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A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, Ethereum's flagship European event, held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/the-ethcc-

Ethereum is powering Wall Street's future. The crypto scene at Cannes shows how far it's come
Ethereum’s institutional adoption is accelerating, with BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Coinbase, and Kraken all building directly on its rails.

Modeling the high-brightness state of the recurrent nova T CrB as an enhanced mass-transfer event
Wagner Schlindwein, Raymundo Baptista, Gerardo Juan Manuel Luna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05098

Modeling the high-brightness state of the recurrent nova T CrB as an enhanced mass-transfer event
T~Coronae Borealis is the nearest symbiotic recurrent nova. Twice in the last two centuries, in 1866 and 1946, the accreted material ignited on the surface of the white dwarf via runaway thermonuclear fusion reactions and produced a nova eruption. Both eruptions occurred approximately midway through a transient state of high luminosity. A possible explanation of such a state is a dwarf-nova-like outburst, which may arise from a transient increase in the mass-transfer rate of the donor star. We …

Event Topology Classifiers at the Large Hadron Collider
Suraj Prasad, Sushanta Tripathy, Bhagyarathi Sahoo, Raghunath Sahoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03782

Event Topology Classifiers at the Large Hadron Collider
Event classifiers are the most fundamental observables to probe the system size and event topology of high-energy collisions. Significant progress has been made to establish suitable event classifiers to probe different physics processes occurring in elementary $e^{+}e^{-}$ to heavy-ion collisions in a range of center of mass energies. One of the major motivations to revisit event classifiers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) originates from the recent measurements of high multiplicity proton-…

At the top of the hour on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEswYc8aFcw a *very* special live event in which music meets space science - in Bochum (Germany), Jaipur (India) and Alexandria (Egypt) ... simultaneously! We just had the - highly successful - premiere, now comes the online encore for the world.

Celebrating Windrush Foundation’s 30th Anniversary event at The Tab Centre, London, SE13 on Saturday, June 21, 2025, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm.
Please arrive at 5:30 pm - (NO ENTRY AFTER 6:30 pm). Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating

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Event-triggered moving horizon estimation for nonlinear systems
This work proposes an event-triggered moving horizon estimation (ET-MHE) scheme for general nonlinear systems. The key components of the proposed scheme are a novel event-triggering mechanism (ETM) and the suitable design of the MHE cost function. The main characteristic of our method is that the MHE's nonlinear optimization problem is only solved when the ETM triggers the transmission of measured data to the remote state estimator. If no event occurs, then the current state estimate results fr…

So, here's where we're at:
Trump said Thursday that he’s thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence.
“We have a lot of land there,” said Trump, a UFC enthusiast who has attended several of its mixed martial arts matches in recent months and is close friends with Dana White, the league’s president.
Trump announced his plan in Iowa during the kickoff for a year’s worth of fest…

Trump wants a UFC fight at the White House
President Donald Trump wants to celebrate 250 years of American independence with a UFC match at the White House. Trump announced the plan Thursday in Iowa during the kickoff event for a year of festivities leading up to that milestone birthday on July 4, 2026. The White House UFC fight would be one of many events held across the country. Trump is a UFC enthusiast who has attended several matches in recent months. The Republican president also announced an athletic competition for high school s…

"Instead of calculators, we could sit at exams with certain books on our desks, filled with logarithm and trigonometry tables, featuring formulae for algebra, calculus, and geometry. French-speaking Swiss students might remember the ubiquitous “Formulaire et Tables” of the “Commissions romandes de mathématiques, de physique et de chimie”, published by the Éditions du Tricorne, that many generations of Swiss students used during their exams."

Banning, Adopting, Reckoning
Last month, OpenAI, the company (in)famous for their ChatGPT product, released a course called "ChatGPT Foundations for K-12 Educators", an event that has raised more than a few eyebrows, and even some outrage. We must have a serious conversation about the value of a bullshit generator in the context of teaching programming skills to new generations.

Beginning my Saturday at the Forum Francophone de la Gouvernance du Numérique et de l’IA in Geneva…
#FFGNIA #AI #InternetGovernance

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A discrete-time survival model to handle interval-censored covariates, with applications to HIV cohort studies
Methods are lacking to handle the problem of survival analysis in the presence of an interval-censored covariate, specifically the case in which the conditional hazard of the primary event of interest depends on the occurrence of a secondary event, the observation time of which is subject to interval censoring. We propose and study a flexible class of discrete-time parametric survival models that handle the censoring problem through simultaneous modeling of the interval-censored secondary event…

"Everyone in the UK must prepare for missile attacks, warns top general"
Here we go again.
It's the 80s again
"Protect and Survive"
Or
"Protest and Survive"?
The first was a government pamphlet that included the advice to whitewash your windows in the event of an imminent nuclear attack.
The second was an EP Thompson pamphlet that helped launch the new wave of demonstrations and other actions against, among other things, …

Everyone in the UK must prepare for missile attacks, warns top general
Britons should learn how to shelter from air raids, possibly in drills with sirens, says ex-military chief Sir Richard Barrons who co-wrote the Strategic Defence Review

masks at protests / demographics
Interestingly, at the May Day gathering I was the only one in a mask.
Thinking about the contrast with the trans protest the other week, where "good" (fitted not floppy) masks were dotted about throughout the crowd, and felt normalised.
Today's march was a less crowded event than the trans protest, so pretty low-risk for covid transmission anyway. But then when we got to the mini-fair after the march, indoors at the Friends' Meeting House, I didn't see anyone masking indoors either.
I wonder about the demographics of that difference. Seems like there's a traditional union/Labour left who share the mainstream denial of present-day covid, and a statistically more disabled & marginalised cohort where trans awareness and disability/illness awareness overlap.
#masks #CovidIsntOver

