Kavli Affiliate: Bruce Macintosh | First 5 Authors: Benjamin L. Gerard, Benjamin L. Gerard, , , | Summary: LLNL has recently setup a High Contrast Testbed (HCT) for AO and exoplanet imaging technology development. We present the various HCT technologies currently under development, including (1) a Wynne corrector, (2) multi-wavefront sensor (WFS) single conjugate AO […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kevin Bender | Authors: Hao Wu, Luqun Shen, Jonathan Indajang, Neil K Savalia, Timothy G Johnson, Jiayin Qu, Kevin J Bender and Alex C Kwan | Summary: SCN2A is a high-confidence risk gene for autism spectrum disorder. Loss-of-function mutations in Scn2a reduce dendritic excitability in neocortical pyramidal cells. However, the impact of Scn2a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Cameron | First 5 Authors: Guanchong Cheng, Guanchong Cheng, , , | Summary: Flux emergence is ubiquitous in the Sun’s lower atmosphere, where the emerging magnetic flux can reconnect with the pre-existing magnetic field. We investigate plasmoid formation and the resulting multi-thermal emissions during three-dimensional magnetic reconnection in the lower solar atmosphere. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Alexander P. Ji | First 5 Authors: Mairéad E Heiger, Mairéad E Heiger, , , | Summary: We present detailed chemical abundances of the brightest star in each of the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies Eridanus IV and Centaurus I using high-resolution Magellan/MIKE spectroscopy. The brightest star in Centaurus I, CenI-5136, is a very metal-poor […]
Kavli Affiliate: Savdeep Sethi | First 5 Authors: Andrea Dei, Andrea Dei, , , | Summary: Computing the Euclidean spacetime action on-shell provides a useful way of both testing holographic proposals and determining the string theory sphere partition function. We consider families of three-dimensional linear dilaton spacetimes for which there are holographic proposals that share […]
Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: T. Pessi, T. Pessi, , , | Summary: The volumetric rates and luminosity functions (LFs) of core-collapse supernovae (ccSN) and their subtypes are important for understanding the cosmic history of star formation and the buildup of ccSN products. To estimate these rates, we use data of nearby […]
Kavli Affiliate: Emil J. Martinec | First 5 Authors: Iosif Bena, Iosif Bena, , , | Summary: In AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ duality, there are large families of smooth, horizonless microstate geometries that correspond to heavy pure states of the dual CFT. The metric and fluxes are complicated functions of up to five coordinates. There are also many […]
Kavli Affiliate: Zhuo Li | First 5 Authors: Chongyuan Dai, Chongyuan Dai, , , | Summary: Amidst a shortage of qualified mental health professionals, the integration of large language models (LLMs) into psychological applications offers a promising way to alleviate the growing burden of mental health disorders. Recent reasoning-augmented LLMs have achieved remarkable performance in […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ran Wang | First 5 Authors: Xiangyu Han, Xiangyu Han, , , | Summary: In this paper, by proposing two new kinds of distributional uncertainty sets, we explore robustness of distortion risk measures against distributional uncertainty. To be precise, we first consider a distributional uncertainty set which is characterized solely by a ball […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ran Wang | First 5 Authors: Brian Shing-Hei Wong, Brian Shing-Hei Wong, , , | Summary: Allergens, typically proteins capable of triggering adverse immune responses, represent a significant public health challenge. To accurately identify allergen proteins, we introduce Applm (Allergen Prediction with Protein Language Models), a computational framework that leverages the 100-billion parameter […]