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CSCE 2022

May 25, 2022

CSCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2022

We celebrate the outstanding participation of our colleagues Bianca, Miguel, and Wilson, during  the CSCE 2022 ( May 25th-28th) held at Whistler, BC. They shared their current research ,under the supervision of Prof. Eugene Kim, through remarkable presentations.

These were their topics:

Bianca: "Aftershock record selection criteria for structural vulnerability assessments"

Miguel: "Strengthening shear‐damaged reinforced concrete beams using iron-based shape memory alloys"...

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The auxiliary circuit element for the "Vool-Devoret Circuit."

The Energy of an Arbitrary Electrical Circuit, Classical and Quantum

June 17, 2021
I have recently improved my theory of how to obtain the Hamiltonian and equations of motion of an arbitrary electrical circuit, both classically and quantum mechanically. In particular, I have included holonomic reductions of auxiliry circuits as well as generalized Poisson brackets to treat dissipative networks. This article summarizes a body of work I developed over the past 15 years. The article is also availabe on the arXiv.org at https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08519 . Read more about The Energy of an Arbitrary Electrical Circuit, Classical and Quantum

New Article: Prolepsis and Rendering Futures in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports

February 26, 2024

New article out in the journal Written Communication! You can read it, freely available through an open access licence, here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07410883231222882

Here is the abstract: Rhetorical figures of speech provide important analytical frames to chart how arguments operate within genres and within genre ecologies. Varieties of the figure prolepsis allow for the rendering of future time or fact in the present, which can be a powerful...

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On Expertise included in Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2023

February 20, 2024

Delighted to see my most recent book "On Expertise: Cultivating Character, Goodwill, and Practical Wisdom" (Penn State UP, 2022) was included in the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2023: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/outstanding-academic-titles-2023-psychology/

You can read about the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles list here: https://www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

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New Article: Synthetic Genres: Expert Genres, Non-Specialist Audiences, and Misinformation in the Artificial Intelligence Age

February 6, 2024

What can Rhetorical Genre Theory tell us about AI and misinformation? 

**Quick link to article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00472816231226249**

Back in 2022, Brad Mehlenbacher and I were on sabbatical, and we spent some time looking at the then-recently launched ChatGPT, and back at GPT 3. We completed this work with the always...

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