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BatAnalysis -- A Comprehensive Python Pipeline for Swift BAT Time-Tagged Event Data Analysis
The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is a coded aperture gamma-ray instrument with a large field of view that was designed to detect and localize transient events. When a transient is detected, either on-board or externally, the BAT saves time-tagged event (TTE) data which provides the highest quality information of the locations of the photons on the detector plane and their energies. This data can be used to produce spectra, lightcurves, and sky images of a transient event. While these data …

‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef

Mayfield, Wirfs among Buccaneers to dye hair at 'Cut and Color Funds the Cure' event https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45447231/baker-mayfield-dyes-hair-tampa-bay-buccaneers-fundraising-event

A good counter-explanation from @…, although it’s not entirely consistent with the data: if this were merely aging vehicles, we’d expect to see a slow, steady decline. But we don’t; we see a •very• sharp turnaround that coincides precisely with Musk’s fascism entering full public view, and not with any sort of sudden aging event in the vehicles.
But yes, surely normal depreciation is a contributing factor as well.
https://mstdn.ca/@alessandro/114637425697204963

"Canadian cycling fans no longer have a TV option if they want to watch the Tour de France as it gets underway on Saturday. Streaming service FloSports has the Canadian rights to the event and offers it up to paid subscribers."
#TDF fickU #floSports

Want to make the most of your time around Berlin Buzzwords?
Check out our Satellite Events page to find out about other interesting meet-ups and conferences happening around #bbuzz: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/sate…

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

Google Calendar: I found an event in my calendar for this Thursday, without a title or description, but a specific time (12:20-13:05). It is my private calendar, so I know I created it. So I am probably going to miss something this Thursday, but I don't know what.
What I found interesting is that when I asked Gemini it was able to tell me when I *created* that event, a piece of metadata that is not visible in the Google Calendar UX in any way.

Indiana high school boys track and field state meet results, event winners, record breakers https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/06/06/2025-ihsaa-boys…

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Do maximally entangled states always have an advantage over non-maximally entangled states in Schwarzschild black hole?
It is generally believed that quantum entanglement in the maximally entangled states is greater than quantum entanglement in the non-maximally entangled states under a relativistic setting. In this paper, we study quantum entanglement for four different types of Bell-like states of the fermionic modes near the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole. It is interesting to find that quantum entanglement in the maximally entangled states is less than quantum entanglement in the non-maximally e…

One Million Rising:
Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · Indivisible
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities. That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national…

Welfare Reform: Consequences for the Children
Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper, Jeffrey A. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03927 https://

Welfare Reform: Consequences for the Children
This paper uses register-based data to analyze the consequences of a recent major Danish welfare reform for children's academic performance and well-being. In addition to work requirements, the reform brought about considerable reductions in welfare transfers. We implement a comparative event study that contrasts outcomes for individuals on welfare at the time of reform announcement before and after the implementation of the reform with the parallel development in outcomes for an uncontaminated…

This Wednesday afternoon April 9th from 3-6pm there's an end of life information event at the Westbury Community Centre.
Speakers include myself, the northern Palliative Care Tasmania coordinator and a social worker with palliative care.
There will also be a short film.
I'll be discussing rights, options, choices, and money saving tips.
#tasmania

Bayesian network 3D event reconstruction in the Cygno optical TPC for dark matter direct detection
Fernando Domingues Amaro, Rita Antonietti, Elisabetta Baracchini, Luigi Benussi, Stefano Bianco, Francesco Borra, Cesidio Capoccia, Michele Caponero, Gianluca Cavoto, Igor Abritta Costa, Antonio Croce, Emiliano Dan\'e, Melba D'Astolfo, Giorgio Dho, Flaminia Di Giambattista, Emanuele Di Marco, Giulia D'Imperio, Matteo Folcarelli, Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos, Davide Fior…

Bayesian network 3D event reconstruction in the Cygno optical TPC for dark matter direct detection
The CYGNO experiment is developing a high-resolution gaseous Time Projection Chamber with optical readout for directional dark matter searches. The detector uses a helium-tetrafluoromethane (He:CF$_4$ 60:40) gas mixture at atmospheric pressure and a triple Gas Electron Multiplier amplification stage, coupled with a scientific camera for high-resolution 2D imaging and fast photomultipliers for time-resolved scintillation light detection. This setup enables 3D event reconstruction: photomultiplie…

On Thursday 03.07. I'll have the honor of giving a talk with @… on "Fascist AI" in the "Loops" series of events (https://www.newpractice.net/loops

Loops Series
The Loops Event Series brings together perspectives on Art and Technology in relation to current challenges facing society. The event series is supported by the Berlin University Alliance.

Upcoming Event – Nonconformity and Revolutions:
https://ift.tt/5hFoDup
When: June 21, 2025 in Bath, Somerset, England 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate…
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Upcoming Event - Nonconformity and Revolutions: - American Society of Church History
When: June 21, 2025 in Bath, Somerset, England 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate the American Revolution. Not only a period of geopolitical upheaval, it saw a transformation in the theologies and networks that had shaped eighteenth-century Dissent throughout the British Atlantic world. Notions of liberty and toleration were again brought into relief; events which were…

Memory Hierarchy Design for Caching Middleware in the Age of NVM
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Sandy Irani, Jenny Lam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05071 https://

Memory Hierarchy Design for Caching Middleware in the Age of NVM
Advances in storage technology have introduced Non-Volatile Memory, NVM, as a new storage medium. NVM, along with Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Solid State Disk (SSD), and Disk present a system designer with a wide array of options in designing caching middleware. Moreover, design decisions to replicate a data item in more than one level of a caching memory hierarchy may enhance the overall system performance with a faster recovery time in the event of a memory failure. Given a fixed bud…

it’s a lonely free lunch wednesday at the systems lab #alas

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Uneven Event Modeling for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval
Given a text query, partially relevant video retrieval (PRVR) aims to retrieve untrimmed videos containing relevant moments, wherein event modeling is crucial for partitioning the video into smaller temporal events that partially correspond to the text. Previous methods typically segment videos into a fixed number of equal-length clips, resulting in ambiguous event boundaries. Additionally, they rely on mean pooling to compute event representations, inevitably introducing undesired misalignment…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

