Author contributions: R.L.F., T.J.W., C.K.T., H.-H.L., and H.T.C. designed research; R.L.F., T.J.W., C.K.T., and H.-H.L. performed research; R.L.F., T.J.W., C.K.T., and H.-H.L. analyzed data; R.L.F. and H.T.C. wrote the paper. Funding: NEI EY011261 Funding: NIEHS K99ES022992 Funding: NINDS F32NS071807 Funding: NIGM T34GM087193 Funding: DOD | U.S. Army | U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) 10000675...

Ready or not, stem cells are a step closer to the clinic, thanks to approximately $230 million awarded by CIRM to 14 California-based research groups to develop stem cell-based therapies within 4 years. But, as Kris Novak reports, some of these projects are closer to therapeutic reality than others.

• EPI MAESTRO, Sophia-Antipolis: Eitan Altman, Coordinator, Senior Researcher (Direciteur de Recherche) at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. Has been working on economic modeling of the Internet as well as on the interplay between information technology, culture and society [1, 2]. Expert in networking, game theory and music composition. Graduated in the Composition Department of Tel-Aviv University, and...

The Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) beamforming algorithm is frequently utilized to extract speech and noise from noisy signals captured multiple microphones. A frequency-time mask should be employed compute the Power Spectral Density (PSD) matrices of signal interest obtain optimal weights for beamformer. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used estimating time-frequency mas...

— In this note, we present the theorem of extension of birational group laws in both settings of classical varieties (Weil) and schemes (Artin). We improve slightly the original proof and result with a more direct construction of the group extension, a discussion of its separation properties, and the systematic use of algebraic spaces. We also explain the important application to the constructi...

ACI Rossignol is composed of teams from LIF (UMR 6166), LSV (UMR 8643), INRIA Futurs (Projet Comète and projet SECSI) and Verimag (UMR 9939). The research topic of the action is ccryptographic protocol verification. Two general meetings have been held and additional meetings between sites have been organized. Futhermore the action has organized a Spring School on formal aspects on Security (Sec...