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Bicolored point sets admitting non-crossing alternating Hamiltonian paths
Jan Soukup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06105 https://arxiv.o…

Bicolored point sets admitting non-crossing alternating Hamiltonian paths
Consider a bicolored point set $P$ in general position in the plane consisting of $n$ blue and $n$ red points. We show that if a subset of the red points forms the vertices of a convex polygon separating the blue points, lying inside the polygon, from the remaining red points, lying outside the polygon, then the points of $P$ can be connected by non-crossing straight-line segments so that the resulting graph is a properly colored closed Hamiltonian path.

Geometric Burn Control For Tokamaks
J. F. Parisi, J. W. Berkery, A. Sladkomedova, S. Guizzo, M. R. Hardman, J. R. Ball, A. O. Nelson, S. M. Kaye, M. Anastopoulos-Tzanis, S. A. M. McNamara, J. Dominski, S. Janhunen, M. Romanelli, D. Dickinson, A. Diallo, A. Dnestrovskii, W. Guttenfelder, C. Hansen, O. Myatra, H. R. Wilson
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Geometric Burn Control For Tokamaks
A new burn control scheme for tokamaks is described where the total fusion power is controlled by adjusting the plasma volume fraction that is packed into power dense regions. In an example spherical tokamak burning plasma, by modifying the plasma edge squareness the total fusion power is doubled at almost constant total plasma volume and fusion power density. Therefore, increased plasma squareness could be extremely beneficial to a fusion reactor and squareness control could be desirable for p…

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NFL teams that need to hit with a strong draft class https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_teams_that_need_to_hit_with_a_strong_draft_class/s1_13132_40211863

NFL teams that need to hit with a strong draft class
The 2024 NFL Draft is just two-and-a-half weeks away and there are still plenty of teams with plenty of roster holes that need plugging. Below are five teams who really need to nail the draft after an underwhelming free-agency period. 1. Dallas Cowboys After gassing up his fans with promises of making a free-agency splash in the name of being all-in on the 2024 season, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has signed a total of five players since the new league year, four of which were on the team last sea…

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Spanners in Planar Domains via Steiner Spanners and non-Steiner Tree Covers
Sujoy Bhore, Bal\'azs Keszegh, Andrey Kupavskii, Hung Le, Alexandre Louvet, D\"om\"ot\"or P\'alv\"olgyi, Csaba D. T\'oth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05045

Spanners in Planar Domains via Steiner Spanners and non-Steiner Tree Covers
We study spanners in planar domains, including polygonal domains, polyhedral terrain, and planar metrics. Previous work showed that for any constant $ε\in (0,1)$, one could construct a $(2+ε)$-spanner with $O(n\log(n))$ edges (SICOMP 2019), and there is a lower bound of $Ω(n^2)$ edges for any $(2-ε)$-spanner (SoCG 2015). The main open question is whether a linear number of edges suffices and the stretch can be reduced to $2$. We resolve this problem by showing that for stretch $2$, one need…

Bidirectional Adversarial Autoencoders for the design of Plasmonic Metasurfaces
Yuansan Liu, Jeygopi Panisilvam, Peter Dower, Sejeong Kim, James Bailey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04056

Bidirectional Adversarial Autoencoders for the design of Plasmonic Metasurfaces
Deep Learning has been a critical part of designing inverse design methods that are computationally efficient and accurate. An example of this is the design of photonic metasurfaces by using their photoluminescent spectrum as the input data to predict their topology. One fundamental challenge of these systems is their ability to represent nonlinear relationships between sets of data that have different dimensionalities. Existing design methods often implement a conditional Generative Adversaria…

Important new bill in Maryland legislature would, in Montgomery County, ban new covenants that forbid construction of housing units that are otherwise legal, and invalidate such existing covenants if they were put in place before 1958. Video with good explanation of bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_pbL…

Goodbye Passau, goodbye #dhd2024! It has been a very pleasant stay and a great conference filled with exciting presentations and inspiring discussions with a wonderful community! Not to forget the excellent Espresso in Cafe Stopover across the street 😋 Kudos to all the organizers! You did a marvelous job! Hope to see you next year again in Bielefeld!
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Cowboys pick up Micah Parsons’ 5-year option, but at a different position https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_pick_up_micah_parsons_5_year_option_but_at_a_different_position/s1_17100_40065484…

Cowboys pick up Micah Parsons’ 5-year option, but at a different position
The Dallas Cowboys are set to pick up Micah Parsons's fifth-year option, first reported last night by Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News. Yet, it is not as simple as it sounds. Dallas is placing his option as a defensive end instead of a linebacker, by doing so the team will save about $2.7 million. According to Over The Cap , the fifth-year option for linebackers who have made more than one Pro Bowl is projected to be $24,007,000. For comparison, a defensive end who's played in at leas…