"""
The barbarian role of cultural demolition crew is especially important when you consider how often cultural reconstruction is needed. Many of Rome’s glaring defects — exploitation, authoritarianism, corrupt self-aggrandizement — flow from deeply human tendencies. Time and again they’ve transformed promising civilizations into decaying, oppressive monstrosities. Time and again, history seems to cry out: Bring on the demolition crew! And time and again barbarians cheerfully respond to the call. Their previous massive wreaking of destruction, near the end of the second millennium B.C., had come after civilization went through centuries of apparent ossification.
In a way, barbarians are just a special case of that general and potent zero-sum dynamic in cultural evolution: brutal competition among neighboring societies. This rivalry renders ossified cultures vulnerable to a makeover, minor or major. They may be taken over by a vast neighboring civilization, which will revamp them in its image. Or they may be infiltrated and perhaps even disassembled by barbarians, paving the way for future reassembly. Or they may revive and prevail — an example of the “challenge and response” dynamic stressed by Arnold Toynbee. In any event, the point remains the same: however deeply human the tendencies of exploitation, authoritarianism, and self-aggrandizement, cultures that surrender to them may not be long for this world.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)
Is it time for the barbarians now? Or perhaps we — here on Fedi — are the barbarians.

BEAR: BGP Event Analysis and Reporting
Hanqing Li, Melania Fedeli, Vinay Kolar, Diego Klabjan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04514 https://

BEAR: BGP Event Analysis and Reporting
The Internet comprises of interconnected, independently managed Autonomous Systems (AS) that rely on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for inter-domain routing. BGP anomalies--such as route leaks and hijacks--can divert traffic through unauthorized or inefficient paths, jeopardizing network reliability and security. Although existing rule-based and machine learning methods can detect these anomalies using structured metrics, they still require experts with in-depth BGP knowledge of, for example…

Indie game devs who have made roguelikes, have them on Steam and want to be in the Steam Sale that @… is doing in October (you don't have to be a speaker at their conference to get your game in the sale!) - the form must be filled out by August 1, and it's here:

Call for Steam Event Participants 2025
Roguelike Celebration is an annual festival featuring the development, history, community, and play of roguelike games, procedural generation, and related topics. Our Steam event is an extension of the festival that seeks to highlight games from our community as well as games we think our community would like. ✨You don't have to be a speaker to be in the sale, and you don't have to have a game in the sale to be a speaker.✨ To submit your game for consideration, please fill out this form …

Looks like EU funding of #FLOSS will continue: "Open digital infrastructure, from search and identity to cloud and software governance, is now a strategic European priority."

NGI Forum 2025 marks a strategic shift from Next Generation Internet toward the Open Internet Stack
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2025, the flagship event of the European Commission’s NGI initiative, took place in Brussels on 19-20 June, with over 200 on-site participants and many more via web stream. The Forum focused on accelerating the shift from research and experimentation to the deployment of sovereign, open digital infrastructures.

Good Morning #Canada
Last night, we attended a wedding dinner where they celebrated 5 years of marriage, 2 kids, and family finally sharing the event. Marriage trends in Canada are shifting with it happening later or simply deciding on common law. As an institution or cultural phenomenon it may be disappearing.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Marriage
https://madeinca.ca/marriage-statistics-canada/

I'm asserting now that Github has crossed the event horizon into Enterprise Software. Complex enough that any bug is your fault for not reading the right docs and flipping the right configuration flags. The experience will keep getting worse. People will use it because they have to not because they want to. It will become the MS Teams of scm-devops-hosting-stuff.

Nice results and talks at the E-bike City event at ETH: https://ebikecity.baug.ethz.ch/en/events/results-future.html
Summary report [pdf]:

Defining DLT Immutability: A Qualitative Survey of Node Operators
Alex Lynham, Geoff Goodell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02413 https://

Defining DLT Immutability: A Qualitative Survey of Node Operators
Immutability is a core design goal of permissionless public blockchain systems. However, rewrites are more common than is normally understood, and the risk of rewrite, cyberattack, exploit or black swan event is also high. Taking the position that strict immutability is neither possible on these networks nor the observed reality, this paper uses thematic analysis of node operator interviews to examine the limits of immutability in light of rewrite events. The end result is a qualitative definit…

Prospects for PBR detection of KM3-230213A-like events
Angela V. Olinto (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Luis A. Anchordoqui (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Austin Cummings (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Johannes Eser (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Diksha Garg (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Claire Gu\'epin (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Tobias Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), John F. Krizmanic (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Thomas C. Paul (for the JEM-EUS…

Prospects for PBR detection of KM3-230213A-like events
POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) is a scaled-down version of the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) design, optimized to be flown as a payload on one of NASA's sub-orbital super pressure balloons circling the Earth above the southern oceans for a mission duration of more than 20 days. One of the main science objectives of PBR is to follow up astrophysical event alerts in search of neutrinos with very high energy ($10^8 \lesssim E_ν/{\rm GeV} \lesssim 10^{10}$). Of particular…

On the Energy Harvesting IUK/KTN Dissemination Event (2017-07) - Innovate UK funding dissemination event hosted by the Knowledge Transfer Network, London. #microgen - https://www.earth.org.uk…

On the Energy Harvesting IUK/KTN Dissemination Event (2017-07)
Innovate UK funding dissemination event hosted by the Knowledge Transfer Network, London. #microgen

I consider these kinds of events to be nearly useless symbolism, preaching to the choir.
I do accept that these events are useful as means to meet others, but one should not expect these events to have even the slightest impact on the maga/white-nationalist/musk-ites... Nor do I think they have much impact on those who are in "the middle" and do not particularly engage in politics.
"Nearly 1,000 gather at Main Beach to create ‘Resist!’ human banner protesting Trum…

Nearly 1,000 gather at Main Beach to create ‘Resist!’ human banner protesting Trump administration
Around 1,000 people gathered Saturday morning at Santa Cruz Main Beach to spell out the word “Resist!” The event, organized by Indivisible Santa Cruz County, aimed to protest the Trump administration and celebrate Santa Cruz Pride’s 50th anniversary.

