Open Access Authoring @ Caltech

Open Access Authoring & Caltech to close up shop

2009-06-01T11:46:00.000-07:00

This blog, which has existed since 2005, will no longer be updated. The OA focus of Caltech Library Services has led us to replace it with an RSS feed from CaltechAUTHORS, our digital repository of Caltech-authored research some of which is Open Access. Visit us at http://authors.library.caltech.edu/ to keep up with CIT's publishing.

Dr. Stuart Shieber, Director of Harvard's Office of Scholarly Communication, addresses Caltech campus

2009-04-15T16:14:00.000-07:00

In February 2008, the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences unanimously approved a policy stating that faculty members grant to Harvard permission to make their articles freely available to the public. Harvard thereby became the first U.S. university to explicitly establish an open access policy for the publications of its faculty. As Director of the new Office of Scholarly Communication, Stuart Shieber is charged with administering the policy and other programs to provide the broadest possible access to the scholarly output of the university. Dr. Shieber came to Caltech on March 26^th to discuss the background to the Harvard faculty motion and its implementation, as well as other initiatives to foster change in the scholarly publishing system. His talk was videotaped by Caltech Digital Media Services and can be accessed through its catalog or through a direct link here.

Muno et al. demonstrate a correlation between SiO and X-rays in the Galactic Center

2009-02-12T10:39:00.000-08:00

M. A. Amo-Baladrón, J. Martín-Pintado, M. R. Morris, M. P. Muno and N. J. Rodríguez-Fernández. (2008) Correlation between SiO and X-ray emission in the Galactic Center. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 131: 012017. CaltechAUTHORS

Smolke lab explores RNAi programmable control of gene expression

2009-02-09T13:50:00.000-08:00

Chase L Beisel, Travis S Bayer, Kevin G Hoff, and Christina D Smolke. (2008) Model-guided design of ligand-regulated RNAi for programmable control of gene expression. Molecular Systems Biology, 4:224, 28 October 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

R. Preston McAfee named SPARC Innovator

2009-01-21T13:42:00.000-08:00

R. Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics and Management, has been named the newest SPARC innovator for his pioneering contributions to the Open Educational Resources movement and passionate advocacy for Open Access. In 2006, McAfee was the first to publish a complete textbook, Introduction to Economic Analysis, and make it openly available online as well as in CaltechBOOK, one of the constituent repositories in Caltech CODA (Collection of Open Digital Archives).

SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.

Zhong and Sternberg map genetic interactions of A. suum to C. Elegans

2009-01-15T16:04:00.000-08:00

Cui-Qin Huang, Robin B. Gasser, Cinzia Cantacessi, Alasdair J. Nisbet, Weiwei Zhong, Paul W. Sternberg, Alex Loukas, Jason Mulvenna, Rui-Qing Lin, Ning Chen, and Xing-Quan Zhu (2008) Genomic-Bioinformatic Analysis of Transcripts Enriched in the Third-Stage Larva of the Parasitic Nematode Ascaris suum. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2(6):e246. CaltechAUTHORS

Sakura Schäfer-Nameki explores finite size effect in planar AdS/CFT

2008-12-11T20:46:00.000-08:00

Nikolay Gromov, Sakura Schäfer-Nameki and Pedro Vieira (2008) Efficient precision quantization in AdS/CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 12(2008)013. CaltechAUTHORS

Vijay Chickarmane models generation of stem cells from differentiated cells

2008-12-11T11:04:00.000-08:00

Vijay Chickarmane and Carsten Peterson (2008) A Computational Model for Understanding Stem Cell, Trophectoderm and Endoderm Lineage Determination. PLoS ONE, 3 (10):e3478, 22 October 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

MALN: Unique Caltech series on Africa now in CODA

2008-11-06T17:32:00.000-08:00

Munger African Library Notes is a unique series of monographs, published at Caltech in the 1970's and '80's under the editorship of Prof. Edwin S. Munger, Professor of Political Geography. The subjects range widely through politics, history, literature, and the arts. This valuable contribution to African studies, 73 issues, is now available in CaltechMALN.

Matthew Shum contributes thesis to CaltechAUTHORS

2008-11-06T16:58:00.000-08:00

Matthew Shum, welcomed in September 2008 as Caltech Professor of Economics, has contributed his Stanford PhD thesis, Three essays in empirical industrial organization, to CaltechAUTHORS.

Adam Wierman deposits PhD thesis; honored by INFORMS

2008-11-05T15:52:00.000-08:00

Adam Wierman, assistant professor of Computer Science, was recognized by INFORMS for his thesis in telecommunications operations research.

Adam Wierman (2007) Scheduling for today’s computer systems: bridging theory and practice. PhD thesis, Carnegie Mellon University. CaltechAUTHORS

Wennberg and Crounse synthesize N.A. TOOC

2008-11-05T11:39:00.000-08:00

C. L. Heald, A. H. Goldstein, J. D. Allan, A. C. Aiken, E. Apel, E. L. Atlas, A. K. Baker, T. S. Bates, A. J. Beyersdorf, D. R. Blake, T. Campos, H. Coe, J. D. Crounse, P. F. DeCarlo, J. A. de Gouw, E. J. Dunlea, F. M. Flocke, A. Fried, P. Goldan, R. J. Griffin, S. C. Herndon, J. S. Holloway, R. Holzinger, J. L. Jimenez, W. Junkermann, W. C. Kuster, A. C. Lewis, S. Meinardi, D. B. Millet, T. Onasch, A. Polidori, P. K. Quinn, D. D. Riemer, J. M. Roberts, D. Salcedo, B. Sive, A. L. Swanson, R. Talbot, C. Warneke, R. J. Weber, P. Weibring, P. O. Wennberg, D. R. Worsnop, A. E. Wittig, R. Zhang, J. Zheng, and W. Zheng (2008) Total observed organic carbon (TOOC) in the atmosphere: a synthesis of North American observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8 (7):2007-2025, 8 April 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

