Beating the lights

Arbour lights

Amongst the theoreticians there was a subspecies who interacted with experimentalists — these theorists tried to make sure that their ideas were testable and that someone tested them. Preeminent amongst these was Francis Crick who wrote all the quotes above shown in red italics (taken from Crick’s autobiographical book What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery; Basic Books, New ...

Bezier Lights

In this paper we introduce Bezier Lights, an intelligent lighting system that allows users to intuitively establish virtual boundaries in indoor environments. Boundaries can be easily created/modified by arranging the layouts of disk-shaped devices (“stones”) on the building floor. The immediate purpose of the system is to assist users in incorporating location-aware capabilities into private p...

Beating the Standard Model *

Although our beloved standard model of quarks and leptons offers a complete, consistent and correct description of most particle phenomena, lots of vexing questions remain unanswered, such as: Why are the gauge group and the fermion masses what they are? Why three families of quarks and leptons? What breaks electroweak symmetry? How about gravity? Leaving such profound meta-questions to supersy...

Beating the jetting regime

We study numerically the dynamics of jets and drops in a microcapillary coflow device. The co-flow stream encounters different flow regimes, including dripping, jetting. Using a level-set/finite element axysimmetric numerical simulation, we study the dynamics of breakup of a jet subject to flow rate perturbations. A scaling law for the width of the unperturbed jet is presented and compared to e...

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