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S9 refers to a particular situation • Result function: a function that describes the new situation resulting from taking an action in another situation. • Result(MoveNorth, S1) = S6 Lecture 10 • 15 So we can say things like "at robot Room Six" in "situations 9". More ordinarily, we would have said at(robot,room6)...
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objects] and use them as predicate arguments. • At(Robot, Room6, S9) where S9 refers to a particular situation • Result function: a function that describes the new situation resulting from taking an action in another situation. • Result(MoveNorth, S1) = S6 • Effect Axioms: what is the effect of taking an action i...
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situation that results from doing the drop action in situation s. You can see the power of the logical representation in these axioms. We’re able to say things about a very large, or possibly infinite set of situations, without enumerating them. 18 Situation Calculus • Reify situations: [reify = name, treat them ...
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objects] and use them as predicate arguments. • At(Robot, Room6, S9) where S9 refers to a particular situation • Result function: a function that describes the new situation resulting from taking an action in another situation. • Result(MoveNorth, S1) = S6 • Effect Axioms: what is the effect of taking an action i...
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x.s. color(x,s) = color(x, Result(Grab, s)) • ∀ • Can be included in Effect axioms Lecture 10 • 21 It turns out that there's a solution to the problem of having to talk about all the actions and what doesn’t change when you do them. You can read it in the book where they're talking about successor-state axioms. Y...
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in s0 and it’s not holding gold, but it is holding rope, and so on. 24 Planning in Situation Calculus • Use theorem proving to find a plan • Goal state: ∃ • Initial state: At(Home, s0) Æ s. At(Home, s) Æ Holding(Gold, s) Holding(Gold, s0) Æ ¬ Holding(Rope, s0) … • Plan: Result(North, Result(Grab, Result(Sou...
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of the construction of that situation what the actions should be. • First, move South, then Grab and then move North. Lecture 10 • 26 Note that we’re effectively planning for a potentially huge class of initial states at once. We’ve proved that, no matter what state we start in, as long as it satisfies the initia...
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, and we're going to take advantage of some special properties of the planning problem to do it fairly efficiently. So, what special properties of planning can we take advantage of? 28 Special Properties of Planning • Reducing specific planning problem to general problem of theorem proving is not efficient. • We...
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to make your plan for going to Tahiti actually in the order that you're going to execute it, necessarily. Right? If you did that, you might have to consider all the different taxis you could ride in, and that would take you a long time, and then for each taxi, you think about, "Well, then how do I...." You don't wa...
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planning algorithm. We'll be very restrictive in the language that we can use to talk about goals and states and actions and so on. We'll be able to relax some of those restrictions later on. 32 STRIPS representations Lecture 10 • 33 Now we're going to talk about something called STRIPS representation. STRIPS is...
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we don't say whether Door 1 is open or closed, and so that means Door 1 could be either. And when we make a plan, it has to be a plan that would work in either case. 34 STRIPS representations • States: conjunctions of ground literals • In(robot, r3) Æ Closed(door6) Æ … • Goals: conjunctions of literals • (impli...
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3) Æ Closed(door6) Æ … • Goals: conjunctions of literals • (implicit r) In(Robot, r) Æ In(Charger, r) ∃ • Actions (operators) • Name (implicit ): ∀ Go(here, the re) • Preconditions: conjunction of literals – At(here) Æ path(here, there) Lecture 10 • 37 The preconditions are also a conjunction of literals. A...
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very special way, we don't have to explicitly, have arguments that describe the situation, because, implicitly, an operator description says, "If these things are true, and I do this action, then these things will be true in the resulting situation." But the idea of a situation as a changing thing is really built in...
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database and see if they were there or not. STRIPS is at one extreme of simplicity in inference, and situation calculus is at the other, complex extreme. Now, people are building systems that live somewhere in the middle. But it's useful to see what the simple case is like. 39 Strips Example Let's talk about a pa...
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there be a path between x and y. We’ll assume that you can get from anywhere to anywhere else. 43 Strips Example • Action • Buy(x, store) – Pre: At(store), Sells(store, x) – Eff: Have(x) • Go(x, y) – Pre: At(x) – Eff: At(y), ¬ At(x) • Goal • Have(Milk) Æ Have(Banana) Æ Have(Drill) OK, now let's imagine th...
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go to any possible location in our domain. There might be a lot of places you could go, which would generate a huge branching factor. And then you can buy stuff. Think of all the things you could buy -- right? – there’s potentially an incredible number of things you could buy. So, the branching factor, when you hav...
