... Laboratory for Spectroscopy of Molecular Structures . ... News . ... A new article entitled Description of optical properties of cholesteric photonic liquid crystals based on Maxwell equations and Kramers-Kronig relations has appeared in Physical Review E. Congratulations to Grigoriy Ksyonz on his first publication! . 25 th February 2013 . ... 22 nd November 2012 . ... 22 nd February 2012 . 4 th Workshop on Liquid Crystals for Photonics 2012 will take place in Hong Kong December 9-11, 2012. ...

... The use of Astronomy in Research Based Science Education (RBSE), an NSF-funded Teacher Enhancement program, invites applications from middle- and high-school teachers interested in developing a research component for their science classes within the multi-disciplinary context of astronomy. ... 40 Years of Students Tracking Asteroids . ... Asteroids Finally Hit Project CLEA . ... LodeStar is a $32.8 million project dedicated to astronomy-oriented science education and research. ...

O ptimal transport : T heory and A pplications . ... Names of participants of the OTARIE project are underlined . ... That code was never made public. ... WANN (Weighted Approximate Nearest Neighbors) is a library of C++ classes for weighted nearest neighbor search: given the set P of points p 1 , p 2 , , p N endowed with weights w 1 , w 2 , , w N and a query point q , find p k such that | ... WANN is part of a multipurpose library for numerical transport optimization developed in the OTARIE project. ...

Nuffield Research Placements offer up to 1000 funded places a year, so that students across the UK can get an insight into the world of scientific research. The Nuffield Foundation offers bursaries to first year post-16 science students in England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland, helping students to take part in science based projects, lasting 4-6 weeks, in universities, industry or research institutions during the summer holidays. ... 2012 James Murphy : (pdf) . ... 2007 Emma Riley: (ppt) . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

Chandra X-Ray Observatory CXC 1. ... E0102: Joint Fits with ACIS S3, MOS1/2 & pn Paul Plucinsky, Joseph DePasquale, & Steve Snowden Paul Plucinsky 1 EPIC Cal April 2007 Chandra X-Ray Observatory 1. ... E0102: Gratuitous Pretty Pictures of E0102 S3 Summed Data ~100 ks CXC RGS Spectrum (Pollock 2006) Objective: develop a spectral model which can be used by RGS, HETG, EPIC & ACIS, etc. ...

... 2005 August 5 . HD 188753: Triple Sunset . Illustration Credit: courtesy JPL-Caltech , NASA . Explanation: Although it looks like fiction, this artist's vision of sunset on an alien world is based on fact -- the recent discovery of a hot, jupiter-sized planet orbiting in triple star system HD 188753 . ... While other hot, jupiter-like planets are known to orbit nearby stars, the "crowded" multiple star nature of this system challenges current theories of planet formation . ... About APOD | ...

Below is a list of all of the modules that come as part of the Apache distribution. ... mod_actions Apache 1.1 and up . ... Sending files which contain their own HTTP headers . ... User authentication using text files . ... User authentication using Berkeley DB files . ... User authentication using DBM files . ... mod_browser Apache 1.2.* only . ... Replaced by mod_setenvif in Apache 1.3 and up . ... Logging of User Agents . ... Replaced by the mod_log_config module in Apache 1.2 and up . ...

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

... If you could point a telescope anywhere in the sky, where would you look? The Personal Space web application allows you to make a direct and personal connection to the universe by linking significant events in your own life with what was above you in the sky at that moment. ... Personal Space is an online invitation to connect with and explore the universe in an intuitive way by presenting beautiful astronomical images of the sky overhead at key moments and places of personal significance. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Sky this Month . ... space physics . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Sky this Week . ... Sky Events . Get to Know the Night Sky . Tour the Deep Sky . Sky Guide . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, Maryland . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... Partly based on observations performed with radio telescopes of IAA RAS (Federal State Budget Scientific Organization Institue of Applied Astronomy of Russian Academy of Sciences). c . ... Partly based on observations with the 100-m telescope of the MPIfR (Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy) at Effelsberg . ... NRAO facilities . The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. ...

