrick-Simpers, a professor of material science and engineering at the University of Toronto and a research scientist at Natural Resources Canada, CMAT Materials.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Diverse data generation for machine learning potentials

    The Importance of Publishing Everything, and How MDF Can Help

    Understanding and Mitigating Bias in Autonomous Materials Characterization and Discovery

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    48 min
  14. Emerging Technologies Episode 3: Fusion Energy

    Season 5, Episode 3

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. Our third episode is all about Fusion Energy. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by Andrew Christlieb, Professor of mathematics and computational science and engineering at Michigan State University and director for the Center of Hierarchical and Robust Modeling for Non-Equilibrium Transport, and Cristina Rea, principal research scientist here at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and leader of the Disruption Studies Group.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Open and FAIR Fusion for Machine Learning Applications

    Predicting fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility with physics-informed deep learning

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    36 min
  15. Emerging Technologies Episode 2: Computation Medicine

    Season 5, Episode 2

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. Our first episode is all about Computation Medicine. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by Yixiang Deng assistant professor at the University of Delaware in Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Fides Schwartz a radiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital focusing on CT, computer tomography, imaging.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Exploring the Frontiers of Computational Medicine

    Photon-counting CT yields superior abdominopelvic image quality at lower radiation and iodinated contrast doses

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://www.imsi.institute, (bluesky) IMSI.institute (instagram)IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    35 min
  16. Emerging Technologies Episode 1: Quantum Information Science

    Season 5, Episode 1

    Show notes

    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. In this season of Carry the Two we are going to be examining how math and stats is helping scientists, engineers, and industry develop new and emerging technologies. Our first episode is all about Quantum Computing and Information Science. Hosts Sam Hansen and Sadie Witkowski are joined by Ben Brown, researcher at IBM Quantum, and Yihui Quek, postdoc at MIT and incoming assistant professor at EPFL, Ecole Polytechnic Federal in Lausanne, for a discussion about quantum error correction and mitigation, as well as Dylan Temples, a Lederman Postdoctoral Fellow at Fermi National Accelerator Lab, who works at the intersection of dark matter direct detection and quantum information science.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links: Mitigating errors in logical qubits Surviving as a quantum computer in a noisy world Design directions in qubit-based dark matter sensors

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://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

    44 min
  17. Lars Peter Hansen on Uncertainties in the Age of Climate Change

    Show notes

    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 sixth, and final, guest is Lars Peter Hansen. Lars is the 2013 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and a Professor at the University of Chicago with appointments at the Economics Department, the Booth School of Business, as well as the Statistics Department.. Lars joined us at IMSI for a workshop on Economic Impacts of Climate Change where he presented a talk titled: How should Climate Change Uncertainty Impact Social Valuation and Policy? Host Sam Hansen joined Lars for a conversation about the research in his talk and Lars’s time at IMSI.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Lars Peter Hansen

    Article: How should Climate Change Uncertainty Impact Social Valuation and Policy

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

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    21 min
  18. Rose Yu on Automatic Symmetry Discovery

    Show notes

    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 fifth guest is Rose Yu. Rose is an associate professor in the computer science department of UC San Diego, and is also affiliated with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. Rose joined us at IMSI for a workshop on Learning Collective Variables and Coarse Grained Models where she presented a talk titled Automatic Symmetry Discovery from Data. Host Sam Hansen joined Rose for a conversation about the research in her talk and Rose’s time at IMSI.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Rose Yu

    IMSI Talk: Automatic Symmetry Discovery from Data

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

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    22 min
  19. Kunal Marwaha on Quantum Advantage

    Show notes

    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 fourth guest isKunal Marwaha, a PhD student at the University of Chicago studying quantum computing. Kunal joined us at IMSI for a workshop on The Power of Near-Term Quantum Experiments where he presented a talk titled On the promise of quantum advantage for classical optimization. So, without further ado let’s get into my conversation with Kunal Marwaha. Host Sam Hansen joined Kunal for a conversation about the research in his talk and Kunal’s time at IMSI.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Kunal Marwaha

    IMSI Talk: On the promise of quantum advantage for classical optimization

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    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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

    21 min
  20. Frank Wolak on Engineering and Electricity Market Design

    Show notes

    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 third guest is Frank Wolak, a professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University who teaches courses in energy and environmental economics and has been involved in the electricity industry and power systems for 25 years.. Frank joined us at IMSI for a workshop on The Architecture of Green Energy Systems: The Underlying Problem and Its Challenges where he presented a talk titled The Engineering Economics of Low Carbon Electricity Market Design. Host Sam Hansen joined Frank for a talk about the research in his talk and Frank’s time at IMSI.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Frank Wolak

    IMSI Talk: The Engineering Economics of Low Carbon Electricity Market Design

    Energy Market Game

    Follow more of IMSI’s work:https://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

    39 min

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