Come hear Laura Greenfield, Wired Peer Mentor, and Director of Promotions for UK's Center for Community Outreach talk about Seedleaf and the Center for Community Outreach's Highlights Campaign.  Laura says:

"I am the director of promotions in the Center for Community Outreach and something we are working on this spring is a Highlight Campaign with the Lexington community garden organization, Seedleaf. The aim of the campaign is to help increase Seedleaf's on-campus presence by hosting talks that will share information about food insecurity in Lexington, what Seedleaf is and what they're doing to combat food insecurity, and how students can get involved! Seedleaf's gardens are less than a mile from campus and, with spring hopefully on the way soon, I can't wait for UK students to hear about all these great opportunities for community outreach and involvement."

Cybersecurity Design & Video Contest: Viewing Party & Winner Reveals!

As a follow-up to the prior program (an interactive informational session on cybersecurity), Keeneland Hall's Adopt-a-Hall team is hosting a competition for Keeneland residents to create multimedia materials for a campus-wide cybersecurity campaign. Please see flyer below.  Residents have the option of creating materials in two different categories (i.e., video and design); contest rules can be found on the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1446606145571401/). First and second place winners in each category will receive prizes and their work will be featured across UK's campus for the future campaign. A viewing party will be hosted for residents and staff to see all final submissions and will include homemade popcorn and other fun treats to honor all the residents' hard work! The event will also include an engaging discussion of residents' learning outcomes related to cybersecurity and appropriate technology use. Winners will be announced and prizes distributed at the end.

Abstract: "Linguists have been teaching the general public for several decades now that traditional conceptions of "bad" versus "good" grammar are not based on scientific argumentation, but certain fashions laid down by assorted thinkers mostly in the eighteenth century. However, the public remains convinced that most speakers of English go about speaking it "wrong." In this talk, I try to present the linguist's perspective in a new way, showing that while all people must learn standard grammar for public purposes, nonstandard grammar is distinct, but not logically mistaken."

Title:  Sub-Exponential Decay Estimates on Trace Norms of Localized Functions of Schrodinger Operators

Abstract:  In 1973, Combes and Thomas discovered a general technique for showing exponential decay of eigenfunctions. The technique involved proving the exponential decay of the resolvent of the Schrodinger operator localized between two distant regions. Since then, the technique has been applied to several types of Schrodinger operators. Recent work has also shown the Combes–Thomas method works well with trace class and Hilbert–Schmidt type operators. In this talk, we build on those results by applying the Combes–Thomas method in the trace, Hilbert–Schmidt, and other trace-type norms to prove sub-exponential decay estimates on functions of Schrodinger operators localized between two distant regions.