Talks:

• Multi-Irreducible Spectral Synchronization for Robust Rotation Averaging @ NECV Dartmouth 2023 Oral Presentation

Publications:

• L.Zhao, O.Howell, J. Park, X. Zhu, R. Walters, L. Wong. Can Euclidean Symmetry Help in Reinforcement Learning and Planning? WAFR 2024

• H.Huang, O.Howell, X.Zhu, D.Wang, R.Platt and R. Walters. Fourier Transporter: Bi-Equivariant Robotic Manipulation in 3D. ICLR 2024

• O.Howell, D.Klee, O.Biza, L.Zhao and R. Walters. Equivariant Single View Pose Prediction Via Induced and Restricted Representations. NeurIPS 2023

• O.Howell, P.Weinberg, D.Sels, A.Polkovnikov and M. Bukov. Asymptotic Prethermalization in Periodically Driven Classical Spin Chains. Physical Review Letters 122, 010602.

• O.Howell, C. Wenping, R. Marsland III and P. Mehta. Machine Learning as Ecology. Journal of Physics A, Volume 53

• Robert Marsland, Owen Howell, Andreas Mayer, Pankaj Mehta. Tregs self-organize into a "computing ecosystem" and implement a sophisticated optimization algorithm for mediating immune response. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 118

Preprints:

• O.Howell, H.Huang and D.Rosen, Multi-Irreducible Spectral Synchronization for Robust Rotation Averaging

• M.Brodskiy, O.Howell. k-Fold Gaussian Random Matrix Ensembles I: Forcing Structure into Random Matrices

• A.Tangri, O.Biza, D.Wang, D.Klee, O.Howell, R.Platt. Equivariant Offline Reinforcement Learning

Some of My Favorite Books:

• What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, Erwin Schrodinger
Written in 1943, in What is Life? Schrodinger argued that genetic inheritance must take the form of an "aperiodic crystal".

• The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
A biography of Peter Thiel, the controversial and visionary venture capitalist. Thiel is also the founder of Confinity, PayPal and Palentir Technologies. Competition is for Losers

• Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Kary Mullis
An autobiography of Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of PCR.

• Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology, Raoul Bott and Loring Tu
An excellent introduction to differntial forms in algebraic topology.

• Runaway Horses, Yukio Mishima
An meditation on the blessings and burdens of patriotism, responsibility and adulthood.

• American Lion, Jon Meachm
Biography of U.S. President Andrew Jackson.