2014 Annual Report

In FY 2014 Chicago Foundation for Women granted out $2,113,731 to 99 organisations for 150 grants to support 3 issue areas: 24$24 million in grants

Simulation of rat head deceleration with EUROPLEXUS

This report presents some preliminary calculations for the simulation of rat, monkey and human head behaviour (in particular of the brain) under imposed deceleration conditions by the EUROPLEXUS code.JRC.E.4-Safety and Security of Building

Some results on reducibility of parabolic induction for classical groups

Given a (complex, smooth) irreducible representation $\pi$ of the general linear group over a non-archimedean local field and an irreducible supercuspidal representation $\sigma$ of a classical group, we show that the (normalized) parabolic induction $\pi\rtimes\sigma$ is reducible if there exists $\rho$ in the supercuspidal support of $\pi$ such that $\rho\rtimes\sigma$ is reducible. In special cases we also give irreducibility criteria for $\pi\rtimes\sigma$ when the above condition is not satisfied

Correction factors for on-line microprobe analysis of multielement alloy systems

An on-line correction technique was developed for the conversion of electron probe X-ray intensities into concentrations of emitting elements. This technique consisted of off-line calculation and representation of binary interaction data which were read into an on-line minicomputer to calculate variable correction coefficients. These coefficients were used to correct the X-ray data without significantly increasing computer core requirements. The binary interaction data were obtained by running Colby's MAGIC 4 program in the reverse mode. The data for each binary interaction were represented by polynomial coefficients obtained by least-squares fitting a third-order polynomial. Polynomial coefficients were generated for most of the common binary interactions at different accelerating potentials and are included. Results are presented for the analyses of several alloy standards to demonstrate the applicability of this correction procedure

A CAD Tool for an Array of Differential Oscillators Coupled Through a Broadband Network

International audienceA new expression of the equations describing the locked states of two oscillators coupled through a resistor is presented in this article. This theory has led to the elaboration of a CAD tool which provides, in a short simulation time, the frequency locking region of two coupled differential oscillator