The application of a temperature difference (∆T) across a solid conductor causes mobile charge carriers to diffuse from hot to cold regions, giving rise to a thermoelectric voltage ∆V=-Se. ∆T. The prefactor Se is called the thermopower or Seebeck coefficient which describes how electrical energy can be generated from the thermal energy. The great majority of today’s thermoelectric (TE) research...

Snapping phenomena result from the sudden impingement between anatomical and/or heterotopical structures with subsequent abrupt movement and noise. Snaps are variously perceived by patients, from mild discomfort to significant pain requiring surgical management. Identifying the precise cause of snaps may be challenging when no abnormality is encountered on routinely performed static examination...

You will have done well if you can answer the test your knowledge questions, understand the mean field solution (Sec. IV) and the bonus questions provoke good discussion among your group. You will have done very well if you can get some code working to examine phase transitions and topological defects in a known system (Ising, XY.) You will have made a start on a very interesting scientific pap...

The extremal problem for the functional determinant of a natural linear elliptic operator a on Riemannian manifold is studied. Viewing the determinant as a function of the Riemannian metric, we encounter non-linear geometric analytic phenomena: sharp inequalities comparing nonlinear functionals of the metric and its derivatives. The derivation and use of such inequalities in new situations, esp...

I discuss a number of novel topics in QCD, including the use of the AdS/CFT correspondence between Anti-de Sitter space and conformal gauge theories to obtain an analytically tractable approximation to QCD in the regime where the QCD coupling is large and constant. In particular, there is an exact correspondence between the fifth-dimension coordinate z of AdS space and a specific impact variabl...

In this short review we look at recent advances in Schramm-Loewner Evolution (SLE) theory and its application to critical phenomena. The application of SLE goes beyond critical systems to other time dependent, scale invariant phenomena such as turbulence, sand-piles and watersheds. Through the use of SLE, the evolution of conformally invariant paths on the complex plane can be followed; hence a...

In any model with nonzero Majorana neutrino masses, the sneutrino and antisneutrino of the supersymmetric extended theory mix. We outline the conditions under which sneutrino-antisneutrino mixing is experimentally observable. The mass-splitting of the sneutrino mass eigenstates and sneutrino oscillation phenomena are considered.

Abstract. Cyclic sieving is a well-known phenomenon where certain interesting polynomials, especially qanalogues, have useful interpretations related to actions and representations of the cyclic group. We define sieving for an arbitrary group G and study it for the dihedral group I2pnq of order 2n. This requires understanding the generators of the representation ring of the dihedral group. For ...