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if I want this to be true in the last step, what had to have been true on the next to the last step, so that "buy milk" would put me in that circumstance? "Well, we have to be at a store, and that store has to sell milk. And we also have to already have bananas and a drill.” 47 Planning Algorithms • Progression p...
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,store) At(store) Æ Sells(store,M) Æ Have(B) Æ Have(D) • Both have problem of lack of direction – what action or goal to pursue next. Lecture 10 • 49 But anyway, you're going to see that if you try to build the planner based on this principle, that, again, you're going to get into trouble because it's hard to se...
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. 51 Plan-Space Search • Situation space – both progressive and regressive planners plan in space of situations • Plan space – start with null plan and add steps to plan until it achieves the goal • Decouples planning order from execution order Lecture 10 • 52 Now you can de- couple the order in which you do t...
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what actions before thinking about what order to do the actions • Means-ends analysis – Try to match the available means to the current ends Lecture 10 • 54 Plan-space search also lets us do means-end analysis. That is to say, that you can look at what the plan is trying to do, look at the means that you have ava...
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This may just be a partial order (that is, it doesn’t have to specify whether j comes before k or k comes before j), but it does have to be consistent (so it can’t say that j comes before k and k comes before j). 57 Partially Ordered Plan • Set of steps (instance of an operator) • Set of ordering constraints Si ...
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"Step I achieved pre- condition C for Step J." So, if I have to have money in order to buy the bananas, then I might have a "go to the bank" action and a "buy bananas" action and I would put, during the bookkeeping and planning, I would put this link in there that says: The reason I have the go-to-the-bank action in...
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to set things up. 63 Initial Plan • Steps: {start, finish} • Ordering: {start < finish} • start • Pre: none • Effects: start conditions • finish • Pre: goal conditions • Effects: none And there's a special final action, "finish", that has as its pre-conditions the goal condition, and it has no effect. So, ...
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is complete iff every precondition of every step is achieved by some other step. • Si �c Sj (“step I achieves c for step j”) iff • Si < Sj For Step I to achieve C for step J, SI has to come before SJ, right? It's part of the notion of achievement, Lecture 10 • 68 68 Plan Completeness • A plan is complete iff e...
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So, there’s no step that can mess up our effect that could possible intervene between when we achieve it with si and when we need it at sj. 70 Plan Completeness • A plan is complete iff every precondition of every step is achieved by some other step. • Si �c Sj (“step I achieves c for step j”) iff • Si < Sj ...
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10 • 72 For a plan to be consistent, it is enough for the temporal ordering constraints to be consistent (we can’t have I before j and j before I) and for the variable binding constraints to be consistent (we can’t require two constants to be equal). 72 PO Plan Example Lecture 10 • 73 Let us just spend a few m...
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causal link that says we are going to use this effect of have(Milk) to satisfy the precondition have(Milk) in the finish step. Lecture 10 • 76 76 PO Plan Example start Sells(SM, M) Sells(SM,B) At(H) At(x1) Sells(x1,M) Buy (M,x1) Have(M) Have(M) Have(B) finish Lecture 10 • 77 Every causal link also implies ...
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Have(B) Have(M) Have(B) finish Lecture 10 • 80 Now, a relatively straightforward thing to do is satisfy sells(x1,Milk) by constraining x1 to be the supermarket. We add a variable binding constraint, saying that x1 is equal to the supermarket. And that allows us to put a causal link between Sells(SM,M) in the eff...
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At(x3) GO (x3,SM) At(SM) At(x1) Sells(x1,M) At(x2) Sells(x2, B) Buy (M,x1) Have(M) Buy (B,x2) Have(B) Have(M) Have(B) finish The effect of at(SM) can be used to satisfy both preconditions, so we add causal links to the at preconditions and temporal links to the buy actions. Lecture 10 • 83 83 PO Plan Exa...
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(H) At(x3) GO (x3,SM) At(SM) At(x1) Sells(x1,M) At(x2) Sells(x2, B) Buy (M,x1) Have(M) Buy (B,x2) Have(B) Have(M) Have(B) finish We can add a causal link from the At(home) effect of start to this precondition, and we’re done! Lecture 10 • 86 86 x1 = SM x2 = SM x3 = H PO Plan Example start Sells(SM,...
