TITLE: Active Hypothesis Testing: Musings on the Non-Asymptotic Case Exploration-exploitation problems abound in applications such as anomaly detection, target localization, dynamical system tracking, medical diagnosis, wireless body area sensor networks etc. Initially, one is unclear about the state of the environment and the…

TITLE: Topological in Hydrodynamics in Insulators I will discuss transport phenomena in nonmetallic solid-state systems, which are engendered by the order-parameter topology. Unlike the traditional conservation laws that are rooted in a global symmetry, the hydrodynamics here are governed by the topological structure of the…