C. L. Heald, A. H. Goldstein, J. D. Allan, A. C. Aiken, E. Apel, E. L. Atlas, A. K. Baker, T. S. Bates, A. J. Beyersdorf, D. R. Blake, T. Campos, H. Coe, J. D. Crounse, P. F. DeCarlo, J. A. de Gouw, E. J. Dunlea, F. M. Flocke, A. Fried, P. Goldan, R. J. Griffin, S. C. Herndon, J. S. Holloway, R. Holzinger, J. L. Jimenez, W. Junkermann, W. C. Kuster, A. C. Lewis, S. Meinardi, D. B. Millet, T. Onasch, A. Polidori, P. K. Quinn, D. D. Riemer, J. M. Roberts, D. Salcedo, B. Sive, A. L. Swanson, R. Talbot, C. Warneke, R. J. Weber, P. Weibring, P. O. Wennberg, D. R. Worsnop, A. E. Wittig, R. Zhang, J. Zheng, and W. Zheng (2007) Total observed organic carbon (TOOC) in the atmosphere: a synthesis of North American observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7(6):17825-17871, 13 December 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Bhattacharya models myofibril behavior

2008-11-04T09:36:00.000-08:00

Sefi Givli and Kaushik Bhattacharya (2008) A coarse-grained model of the myofibril: overall dynamics and the evolution of sarcomere non-uniformities. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. CaltechSOLIDS:2008.002

Hallem and Sternberg discover CO2 avoidance behavior in C. elegans

2008-11-03T13:49:00.000-08:00

Elissa A. Hallem and Paul W. Sternberg (2008) Acute carbon dioxide avoidance in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(23):8038-8043, 10 June 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Seinfeld refines model of aerosol absorption effects

2008-11-03T13:40:00.000-08:00

P. Stier, J. H. Seinfeld, S. Kinne, and O. Boucher (2007) Aerosol absorption and radiative forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7(19):5237-5261, 10 October 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

P. Stier, J. H. Seinfeld, S. Kinne, and O. Boucher (2007) Aerosol absorption and radiative forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7(3):7171-7233, 30 May 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Klaus Pontoppidan uses high-angular resolution IR to study protoplanetary disk evolution

2008-10-29T23:52:00.000-07:00

Cornells Dullemond, Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov, Daniel Apai and Klaus Pontoppidan (2008) Structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 131:012018. CaltechAUTHORS

Shimojo lab finds role for sleep in motor learning

2008-10-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

Bhavin R. Sheth, Davit Janvelyan, and Murtuza Khan (2008) Practice Makes Imperfect: Restorative Effects of Sleep on Motor Learning. PLoS ONE, 3(9):e3190, 12 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Alex Lin develops technique for cardiac MRI without breath-holding

2008-10-28T09:13:00.000-07:00

Yuan Le, Peter Kellman, Eric E. Bennett, Alex Lin, Christophe Chefd'Hotel, Christine H. Lorenz and Han Wen (2008) 1082 Free-breathing single-shot DENSE myocardial strain imaging using deformable registration. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 10 (Supplement 1):A207. CaltechAUTHORS

Elisabeth Wang develops shRNA library for RNAi

2008-10-24T08:25:00.000-07:00

Yongping Wang, Yun E. Wang, M. Grazia Cotticelli, and Robert B. Wilson (2008) A Random shRNA-Encoding Library for Phenotypic Selection and Hit-Optimization. PLoS ONE, 3(9):e3171, 9 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Wongpiromsarn, Murray, and Lamperski verify ALICE's control system

2008-10-23T08:42:00.000-07:00

Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, Sayan Mitra, Richard M. Murray, and Andrew Lamperski (2008) Periodically Controlled Hybrid Systems: Verifying A Controller for An Autonomous Vehicle. Control and Dynamical Systems Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechCDSTR:2008.003]

Sally Ng et al. study isoprene/NO3 contribution to SOA

2008-10-21T11:02:00.000-07:00

N. L. Ng, A. J. Kwan, J. D. Surratt, A. W. H. Chan, P. S. Chhabra, A. Sorooshian, H. O. T. Pye, J. D. Crounse, P. O. Wennberg, R. C. Flagan, and J. H. Seinfeld (2008) Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from reaction of isoprene with nitrate radicals (NO3). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8(14):4117-4140, 1 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

N. L. Ng, A. J. Kwan, J. D. Surratt, A. W. H. Chan, P. S. Chhabra, A. Sorooshian, H. O. T. Pye, J. D. Crounse, P. O. Wennberg, R. C. Flagan, and J. H. Seinfeld (2008) Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from reaction of isoprene with nitrate radicals (NO3). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 8(1):3163-3226, 15 February 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

© Author(s) 2008. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Paul Sternberg -- first study of RIO kinases in parasites

2008-10-20T08:51:00.000-07:00

Min Hu, Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc, Paul W Sternberg and Robin B Gasser (2008) Tv-RIO1 – an atypical protein kinase from the parasitic nematode Trichostrongylus vitrinus. Parasites and Vectors, 1(34), 22 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Fraser Moss investigates γ7 interactions with mRNA

2008-10-19T22:24:00.000-07:00

Laurent Ferron, Anthony Davies, Karen M. Page, David J. Cox, Jerôme Leroy, Dominic Waithe, Adrian J. Butcher, Priya Sellaturay, Steven Bolsover, Wendy S. Pratt, Fraser J. Moss, and Annette C. Dolphin (2008) The Stargazin-Related Protein γ7 Interacts with the mRNA-Binding Protein Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein A2 and Regulates the Stability of Specific mRNAs, Including CaV2.2. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(42):10604-10617, 15 October 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

This article is freely available online through the Journal of Neuroscience Open Choice option.

