Or and Ames study Zeno equilibria in Lagrangian hybrid systems

Yizhar Or and Aaron D. Ames (2008) Stability of Zeno Equilibria in Lagrangian Hybrid Systems. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechCDSTR:2008.002]

Riccardo Schmid deposits his first published paper in CaltechAUTHORS

Riccardo Schmid, graduate student in physics, deposited his first published paper in CaltechAUTHORS.

R. Schmid, B. Plaster, and B. W. Filippone (2008) Motional spin relaxation in large electric fields. Physical Review A, 78(2) Art. No. 023401, 1 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Alvizio and Mayo optimize force fields in computional protein design

Oscar Alvizo and Stephen L. Mayo (2008) Evaluating and optimizing computational protein design force fields using fixed composition-based negative design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(34):12242-12247, 26 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Copyright © 2008 by the National Academy of Sciences. Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Preston McAfee's open source econ book -- front page, LA Times

R. Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management, is featured by the Los Angeles Times in a front page story today. Read this entry from January 2008 to learn more about McAfee's support of Make Textbooks Affordable and a more complete listing of universities and faculty who have adopted his book for classes.


McAfee, R. Preston (2005) Introduction to Economic Analysis. Self-Published, Pasadena, CA. ISBN 160049000X (Unpublished) http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:2005.002


Gale Holland, "Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California", Los Angeles Times, 18 August 2008.

CACR releases two new technical reports

After a hiatus, two new technical reports are available from CaltechCACR.

Jerome Darbon, Alexandre Cunha, Tony F. Chan, Stanley Osher and Grant J. Jensen (2008) Fast Nonlocal Filtering Applied to Electron Cryomicroscopy. In: 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 14-17 May, 2008, Paris, France. [CaltechCACR:2008.101]


Alexandre Cunha and Jerome Darbon (2008) Efficient and Robust Restoration of High Resolution MRI. In: Computational Bioimaging and Visualization, Joint 5th European Contress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering and World Congress on Computational Mechanics, June 30-July 5, 2008, Venice, Italy. [CaltechCACR:2008.102]