Nuclear Partition Functions at Temperatures Exceeding 10^10 K

Nuclear partition functions were calculated for a grid of temperatures from 1.2x10^10 K to 2.75x10^11 K (1<=kT<=24 MeV) within a Fermi-gas approach, including all nuclides from the proton-dripline to the neutron-dripline with proton number 9<=Z<=85. The calculation is based on a nuclear level density description published elsewhere, thus extending the previous tables of partition functions beyond 10^10 K. Additional high temperature corrections had to be applied.Comment: 12 pages with 2 figures, accepted by Ap. J. Suppl.; additional material can be downloaded from http://ftp.nucastro.org/astro/fits/partfuncs

High-throughput, big data and complexity in clinical proteomics: an interview with Jasminka Godovac-Zimmermann

Interview with Professor Jasminka Godovac-Zimmermann, PhD by Claire Raison (Commissioning Editor) Professor Jasminka Godovac-Zimmermann is Head of the Proteomics and Molecular Cell Dynamics Group at University College London, UK. Professor Godovac-Zimmermann trained at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany, and specialized in protein chemistry. Her research focuses on proteomics in cancer and systems biology. Here she talks about the clinical impact of her work and her hopes and predictions for how proteomics and diagnostics could work together in future

An O(M(n) log n) algorithm for the Jacobi symbol

The best known algorithm to compute the Jacobi symbol of two n-bit integers runs in time O(M(n) log n), using Sch\"onhage's fast continued fraction algorithm combined with an identity due to Gauss. We give a different O(M(n) log n) algorithm based on the binary recursive gcd algorithm of Stehl\'e and Zimmermann. Our implementation - which to our knowledge is the first to run in time O(M(n) log n) - is faster than GMP's quadratic implementation for inputs larger than about 10000 decimal digits.Comment: Submitted to ANTS IX (Nancy, July 2010