Quarkonium Spectral Function from Anisotropic Lattice

We discuss the behavior of charmonia and bottomonia correlators and spectral functions above the deconfinement temperature and determine melting temperatures for different mesonic states.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures. Talk presented at Hard Probes 2006, Asilomar, California, USA, June 9-16, 200

Joint recovery algorithms using difference of innovations for distributed compressed sensing

Distributed compressed sensing is concerned with representing an ensemble of jointly sparse signals using as few linear measurements as possible. Two novel joint reconstruction algorithms for distributed compressed sensing are presented in this paper. These algorithms are based on the idea of using one of the signals as side information; this allows to exploit joint sparsity in a more effective way with respect to existing schemes. They provide gains in reconstruction quality, especially when the nodes acquire few measurements, so that the system is able to operate with fewer measurements than is required by other existing schemes. We show that the algorithms achieve better performance with respect to the state-of-the-art.Comment: Conference Record of the Forty Seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR), 201

Asilomar Leadership Skills Seminar: the career preparation, advancement, and enhancement of women in California community college leadership

This mixed-methods research study examined the effects on the career preparation, advancement, and enhancement of women from California community college leadership who participated in the Asilomar Leadership Skills Seminar (Asilomar) from 2005-2011. Data were collected during the 2011-2012 academic year and were gathered from the results of 67 respondents to an online 27-item survey and from 10 volunteer interviews. Eleven important findings resulted from analysis of study data. In the area of career preparation, Asilomar prompted participants to set personal and professional goals, encouraged and inspired them to prepare to take on leadership roles with increasing responsibility, and positively influenced participants\u27 emotional intelligence. In the area of career advancement, Asilomar provided executive leadership examples and experiences, afforded participants the opportunity to network with colleagues and executive leaders from other colleges, and increased participants\u27 confidence. In the area of career enhancement, Asilomar provided professional development and personal leadership capacity building and encouraged participants to seek work life balance. The aspects of Asilomar that were perceived as contributing the most to participant success were the executive leadership examples provided by the seminar leaders and the opportunity afforded to network with colleagues and executive leaders from other community colleges. The top five Asilomar topics that emerged from the data were budget and finance, leadership ethics, emotional intelligence, campus politics, and governance. Findings from the study support the following conclusions. Asilomar had a significantly positive impact on the career preparation, advancement, and enhancement of California community college women leaders who participated in the seminar from 2005-2011. Aspiring community college women executive leaders need and benefit from the opportunity to interact and learn from women executive leader role models and mentors in order to prepare for, advance, and enhance their professional careers. Women encouraging, supporting, and promoting other women in their career preparation, advancement, and enhancement is highly inspiring and motivating to aspiring community college leaders. Such interaction promotes professional ties, continued association with Asilomar, and results in new referrals for Asilomar participation

Non-Baryonic Dark Matter -- A Theoretical Perspective

I review axions, neutralinos, axinos, gravitinos and super-massive Wimpzillas as dark matter candidates.Comment: Invited review talk at COSMO-98, the Second International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe, Asilomar, USA, November 15-20, 199

Distributed Convergence Verification for Gaussian Belief Propagation

Gaussian belief propagation (BP) is a computationally efficient method to approximate the marginal distribution and has been widely used for inference with high dimensional data as well as distributed estimation in large-scale networks. However, the convergence of Gaussian BP is still an open issue. Though sufficient convergence conditions have been studied in the literature, verifying these conditions requires gathering all the information over the whole network, which defeats the main advantage of distributed computing by using Gaussian BP. In this paper, we propose a novel sufficient convergence condition for Gaussian BP that applies to both the pairwise linear Gaussian model and to Gaussian Markov random fields. We show analytically that this sufficient convergence condition can be easily verified in a distributed way that satisfies the network topology constraint.Comment: accepted by Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2017, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1706.0407

Lifetime Limit of LSP from Cosmological Light Elements

From the present cosmic abundance of the light elements, one can obtain a lifetime bounds of LSP. From the consideration of deuterium, we obtain $\tau_{\chi} \ge 10^6$ s.Comment: Latex file of 5 pages with two eps figures. Talk presented at cosmo-98, Asilomar, CA, Nov., 199

New and Improved Superstring Phenomenology

Recent developments in string theory have important implications for cosmology. Topics discussed here are inflation, the cosmological constant, smoothing of cosmological singularities, and dark matter from parallel universes. Talk presented at the International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe (COSMO-98), 15-20 Nov, Asilomar, Monterey, CA.Comment: 9 page