Steffen Brinckmann offers a crack initiation model with roughness and dislocation plasticity

2008-10-16T10:54:00.000-07:00

Steffen Brinckmann and Erik Van der Giessen (2007) A fatigue crack initiation model incorporating discrete dislocation plasticity and surface roughness. International Journal of Fracture, 148(2):155-167. CaltechAUTHORS

© Springer Science+Business Media 2007. Distributed under a Springer Open Choice License (compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Licence).

Przybylowski and Silva analyze miniature ion thrusters

2008-10-16T09:00:00.000-07:00

Richard Wirz, Regina Sullivan, Johanna Przybylowski, and Mike Silva (2008) Hollow Cathode and Low-Thrust Extraction Grid Analysis for a Miniature Ion Thruster. International Journal of Plasma Science and Engineering, 2008(Q2):693825, 23 June 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Antonio Rangel on the effects of visual attention on decision making

2008-10-14T11:28:00.000-07:00

K. Carrie Armel, Aurelie Beaumel, and Antonio Rangel (2008) Biasing simple choices by manipulating relative visual attention. Judgment and Decision Making, 3(5): 396-403, June 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Ryota Kanai examines role of previous exposure to resolution of ambiguous visual cues

2008-10-07T19:57:00.000-07:00

Jan W. Brascamp, Tomas H. J. Knapen, Ryota Kanai, André J. Noest, Raymond van Ee, and Albert V. van den Berg (2008) Multi-Timescale Perceptual History Resolves Visual Ambiguity. PLoS ONE 3(1):e1497. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001497. CaltechAUTHORS

Bronner-Fraser, Yu, and Sauka-Spengler contribute to amphioxus genome

2008-10-06T13:08:00.000-07:00

Putnam et al. (2008) The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype. Nature, 453(7198):1064-1072, 19 June 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Jr-Kai Yu, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, and Marianne Bronner-Fraser were among the 37 co-authors of this Nature paper describing the amphioxus genome.

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike licence, which permits distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This licence does not permit commercial exploitation, and derivative works must be licensed under the same or similar licence.

Bronner-Fraser studies placode evolution through SoxB

2008-10-06T13:01:00.000-07:00

Daniel Meulemans and Marianne Bronner-Fraser (2007) The Amphioxus SoxB Family: Implications for the Evolution of Vertebrate Placodes. International Journal of Biosciences, 3(6):356-364. CaltechAUTHORS

Tatjana Sauka-Spengler -- 2 articles in PLoS ONE

2008-10-06T12:40:00.000-07:00

Marion Coolen, Delphine Nicolle, Jean-Louis Plouhinec, Aurélie Gombault, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Arnaud Menuet, Claude Pieau, and Sylvie Mazan (2008) Molecular Characterization of the Gastrula in the Turtle Emys orbicularis: An Evolutionary Perspective on Gastrulation. PLoS ONE, 3(7):e2676. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002676. CaltechAUTHORS

Marion Coolen, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Delphine Nicolle, Chantal Le-Mentec, Yvan Lallemand, Corinne Da Silva, Jean-Louis Plouhinec, Benoît Robert, Patrick Wincker, De-Li Shi, and Sylvie Mazan (2007) Evolution of Axis Specification Mechanisms in Jawed Vertebrates: Insights from a Chondrichthyan. PLoS ONE 2(4):e374. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000374. CaltechAUTHORS

Tal Arnon studies soluble NCR-Ig fusion proteins

2008-10-06T11:10:00.000-07:00

Tal I. Arnon, Gal Markel, Ahuva Bar-Ilan, Jacob Hanna, Eyal Fima, Fabrice Benchetrit, Ruth Galili, Adelheid Cerwenka, Daniel Benharroch, Netta Sion-Vardy, Angel Porgador, and Ofer Mandelboim (2008) Harnessing Soluble NK Cell Killer Receptors for the Generation of Novel Cancer Immune Therapy. PLoS ONE, 3(5):e2150. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002150. CaltechAUTHORS

Yanbei Chen traps cavity mirror with radiation pressure

2008-10-06T10:54:00.000-07:00

Christopher Wipf, Thomas Corbitt, Yanbei Chen and Nergis Mavalvala (2008) Route to ponderomotive entanglement of light via optically trapped mirrors. New Journal of Physics, 10(9):095017. CaltechAUTHORS

Wulf Habensak observes basal progenitor cortical neurogenesis

2008-10-06T10:47:00.000-07:00

Alessio Attardo, Federico Calegari, Wulf Haubensak, Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger, and Wieland B. Huttner (2008) Live Imaging at the Onset of Cortical Neurogenesis Reveals Differential Appearance of the Neuronal Phenotype in Apical versus Basal Progenitor Progeny. PLoS ONE 3(6):e2388. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002388. CaltechAUTHORS