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3.46 PHOTONIC MATERIALS AND DEVICES Lecture 3: System Design: Time and Wavelength Division Multiplexing Lecture DWDM Components CATV → 1 amp/1000 homes Fiber (α = 0.2 dB/km) core: d = 8 μm clad: d = 125 μm Δn = 0.5% Dispersion control: D↓ Δn ⇒ o r o r Amplifier (EDFA) SiO2 : Er (100 ppm) More BW Al2O3 d...
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3 of 4 Lecture Notes Splitters & Combiners Out 1 L/2 R L π 2= / Out 2 rectional Di couplers In Out 2 (a) In Out 1 (b) (c) A Fabry-Perot interferometer: (a) free- space propagation, (b) waveguide analog, and (c) transmission response. 3.46 Photonic Materials and Devices Prof. Lionel C. Kimerling ...
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System Architecture IAP Lecture 2 Ed Crawley January 11, 2007 Rev 2.0 Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 1 Today’s Topics (cid:122) Definitions - Reflections (cid:122) Form (cid:122) Function (cid:122) Reference PDP - “In the Small” Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 2 ¿ Ref...
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language - nouns) • Code • Illustrations, schematics, drawings • Each discipline has developed shorthand for representing their discipline specific form But the form is the actual suggested physical/informational embodiment. Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 7 Duality of Physical and Informati...
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:122) There is also a backward direction relation. (cid:122) Usually it is only necessary to show one, and the other is implicit. Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 11 Structural Link Examples Chair Data Disk Is under Is stored in n Table Array contacts 25 Blades Spatial (under) Topological (wit...
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Implementation Structure - Whistle - “List” Bump Channel Ramp Hole Step Cavity Mech. integral Mech. integral Mech. integral Bump Channel Ramp Hole Step Cavity Mech. integral Mech. integral Mech. Integral Mech. integral Mech. integral Mech. integral Mech. integral Mech. Integral (cid:122) “N-squared” matri...
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of form)? Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 Figure by MIT OCW. 17 The Whole Product System Figure by MIT OCW. (cid:122) We usually architect form which is both a product and a system, and which we designate the product/system (cid:122) Often for the product/system to deliver value, it must be j...
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this is not a problem? Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 20 Use Context Figure by MIT OCW. (cid:122) The whole product system fits within a use context, which included the objects normally present when the whole product operates, but not necessary for it to deliver value (cid:122) The product/s...
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2) by an interface It is good practice to draw the system boundary clearly on any product/system representation, and identify interfaces explicitly Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 23 Camera - Whole Product & Boundaries Supplied with camera Memory Card Wrist Strap Digital Digital Camera Batter...
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2)What are the boundaries? (cid:122)What are the interfaces? Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 26 Amp - Whole Product System Boundary and Interfaces (cid:122) (cid:122) In the matrix representation, the boundary is between rows and columns Interfaces are clearly identified in the block...
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x e t x Implementation Interfaces 1 r o t i s e r x t t resitor 1 resistor 2 op amp +input interface -input interface output interface ground interface -5 V interface +5 V interface input circuit output circuit power supply ground t = touching, tangent b = boundary w = within, s = surrounding ov = overlapping da = at a...
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(cid:122)What is the use context? (cid:122)What are the boundaries? (cid:122)What are the interfaces? Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 29 Bubblesort - Whole Product Boundary and Interfaces (cid:122) The structural interfaces in software determine sequence and nesting, and compilation (cid...
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Static Graphical User Interface - Whole Product? (cid:122)What is the whole product system (cid:122)What is the use context? (cid:122)What are the boundaries? (cid:122)What are the interfaces? Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 Courtesy of ENPHO. Used with permission. 31 Form of Whole Product - ...
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which exists, or has the potential to exist (cid:122) Objects + Structure (of form) (cid:122) Is a system attribute, created by the architect (cid:122) Product/system form combines with other supporting systems (with which it interfaces at the boundary) to form the whole product system that creates value Massachuset...
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Otto] (cid:122) Process is a transformation (creation or change) applied to one or more objects in the system [Dori] Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 40 Function is Associate with Form (cid:122) Change voltage proportional to current (cid:122) Change voltage proportional to charge (cid:122) Re...
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_array) for i=1 to length_of_array for j=1 to length_of_array - i if array[ j ] > array [ j+1 ] then Conditionally Exchange Contents Exchange Contents temporary = array [ j+1 ] array[ j+1 ] = array [ j ] array[ j ] = temporary Sort from small to large end if end of j loop end of i loop return array End of procedure...
