Intensity-dependent topographical expansion of sensory representations

Kavli Affiliate: Martin Lindquist | Authors: Li-Bo Zhang, Amin Dehghani, Li Hu, Patrick Sadil, Liz Losin, Martin Lindquist and Tor Wager | Summary: Neuroimaging studies typically assume that sensory properties are encoded in response magnitude within fixed neural populations. However, this approach does not capture changes in the spatial extent of activation topography, despite growing […]


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GraphGP: Scalable Gaussian Processes with Vecchia’s Approximation

Kavli Affiliate: Susan Clark | Summary:Gaussian processes are a powerful tool for modeling continuous fields, but their naive $mathcalO(N^3)$ computational cost and $mathcalO(N^2)$ memory requirement often limit their practical use. Vecchia’s approximation is a sparse precision matrix approximation for stationary, decaying kernels that conditions each point only on its $k$ nearest neighbors. We present GraphGP, […]


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Continuous partitioning of neuronal variability

Kavli Affiliate: Adam S. Charles | Authors: Anuththara Rupasinghe, Adam S Charles and Jonathan W Pillow | Summary: Neurons exhibit substantial trial-to-trial variability in response to repeated stimuli, posing a major challenge for understanding the information content of neural spike trains. In the visual cortex, responses show greater-than-Poisson variability, whose origins and structure remain unclear. […]


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JADES: the mass-metallicity relation at $z=1-10$. New calibrations, extremely metal-poor galaxies, and chemical diversity

Kavli Affiliate: Roberto Maiolino | Summary:We present gas-phase metallicities of star-forming galaxies at $z=1$-10 with deep JWST/NIRSpec spectra from the JADES full data release, Dark Horse, and OASIS programmes. We stack $sim$1500 medium-resolution spectra, yielding detections of the [OIII]$λ$4363 auroral line down to $12+log(mathrmO/H)=7.0$ to derive stack-based strong-line calibrations over the metallicity range $12+log(mathrmO/H)=7.0$-8.7. At […]


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Phase-dependent magnetic coherence in the turbulent interstellar medium

Kavli Affiliate: Susan Clark | Summary:Magnetic fields permeate the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), yet their phase-dependent structure remains poorly constrained by observations. Dust polarization and ionH1 emission together offer complementary probes of the plane-of-sky magnetic field and cold neutral medium (CNM) gas structure, respectively. Recent observational work has shown that in the diffuse ISM, the […]


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Data-driven surrogate models for forecasting experimentally measured fluid flows

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib| Summary:Data-driven modeling shows significant promise for faster-than-real-time forecasting of fluid flows. For real-world engineering applications (e.g., flow control), models must contend with limited, imperfect, and incomplete experimental measurements. In this work, we present an analysis of data-driven surrogate models trained to forecast the time-evolution of experimentally measured cylinder wakes in the […]


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Data-driven surrogate models for forecasting experimentally measured fluid flows

Kavli Affiliate: Morteza Gharib| Summary:Data-driven modeling shows significant promise for faster-than-real-time forecasting of fluid flows. For real-world engineering applications (e.g., flow control), models must contend with limited, imperfect, and incomplete experimental measurements. In this work, we present an analysis of data-driven surrogate models trained to forecast the time-evolution of experimentally measured cylinder wakes in the […]


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Electric Field Optimization of High-Voltage Vacuum Feedthroughs

Kavli Affiliate: Giorgio Gratta | Summary:We report on the optimization of high voltage vacuum feedthroughs meant to minimize the electric field on the vacuum side of the device. We find that commercial feedthroughs generally have center conductor diameters which are too small, resulting in unnecessarily large fields. We study the problem with analytical calculations and […]


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Synthesis and Characterization of Atomically-Sharp Superconductor-Dielectric Interface

Kavli Affiliate: David Muller | Summary:Modification of superconductor-dielectric interfaces is known to strongly impact coherence times of superconducting quantum devices. This relationship is thought to arise from differences in the concentration of "two-level system" defects in the disordered dielectrics and superconductor-dielectric interfaces; these defects couple to electromagnetic modes in the device and cause dissipation. Zirconium […]


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Eosinophil-epithelial interactions mediate protective intestinal remodeling during food allergy

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Mucida | Authors: Patrick W Darcy, Vitoria M Olyntho, Albana Kodra, Zachary Kerner, Maria C.C. Canesso, Sandra Nakandakari-Higa, Gabriel Victora and Daniel Mucida | Summary: Food allergies are associated with progressive gastrointestinal symptoms driven by exacerbated mucosal type-2 immunity. Here, we investigated whether cellular interactions between the gut epithelium and innate immune […]


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