MERLOT Materials

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. Recent observations have shown that the Universe is... see more

This video was recorded at The 100th anniversary of the birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Chandrasekhar Centennial... see more

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. The Post-Conference Workshop Program covered a wide range... see more

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. The talk is motivated by our recent work on a recommender... see more

Images include M33, the large Magellanic cloud, M106.

The Air We Breathe is a picture book designed to introduce Earth's atmosphere and its importance to the life on Earth.

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. Wavelets have been intensely used for astronomical image... see more

Student friendly site for introducing the different types of galaxies. Introduces each type and has nice images for... see more

In July 1991, the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth produced a total solar eclipse with a particularly long duration... see more

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. Precise statistical analyses of astronomical data are the... see more

In this video segment, Dr. Ayanna Howard, a robotics engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, describes the process... see more

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. We study the topology of the cosmic Large-Scale Structures... see more

An online presentation, with hyperlinks to images, definitions, and plots concerning CCD detectors.

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. In Bayesian approaches to utility learning from... see more

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. We have created a method for the efficient and automatic... see more

Although the airless Moon experiences no weather analogous to terrestrial weather, conditions there are nothing short of... see more

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. We describe FaST-LMM, a linear mixed model for genome-wide... see more

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. We extend the Figure of Merit formalism usually adopted to... see more

This video was recorded at Sprehod skozi vesolje na FMF - Ljubljana. Šesto predavanje iz cikla Sprehod skozi vesolje bo... see more

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Sierra Nevada 2011. As an important tracer of the matter in the universe,... see more

This video was recorded at The 100th anniversary of the birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Chandrasekhar Centennial... see more

Galileo used thought experiments to test many assumptions, including the notion that heavy objects fall more quickly than... see more

Galileo pioneered astronomy as the first person to study the celestial objects through a telescope. His observations,... see more

Before the 17th century, people generally believed that Earth was at the center of the universe, a system originally... see more