Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding competitions

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Models of Translation Competitions

What do we want to learn from a translation competition and how do we learn it with confidence? We argue that a disproportionate focus on ranking competition participants has led to lots of different rankings, but little insight about which rankings we should trust. In response, we provide the first framework that allows an empirical comparison of different analyses of competition results. We t...

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5 Scientific Highlight of the Month

We report on selected activities that took place at the 2013 Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG) in Regensburg, including the focused sessions and symposium on “Frontiers of Electronic Structure Theory”, the Volker Heine Young Investigator award to Michele Ceriotti, the activities of ETSF (the European Theoretical Spectroscopic Facility), the plenary talk of Olle Eriksson, and a...

4 Scientific Highlight of the Month

The present highlight reviews recent advances in first-principles modelling of radiation damage in UO2. It focuses on the influence of strong correlations and the problem of metastable states that occur with some approximations that localize electrons, in particular the density functional theory (DFT)+U approximation. It gives an illustration that DFT+U calculations quantitatively describe atom...