Bazarov’s Nihilism in Turgenev’s Fathers & Sons

The character of Bazarov in Turgenev¹s Fathers and Sons has a complicated relationship with Russia\u27s Nihilist movement. I present a history of the movement and compare three scholarly understandings of Bazarov\u27s peculiar nihilism. I claim that despite Bazarov¹s monumental importance for the Nihilist movement he fails to be a perfect Nihilist in many ways, and furthermore that it is precisely these imperfections that make Bazarov such an attractive and sympathetic character

Optomechanics

We review recent progress in the field of optomechanics, where one studies the effects of radiation on mechanical motion. The paradigmatic example is an optical cavity with a movable mirror, where the radiation pressure can induce cooling, amplification and nonlinear dynamics of the mirror.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Recent Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex System Physics', Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 200

Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in a Single-Electron Transistor

We study the influence of Coulomb interaction on the thermoelectric transport coefficients for a metallic single-electron transistor. By performing a perturbation expansion up to second order in the tunnel-barrier conductance, we include sequential and cotunneling processes as well as quantum fluctuations that renormalize the charging energy and the tunnel conductance. We find that Coulomb interaction leads to a strong violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law: the Lorenz ratio becomes gate-voltage dependent for sequential tunneling, and is increased by a factor 9/5 in the cotunneling regime. Finally, we suggest a measurement scheme for an experimental realization.Comment: published version, minor changes; 4 pages, 3 figure

SAM Format - Representation and Mapping of DNA Sequences

Cílem této bakalářské práce je implementace programu převádějícího již namapované sekvence DNA do formátu SAM. Na vstupu programu budou sekvence DNA s již přiřazenými souřadnicemi. Tyto sekvence budou zarovnány algoritmem Needleman-Wunsch a ke každé z těchto sekvencí budou doplněny povinné atributy definované ve specifikaci formátu Sam. Především CIGAR řetězec a následně kvalita mapování.The aim of this thesis is to implement a program that converts already mapped DNA sequences into SAM format. At the input of the program there will be DNA sequences with already assigned coordinates. These sequences will be aligned by Needleman-Wunsch algorithm and the mandatory attributes defined in the SAM format specification will be added to each of these sequences. Especially CIGAR string and consequently mapping quality.460 - Katedra informatikydobř