Andersen lab -- 2 papers in PLoS ONE

2008-10-06T10:31:00.000-07:00

Michael Roberts, Aleksey V. Zimin, Wayne Hayes, Brian R. Hunt, Cevat Ustun, James R. White, Paul Havlak, and James Yorke. Improving Phrap-Based Assembly of the Rat Using “Reliable” Overlaps. PLoS ONE 3(3):e1836. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001836. CaltechAUTHORS

Chess Stetson, Matthew P. Fiesta, and David M. Eagleman (2007) Does Time Really Slow Down during a Frightening Event? PLoS ONE 2(12):e1295. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001295. CaltechAUTHORS

Andrew Straw examines contrast sensitivity of insect motion detectors

2008-10-06T10:22:00.000-07:00

Andrew D. Straw, Tamath Rainsford, & David C. O'Carroll (2008). Contrast sensitivity of insect motion detectors to natural images. Journal of Vision, 8(3):32, 1-9, doi:10.1167/8.3.32. CaltechAUTHORS

Shimojo reports anti-McCollough effect

2008-10-06T09:59:00.000-07:00

Bhavin R. Sheth & Shinsuke Shimojo (2008). Adapting to an aftereffect. Journal of Vision, 8(3):29, 1–10, doi:10.1167/8.3.29. CaltechAUTHORS

Rutishauser and Schuman find MTL neuronal spikes in recollection

2008-10-02T23:31:00.000-07:00

Ueli Rutishauser, Erin M. Schuman, and Adam N. Mamelak (2008) Activity of human hippocampal and amygdala neurons during retrieval of declarative memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(1):329-334, 8 January 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Yang lab applies FZP projection to OFM

2008-10-01T20:44:00.000-07:00

Jigang Wu, Xiquan Cui, Lap Man Lee, and Changhuei Yang (2008) The application of Fresnel zone plate based projection in optofluidic microscopy. Optics Express, 16(20):15595-15602, 29 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Migeul Bandres et al. use LCD to generate accelerating parabolic beams

2008-10-01T20:33:00.000-07:00

Jeffrey A. Davis, Mark J. Mitry, Miguel A. Bandres, and Don M. Cottrell (2008) Observation of accelerating parabolic beams. Optics Express, 16(17):12866-12871, 18 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Zhang and Wocjan examine implications of energy-measurement in quantum computation

2008-10-01T16:37:00.000-07:00

Dominik Janzing, Pawel Wocjan and Shengyu Zhang (2008) A single-shot measurement of the energy of product states in a translation invariant spin chain can replace any quantum computation. New Journal of Physics, 10(9):093004, 5 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Bronner-Fraser investigates evolutionary origins of vertebrate cartilage

2008-10-01T16:17:00.000-07:00

Daniel Meulemans and Marianne Bronner-Fraser (2007) Insights from Amphioxus into the Evolution of Vertebrate Cartilage. PLoS ONE 2(8):e787. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000787. CaltechAUTHORS

Koch lab -- 3 articles in Journal of Vision

2008-10-01T15:56:00.000-07:00

Ueli Rutishauser and Christof Koch (2007). Probabilistic modeling of eye movement data during conjunction search via feature-based attention. Journal of Vision, 7(6):5, 1–20, http://journalofvision.org/7/6/5/, doi:10.1167/7.6.5. CaltechAUTHORS. Deposited by Ueli Rutishauser.

Lavanya Reddy and Rufin VanRullen (2007). Spacing affects some but not all visual searches: Implications for theories of attention and crowding. Journal of Vision, 7(2):3, 1-17, http://journalofvision.org/7/2/3/, doi:10.1167/7.2.3. CaltechAUTHORS

Naotsugu Tsuchiya and Jochen Braun (2007). Contrast thresholds for component motion with full and poor attention. Journal of Vision, 7(3):1, 1-15, http://journalofvision.org/7/3/1/, doi:10.1167/7.3.1. CaltechAUTHORS

Shimojo et al. -- 3 articles in PLoS ONE

2008-10-01T14:36:00.000-07:00

Virginie van Wassenhove, Dean V. Buonomano, Shinsuke Shimojo, and Ladan Shams (2008) Distortions of Subjective Time Perception Within and Across Senses. PLoS ONE 3(1):e1437. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001437. CaltechAUTHORS

Fumiko Hoeft, Daw-An Wu, Arvel Hernandez, Gary H. Glover, and Shinsuke Shimojo (2008) Electronically Switchable Sham Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) System. PLoS ONE 3(4):e1923. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001923.
CaltechAUTHORS

Ryota Kanai, Bhavin R. Sheth, Frans A. J. Verstraten, and Shinsuke Shimojo (2007) Dynamic Perceptual Changes in Audiovisual Simultaneity. PLoS ONE 2(12):e1253. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001253. CaltechAUTHORS

Hoffmann uses FTIR to study TiO2-catalyzed gas-phase photodegradation

2008-10-01T13:27:00.000-07:00

William Balcerski, Su Young Ryu, and Michael R. Hoffmann (2008) Gas-Phase Photodegradation of Decane and Methanol on TiO2: Dynamic Surface Chemistry Characterized by Diffuse Reflectance FTIR. International Journal of Photoenergy, 2008 (Special issue 2). Article ID 964721. CaltechAUTHORS

Sun & Yariv analyze modal properties of chirped circular grating lasers

2008-10-01T11:45:00.000-07:00

Xiankai Sun and Amnon Yariv (2008) Surface-emitting circular DFB, disk- and ring- Bragg resonator lasers with chirped gratings: a unified theory and comparative study. Optics Express, 16(12):9155-9164, 9 June 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Atwater lab -- surface plasmon polaritons affect subwavelength transmission through hole arrays

