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Hmm... Not sure these papers would directly related to the fault plane you are talking about -- http://jbbp.kankyo.tohoku.ac.jp/jbbp/PDF/1997_Zoback.pdf and ftp://ftp.ingv.it/pub/mario.anselmi/MARTA/ktb-sourceparam-bssa1998.pdf (both are around 15 years old). They are not an easy reading though, so be warned...

No. They are ducted fans driven by electric motors. The tips of the vertical stabilisers have small pantographs that contact the underside of the lip at the top of the track walls. It's mostly in Japanese, but you can get the idea from some of the pictures here (e.g. this image)

No. They are ducted fans driven by electric motors. The tips of the vertical stabilisers have small pantographs that contact the underside of the lip at the top of the track walls. It's mostly in Japanese, but you can get the idea from some of the pictures here (e.g. this image)

He is referring to Tohoku University. It's the second highest ranked science school in Japan (behind Tokyo U.), most Americans don't know this, but it will really stand out on your resume if you decide to work somewhere in Asia.

There are 2 programs available, one for taking classes directly in Japanese, and a special English program for those without the language proficiency. Tohoku also has a great Language program, so if you are here for 1 year, you might be able to learn a little Japanese too. But that really depends on how much you study, and avoid the trap of making too many foreign friends and speaking too much English.

The classes available in English are limited, only an intro-CS class is available in English. However, research in a huge part of each semester, you'll join a research lab and spend 20+ hours each week working on your project. You should at least be able to get transfer credit for an independent research, and maybe even a publication if you write a good enough paper.

The Japanese govt in currently amidst a push to raise the number of foreign students to 300k, so if you GPA is good, you'll also probably get a full ride scholarship for 1 year. It's about 800USD per month.

Here's my lab.
Here's an article I wrote about life at Tohoku.

Good luck! Hopefully your school has an exchange agreement with Tohoku!

He is referring to Tohoku University. It's the second highest ranked science school in Japan (behind Tokyo U.), most Americans don't know this, but it will really stand out on your resume if you decide to work somewhere in Asia.

There are 2 programs available, one for taking classes directly in Japanese, and a special English program for those without the language proficiency. Tohoku also has a great Language program, so if you are here for 1 year, you might be able to learn a little Japanese too. But that really depends on how much you study, and avoid the trap of making too many foreign friends and speaking too much English.

The classes available in English are limited, only an intro-CS class is available in English. However, research in a huge part of each semester, you'll join a research lab and spend 20+ hours each week working on your project. You should at least be able to get transfer credit for an independent research, and maybe even a publication if you write a good enough paper.

The Japanese govt in currently amidst a push to raise the number of foreign students to 300k, so if you GPA is good, you'll also probably get a full ride scholarship for 1 year. It's about 800USD per month.

Here's my lab.
Here's an article I wrote about life at Tohoku.

Good luck! Hopefully your school has an exchange agreement with Tohoku!

At least Social Text wasn't a peer-reviewed publication. IEEE doesn't seem to have that excuse.

It looks as if

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4348615&isnumber=4348298

is something like the work being reported on; 'A 1 Gsymbol/s, 64 QAM coherent signal was successfully transmitted over 150 km using heterodyne detection with a frequency-stabilized fiber laser and an optical phase-locked-loop technique. The spectral efficiency reached as high as 3 bit/s/Hz.'

Masato YOSHIDA's list of papers at

http://db.tohoku.ac.jp/whois/Tunv_Title_All.php?&user_num=LTU0OA==&sel1=1&sel2=1&sel3=1&sel4=2&page=1&lang=E

looks very plausible in the context of this work; 'coherent optical transmission' is I think the relevant buzz-word. Going from 1Gsymbol/s to 10Tsymbol/s is clearly a lot more work, but being able to do optical QAM at all is pretty spectacular.

The Kamland experiment, which confirmed neutrino oscillation by detecting the flux of neutrinos from nuclear power stations in Japan is a better detector.

Assuming 4x10^22 neutrinos from decay of short-lived isotopes within 1 second of the explosion, 1000 km to the detector, we can estimate the flux at the kamland detector to be = 3x10^9 neutrinos per square meter per second or 3x10^5 neutrinos per square cm per second.

The reaction used to detect anti-neutrinos is nu + P => nu + e+

The cross section is for this process is approximately 10^-40

kamland is about 2000 tonnes of scintillator so we can estimate the reaction rate to be:

5x10^5 * 10^-40 * 2x10^9 * 6x10^23/12 = 0.005 interactions

The factor 12 takes account of the mass in carbon nuclei, the 6x10^23 is avagadro's number.
So the explosion would not even show up in Kamland.

You mean Tohoku University?

I find this implausible. Surely SNO and Kamiokande should detect a massive neutrino flux from such a large reaction? Kamiokande can pick up neutrino fluxes from the nuclear reactors across east Asia, so the flux from a monster reaction in the Earth's core should also be detectable.

A flux from the Earth's core would be easy to distinguish from others. Solar neutrinos change direction over a 24-hour period, cosmic neutrinos are evenly spread across the sky, but hypothetical Earth-core neutrinos would always come from directly below.

