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Norms_Quest_for_Treasure2023.pdfNorm the Narwhal's Quest for Treasure
This children’s book is part of a Broader Impacts aim from NSF grant numbers 1854336 (Brittany T. Fasy, Montana State) and 2038556 (Jessi Kehe, UW-Madison) with the goal of introducing the notion of a topological hole to young children to inspire interest in STEM-related fields. We were fortunate to work with Montana State undergraduate student and artist Emma Bergman, who led the creative aspects of this book. The story follows Norm the Narwhal as he searches for treasure that he can thread on his tusk. The young readers can help Norm determine which objects he can choose. Norm’s friends are not impressed with his finds, until they learn what he has been creating.
A free e-Book is available by clicking the book image.
A printed version can be purchased through Kindle Direct Publishing at https://a.co/d/7gLNc3Q. Note that the cost of the printed version covers printing and publisher fees. The author/illustrator and contributors do not receive royalties.
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Dr. Xiaofei (Susan) Wang and I created and hosted the DataBytes podcast starting in late 2018 and ending early 2020. On the podcast, we discussed topics in statistics, big data, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc. Though we stopped recording podcasts in 2019/2020, you can listen to our archived episodes using the link below.
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GENERAL AUDIENCE PAPERS
Green, Mintz, Xu, and Cisewski-Kehe (2019) Topology of our cosmology with persistent homology. Chance, 32(3), pp.6-13.
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Cisewski (2017) In search of Earth analogues: Detecting exoplanets amid stellar noise. Significance, 14(2), pp.22-25.
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Cisewski (2014) Revealing the Invisible. Significance Magazine, 11: 61 – 63. [paper]
Contribution to a special astrostatistics issue with Hilbe et al (2014), Life, the universe, and everything. Significance, 11: 48 – 75.
Cisewski (2014) Complex and High‐Dimensional Inference in Astrostatistics. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online, pp.1-8.
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OTHER
Interviewed by Chris Franck, “Starstruck: Statistician Describes Work in Astrostatistics.” AMSTAT news: the membership magazine of the American Statistical Association, Issue 563, May 2024
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Guest, Stats + Stories (podcast episode 192), “The Wonders of Astrostatistics”, June 24, 2021
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