2008-10-01T11:35:00.000-07:00

Domenico Pacifici, Henri J. Lezec, Luke A. Sweatlock, Robert J. Walters, and Harry A. Atwater (2008) Universal optical transmission features in periodic and quasiperiodic hole arrays. Optics Express, 16(12):9222-9238, 9 June 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

McDowell & Yang et al. -- 2 articles exploring noise in optical signals

2008-10-01T11:04:00.000-07:00

Emily J. McDowell, Jian Ren, and Changhuei Yang (2008) Fundamental sensitivity limit imposed by dark 1/f noise in the low optical signal detection regime. Optics Express, 16(10):6822-6832, 12 May 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Emily J. McDowell, Marinko V. Sarunic, Zahid Yaqoob, and Changhuei Yang (2007) SNR enhancement through phase dependent signal reconstruction algorithms for phase separated interferometric signals. Optics Express, 15(16):10103-10122, 6 August 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Lin et al. (Painter lab) -- 2 papers on tuning optical microresonators

2008-10-01T10:46:00.000-07:00

Q. Lin, T. J. Johnson, C. P. Michael, and O. Painter (2008) Adiabatic self-tuning in a silicon microdisk optical resonator. Optics Express, 16(19):14801-14811, 15 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Q. Lin, T. J. Johnson, R. Perahia, C. P. Michael, and O. J. Painter (2008) A proposal for highly tunable optical parametric oscillation in silicon micro-resonators. Optics Express, 16(14):10596-10610, 7 July 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Cook, Soloveichik, Winfree & Bruck et al. study programmability of Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks

2008-10-01T10:24:00.000-07:00

Matthew Cook, David Soloveichik, Erik Winfree, and Jehoshua Bruck (2008) Programmability of Chemical Reaction Networks. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2008.ETR090]

Borodin models interacting particles on 1-D lattice

2008-10-01T10:08:00.000-07:00

Alexei Borodin and Patrik L. Ferrari (2008) Large time asymptotics of growth models on space-like paths I: PushASEP. Electronic Journal of Probability, 13(50):1380-1418, 25 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Pietro Perona -- Action Editor for JMLR

2008-10-01T09:43:00.000-07:00

Pietro Perona is an Action Editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). Perona is the Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems and Director of the Caltech's Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering, an NSF-sponsored engineering research center.

JMLR is an Open Access journal, hosted by MIT Press. The journal was started in the wake of the mass resignation of 40 members of the editorial board of Machine Learning.

Zewail lab studies transformations of aqua cobalt (II) complexes

2008-09-19T17:14:00.000-07:00

Hairong Ma, Chaozhi Wan, and Ahmed H. Zewail (2008) Dynamics of ligand substitution in labile cobalt complexes resolved by ultrafast T-jump. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(35):12754-12757, 2 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS.

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Blogosphere comments on McAfee and open access textbooks

2008-09-17T15:46:00.000-07:00

Recent newspaper articles have drawn attention to R. Preston McAfee's free online textbook and started conversations on many blogs. Follow some of the discussions at Techdirt ("If You're Looking To Learn Basic Economics, Here's A Free Textbook") and Consumerist ("Economics Professor Self-Publishes Textbook To Subvert Overpriced Publishing Industry").

Find the book at:
McAfee, R. Preston (2005) Introduction to Economic Analysis. ISBN 160049000X. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:2005.002

Preston McAfee on textbook publishing

2008-09-17T09:28:00.000-07:00

R. Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management, comments on the similarities between textbook publishers and drug makers in "Don't Buy That Textbook, Download It Free," an article in the September 14th issue of The New York Times.

McAfee, R. Preston (2005) Introduction to Economic Analysis. ISBN 160049000X. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:2005.002

Jiji Zhang applies do-calculus to ancestral graphs

2008-09-16T23:19:00.000-07:00

Jiji Zhang (2008) Causal Reasoning with Ancestral Graphs. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9:1437-1474. CaltechAUTHORS

Torres examines inherent learning on multiple space-time length scales

2008-09-16T21:06:00.000-07:00

Kanuresh Ganguly, Elizabeth B Torres, Jorge V José, and Jose M Carmena (2008) From multiple neural cortical networks to motor mechanical behavior: the importance of inherent learning over separable space-time length scales. BMC Neuroscience, 9(Supplement 1):P70, 11 July 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Locke finds design principles of circadian clock

2008-09-16T20:58:00.000-07:00

James CW Locke, Pål O Westermark, Achim Kramer, and Hanspeter Herzel (2008) Global parameter search reveals design principles of the mammalian circadian clock. BMC Systems Biology, 2(22), 29 February 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

© 2008 Locke et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Deshaies and Verma expore ubiquitin-proteosome pathway

2008-09-16T20:47:00.000-07:00

Amanda M Goh, Kylie J Walters, Suzanne Elsasser, Rati Verma, Raymond J Deshaies, Daniel Finley, and Peter M Howley (2008) Components of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway compete for surfaces on Rad23 family proteins. BMC Biochemistry, 9(4), 30 January 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

© 2008 Goh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Finoa Cowie -- Innateness and Language, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

2008-09-14T19:16:00.000-07:00

Fiona Cowie contributed a chapter, Innateness and Language, to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Wilhelm and Bruck issue new PARADISE report on stochastic switching circuits

2008-09-12T11:15:00.000-07:00

Daniel Wilhelm and Jehoshua Bruck (2008) Stochastic Switching Circuit Synthesis. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2008.ETR089]

Xiquan Cui et al. develop high-res optofluidic microscope-on-a-chip

2008-09-11T10:51:00.000-07:00

Xiquan Cui, Lap Man Lee, Xin Heng, Weiwei Zhong, Paul W. Sternberg, Demetri Psaltis, and Changhuei Yang. (2008) Lensless high-resolution on-chip optofluidic microscopes for Caenorhabditis elegans and cell imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(31):10670-10675, 5 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS.