Might this hypothesis be tested by using the KamLAND anti-neutrino oscilation detector to see the antineutrinos emitted by the beta decays from the fission products produced by the core(just like it sees them from our fission reactors)? I wonder if anyone has thought of doing this yet.

Look up some of the chemicals that are used to produce solar cells. Just imagine how many people have bought solar cells that end up being thrown into landfills/etc, not to mention what the maker's have put there.

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His lab is here. Please try to stagger your access so you don't slashdot him.

The Japanese side of the main Phonon Device Lab has pdf'd scans of newspaper articles from September 10. The Japanese also uses 1.4 Terabits/sq. inch.

A drawing on the bottom of this page shows that his ultimate goal of 4 Petabits/square inch is based on a bit being stored in a 0.4 nanometer square, the size of one BaTiO3 crystal.

Interesting experiment on his page tells you in English how to make piezoelectric ceramics(in collaboration with Washington U.).

It looks like there are a whole raft of people from Tohoku U. at U. Washington doing nano-bio research, mems, piezoelectrics.. maybe sq. inch came from Washington. Their Center for Nanotechnology looks neat.
I wonder if they were involved in this storage technology development.

His lab is here. Please try to stagger your access so you don't slashdot him.

The Japanese side of the main Phonon Device Lab has pdf'd scans of newspaper articles from September 10. The Japanese also uses 1.4 Terabits/sq. inch.

A drawing on the bottom of this page shows that his ultimate goal of 4 Petabits/square inch is based on a bit being stored in a 0.4 nanometer square, the size of one BaTiO3 crystal.

Interesting experiment on his page tells you in English how to make piezoelectric ceramics(in collaboration with Washington U.).

It looks like there are a whole raft of people from Tohoku U. at U. Washington doing nano-bio research, mems, piezoelectrics.. maybe sq. inch came from Washington. Their Center for Nanotechnology looks neat.
I wonder if they were involved in this storage technology development.

His lab is here. Please try to stagger your access so you don't slashdot him.

The Japanese side of the main Phonon Device Lab has pdf'd scans of newspaper articles from September 10. The Japanese also uses 1.4 Terabits/sq. inch.

A drawing on the bottom of this page shows that his ultimate goal of 4 Petabits/square inch is based on a bit being stored in a 0.4 nanometer square, the size of one BaTiO3 crystal.

Interesting experiment on his page tells you in English how to make piezoelectric ceramics(in collaboration with Washington U.).

It looks like there are a whole raft of people from Tohoku U. at U. Washington doing nano-bio research, mems, piezoelectrics.. maybe sq. inch came from Washington. Their Center for Nanotechnology looks neat.
I wonder if they were involved in this storage technology development.

True. The naming "zilla" is present in different plants as well as spiders.

Now how can we find Dick Cheney?

He's trying to get Snuffy to accept Hank Kissinger as his dark master.

For those with a technical bent who were disappointed by the lack of information on SMT in the linked artilce, here are some better resources:

Introduction to Simultaneous Multi-threading from UMass .

Quick Quiz on SMT.

Caches for Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors: An Introduction

Mea culpa.

SNO doesn't actually use a scintillator. That's KAMLAND I was thinking of. SNO just keeps itself small and very clean to keep the background down.

List of Jargon Resources Mirror Sites USA:

• http://www.akrotech.com/~darkstar/jargon
• http://memes.org/jargon
• http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/jargon/
• http://www.mindspring.com/~li mbert/hacking/jargon.htm
• http://www.iscvt.org/jargon/jargon.html
• http://www.babcom.com/jargon/index.html
• http://www.hackboy.com/jargon
• http://www.pulhas.org/
• http://www2.netdoor.com/~lhand
• http://avatar.deva.net/
• http://www.blee.net/jargon
• http://www.fortuneci ty.com/skyscraper/jolt/15/jargonindex.html
• http://www.jargon.8hz.com/
• http://culture.0wnz-u.org/
• http://www.houseofhack.com/jargon
• http://jollyrogers.com/jargon/
• http://handel.math.psu.edu/jargon

• http://celestrion.totalaccess.net/do cs/jargon/
• http://www.pir.net/pir/jargon/
• http://www.technozen.com/tetsuo/jargon/
• http://ude.org/jargon
• http://web.chad.org/usr/doc/jargon-file/

• http://karnak.nmc.siu.edu/jargon/

Australia:

• http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/text/jargon/

• http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/text/jargon

Czechoslovakia: ttp://www.instinct.org/texts/jargon-file/

Finland: http://zone.pspt.fi/jargon/

Germany:

• http://www.ude.org/jargon
• http://www.ghks.de/computer/jargon/
• http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~rene/jargo n/
• http://hex.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jargon/
• http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de /~bergt/jargon

Gret Britain: http://jargon.strugglers.net

Greece: http://www.hack.gr/jargon

Italy: http://beatles.cselt.stet.it/mirrors/jargon

Japan: http://www.vacia.is.tohoku.ac.jp/jargon/

Norway: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/misc/jargon/ Poland: http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl/jargon/

Spain: http://www.undersec.com/jargon

Sweden: http://ftp.sunet.se/jargon/

U.K.:

• http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/admin/jargon/
• http://g.pet.cam.ac.uk/g/jargon/