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. Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 47 Function = Process + Operand (cid:122) Note that function consists of the action or Figure by MIT OCW. transformation + the operand, an object which is acted on, or transformed: – Change voltage – React force – Amplify signal – Regulate shaft speed – Conta...
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be created, destroyed, or altered: – Image is captured – Signal is amplified – Array is sorted (cid:122) You often do not supply the operand, and there may be more than one operand to consider (cid:122) The double arrow is the generic link, called “effecting” (cid:122) A single headed arrow can be used to represent “...
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External function at the interface: supporting + vehicle product/system boundary (cid:122) External function is delivered across a boundary - the value related operand is external to the product/system (cid:122) External function is linked to the delivery of benefit (cid:122)What is the value related operand? (...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 610 58 Semantically Exact Representation with OPM Operand Processing Instrument Object Function Form (cid:122) Architecture is made up of operands + processes (functions) plus instrument object (form) (cid:122) Examples: – Image is captured by digital camera – ...
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Here Person There Transporting Person Transporting (cid:122) P yields or creates O Entropy Transporting (cid:122) P consumes or destroys O Energy Transporting (cid:122) O is an agent of P (agent) Operator Transporting (cid:122) O is and instrument of P Skateboard Transporting (cid:122) P occurs if O is in state A Enoug...
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:122) What are the value related states that change? (cid:122) What is the externally delivered function? Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 Figure by MIT OCW. 65 Externally Delivered Function Emerges from Internal Function (cid:122) System function which emerges at the highest level is the exte...
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i i hich is exec w y form b on, uted Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 Interfacing + Reacting + Bridge and ramp loads Carrying + compression Figure by MIT OCW. 610 69 Delivered and Internal Function - Whistle Figure by MIT OCW. Product/system boundary Channel Step Hole Bump Ramp Cavity wall I...
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array[ j ], array [ j+1 ]) end if end of j loop end of i loop return array End of procedure Procedure exchange_contents(List array, number i, number j) temporary = array [ j+1 ] array[ j+1 ] = array [ j ] array[ j ] = temporary return array (cid:122) What is the value related operand and (cid:122) What are the intern...
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DP (cid:122) Customer-focused products (cid:122) Competitive product designs (cid:122) Team coordination (cid:122) Reduce time to introduction (cid:122) Reduce cost of the design (cid:122) Facilitate group consensus (cid:122) Explicit decision process (cid:122) Create archival record (cid:122) Customizable methods Mass...
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07 79 Summary to Date Operand Processing Instrument Form Architecture? Form = Elements + Structure Function = Process + Operand Form in the instrument of function Massachusetts Institute of Technology © Ed Crawley 2007 80
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THE DELTA-METHOD AND ASYMPTOTICS OF SOME ESTIMATORS 18.465, Feb. 24, 2005 √ The delta-method gives a way that asymptotic normality can be preserved under nonlinear, but differentiable, transformations. The method is well known; one version of it is given in J. Rice, Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, 2d. ed...
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(|y−µ|) as y → µ by definition of derivative. Thus √ √ f (Yn) = f (µ) + f (cid:1)(µ)(Yn − µ) + op(|Yn − µ|), so √ √ n[f (Yn) − f (µ)] = f (cid:1)(µ) n(Yn − µ) + nop(1/ n). √ √ The last term is op(1), so the conclusion follows. � Let’s say a distribution function F has a good median if F has a continuous densit...
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and variance 1/[4(2k + 3)] = 1/[4(n + 2)]. This beta distribution is asymptotically normal with its mean and variance as n → ∞ or equivalently k → ∞. This fact is a special case of facts known since about 1920, but lacking a handy reference, I’ll indicate a proof. Let y = x − (1/2), so |y| ≤ 1/2 where the density i...
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median m, and n = 2k + 1 odd, the sample median mn = X(k+1) has the distribution of F ← (U(k+1)) because F ← is monotonic (non-decreasing, and strictly increasing in a neighborhood of 2 ). We have F ←(1/2) = m. √So by the delta-method theorem above, n(mn − m), being equal in distribution to n(F ←(U(k+1)) − F ←(1/2)...
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m) converging in distribution as n → ∞ to N (0, 1/(4f (m)2)), just as when n is odd and as stated by Randles and Wolfe. √ √ Next, let’s consider the Hodges-Lehmann estimator. In this case, beside assuming F has a good median m, we’ll assume the distribution is symmetric around m. (If a distribution is symmetric aro...