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Brett Barwick describes ponderomotive Aharanov-Bohm effect

2008-09-09T10:59:00.000-07:00

B. Barwick and H. Batelaan (2008) Aharonov–Bohm phase shifts induced by laser pulses. New Journal of Physics, 10(8):083036. 26 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

PARADISE group releases new technical report

2008-09-08T10:42:00.000-07:00

Yuval Cassuto, Moshe Schwartz, Vasken Bohossian, and Jehoshua Bruck (2008) Codes for Asymmetric Limited-Magnitude Errors with Application to Multi-Level Flash Memories. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2008.ETR088]

Or and Ames study Zeno equilibria in Lagrangian hybrid systems

2008-08-30T17:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-28T13:39:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-27T12:39:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-18T13:15:00.000-07:00

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

2008-08-01T10:56:00.000-07:00

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]

Hering lab creates gel probe equilibrium sampler for As measurements

2008-07-25T10:53:00.000-07:00

Kate M. Campbell, Robert Root, Peggy A. O’Day, and Janet G. Hering (2008) A Gel Probe Equilibrium Sampler for Measuring Arsenic Porewater Profiles and Sorption Gradients in Sediments: I. Laboratory Development. Environmental Science and Technology, 42(2):497-503, 15 January 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Kate M. Campbell, Robert Root, Peggy A. O’Day, and Janet G. Hering (2008) A Gel Probe Equilibrium Sampler for Measuring Arsenic Porewater Profiles and Sorption Gradients in Sediments: II. Field Application to Haiwee Reservoir Sediment. Environmental Science and Technology, 42(2):504-510, 15 January 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Available through the ACS AuthorChoice program.

Flach and Burns prove the equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture for another case

2008-07-25T09:40:00.000-07:00

David Burns and Matthias Flach (2006) On the Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture for Tate Motives, Part II. Documenta Mathematica, Extra Volume: John H. Coates' Sixtieth Birthday. ISSN 1431-0643 CaltechAUTHORS.

Yang and Bjorkman describe how HCMV evades MHC

2008-07-23T08:27:00.001-07:00

Zhiru Yang and Pamela J. Bjorkman (2008) Structure of UL18, a peptide-binding viral MHC mimic, bound to a host inhibitory receptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(29):10095-10100, 22 July 2008. ISSN 0027-8424 CaltechAUTHORS

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

Press release, Caltech Media Relations, 18 July 2008.

Kooi, Hesper, Wild et al. create miniature sideband-separating (2SB) mixer for possible use in band 9 of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).

2008-07-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

F.P. Mena, J.W. Kooi, A.M. Baryshev, C.F.J. Lodewijk, R. Hesper, W. Wild and T.M. Klapwijk (2008) An SIS-based sideband-separating heterodyne mixer optimized for the 600 to 720 GHz band. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 97(012331) 16-20 September 2007. CaltechAUTHORS.

Kamionkowski et al. quantify the feasibility of future satellite missions finding inﬂationary gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background

2008-07-21T10:17:00.000-07:00

Luca Pagano, Asantha Cooray, Alessandro Melchiorri, and Marc
Kamionkowski (2008) Red density perturbations and inflationary
gravitational waves. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 04(009) April 2008. CaltechAUTHORS.

Painter et al. demonstrate quantum cascade laser sensor

2008-07-16T09:19:00.000-07:00

Virginie Moreau, Raffaele Colombelli, Raviv Perahia, Oskar Painter, Luke R. Wilson, and Andrey B. Krysa (2008) Proof-of-principle of surface detection with air-guided quantum cascade lasers. Optics Express 16(9):6387-6396, 28 April 2008. CaltechAUTHORS.

Kirschvink et al.: Bats, magnetite and the Earth's magnetic field

2008-06-27T10:37:00.000-07:00

Richard A. Holland, Joseph L. Kirschvink, Thomas G. Doak, Martin Wikelski (2008) Bats Use Magnetite to Detect the Earth's Magnetic Field. PLoS ONE 3(2): e1676. CaltechAUTHORS

Vortex Lattice locking in rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

2008-06-13T09:03:00.000-07:00

Ryan Barnett, Gil Refael, Mason A Porter and Hans Peter Büechler(2008) Vortex Lattice locking in rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. New Journal of Physics, 10:043030. CaltechAUTHORS

Co-owned by the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, New Journal of Physics (NJP) is an open-access, electronic-only journal publishing original research across the whole of physics. The journal's Editorial Board and staff are committed to building NJP into the leading scientific journal in its field by publishing articles of outstanding scientific quality that merit the attention and interest of the whole physics community. NJP is available free to readers around the world and is funded by article publication charges.

Winstead and McKoy explore scattering from 3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran

2008-06-12T08:48:00.000-07:00

V Vizcaino, J Roberts, J P Sullivan, M J Brunger, S J Buckman, C Winstead and V McKoy (2008) Elastic electron scattering from 3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran: experimental and theoretical studies. New Journal of Physics, 10(5), Art. No. 053002. CaltechAUTHORS

Knauss & Ravichandran apply superposition to dynamic response of polyurea

2008-06-09T13:19:00.000-07:00

J. Zhao, W. G. Knauss and G. Ravichandran (2007) Applicability of the time–temperature superposition principle in modeling dynamic response of a polyurea. Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, 11(3-4):289-308, December 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

© Springer Science+Business Media 2008. Distributed under a Springer Open Choice License (compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Licence).

