On the detection of relativistic magnetic monopoles by deep underwater and underice neutrino telescopes

I present here some reflections and very speculative remarks on the detection of relativistic magnetic monopoles by currently operating deep underwater/ice neutrino telescopes.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop RICH200

The GNSS-R Eddy Experiment II: L-band and Optical Speculometry for Directional Sea-Roughness Retrieval from Low Altitude Aircraft

We report on the retrieval of directional sea-roughness (the full directional mean square slope, including MSS, direction and isotropy) through inversion of Global Navigation Satellite System Reflections (GNSS-R) and SOlar REflectance Speculometry (SORES)data collected during an experimental flight at 1000 m. The emphasis is on the utilization of the entire Delay-Doppler Map (for GNSS-R) or Tilt Azimuth Map (for SORES) in order to infer these directional parameters. Obtained estimations are analyzed and compared to Jason-1 measurements and the ECMWF numerical weather model.Comment: Proceedings from the 2003 Workshop on Oceanography with GNSS Reflections, Barcelona, Spain, 200

ALEA III: Composers' Workshop, March 13, 2006

This is the concert program of the ALEA III: Composers' Workshop performance on Monday, March 13, 2006 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were "trouble and Desire" by Missy Mazzoli, "Mass Pike" by Liza Jane White, "Waves of Oaxaca: Reflections on Luis Pagan" by A. Green, "Reflections" by Özkan Manav, "Tra" by Davide Ianni, "Nine Eleven" by Sarah Macarah, "Dance Profane" by Brett Keüper Abigaña, and "Illustration" by Manos Panayiotakis. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Designing new socio-economic imaginaries

This short paper recovers the term ‘imaginaries’ which is often used in the social sciences to describe a meaning system that frames individuals lived experience of an inordinately complex world. The paper goes on to reflect on the extent to which design has the capability to disrupt imaginaries through the development of products in order for people to construct new ones, or whether the discipline is perpetuating old models of the world. The paper uses a workshop method to explore socioeconomic models in order to better balance the multiple imaginaries that participants hold with the opportunity to design disruptive and critical propositions. Reflections upon the workshop and the concept of imaginaries allows the authors to identify a challenge for design in which it must accept its role as mediator and exacerbator. <br/

The Internet post-Dubai

Jonathan Liebenau participated at a high-level workshop in Rome on 8 March hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Alleanza per Internet. Read Jonathan Liebenau‘s reflections on the workshop and his own contributions to the debate

Faculty COVID-19 Reflection 5

As part of its documentation for Spring 2020 Faculty Development Workshop attendance, Faculty Commons requested that attendees share their reflections on the workshop content. Faculty were also asked to document the impact that COVID-19 and the switch to online instruction has had on their teaching and professional duties during the Spring 2020 semester

Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov-like state in Ferromagnet-Superconductor Proximity System

We discuss some properties of the ferromagnet-superconductor proximity system. In particular, the emphasis is put on the physics of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) like state. In addition to Andreev reflections it features a number of unusual thermodynamic and transport properties, like: oscillatory behavior of the pairing amplitude, density of states and superconducting transition temperature as a function of the ferromagnet thickness. Surprisingly, under certain conditions spontaneous spin polarized current is generated in the ground state of such a system. We provide some informations regarding experimental observations of this exotic state.Comment: Talk given at Advanced Research Workshop on ''Physics of Spin in Solids: Materials, Methods & Applications'', Baku (October 2003

Faculty COVID-19 Reflection 1

As part of its documentation for Spring 2020 Faculty Development Workshop attendance, Faculty Commons requested that attendees share their reflections on the workshop content. Faculty were also asked to document the impact that COVID-19 and the switch to online instruction has had on their teaching and professional duties during the Spring 2020 semester