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, we can assume m = 0, because subtracting m from all the observations makes m = 0 and doesn’t change the distribution of the difference. So we can assume F is symmetric around 0. Let G be the distribution function of X1 + X2. Then G has a density g given by the � ∞ convolution of f with itself, g(x) = −∞ f (x − y)...
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≤i<j≤n Ψ(x − Xi − Xj). For x = 0, bearing in mind that under symmetry around 0, −Xi−Xj is equal in distribution to Xi + Xj, this becomes the U -statistic that Randles and Wolfe call U4 and is closely related to the Wilcoxon signed-rank statistic. We get that n(U 2 ) converges in distribution as n → ∞ to N (0, 1/3)...
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n) plus smaller terms that don’t affect the ) x asymptotic distribution. So we will have, where again Zn is asymptotically N (0, 1), √ √ 1 = G(2x) + Zn/ 3n + op(1/ n). √ √ (n) (x) V If this equals 1/2 (within O(1/n2)), then � θˆHL = x = 1 G← 2 1 2 � − (Zn/ 3n) + op(1/ n). √ √ It follows by the delta-metho...
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. In the present case, since U have a relatively simple U -process, but still, the argument was incomplete. (n) (x) 3
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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials 3: Glass Forming Theories Juejun (JJ) Hu 1 After-class reading list  Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses  Ch. 3 (except section 3.1.4)  Introduction to Glass Science and Technology  Ch. 2  3.022 nucleation, precipitation growth and interface kinetics  Topological const...
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�� Thermodynamics of nucleation G W Homogeneous nucleation Heterogeneous nucleation Size Surface energy contribution Energy barrier for nucleation 7 SSGSSGsmlVGTTSlsSGGG Kinetics of nucleation G W Nucleation rate: Size 8 SSGsmlVGTTSlsSGGGexpnBWRDkT...
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� Kinetics of growth Nucleus Atom Net diffusion flux: 10 exp1exp~expgBBBBRFFEkTkTGGEkTkT: 0, 0mgGTTR0: 0nTR Crystal nucleation and growth Metastable zone of supercooling Tm  Driving force: supercooling  Both processes are thermally activated 11 Tim...
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104 105-108 106-108 Vapor deposition Up to 1014 Maximum glass sample thickness:  : thermal diffusivity 13 max~cTdR Glass formation from liquid V, H Supercooled liquid Liquid Increasing cooling rate 3 2 1  Glasses obtained at different cooling rates have different structures  With infinitely s...
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hedra share corners, not edges, not faces  Maximize structure geometric flexibility  At least three corners are shared  Formation of 3-D network structures  Only applies to most (not all!) oxide glasses  Highlights the importance of network topology 19 Classification of glass network topology Floppy / fle...
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.532.4rrnrn r41222rxxx3122rxxx41222rxxx Temperature-dependent constraints  The constraint number should be evaluated at the glass forming temperature (rather than room temperature)  Silica glass SixO1-x  Bond stretching  O-Si-O bond angle  Isostatic condition SiO2 n o i ...
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constraints 25 #23BBr Property dependence on network rigidity  Many glass properties exhibit extrema or kinks at the rigidity percolation threshold J. Non-Cryst. Sol. 185, 289-296 (1995). 26 2.4r Measuring glass forming ability  Figure of merit (FOM):  Tx : crystallization temperature  Tg : glass tra...
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Session 3: Inventory Analysis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science & Engineering ESD.123/3.560: Industrial Ecology – Systems Perspectives Randolph Kirchain Introduction: Slide 31 LCA: Methodology • Goal & Scope Definition – What is the unit of analysis? – What materials, processe...
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15 in "Life Cycle Assessment of Aluminum: for the Worldwide Primary Aluminium Industry." International Aluminium Institute. March 2003. Inventory Data Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science & Engineering ESD.123/3.560: Industrial Ecology – Systems Perspectives Randolph Kirchain Introd...
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soluble using linear algebra • Scale all flows relative to interconnection flows • Sum all equivalent flows Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science & Engineering ESD.123/3.560: Industrial Ecology – Systems Perspectives Randolph Kirchain Introduction: Slide 38 4 Product Production...
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Solid Waste Oil Combustion HCl Cu 600 600 3800 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science & Engineering ESD.123/3.560: Industrial Ecology – Systems Perspectives Randolph Kirchain Introduction: Slide 41 Environmental Data – Plant B Summary Products Raw Material Inputs/Outputs ...