Arnold et al. model predator-prey dynamics using quorum sensing and engineered gene circuits

2008-06-02T11:03:00.000-07:00

Frederick K Balagaddé, Hao Song, Jun Ozaki, Cynthia H. Collins, Matthew Barnet, Frances H. Arnold, Stephen R. Quake, and Lingchong You(2008) A synthetic Escherichia coli predator–prey ecosystem. Molecular Systems Biology, 4:187. CaltechAUTHORS

Molecular Systems Biology is an open-access journal published by European Molecular Biology Organization and Nature Publishing Group. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licence. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

Enami, Hoffmann, and Colussi investigate interaction of ozone and acidic particulate

2008-05-21T09:30:00.000-07:00

Shinichi Enami, M. R. Hoffmann, and A. J. Colussi, (2008) Acidity enhances the formation of a persistent ozonide at aqueous ascorbate/ozone gas interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(21):7365-7369, 27 May 2008. CaltechAUTHORS. Supporting Information.

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

Press release, Caltech Media Relations, 13 May 2008.

Rockefeller UP adopts CC licenses

2008-05-01T08:23:00.000-07:00

Rockefeller University Press has adopted Creative Commons licensing retroactively for their journals: The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology. Copyright for all of the articles published prior to November 1, 2007 has reverted to the authors (or their estates) for the more than a century of biomedical literature affected by this decision.

Going forward, six months after publication, third parties (that is, anyone who is not an author) can use the material, which is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

More than 300 papers authored by current and former Caltech faculty and staff are affected by this new policy. Henry Lester, Charles Brokaw, and Jean-Paul Revel each have 20 or more papers affected by the new policy. Among former faculty, Elias Lazarides and Lee Hood each published 20 or more affected papers during their affiliations with Caltech.

Seinfeld et al. examine effects of aerosol thermodynamic uncertainties in air quality models

2008-04-30T09:34:00.000-07:00

S. L. Clegg, M. J. Kleeman, R. J. Griffin, and J. H. Seinfeld (2008) Effects of uncertainties in the thermodynamic properties of aerosol components in an air quality model – Part 1: Treatment of inorganic electrolytes and organic compounds in the condensed phase. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8(4):1027-1085, 27 February 2008. CaltechAUTHORS.
Discussion Paper: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7(4):10971-11047, 26 July 2007. CaltechAUTHORS.

S. L. Clegg, M. J. Kleeman, R. J. Griffin, and J. H. Seinfeld (2008) Effects of uncertainties in the thermodynamic properties of aerosol components in an air quality model – Part 2: Predictions of the vapour pressures of organic compounds. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8(4):1087-1103, 27 February 2008. CaltechAUTHORS.
Discussion Paper: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7(4):11049-11089, 26 July 2007. CaltechAUTHORS.

Procissi, Russell, et al.: Simultaneous in vivo PET & MRI

2008-03-13T17:18:00.000-07:00

Catana, Ciprian and Procissi, Daniel and Wu, Yibao and Judenhofer, Martin S. and Qi, Jinyi and Pichler, Bernd J. and Jacobs, Russell E. and Cherry, Simon R. (2008) Simultaneous in vivo positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (10). pp. 3705-3710. CaltechAUTHORS.

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

Quartz lab examines subconscious causal correlation of multiple stimuli

2008-03-12T08:59:00.000-07:00

Konrad Körding, Ulrik Beierholm, Wei Ji Ma, Steven Quartz, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Ladan Shams (2007) Causal Inference in Multisensory Perception. PLoS ONE, 2(9):e943. CaltechAUTHORS

Copyright: © 2007 Körding et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Zinn et al.: Redundancy and compensation in axon guidance

2008-03-06T14:50:00.000-08:00

Jeon, Mili and Nguyen, Huong and Bahri, Sami and Zinn, Kai (2008) Redundancy and compensation in axon guidance: genetic analysis of the Drosophila Ptp10D/Ptp4E receptor tyrosine phosphatase subfamily. Neural Development, 3 (3).
doi:10.1186/1749-8104-3-3 CaltechAUTHORS

Shimojo et al.: Spatial contexts can inhibit mislocalization of visual stimuli

2008-03-05T17:30:00.000-08:00

Noguchi, Y., Shimojo, S., Kakigi, R., & Hoshiyama, M. (2007). Spatial contexts can inhibit a mislocalization of visual stimuli during smooth pursuit. Journal of Vision, 7(13):13, 1-15. doi:10.1167/7.13.13. CaltechAUTHORS

Ryota Kanai et al.: Flash suppression and flash facilitation in binocular rivalry

2008-03-05T17:17:00.000-08:00

Brascamp, J. W., Knapen, T. H. J., Kanai, R., van Ee, R., & van den Berg, A. V. (2007). Flash suppression and flash facilitation in binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 7(12):12, 1-12. doi:10.1167/7.12.12. CaltechAUTHORS

Koch et al.: Relation of phase noise and luminance contrast to overt attention

2008-03-05T17:05:00.000-08:00

Einhäuser, Wolfgang and Rutishauser, Ueli and Frady, E. Paxon and Nadler, Swantje and König, Peter and Koch, Christof (2006) The relation of phase noise and luminance contrast to overt attention in complex visual stimuli. Journal of Vision, 6 (11). pp. 1148-1158. CaltechAUTHORS

