She came in from the cold for a two-day spate of press conferences, meetings, and photoshoots, and then sailed off towards the ice again. The German research icebreaker Polarstern, run by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), has become a minor celebrity with the busy lifestyle to match. Upon completing her latest tour of duty, which mainly involved studies of carbon cycles in the southern oceans...

We consider a multi-agent framework for distributed optimization where each agent has access to local smooth strongly convex function, and the collective goal is achieve consensus on parameters that minimize sum of agents' functions. propose an algorithm wherein operates asynchronously independently other agents. When functions are strongly-convex with Lipschitz-continuous gradients, we show it...

Steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich panels are composed of two steel plates with low thicknesses and high densities and strengths and one thick layer between both plates with low strength and density known as core that is composed of concrete. Cohesive material-epoxy resin or shear connectors are usually used to connect the plates to the concrete core. SCS sandwich composites are being develope...