Trump took a victory lap during an event in Des Moines, Iowa,
that was officially billed as the start of a year-long celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, in 2026.
But Trump turned the potentially unifying moment into a campaign-style rally,
mocking Joe Biden’s speaking style,
repeating his lie of a stolen election
and lambasting the “fake news” media.
In a policy shift, he said he is willing to let migrant labourers stay in the US if the farmers the…

Shadow constraints of charged black hole with scalar hair and gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals
Lai Zhao, Meirong Tang, Zhaoyi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04971

Shadow constraints of charged black hole with scalar hair and gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals
Black hole (BH) shadow observations and gravitational wave astronomy have become crucial approaches for exploring BH physics and testing gravitational theories in extreme environments. This paper investigates the charged black hole with scalar hair (CBH-SH) derived from the Einstein-Maxwell-conformal coupled scalar (EMCS) theory. We first constrain the parameter space $(Q/M, s/M^2)$ of the BH using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of M87* and Sgr A*. The results show that M87* pro…

Muon-induced fission as a probe of the underlying dynamics in nuclear fission
Christian Ross, A. S. Umar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02191 https://

Muon-induced fission as a probe of the underlying dynamics in nuclear fission
Muon-induced fission could be utilized as a probe to study the underlying dynamics of nuclear fission. The probability of muon attachment to the light asymmetric fission fragment is sensitive to fission dynamics, such as the timescale and friction of the fission event, charge asymmetry, and possibly the shape of the fission fragments. We focus on muonic atoms that are formed with actinide nuclei. A relativistic approach is employed, solving the Dirac equation for the muonic wavefunction in the …

In-Training Multicalibrated Survival Analysis for Healthcare via Constrained Optimization
Thiti Suttaket, Stanley Kok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02807 http…

In-Training Multicalibrated Survival Analysis for Healthcare via Constrained Optimization
Survival analysis is an important problem in healthcare because it models the relationship between an individual's covariates and the onset time of an event of interest (e.g., death). It is important for survival models to be well-calibrated (i.e., for their predicted probabilities to be close to ground-truth probabilities) because badly calibrated systems can result in erroneous clinical decisions. Existing survival models are typically calibrated at the population level only, and thus run the…

🐞 Nebraska residents call for tighter insecticide regulations after contamination event
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/nebraska-residents-call-for-tighter-insecticide-regulations-after-contamination-event/…

Nebraska residents call for tighter insecticide regulations after contamination event
By Shannon Kelleher More than four years after a massive contamination event tied to pesticide-coated farm seeds rocked a rural Nebraska community, environmental and public health advocates are calling on state officials to remove regulatory exemptions for the coated seeds, and to monitor waterways for the pesticide pollutants.

COSINUS -- a model-independent challenge of the DAMA/LIBRA dark matter claim with cryogenic NaI detectors operated in a new low-background facility
G. Angloher (The COSINUS Collaboration), M. R. Bharadwaj (The COSINUS Collaboration), A. B\"ohmer (The COSINUS Collaboration), M. Cababie (The COSINUS Collaboration), I. Colantoni (The COSINUS Collaboration), I. Dafinei (The COSINUS Collaboration), N. Di Marco (The COSINUS Collaboration), C. Dittmar (The COSINUS Collaboration), L. Einf…

COSINUS -- a model-independent challenge of the DAMA/LIBRA dark matter claim with cryogenic NaI detectors operated in a new low-background facility
Low-temperature detectors are a powerful technology for dark matter search, offering excellent energy resolution and low energy thresholds. COSINUS is the only experiment that combines scintillating sodium iodide (NaI) crystals with an additional phonon readout at cryogenic temperatures, using superconducting sensors (remoTES), alongside the conventional scintillation light signal. Via the simultaneous phonon and scintillation light detection, a unique event-by-event particle identification is …

Stop Chasing the C-index: This Is How We Should Evaluate Our Survival Models
Christian Marius Lillelund, Shi-ang Qi, Russell Greiner, Christian Fischer Pedersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02075

Stop Chasing the C-index: This Is How We Should Evaluate Our Survival Models
We argue that many survival analysis and time-to-event models are incorrectly evaluated. First, we survey many examples of evaluation approaches in the literature and find that most rely on concordance (C-index). However, the C-index only measures a model's discriminative ability and does not assess other important aspects, such as the accuracy of the time-to-event predictions or the calibration of the model's probabilistic estimates. Next, we present a set of key desiderata for choosing the ri…

A meaningful prediction of functional decline in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis based on multi-event survival analysis
Christian Marius Lillelund, Sanjay Kalra, Russell Greiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02076

A meaningful prediction of functional decline in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis based on multi-event survival analysis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative disorder of motor neurons that causes progressive paralysis in patients. Current treatment options aim to prolong survival and improve quality of life; however, due to the heterogeneity of the disease, it is often difficult to determine the optimal time for potential therapies or medical interventions. In this study, we propose a novel method to predict the time until a patient with ALS experiences significant functional impairment (ALSFRS-R…

Search for the chiral magnetic effect through beam energy dependence of charge separation using event shape selection
The STAR Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00278

Search for the chiral magnetic effect through beam energy dependence of charge separation using event shape selection
High-energy, heavy-ion collisions can create local domains of chirality-imbalanced quarks, reflecting the topological features of quantum chromodynamics. The chiral magnetic effect (CME) predicts an electric charge separation of quarks in such topological domains along the magnetic field ($\vec{B}$) generated by the passing of two high-$Z$ nuclei. We use a correlation observable $Δγ^{112}$ between charged meson pairs to detect the CME-induced charge separation and a novel event shape selectio…

A Family of Robust Generalized Adaptive Filters and Application for Time-series Prediction
Yi Peng, Haiquan Zhao, Jinhui Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00397

A Family of Robust Generalized Adaptive Filters and Application for Time-series Prediction
The continuous development of new adaptive filters (AFs) based on novel cost functions (CFs) is driven by the demands of various application scenarios and noise environments. However, these algorithms typically demonstrate optimal performance only in specific conditions. In the event of the noise change, the performance of these AFs often declines, rendering simple parameter adjustments ineffective. Instead, a modification of the CF is necessary. To address this issue, the robust generalized ad…

Brown is celebrating 60 years of pioneering research in planetary science. An amazing list of speakers from great scientists to great communicators (like Andrew Chaikin, Emily Lakdawalla). Free!
https://events.brown.edu/earth-environ

Brown in Orbit: 60+ Years of Planetary Sciences at Brown
Join the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown for a two-day symposium of the Planetary Sciences and Brown’s leaders...

