The progress of Celani's experiment replication project in China

Abstract only.Francesco Celani demonstrated his LENR device using H2 gas and a specially treated constantan wire during the NIWeek 2012 and ICCF-17, showing a peak excess heat power of about 20W at an input power of 48W. Since then, a replication of Celani's work has been launched through a project called MFMP (Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project) in an open method named "live open science" by the author. Thanks to the wire granted by Celani, a similar replication project is carried out at Delta Energy Technologies in China this year, aimed at observing significant amount of anomalous heat production as Celani did. The experiment setup is presented and the instruments are illustrated here. The methods of calorimeter are discussed and will be adopted in the experiment. The project progress is briefly introduced and the plan is shortly listed

A Novel Approach for Solving Semidefinite Programs

A novel linearizing alternating direction augmented Lagrangian approach is proposed for effectively solving semidefinite programs (SDP). For every iteration, by fixing the other variables, the proposed approach alternatively optimizes the dual variables and the dual slack variables; then the primal variables, that is, Lagrange multipliers, are updated. In addition, the proposed approach renews all the variables in closed forms without solving any system of linear equations. Global convergence of the proposed approach is proved under mild conditions, and two numerical problems are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented approach