Emerson Arehart

University of Utah | UOU · Department of Biology

In the process of collective decision-making, many individual components exchange and process information until reaching a well-defined consensus state. Existing theory suggests two phases to this process. In the first, individual components are relatively free to wander between decision states, remaining highly sensitive to perturbations; in the s...

Listening to the waveforms generated by earthquakes is not new. The recordings of seismometers have been sped up and played to generations of introductory seismology students, published on educational websites and even included in the occasional symphony. The modern twist on earthquakes as music is an interest in using state-of-the-art computer alg...