Event-based Stereo Visual-Inertial Odometry with Voxel Map
Zhaoxing Zhang, Xiaoxiang Wang, Chengliang Zhang, Yangyang Guo, Zikang Yuan, Xin Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23078

Event-based Stereo Visual-Inertial Odometry with Voxel Map
The event camera, renowned for its high dynamic range and exceptional temporal resolution, is recognized as an important sensor for visual odometry. However, the inherent noise in event streams complicates the selection of high-quality map points, which critically determine the precision of state estimation. To address this challenge, we propose Voxel-ESVIO, an event-based stereo visual-inertial odometry system that utilizes voxel map management, which efficiently filter out high-quality 3D poi…

How do I know May Day is gonna be big? I'm going to be able to join an event in Studio City
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! https://www.

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First study of neutrino angle reconstruction using quasielastic-like interactions in MicroBooNE
We investigate the expected precision of the reconstructed neutrino direction using a νμ-argon quasielastic-like event topology with one muon and one proton in the final state and the reconstruction capabilities of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber. This direction is of importance in the context of DUNE sub-GeV atmospheric oscillation studies. MicroBooNE allows for a data-driven quantification of this resolution by investigating the deviation of the reconstructed muon-proton…

📝 #NoKings Event in Syracuse
https://indigenousvalues.org/event-the-doctrine-of-christian-discovery-the-jesuits-and-laudato-si-defending-mother-earth/
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#Energie #Energiewende Am 12.7. macht die @… mal wieder Onlinevortrag, dieses mal aber für ein internationales Publikum. Darum einmal vormittags und ein…

HST pre-imaging of a free-floating planet candidate microlensing event
Mateusz Kapusta, Przemek Mroz, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Andrzej Udalski, Szymon Kozlowski, Sean Terry, Michal K. Szymanski, Igor Soszynski, Pawel Pietrukowicz, Radoslaw Poleski, Jan Skowron, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Mariusz Gromadzki, Krzysztof Rybicki, Patryk Iwanek, Marcin Wrona, Mateusz J. Mr\'oz, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Cheongho Han, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer…

HST pre-imaging of a free-floating planet candidate microlensing event
High-cadence microlensing observations uncovered a population of very short-timescale microlensing events, which are believed to be caused by the population of free-floating planets (FFP) roaming the Milky Way. Unfortunately, the light curves of such events are indistinguishable from those caused by wide-orbit planets. To properly differentiate both cases, one needs high-resolution observations that would allow resolving a putative luminous companion to the lens long before or after the event. …

Workshop on authoritarianism, law, and the remaking of society
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Workshop on authoritarianism, law, and the remaking of society
Date: 19 June 2025 to 20 June 2025Time: 10:00 amVenue: Room S312 (Paul Webley Wing), SOAS, University of LondonEvent type: ConferenceRegistration: The event is free to attend. Click here to register. Join us for a 2 day workshop that seeks to draw attention to the social life of laws used by authoritarian states and leaders to change the composition of societies.Download programmeScheduleRegister here to attend.

I'll be Riding the Cyclone again July 11th if anyone wants to join.
https://nctcsf.org/event/ride-the-cyclone-returns

Ride the Cyclone Returns!

I will be running a navigation workshop at The Overland Event, 28th - 31st August near Oxford.
This is such a great place to hear stories of adventure. The speaker list is the biggest over ever seen.
https://www.overlandevent.com/overland

Overview | The Overland Event | Motorcycle Travel Event
If you're interested in motorcycle travel, the Overland Event is the one show you won't want to miss. Conceived and planned by the people who bring you the quarterly Overland Magazine, the Overland Events are designed to excite...

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

Pope Leo tells the Giro he is going to ride stage next year and will win!
#giroditalia2025

Iola Walker: A Mobile Footfall Detection System for Music Composition
Will James
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01211 https://arxiv.org/p…

Iola Walker: A Mobile Footfall Detection System for Music Composition
This project is the first of several experiments composing music that changes in response to biosignals. The system is dubbed "iola walker" in reference to a common polyrhythm, the hemiola. A listener goes for a walk, and the Iola Walker app detects their walking pace. Iola Walker picks up footfalls using a foot-mounted accelerometer, processing the signals in real time using a recurrent neural network in an Android app. The Android app outputs a MIDI event for each footfall. The iola walker pl…

Simplicial methods in the resource theory of contextuality
Aziz Kharoof, Cihan Okay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24010 https://arxiv.or…

Simplicial methods in the resource theory of contextuality
We develop a resource theory of contextuality within the framework of symmetric monoidal categories, extending recent simplicial approaches to quantum contextuality. Building on the theory of simplicial distributions, which integrates homotopy-theoretic structures with probability, we introduce event scenarios as a functorial generalization of presheaf-theoretic measurement scenarios and prove their equivalence to bundle scenarios via the Grothendieck construction. We define symmetric monoidal …

My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.

My Garden of a Thousand Bees
New PBS documentary following wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he films more than 60 species of bees in his urban garden in Bristol, England, during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown.

