We relate a Dp or NS-brane with D0-brane charge smeared over its worldvolume to the system with no D0-charge. This allows us to generalise Reall’s partial proof of the Gubser-Mitra conjecture. We show explicitly for specific examples that the dynamical instability coincides with thermodynamic instability in the ensemble where the D0-brane charge can vary. We also comment on consistency checks o...

These are the lecture notes from Professor Andrew Strominger’s Physics 211r: Black Holes from A to Z course given in Spring 2015, at Harvard University. It is the first half of a survey of black holes focusing on the deep puzzles they present concerning the relations between general relativity, quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. Topics include: causal structure, event horizons, Penrose diagr...

Pattern discovery in unaligned DNA sequences is a fundamental problem in computational biology with important applications in finding regulatory signals. Current approaches to pattern discovery focus on monad patterns that correspond to relatively short contiguous strings. However, many of the actual regulatory signals are composite patterns that are groups of monad patterns that occur near eac...

2 See, e.g., Mitra, S. K., The Upper Atmosphere, ch. III, The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1948. 3 See, e.g., Mitra, S. K., loc. cit., p. 6. 4 Mathematical Theory of Heat Conduction, Ginn and Co., 1913, p. 40. 6 Warfield, C. N., NACA, Tech. Note, No. 1200, Langley Field, Jan., 1947. 6 The Atmospheres of the Earth & Planets, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1948, p. 142. 7 Pop. Ast., 55, 322 (1947). ...

Title: Mechanical signals at the base of a rat vibrissa: The effect of 1 intrinsic vibrissa curvature and implications for tactile exploration 2 3 Running Title: May the force be whisk you 4 5 Authors: Brian W. Quist 6 Biomedical Engineering Department 7 Northwestern University 8 2145 Sheridan Rd 9 Evanston, IL 60208 10 11 Mitra J.Z. Hartmann 12 Mechanical Engineering Department 13 Biomedical E...