• Carry the Two

  • By: IMSI
  • Podcast
  • Summary

  • Carry the Two pulls back the curtain to reveal the mathematical and statistical gears that turn the world. We’re the show for people who enjoy discovering hidden elements that impact our lives in the most unexpected ways, and math is certainly one of those! We are a curiosity-driven podcast that looks to find unique perspectives from the fields of mathematics and statistics. We use stories to convey how mathematical research drives the world around us, with each episode tackling a different topic. This can be anything from modeling how bees in a swarm make group decisions to how we can use textual analysis to reveal surprising changes in policy documents. You can also find Carry the Two on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Carry the Two is hosted by Sadie Witkowski and Ian Martin. Audio production by Tyler Damme. Music is from Blue Dot Sessions.
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Episodes
  • Rose Yu on Automatic Symmetry Discovery
    Apr 22 2025

    Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. While we’re in between our more in-depth seasons, we like to bring you something a little different in mini-season format. And for this mini season, we are going to highlight some of the amazing researchers who have presented at IMSI over the past year. Our fifth guest is Rose Yu. Rose is an associate professor in the computer science department of UC San Diego, and is also affiliated with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute. Rose joined us at IMSI for a workshop on Learning Collective Variables and Coarse Grained Models where she presented a talk titled Automatic Symmetry Discovery from Data. So, without further ado let’s get into my conversation with Kunal Marwaha. Host Sam Hansen joined Rose for a conversation about the research in her talk and Rose’s time at IMSI.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

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    Rose Yu

    IMSI Talk: Automatic Symmetry Discovery from Data

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (Bluesky) @imsi.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) is funded by NSF grant DMS-1929348

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    22 mins
  • Kunal Marwaha on Quantum Advantage
    Mar 20 2025

    Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. While we’re in between our more in-depth seasons, we like to bring you something a little different in mini-season format. And for this mini season, we are going to highlight some of the amazing researchers who have presented at IMSI over the past year. Our fourth guest isKunal Marwaha, a PhD student at the University of Chicago studying quantum computing. Kunal joined us at IMSI for a workshop on The Power of Near-Term Quantum Experiments where he presented a talk titled On the promise of quantum advantage for classical optimization. So, without further ado let’s get into my conversation with Kunal Marwaha. Host Sam Hansen joined Kunal for a conversation about the research in his talk and Kunal’s time at IMSI.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Kunal Marwaha

    IMSI Talk: On the promise of quantum advantage for classical optimization

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (Bluesky) @imsi.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) is funded by NSF grant DMS-1929348

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    21 mins
  • Frank Wolak on Engineering and Electricity Market Design
    Mar 11 2025

    Welcome to Carry the Two, the podcast about how math and statistics impact the world around us from the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. While we’re in between our more in-depth seasons, we like to bring you something a little different in mini-season format. And for this mini season, we are going to highlight some of the amazing researchers who have presented at IMSI over the past year. Our third guest is Frank Wolak, a professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University who teaches courses in energy and environmental economics and has been involved in the electricity industry and power systems for 25 years.. Frank joined us at IMSI for a workshop on The Architecture of Green Energy Systems: The Underlying Problem and Its Challenges where he presented a talk titled The Engineering Economics of Low Carbon Electricity Market Design. Host Sam Hansen joined Frank for a talk about the research in his talk and Frank’s time at IMSI.

    Find our transcript here: Google Doc or .txt file

    Curious to learn more? Check out these additional links:

    Frank Wolak

    IMSI Talk: The Engineering Economics of Low Carbon Electricity Market Design

    Energy Market Game

    Follow more of IMSI’s work: www.IMSI.institute, (twitter) @IMSI_institute, (mastodon) https://sciencemastodon.com/@IMSI, (instagram) IMSI.institute

    Music by Blue Dot Sessions

    The Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI) is funded by NSF grant DMS-1929348

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    39 mins
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