Las Vegas Raiders celebrate success of 5th annual INSPIRE event held at Intermountain Health Performance Center, presented by Allegiant https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-rai

Comparing the Performance of MC/DC's on-GPU Event-based Processing Methods in Multigroup and Continuous-energy Problems
Braxton Cuneo, Joanna Piper Morgan, Ilham Variansyah, Kyle E. Niemeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00263

Comparing the Performance of MC/DC's on-GPU Event-based Processing Methods in Multigroup and Continuous-energy Problems
Monte Carlo / Dynamic Code (MC/DC) is a portable Monte Carlo neutron transport package for rapid numerical methods exploration in heterogeneous and HPC contexts, developed under the auspices of the Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport (CEMeNT). To support execution on GPUs, MC/DC delegates resource and execution management to Harmonize (another CEMeNT software project). In this paper, we describe and compare the performance of the two methods that Harmonize currently provides: a st…

The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). Long-term spectral variability study of the changing look AGN Mrk 1018
T. Saha, M. Krumpe, A. Markowitz, M. Powell, G. Leung, F. Combes, R. E. McElroy, J. S. Elford, M. Gaspari, N. Winkel, A. L. Coil, T. Urrutia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03061

The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS). Long-term spectral variability study of the changing look AGN Mrk 1018
Changing-look AGNs (CLAGN) are accreting supermassive black hole systems that undergo variations in optical spectral type, driven by major changes in accretion rate. Mrk 1018 has undergone two transitions, a brightening event in the 1980s and a transition back to a faint state over the course of 2-3 years in the early 2010s. We characterize the evolving physical properties of the source's inner accretion flow, particularly during the bright-to-faint transition, as well as the morphological prop…

Ah fuck, people are using LLMs for kernel code. They really are going to fuck over everything, aren't they?
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026558/9f3079fb392c4a9a/

The catering for dinner at the Weeffabriek for the #tdose event were kind of confused/taken by surprise when I asked for the #vegan options. IIRC there should have been at leat one other vegan?
There was fries, rice, and salad (and a choice of animal cruelty "of course"). One of them tried to convin…

Two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams spoke at the event,
denouncing efforts by the Trump administration to strip the names of activists from Navy vessels, including possibly Medgar Evers.
“They want to take his name off a boat because they don’t want us to have a reminder of how far he sailed us forward,” Abrams told the conference crowd.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has undertaken an effort to change the names of ships a…

Activists honor assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers' birthday
Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963. The 2025 Democracy in Action Convening, a four-day conference, celebrated Evers last week. Former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams headlined the four-day conference. Abrams, also a voting rights activist, railed against recent actions by President Donald Trump’s administration and denoun…

Quantized Dissipative Uncertain Model for Fractional T_S Fuzzy systems with Time_Varying Delays Under Networked Control System
Muhammad Shamrooz Aslam, Hazrat Bilal, Sumeera Shamrooz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02788

Quantized Dissipative Uncertain Model for Fractional T_S Fuzzy systems with Time_Varying Delays Under Networked Control System
This paper addressed with the quantized dissipative uncertain problem for delayed fractional T_S Fuzzy system for event_triggered networked systems (E_NS), where the extended dissipativity analysis combines the H infinity, dissipativity, L2 and L infinity and passivity performance in a unified frame. To attain the high efficiency for available channel resources, measurement size decrease mechanism and event_triggered scheme (ETS) are proposed. Firstly, we present the ETS in which signal is tran…

I also see that the FFOTUS Imperial parade is being designated a "National Security Event", meaning they expect an elevated risk of terrorist events.
From whom? I suspect foreign interests, like neo-ISIS, are quite happy with the way that FFOTUS is dis-assembling the US - Bin Laden must be quite proud of what FFOTUS Musk miller/noem ... are doing to the USA. So why would they bother attacking this silly (and expensive) parade that makes the US look like it is doing a spin-o…

evMLP: An Efficient Event-Driven MLP Architecture for Vision
Zhentan Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01927 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

evMLP: An Efficient Event-Driven MLP Architecture for Vision
Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable results in computer vision tasks. In the early days, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) were the mainstream architecture. In recent years, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become increasingly popular. In addition, exploring applications of multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) has provided new perspectives for research into vision model architectures. In this paper, we present evMLP accompanied by a simple event-driven local update mechanism. The proposed…

📉 Chart of the Week: 'Dire Picture' for BTC Miners as Revenue Flatlines Near Record Low
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/20/chart-of-the-day-dire-picture-for-btc-miners-as-revenue-flatlines-near-r…

Chart of the Week: 'Dire Picture' for BTC Miners as Revenue Flatlines Near Record Low
Despite bitcoin trading around $84,000, miner revenue has decreased due to the recent halving event and rising operational costs.

Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the KM3NeT Event?
Lua F. T. Airoldi, Gustavo F. S. Alves, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Gabriel M. Salla, Renata Zukanovich Funchal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24666

Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the KM3NeT Event?
A black hole is expected to end its lifetime in a cataclysmic runaway burst of Hawking radiation, emitting all Standard Model particles with ultra-high energies. Thus, the explosion of a nearby primordial black hole (PBH) has been proposed as a possible explanation for the $\sim 220$ PeV neutrino-like event recently reported by the KM3NeT collaboration. Assuming a PBH origin, we find that the source would need to lie at a distance of approximately $4 \times 10^{-5}$ pc, i.e., within the Solar S…

Accessing proton number fluctuations in limited regions of phase space
Piotr Bozek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04029 https://arxiv.org…

Accessing proton number fluctuations in limited regions of phase space
In heavy ion collisions particle distributions fluctuate from event to event. It is interesting to study local fluctuations of a specific particle specie, e.g. baryons, in the transverse plane. Fluctuations of the harmonic flow provide an integrated measure of such fluctuations. An alternative approach is to study proton number fluctuations measured in a relatively narrow azimuthal angle window. Due to the transverse flow, particles registered in a narrow azimuthal angle window are emitted pred…