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ation – Diesel Fuel Energy Driving Conditions Energy Consumption Long Haul City Traffic 1 2.7 Units MJ/tonne-km MJ/tonne-km Energy Production Emissions Energy Production Emissions Emissions (g/MJ fuel consumed) Diesel Substance 0.208 HC 1.3 NOx 78.6 CO2 Oil 0.018 0.15 79.8 Massachusetts Institute...
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Introduction: Slide 48 8 Results – Total Inventory A Transport B C u f / g 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 HCl Cu Solid Waste (kg) HC NOx CO2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science & Engineering ESD.123/3.560: Industrial Ecology – Systems Perspectives Randolph Kirchain ...
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Randolph Kirchain Introduction: Slide 51 Considering Energy from Electricity Conversion Efficiency % (MJ out / MJ in) 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Coal Thermal Combined Cycle NG Fuel Oil Thermal Diesel Generation Gas Turbine Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials ...
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9,293 56,560 171,393 85,853 200,686 Ignoring efficiency of electrical conversion, drastically alters energy picture! Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Materials Science & Engineering ESD.123/3.560: Industrial Ecology – Systems Perspectives Randolph Kirchain Introduction: Slide 54 11
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MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu 18.969 Topics in Geometry: Mirror Symmetry Spring 2009 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms. MIRROR SYMMETRY: LECTURE 6 DENIS AUROUX 1. The Quintic 3-fold and Its Mirror The simplest Calabi-Yau’s are hypersurface...
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n + 2)) (4) OPn+1 (−(n + 2)) X = Ωn | ∼ X ⊗ OPn+1 (−d)| ⇒ X = Ωn ∼ X = O if d = n + 2, i.e. our X is indeed Calabi-Yau. Example. Cubic curves in P2 correspond to elliptic curves (genus 1, isomorphic to tori), while quartic surfaces in P3 are K3 surfaces. The quintic in P4 is the world’s most studied Calabi-Yau 3-...
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. Restricting to X gives (7) (1 + h|X )5 = 1 + 5h|X + 10h2|X + 10h3|X = (1 + c1 + c2 + c3)(1 + 5h|X) so c1 = 0, c2 = 10h2|X , c3 = −40h3|X . Thus, (8) χ(X) = −40h3 · [X] = −40([line] ∩ [X]) = −40 5 = −200 · We conclude that (9) h0 + h2 − h3 + h4 + h6 = 1 + 1 − dim H3(X) + 1 + 1 = −200 implying that dim H3 = 2...
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· · 5 + + x4 : x4) ∈ P4 fψ = x0 | 5 − 5ψx0x1x2x3x4 = 0} (10) Xψ = {(x0 : � ai = 0}/(Z/5Z = {(a, a, a, a, a)}). Then Let G = {(a0, . . . , a4) ∈ (Z/5Z)5 | G ∼ = (Z/5Z)3 acts on Xψ by (xj ) �→ (xj ξaj ) where ξ = e2πi/5 (fψ is G-invariant because aj = 0 mod 5, and (1, 1, 1, 1, 1) acts trivially because the xj are...
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1,2 = {x0 = stabilizer (Z/5Z)2, so P012/G = {pt}. x1 = x2 = 0, x3 5 + x5 = 0} with 4 The singular locus of Xψ/G is the 10 curves Cij = Cij/G ∼= P1 with C ij , C jk, C ik meeting at the point P ijk. Next, let Xψ ∨ be the resolution of singularities of (Xψ/G), i.e. Xψ ∨ π Xψ/G which is an isomorphism outside π−1(  ...
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six divisors, for a total of 60 divisors. Thus, X ∨ contains 100 ∨) = 101. new divisors in addition to the hyperplane section, so indeed h1,1(Xψ Similarly, as we were only able to build a one-parameter family, h2,1(Xψ ∨) = 1, giving us mirror symmetric Hodge diamonds: 5, x2 ψ (11) hij(X) = ⎜ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ 0 1 0 1 0 101...
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Last time, we saw a basis {ei} of H 2(X, Z) by elements of the K¨ahler cone gives coordinates on the complexified tiei, the parameter qi = exp(2πiti) ∈ C∗ K¨ahler moduli space: if [B + iω] = gives the large volume limit as qi 0, Im (ti) → ∞. Physics predicts that the mirror situation is degeneration of a large com...
