Cheol Woong Kim, In Search of Freedom, An Evening of Music and Conversation, October 8, 2008

This is the concert program of the In Search of Freedom, An Evening of Music and Conversation performance on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 7:30 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. Posth by Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467 "Elvira Madigan" by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Chosun is One by Dong Choon Sung, Voices Yet Unheard by Sung Eun Han-Andersen, and Arirang Sonata and In Search of Freedom by Cheol Woong Kim. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

A Search for Higgs Boson in H→W+W−H\rightarrow W^+W^-

A search for the Higgs boson decaying to $W^+W^-$ has been performed on $1.1\:$fb$^{-1}$ of pp collision data at $\sqrt{s}=7\:$TeV collected with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector in 2011. No significant excess above Standard Model background expectation is observed, and upper limits on Higgs boson cross section production are derived, excluding the presence of a Higgs boson with mass in the range of $[150, 193]\:$GeV$/c^{2}$ at 95% confidence level.Comment: DPF 2011 Conference Proceeding

Online Feature Selection for Visual Tracking

Object tracking is one of the most important tasks in many applications of computer vision. Many tracking methods use a fixed set of features ignoring that appearance of a target object may change drastically due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The ability to dynamically identify discriminative features would help in handling the appearance variability by improving tracking performance. The contribution of this work is threefold. Firstly, this paper presents a collection of several modern feature selection approaches selected among filter, embedded, and wrapper methods. Secondly, we provide extensive tests regarding the classification task intended to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed methods with the goal to identify the right candidates for online tracking. Finally, we show how feature selection mechanisms can be successfully employed for ranking the features used by a tracking system, maintaining high frame rates. In particular, feature selection mounted on the Adaptive Color Tracking (ACT) system operates at over 110 FPS. This work demonstrates the importance of feature selection in online and realtime applications, resulted in what is clearly a very impressive performance, our solutions improve by 3% up to 7% the baseline ACT while providing superior results compared to 29 state-of-the-art tracking methods

My Lovely Susey Saul / words by Charlie C. Converse

Cover: As Sung at Christys American Opera House; Publisher: Horas Waters (New York)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sharris_a/1007/thumbnail.jp

Taming governance with legality? Critical reflections upon global administrative law as small-c global constitutionalism

The project of global administrative law has stood out from various efforts to tame global governance with the rule of law. By enhancing transparency and accountability, global administrative law is expected to improve the policy output of global administration, giving legitimacy to global governance. In this way, global administrative law evolves into a small-c global constitutionalism. In this paper, I trace the trajectory of global administrative law as small-c global constitutionalism and how the concept of legitimacy is recast in relation to global governance. I first point out that originally embedded in the practice of global governance, global administrative law effectively functions as the small-c constitutional law of global governance, echoing the trends toward constitutionalization. As it takes on constitutional character, however, global administrative law faces the challenges of legality and legitimacy. Turning away from state consent, global administrative law turns to the idea of publicness as solution to its double challenges. My inspection of the notion of publicness in global administrative law shows that the strategy of resting the legitimacy of global administrative law as small-c global constitutionalism on the idea of publicness turns out to be the privatization of legitimacy, suggesting a post-public concept of legitimacy. -- Das Projekt des globalen Verwaltungsrechts sticht unter vielen Versuchen Global Governance durch Rechtsstaatlichkeit im Zaum zu halten hervor. Durch die Erhöhung von Transparenz und Verantwortung, werden mit dem globalen Verwaltungsrecht Erwartungen bezüglich einer Verbesserung der politischen Leistung globaler Verwaltung verbunden, die Legitimität von Global Governance voraussetzt. In diesem Prozess entwickelt sich aus dem Verwaltungsrecht eine konservative globale Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeichnet den Wandel globalen Verwaltungsrechts in Form einer konservativen globalen Rechtsstaatlichkeit nach und eruiert Veränderungen des Legitimitätskonzeptes in Beziehung zu Global Governance. Zunächst hebe ich hervor, dass globales Verwaltungsrecht, ursprünglich in die Praktiken des Global Governance eingebettet, effektiv als konservatives Staatsrecht des Global Governance funktioniert und damit die Trends hin zu rechtsstaatlichen Strukturen spiegelt. Sobald globales Verwaltungsrecht rechtsstaatlichen Charakter annimmt, sieht es sich mit der Frage nach Legalität und Legitimität konfrontiert. Globales Verwaltungsrecht wendet sich von staatlicher Zustimmung hin zu der Idee von Öffentlichkeit als mögliche Lösung für die doppelte Herausforderung. Meine Analyse der Bedeutung von Öffentlichkeit für globales Verwaltungsrecht zeigt, dass die Strategie, die Legitimität des globalen Verwaltungsrechts in Form konservativer globaler Rechtsstaatlichkeit auf der Idee von Öffentlichkeit aufzubauen eine Privatisierung von Legitimität ist und ein post-öffentliches Konzept von Legitimität nahelegt.

Correlation ECE diagnostic in Alcator C-Mod

Correlation ECE (CECE) is a diagnostic technique that allows measurement of small amplitude electron temperature, T[subscript e], fluctuations through standard cross-correlation analysis methods. In Alcator C-Mod, a new CECE diagnostic has been installed[Sung RSI 2012], and interesting phenomena have been observed in various plasma conditions. We find that local T[subscript e] fluctuations near the edge (ρ ~ 0:8) decrease across the linearto- saturated ohmic confinement transition, with fluctuations decreasing with increasing plasma density[Sung NF 2013], which occurs simultaneously with rotation reversals[Rice NF 2011]. T[subscript e] fluctuations are also reduced across core rotation reversals with an increase of plasma density in RF heated L-mode plasmas, which implies that the same physics related to the reduction of T[subscript e] fluctuations may be applied to both ohmic and RF heated L-mode plasmas. In I-mode plasmas, we observe the reduction of core T[subscript e] fluctuations, which indicates changes of turbulence occur not only in the pedestal region but also in the core across the L/I transition[White NF 2014]. The present CECE diagnostic system in C-Mod and these experimental results are described in this paper

Anomalous microwave conductivity coherence peak in c-axis MgB2 thin film

The temperature dependence of the real part of the microwave complex conductivity at 17.9 GHz obtained from surface impedance measurements of two c-axis oriented MgB2 thin films reveals a pronounced maximum at a temperature around 0.6 times the critical temperature. Calculations in the frame of a two-band model based on Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory suggest that this maximum corresponds to an anomalous coherence peak resembling the two-gap nature of MgB2. Our model assumes there is no interband impurity scattering and a weak interband pairing interaction, as suggested by bandstructure calculations. In addition, the observation of a coherence peak indicates that the pi-band is in the dirty limit and dominates the total conductivity of our filmsComment: 10 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Let

Sparkling & Bright

[First Solo]Sparkling and bright, in liquid light,Does the wine our goblets gleam in,With hue as red, as the rosy bed, Which a bee would choose to dream in. [Refrain-sung twice in a row][Primo, Secondo, Bass]Then drink to the night with hearts as light,To love as gay and fleeting,As bubbles that swim, on the beaker\u27s brim,And break on the lips while meeting. [Second Solo]Oh! if mirth might arrest the flightOf time, through lifes dominions, We here awhile, would now beguileThe grey beard of his pinions.Then drink to night &c. [Refrain] [Third Solo]But since delight can\u27t stop the wight,Nor found regret delay him,Nor love himself, can hold the elfNor sober friendship stay him.Then drink to night &c. [Refrain