Smart insects repeller

the dipole repeller

Our Local Group of galaxies is moving with respect to the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with a velocity1 of VCMB = 631 ± 20 km s−1 and participates in a bulk flow that extends out to distances of ~20,000 km s−1 or more2–4. There has been an implicit assumption that overabundances of galaxies induce the Local Group motion5–7. Yet underdense regions push as much as overdensities attract8, but...

An Attractor-Repeller approach to floorplanning

Abstract The floorplanning (or facility layout) problem consists in finding the optimal positions for a given set of modules of fixed area (but perhaps varying height and width) within a facility such that the distances between pairs of modules that have a positive connection cost are minimized. This is a hard combinatorial optimization problem; even the restricted version where the shapes of t...

Terminal Repeller Unconstrained Subenergy Tunneling ( TRUST ) for Fast Global Optimization ’

A new method for unconstrained global function optimization, acronymed TRUST, is introduced. This method formulates optimization as the solution of a deterministic dynamical system incorporating terminal repellers and a novel subenergy tunneling function. Benchmark tests comparing this method to other global optimization procedures are presented, and the TRUST algorithm is shown to be substanti...

Aquatic Insects: Hemimetabolous Insects – Plecoptera

The Repeller Field debris mitigation approach for EUV sources

We describe studies of the debris produced from a high–repetition-rate laser plasma EUVL source based on the mass-limited target concept. In particular, we are developing mass-limited target designs based on complex targets containing tin. Comprehensive analysis of witness-plate detection techniques can reveal many interesting details of the interaction regime, and the impact of the debris. The...