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= Z2 by → (the Dehn twist): observe that Ct C ∪ {∞} by projection to x, and the branch points are ∞ plus the roots of x3 + x2 − t. As t → 0, there is one root near −1 and two near 0, which rotate as t goes around 0. Letting a be the line between the two roots ∗ ∈ Aut(Hn � � 1 1 0 1 4 DENIS AUROUX near 0 an...
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a constant value, so the ratio goes to +i∞. In to 0 and the latter case, q(t) is a holomorphic function of t, and goes around 0 once when t does, i.e. it has a single root at t = 0. Thus, q is a local coordinate for the family. → � b y a Next time, we will see an analogue of this for a family of Calabi-Yau mani...
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MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu 18.969 Topics in Geometry: Mirror Symmetry Spring 2009 For information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms. MIRROR SYMMETRY: LECTURE 3 DENIS AUROUX Last time, we say that a deformation of (X, J) is given by (1) {s ∈ Ω0,1(X, T ...
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− ∗ ∂∗ Δ = dd∗ + d∗d, � = ∂∂ ∗ + ∂ ∗ ∂ Every (d/∂)-cohomology class contains a unique harmonic form, and one can show that � = 1 Δ. We obtain 2 (6) dR H k (X, C) ∼= Ker (Δ : Ωk(X, C) �) = Ker (� : Ωk �) H p,q (X) Ker (� : Ωp,q �) ∼ = � � ∼ = ∂ p+q=k p+q=k 1 2 DENIS AUROUX The Hodge ∗ operator gives an i...
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) 1 0 0 1 0 0 h1,1 h2,1 h2,1 h1,1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Mirror symmetry says that there is another Calabi-Yau manifold whose Hodge diamond is the mirror image (or 90 degree rotation) of this one. There is another interpretation of the Kodaira-Spencer map H 1(X, T X) ∼= H n−1,1 . For X = (X, Jt)t∈S a family of com...
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t=0)(n−1,1) = 0 ∂ Ωt |t=0)(n−1,1) + ∂( ∂ ∂( ∂t ∂t Thus, ∃[( ∂Ωt |t=0)(n−1,1)] ∈ H n−1,1(X). ∂t For fixed Ω0, this is independent of the choice of Ωt. If we rescale f (t)Ωt, ∂ ∂t ∂f (f (t)Ωt) = Ωt + f (t) ∂t ∂Ωt ∂t → 0, the former term is (n, 0), while for the latter, f (0) scales linearly (12) Taking t with...
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X X 2. Pseudoholomorphic curves (reference: McDuff-Salamon) Let (X 2n, ω) be a symplectic manifold, J a com­ · patible almost-complex structure, ω( , J ) the associated Riemannian metric. Furthermore, let (Σ, j) be a Riemann surface of genus g, z1, . . . , zk ∈ Σ market points. There is a well-defined moduli space Mg,...
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⊗ u∗T X). Σ � � � � � 4 DENIS AUROUX We can define a linearized operator D∂ : W r+1,p(Σ, u∗T X) × T Mg,k → W r,p(Σ, Ω0,1 ⊗ U ∗T X) Σ (17) D∂ (v, j�) = 1 (�v + J�vj + (�vJ) · du · j + J · du · j�) 2 = ∂v + 1 2 (�vJ)du · j + 1 2 J · du · j� This operator is Fredholm, with real index (18) indexRD∂ := 2d = 2�...
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is a Baire subset in J (X, ω), and for J ∈ J reg(X, β), M∗ (X, J, β) is smooth (as an orbifold, if Mg,k is an orbifold) of real dimension 2d and carries a natural orientation. g,k
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6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Copyright © 2004 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 6.001 Notes: Section 5.1 Slide 5.1.1 In this lecture we are going to continue with the theme of building abstractions. Thus far, we have focused entirely on procedural abstractions: the idea of captu...
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Slide 5.1.4 We need to provide it with inputs of a specified type. Slide 5.1.5 We know by the contract associated with the procedure, that if we provide inputs of the appropriate type, the procedure will produce an output of a specified type... Slide 5.1.6 ... and by giving the whole procedure a name, we create ...
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structure of try and the use of the special form if to control the evolution of this procedure. The method for improve simply incorporates the ideas from the algorithm, again with a procedure abstraction to separate out idea of averaging from the procedure for improving the guess. Finally, notice how we can build a...
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