Charge Separation Measurements in Au Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 7.7--200 GeV in Search of the Chiral Magnetic Effect
The STAR Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00275

Charge Separation Measurements in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$ 7.7--200 GeV in Search of the Chiral Magnetic Effect
The chiral magnetic effect in heavy-ion collisions predicts a charge separation signal along a magnetic field, which indicates local $P$ and $CP$ violations in the quark-gluon plasma. We report measurements of electric charge separation signals perpendicular to the spectator event plane in Au+Au collisions using high-statistics data from RHIC Beam Energy Scan II and top-energy runs. A novel event shape selection method is employed to suppress the flow-induced background. The residual charge sep…

Neural Networks for Parameter Estimation of the Discretely Observed Hawkes Process
Jason J. Lambe, Feng Chen, Tom Stindl, Tsz-Kit Jeffrey Kwan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01258

Neural Networks for Parameter Estimation of the Discretely Observed Hawkes Process
When the sample path of a Hawkes process is observed discretely, such that only the total event counts in disjoint time intervals are known, the likelihood function becomes intractable. To overcome the challenge of likelihood-based inference in this setting, we propose to use a likelihood-free approach to parameter estimation, where a fully connected neural network (NN) is trained using simulated data to estimate the parameters of the Hawkes process from a summary statistic of the count data. A…

It's still more than 3 months away - September 15, "Birmingham Sunday".
Under the white-nationalist/maga reign I am wondering whether this event will this year be remember or recapitulated.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/baptist…

Las Vegas Raiders celebrate success of 5th annual INSPIRE event held at Intermountain Health Performance Center, presented by Allegiant https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-rai

To my local peeps in #Georgia, US. The wife and I went to this last night and it was AMAZING. They only have one more weekend this year, but they will be back next year. Impressive production value, world class performers and artists. The guy operating the dragon is from Jim Henson studios (and worked with Henson back in the day). I can't say enough good things about this.

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Thermodynamics and Shadows of Kerr black holes endowed with a global monopole charge
Balendra Pratap Singh, Md Sabir Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02653 h…

Thermodynamics and Shadows of Kerr black holes endowed with a global monopole charge
In this article, we present the thermodynamic and shadow properties of rotating black holes with global monopole charge. The angular diameter of Sgr A$^{*}$ black hole is 48.7 $\pm$ 7 $μas$, which is 8 $kps$ far away having a mass of $M = 4.0_{-0.6}^{+1.1} \times 10^6 M\odot$ as observed by Event Horizon Telescope and for the M87 black hole, the observed angular diameter is $θ_d = 42 \pm 3 μ$as, which is almost $16$ $Mpc$ far away with a mass of $M = (6.5 \pm 0.7) \times 10^9 M_\odot$. The g…

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Large Cold Dust Reservoir Revealed in Transitional SN Ib 2014C by James Webb Space Telescope Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
Supernova (SN) 2014C is a rare transitional event that exploded as a hydrogen-poor, helium-rich Type Ib SN and subsequently interacted with a hydrogen-rich circumstellar medium (CSM) a few months post-explosion. This unique interacting object provides an opportunity to probe the mass-loss history of a stripped-envelope SN progenitor. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we observed SN 2014C with the Mid-Infrared Instrument Medium Resolution Spectrometer at 3477 days post-explosion (rest…

I just updated the prints on my office door to reflect the kind of photos (particularly event photos) that I am taking now -- as well the the new system which supersedes "three sided cards" that attains better branding in every respect except that it doesn't have a name (yet) #photo #photography

Advancements in Computing and Simulation Techniques for the HIBEAM-NNBAR Experiment
Bernhard Meirose, Jorge Amaral, Alexander Burgman, Matthias Holl, Ernesto Kemp, Adam Kozela, David Milstead, Andr\'e Nepomuceno, Anders Oskarsson, Krzysztof Pysz, Valentina Santoro, Tiago Quirino, Blahoslav Rataj, Gabriel Silva, Samuel Silverstein, Magnus Wolke, Lucas {\AA}strand

Advancements in Computing and Simulation Techniques for the HIBEAM-NNBAR Experiment
The HIBEAM-NNBAR program is a proposed two-stage experiment at the European Spallation Source focusing on searches for baryon number violation processes as well as ultralight dark matter. This paper presents recent advancements in computing and simulation, including machine learning for event selection, fast parametric simulations for detector studies, and detailed modeling of the time projection chamber and readout electronics.

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MTevent: A Multi-Task Event Camera Dataset for 6D Pose Estimation and Moving Object Detection
Mobile robots are reaching unprecedented speeds, with platforms like Unitree B2, and Fraunhofer O3dyn achieving maximum speeds between 5 and 10 m/s. However, effectively utilizing such speeds remains a challenge due to the limitations of RGB cameras, which suffer from motion blur and fail to provide real-time responsiveness. Event cameras, with their asynchronous operation, and low-latency sensing, offer a promising alternative for high-speed robotic perception. In this work, we introduce MTeve…

To my local peeps in #Georgia, US. The wife and I went to this last night and it was AMAZING. They only have one more weekend this year, but they will be back next year. Impressive production value, world class performers and artists. The guy operating the dragon is from Jim Henson studios (and worked with Henson back in the day). I can't say enough good things about this.

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An enchanting immersive theatre show experience. Check available tickets Don’t miss the immersive event of the year! An enchanting immersive theatre show experience. Check available tickets Don’t miss the immersive event of the year! Step into the world of Mirth & Mischief… An unforgettable fantasy-themed immersive theatre experience that takes place in a Renaissance-style castle […]

The design of the museum has morphed over the years, from a dark, curvaceous amoeba-like form that echoed the nearby La Brea Tar Pits to a design that retains the curves up top but shifts to rectilinear glass on the galleries level below
After five years of construction, so much debate about its scale, design and ambitions, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art held its first event Thursday night inside the Peter Zumthor-designed building

LACMA opens its new building for a sneak peak: Photos from the first preview
Los Angeles County Museum of Art's long-awaited David Geffen Galleries building opens for a sneak peak Thursday -- the first look inside the raw, empty interior of architect Peter Zumthor's poured concrete creation.

