Located on the picturesque shores of Lake Geneva, freshly inaugurated Bernoulli Center for Fundamental Studies at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) hopes to become a beacon advancement fundamental research in mathematics, theoretical physics, and computer science.

Traditionally, appearance models for recognition, reacquisition and tracking problems have been evaluated independently using metrics applied to a complete system. It is shown that appearance models for these three problems can be evaluated using a cumulative matching curve on a standardized dataset, and that this one curve can be converted to a synthetic disambiguation rate for single camera t...

We test for long memory in 3and 6-month daily returns series on Eurocurrency deposits denominated in Japanese yen (Euroyen). The fractional differencing parameter is estimated using the spectral regression method. The conflicting evidence obtained from the application of tests against a unit root as well as tests against stationarity provides the motivation for testing for fractional roots. Sig...

For the development of a high-performance software system of membrane protein prediction, we analyzed the distribution of hydrophobicity and the amphiphilicity around transmembrane helices, using dataset of membrane proteins whose 3D structures or topologies are known. The moving average of 7 residues showed that there are a hydrophobicity peak in the center of a transmembrane helix and two amp...

In this paper, the effects of relaxational bulk modulus and the average composition of polymers on the viscoelastic phase separation are investigated in detail. It is found that there are two typical morphologies, i.e., moving droplet phase and phase inversion, and the relaxation of the dynamical asymmetry and the amplification of the concentration fluctuation are responsible for the appearance...