Committee Discusses Future of ACRL

International Committee for Future Accelerators

Dedicated electron cloud diagnostics developed at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) enabled for the first time detailed characterization of the electron cloud (EC) properties in a highintensity positron and electron storage ring. From in situ measurements of the electron flux and energy distribution at the vacuum chamber wall, electron cloud production mechanisms and details of the beam-cloud in...

Panel discusses perils of nuclear holocaust

Calling today's nuclear threat the biggest problem students will ever face in thdr entire lives, Father Theodore llesburgh, university president. introduced a panel discussion on the nuclear peril la~t night to a crowd that t1lled Stepan Center. "There is no human act that can match an evil in its moral obscenity, than an act that would reverse and destroy God's creation," Hesburgh told over 50...

16-899C ACRL Tetris Reinforcement Learner

Our approach to this problem was to use reinforcement learning with a function approximator to approximate the state value function [RSS98]. In our case, a +1 reward was given for every completed line, so that the value function would encode the long-term number of lines that is going to be completed by the algorithm. In order to achieve this, we extract features from the game state, and use gr...

Summit Discusses Public Health Implications of Fracking

In the wake of the North Carolina state legislature’s July 2012 vote to legalize new oil and gas exploration, the state is poised to join the ranks of others already tapping into shale gas deposits with the help of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). But public and environmental health concerns, particularly those related to air emissions and drinking water safety and security, have sparked contro...

The Association's A.G.M. Discusses the Scott Report