In this demo participants will explore Bang, a system for multiagent team formation. Bang automatically selects exercises for training agents, and allows an operator to visualize the expected performance of possible teams, guiding in the agent selection process. Bang is used in the context of programming competitions, a real-world challenge that involves human teams, and significantly improved ...

The standard big bang cosmological model and the history of the early universe according to the grand unified theories of strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions are summarized. The shortcomings of big bang are discussed together with their resolution by inflationary cosmology. Inflation and the subsequent oscillation and decay of the inflaton field are studied. The density perturbations ...

The Big Bang Model is a widely accepted theory for the origin and evolution of our universe. It postulates that ∼ 12−14 billion years ago, a hot and dense plasma of quarks and gluons (QGP) was produced a few micro seconds after the “big bang”. A pervading uniform glow of cold cosmic microwave background provides an unequivocal signature for the subsequent expansion from this hot and dense state...

In most models, inflation is driven by the potential energy of a scalar field. This has similar effects as adding vacuum energy or, equivalently, a positive cosmological constant. For these models Wald [1] proved a cosmic no hair theorem, which implies that an initial shear is inflated away [2]. A couple of years ago, a new mechanism of inflation has been proposed, where inflation is due to the...

Clock buffers constitute a major source of power dissipation in VLSI circuits. In CMOS the load is primarily capacitive and hence an inductive shunt can reduce real power needs. This almost-adiabatic topology is referred to as a resonant buffer. Two resonant buffers can be actively controlled by additional variable capacitance, to deliver quadrature signals from a single incoming clock. The cos...