Hybrid methods for missing categorical covariates in Cox model
Abdoulaye Dioni, Lynne Moore, Aida Eslami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00151 https://

Hybrid methods for missing categorical covariates in Cox model
Survival analysis aims to explore the relationship between covariates and the time until the occurrence of an event. The Cox proportional hazards model is commonly used for right-censored data, but it is not strictly limited to this type of data. However, the presence of missing values among the covariates, particularly categorical ones, can compromise the validity of the estimates. To address this issue, various classical methods for handling missing data have been proposed within the Cox mode…

LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA neutron star merger candidate S250206dm: Zwicky Transient Facility observations
Tom\'as Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Mattia Bulla, Vaidehi Gupta, Mansi Kasliwal, Robert Stein, Viraj Karambelkar, Eric C. Bellm, Theophile Jegou du Laz, Michael W. Coughlin, Igor Andreoni, Smaranika Banerjee, Aleksandra Bochenek, K-Ryan Hinds, Lei Hu, Antonella Palmese, Daniel Perley, Natalya Pletskova, Anirudh Salgundi, Avinash Singh, Jesper Sollerman, Vishwajeet Swain, Avery Wold, Varun Bh…

LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA neutron star merger candidate S250206dm: Zwicky Transient Facility observations
We present the searches conducted with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in response to S250206dm, a bona fide event with a false alarm rate of one in 25 years, detected by the International Gravitational Wave Network (IGWN). Although the event is significant, the nature of the compact objects involved remains unclear, with at least one likely neutron star. ZTF covered 68% of the localization region, though we did not identify any likely optical counterpart. We describe the ZTF strategy, pote…

Flexible Selective Inference with Flow-based Transport Maps
Sifan Liu, Snigdha Panigrahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01150 https://arx…

Flexible Selective Inference with Flow-based Transport Maps
Data-carving methods perform selective inference by conditioning the distribution of data on the observed selection event. However, existing data-carving approaches typically require an analytically tractable characterization of the selection event. This paper introduces a new method that leverages tools from flow-based generative modeling to approximate a potentially complex conditional distribution, even when the underlying selection event lacks an analytical description -- take, for example,…

Long-Term Optical Follow Up of S231206cc: Multi-Model Constraints on BBH Merger Emission in AGN Disks
P. Darc, C. R. Bom, C. D. Kilpatrick, A. Souza Santos, B. Fraga, J. C. Rodr\'iguez-Ram\'irez, D. A. Coulter, C. Mendes de Oliveira, A. Kanaan, T. Ribeiro, W. Schoenell, E. A. D. Lacerda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02224…

Long-Term Optical Follow Up of S231206cc: Multi-Model Constraints on BBH Merger Emission in AGN Disks
The majority of gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaboration originate from binary black hole (BBH) mergers, for which no confirmed electromagnetic counterparts have been identified to date. However, if such mergers occur within the disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), they may generate observable optical flares induced by relativistic jet activity and shock-heated gas. We present results from a long-term optical follow-up of the gravitational wave event S…

The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project: V. Search for transient radio emission from Galactic magnetars
A. Geminardi, P. Esposito, G. Bernardi, M. Pilia, D. Pelliciari, G. Naldi, D. Dallacasa, R. Turolla, L. Stella, F. Perini, F. Verrecchia, C. Casentini, M. Trudu, R. Lulli, A. Maccaferri, A. Magro, A. Mattana, G. Bianchi, G. Pupillo, C. Bortolotti, M. Tavani, M. Roma, M. Schiaffino, G. Setti

The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project: V. Search for transient radio emission from Galactic magnetars
Context. The radio emission from magnetars is poorly understood and poorly characterized observationally, in particular for what concerns single pulses and sporadic events. The interest in it was boosted by the detection in 2020 of an extremely bright ms radio signal from the Galactic magnetar designated Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) SGR J1935+2154, which occurred almost simultaneously with a typical magnetar short burst of X-rays. As of now, this event remains the Galactic radio pulse that is the …

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Prompt Periodicity in the GRB 211211A Precursor: Black-hole or magnetar engine?
The merger origin long GRB 211211A was a class (re-)defining event. A precursor was identified with a $\sim 1$ s separation from the main burst, as well as a claimed candidate quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) with a frequency $\sim20$ Hz. Here, we explore the implications of the precursor, assuming the quasi-periodicity is real. The precursor variability timescale requires relativistic motion with a Lorentz factor $Γ\gtrsim80$, and implies an engine driven jetted outflow. The declining amplitu…

Probing the detectability of electromagnetic signatures from Galactic isolated black holes
Javier Rodrigo Martinez, Valenti Bosch Ramon, Florencia Laura Vieyro, Santiago del Palacio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23427

Probing the detectability of electromagnetic signatures from Galactic isolated black holes
Context: A large number of isolated black holes (IBHs) are expected to populate the Galaxy. However, only one has been confirmed by the analysis of a microlensing event, and no confirmed emission detection from an IBH has been reported so far. Aims: We analysed the detectability of electromagnetic signatures from IBHs moving in the Galaxy. Methods: We considered accretion from the interstellar medium onto an IBH and assumed the formation of an outflow. We modelled the accretion process and th…

Chasing Serendipity: Tackling Transient Sources with Neutrino Telescopes
Lua F. T. Airoldi, Gustavo F. S. Alves, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Gabriel M. Salla, Renata Zukanovich Funchal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24652

Chasing Serendipity: Tackling Transient Sources with Neutrino Telescopes
The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos by IceCube marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy. Yet, the origin and production mechanisms of these neutrinos remain open questions. With the recent observation of the highest-energy neutrino event to date by the KM3NeT collaboration, transient sources - astrophysical objects that emit particles in brief, localized bursts - have emerged as promising candidates. In this work, we revisit the identification of such sources in IceCube and future ne…