On 12 February 2020, while on an international tour promoting Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, translator of book, Omid Tofighian, participated in a seminar at Utrecht University, organised by Australian academic, Anna Poletti (associate professor English language and culture, University). is also co-editor journal Biography: interdisciplinary quarterly...

Amir Arbabi,1 Ehsan Arbabi,1 Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali,1 Yu Horie,1 Seunghoon Han,1, 2 and Andrei Faraon1, ∗ 1T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 2Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics, Samsung-ro 130, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do 443-803, South Korea Abstract Optical metasurfaces are 2D ar...

Given a model M and a temporal logic formula φ[?], where ? is a placeholder, the query checking problem, as defined for the case of CTL by Chan in 2000, is to find the strongest propositional formula f such that M |= φ[? ← f ]. The motivation for solving this problem is, among other things, to get insight on the model. We consider various objectives to the LTL query-checking problem, and study ...

Waiting in long queue is undesirable due to which in some practical situations customers become impatient and leave the system. In such cases providing additional servers can reduce long queue. This investigation deals with multi-server queueing system with additional servers and discouragement. The customers arrive in poisson fashion and are served exponentially by a pool of permanent and addi...

Ehsan Arbabi,1 Amir Arbabi,1 Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali,1 Yu Horie,1 and Andrei Faraon1, ∗ 1T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Abstract Diffraction gratings disperse light in a rainbow of colors with the opposite order than refractive prisms, a phenomenon known as negative dispersion [1, 2]. While refractiv...