Koch et al.: Model of spatial attention predicts human error patterns

2008-03-05T16:25:00.000-08:00

Einhäuser, Wolfgang and Mundhenk, T. Nathan and Baldi, Pierre and Koch, Christof and Itti, Laurent (2007) A bottom–up model of spatial attention predicts human error patterns in rapid scene recognition. Journal of Vision, 7 (10):6, 1-13. doi:10.1167/7.10.6 CaltechAUTHORS

Caltech Library signs Expression of Interest in SCOAP3

2008-02-28T14:31:00.001-08:00

The Caltech Library signed an Expression of Interest in the Sponsoring Consortium of Open Access in Particle Physics Publishing, SCOAP3. It concluded that the High Energy Physics scientists are, indeed, taking a fresh look at the publishing cycle. Through SCOAP3, they have devised a model to put the scientific HEP community in greater control of its work. This is a refreshing and encouraging approach, and one that should serve research well.

Caltech is the 2nd North American library to sign an Expression of Interest in the consortium. The California Digital Library expressed interest earlier this week on behalf of the entire University of California system.

[Post Script: SCOAP3 issued a news release on Caltech's decision. Independently, Peter Suber found the Caltech Library's interest in SCOAP3 to be newsworthy.]

Millikan microfilm collection guide goes online

2008-02-27T14:53:00.000-08:00

The Robert Andrews Millikan collection at the California Institute of Technology : guide to a microfilm edition / Judith R. Goodstein, editor, Albert F. Gunns, associate editor, Ann Underleak, associate editor. Pasadena, CA : Archives, California Institute of Technology, 1977. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBook:1977.002. [OCLC: 3496172]

Bruck et al. investigate stochastic biochemistry

2008-02-20T15:52:00.000-08:00

Brian Fett, Jehoshua Bruck, and Marc D. Riedel (2007) Synthesizing Stochasticity in Biochemical Systems. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2007.ETR081]

Wunch et al. measure stratospheric HNO3 over 12 year span

2008-02-19T08:38:00.000-08:00

M. Toohey, B. M. Quine, K. Strong, P. F. Bernath, C. D. Boone, A. I. Jonsson, C. T. McElroy, K. A. Walker, and D. Wunch (2007) Balloon-borne radiometer measurements of Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude stratospheric HNO3 profiles spanning 12 years. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7(23):6075-6084, 11 December 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

M. Toohey, B. M. Quine, K. Strong, P. F. Bernath, C. D. Boone, A. I. Jonsson, C. T. McElroy, K. A. Walker, and D. Wunch (2007) Balloon-borne radiometer measurement of Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude stratospheric HNO3 profiles spanning 12 years. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7(4):11561-11586, 6 August 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

© Author(s) 2007. These work are licensed under a Creative Commons License. Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.

Scherer lab creates photodetector using surface state absorption

2008-02-13T14:34:00.000-08:00

T. Baehr-Jones, M. Hochberg, and A. Scherer (2008) Photodetection in silicon beyond the band edge with surface states. Optics Express 16(3):1659-1668, 4 February 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Scherer, Yariv et al. create room temperature cw laser tunable by varrying photonic crysta lattice contant

2008-02-12T13:54:00.000-08:00

Lin Zhu, Xiankai Sun, Guy A. DeRose, Axel Scherer, and Amnon Yariv (2008) Room temperature continuous wave operation of single-mode, edge-emitting photonic crystal Bragg lasers. Optics Express, 16(2):502-506, 21 January 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

PARADISE group releases new, updated technical reports

2008-02-08T12:47:00.000-08:00

David Soloveichik, Matthew Cook, Erik Winfree, and Jehoshua Bruck (2008) Computation with Finite Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks (Revised Version). Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2007.ETR085]

Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang, Robert Mateescu, Moshe Schwartz, and Jehoshua Bruck (2008) Rank Modulation for Flash Memories. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2008.ETR086]

Bandres et al. study paraxial transformations of Airy-Gauss beams

2008-02-07T16:10:00.000-08:00

Miguel A. Bandres and Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega (2007) Airy-Gauss beams and their transformation by paraxial optical systems. Optics Express, 15(25):16719-16728, 10 December 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Sun and Yariv analyze modes in annular Bragg lasers

2008-02-06T10:45:00.000-08:00

Xiankai Sun and Amnon Yariv (2007) Modal properties and modal control in vertically emitting annular Bragg lasers, Optics Express 15(25):17323-17333, 10 December 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Caltech SOLIDS launches technical report series

2008-02-05T13:06:00.000-08:00

Caltech SOLIDS has launched a technical report series, CaltechSOLIDS. The first three preprints are already online.

Yoshihiro Kaneko, Nadia Lapusta, and Jean-Paul Ampuero (2007) Spectral-element modeling of spontaneous earthquake rupture on rate and state faults: Effect of velocity-strengthening friction at shallow depths. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. CaltechSOLIDS:2008.001

Mason A. Porter, Chiara Daraio, Eric B. Herbold, Ivan Szelengowicz, and P. G. Kevrekidis (2007) Highly Nonlinear Solitary Waves in Periodic Dimer Granular Chains. Physical Review E. CaltechSOLIDS:2007.002

Liping Liu (2007) Solutions to the Eshelby Conjectures. Proceedings of Royal Society A. CaltechSOLIDS:2007.001

Vahala et al. review mechanical aspects of radiation pressure in microcavities

2008-02-04T10:46:00.000-08:00

T. J. Kippenberg and K. J. Vahala (2007) Cavity Opto-Mechanics. Optics Express 15(25):17172-17205, 10 December 2007. CaltechAUTHORS