... Polar 2013 - . Polar Geophysics of Yamal: Observations, instruments, data bases . ... Nadym, October 21-25, 2013, RUSSIA . ... The program of the POLAR-2013 conference in Nadym will be devoted to following topics: . ... The International Conference ?Polar Geophysics of Yamal? is jointly organized by the Government of Yamal Region, The IZMIRAN (Troitsk), The Geophysical Center of RAS (Moscow), The Institute of Applied Geophysics (Moscow), The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (St.Petersburg). ...

... The wavelet transform, time-frequency localization and signal analysis. ... IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing , 40(7):1746-1757, July 1992. ... Time-frequency window leakage in the short-time fourier transform. ... A generalised wavelet transform for Fourier analysis: the multiresolution Fourier transform and its application to image and audio signal analysis. ... IEEE. ... Signal-dependent time-frequency analysis using a radially gaussian kernel. signal processing , 32(3):263-284, June 1993. ...

... 0.01 10 Prob./0.01 -1 a) -1 b) 10 10 -2 10 -2 10 -3 10 -3 10 -4 10 -4 10 -5 10 -5 10 -6 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 ER/Ebeam 10 -6 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 EL/Ebeam Snowmass 05 3 23 August 05 ­ David Strom ­ UO · Use very tight acollinearity cut for energy tune-up OPAL Prob. ... 0.01 1 10 10 10 10 10 10 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 EL / Ebeam 8.75 < R < 11.75 Snowmass 05 4 23 August 05 ­ David Strom ­ UO · Make detector uniform so that no fiducial cuts in etc will b e needed. ...

On applicability of T-matrix-like methods Victor G. Farafonov^1, Vladimir B. Il'in^2, and Andrey A. Loskutov^1 ^1 St.Petersburg University of Aerocosmic Instrumentation ^2 Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg University Abstract The T-matrix method and its modifications are very popular now in applications of the light scattering theory (e.g., [1-3]). ... Similar results should occur for the classical T-matrix method as well. ... 2000) Light Scattering by Non-Spherical Particles, Acad. ...

Modern requirements stipulated for the Networking Technologies . Brief Review of the problems under solution. ... Distributed Collapsed Back Bone Technology Advantages and shortcomings of different approaches. Switches against routers. ... Position at the IS market. Position of the modern high-speed technologies. ... Review of switching technology. Review of the switch market.Classification of switches. ... Big corporate networks implementing switching and routing technologies. ...

... Hubble Space Telescope Telemetry Access using the Vision 2000 Control Center System (CCS) M. Miebach European Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland USA 21218 M. Dolensky Space Telescope ­ European Coordinating Facility, Karl­Schwarzschild­Str. ... Part of CCS is a Space Telescope Engineering Data Store, the design of which is based on modern Data Warehouse technology. ... A WEB­based user interface allows easy access to the archives. ...

... Basic Observables: Zero-differenced phase and code ionosphere-free combinations of global GNSS network stations, corrected by P1-C1 satellite code biases (cc2noncc), daily observations with 30 seconds sampling rate Sites coordinates : IGb08 reference frame coordinates and velocities Displacements: solid tides, ocean loading, pole tide loading (IERS 2010) Geometric model : Receivers antennas eccentricities, absolute receiver and ...

EIGHTEENTH CREW . ... NASDю Astronaut, Japan . ... From March 1992 to August 1993 he completed one year of general space training (as an astronaut candidate of NASA 14-th selection) at the Johnson Space Center, USA and was qualified as a Mission Specialist on the Space Shuttle. ... From August 26 to September 6, 2002 Koichi Wakata took part in trainings (under the program of flights to the International Space Station -ISS) based on the European Astronaut Centre - EAC, Cologne in Germany. ...