912 research outputs found
Herman Bernstein 1897-1935
No full textCorrespondence, clippings, manuscripts, notes, reports, relating to Bernstein's journalistic, literary and diplomatic careers. Correspondence with well-known literary, political and communal, society personalities, 1908-1935. Includes Cyrus Adler, Viscount Allenby, Joseph Barondess, Bernard Baruch, Henri Bergson, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Jacob Billikopf, Vladimir Bourtzeff, Louis Brandeis, Robert Cecil, Fyodor Chaliapin, Jacob de Haas, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Felix Frankfurter, Herbert Hoover, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Horace M. Kallen, Peretz Hirschbein, Peter Kropotkin, Herbert Lehman, Louis Lipsky, Judah L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, Henry Morgenthau, Max Nordau, Adolph Simon Ochs, David de Sola Pool, Bernard G. Richards, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Jacob Schiff, Harry Schneiderman, Maurice Schwartz, George Bernard Shaw, Sholem Aleichem, Nathan Straus, Henrietta Szold, Chaim Tchernowitz, Leo Tolstoy, Samuel Untermyer, Henry Van Dyke, Lillian Wald, Felix Warburg, Chaim Weizman n, Jefferson Williams, Stephen Wise, Israel Zangwill. Correspondence and other materials relating to Bernstein's post as U.S. ambassador to Albania. Materials pertaining to Bernstein's editorial work at *The Day*, *Jewish Tribune*, *New York Herald*, *Jewish Daily Bulletin*. Materials pertaining to Bernstein's involvement with the American Jewish Committee. Correspondence with organizations including American Jewish Congress, *American Hebrew*, HIAS, *Jewish Chronicle* (London), Jewish Community of New York, *Menorah Journal*, *New York American*, *New York Times*, ORT, U.S. Dept. of State, Yiddish Art Theater, Zionist Organization of America. Articles, clippings, correspondence and court materials relating to the Ford libel suit. Miscellaneous documents and reports relating to the Paris Peace Conference, the Jewish situation in Russia, 1917-1920, Russian revolutionary events of 1917. News dispatches from Russia, 1917-1920s. Translations by Bernstein of Russian wri Andre yev,Chekhov, Maksim Gorkii, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev. Plays adapted by Bernstein from various languages. Interviews with celebrities including Ahad Ha'am, Henri Barbusse, Pope Benedict XV, I.V. Chicherin, Henry Ford, Amin al Husayni, Ignacy Paderewski, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, Walther Rathenau, Edmond de Rothschild, Hjalmar Schacht, Leo Tolstoy, Menahem Ussishkin, Chaim Weizmann, Count Sergey Yulyevich Witte. Articles by Bernstein about Russian history, Jewish contemporary problems. Manuscripts, notes, outlines of books relating to the *Protocols of the Elders of Zion*. Biographies of American Jews. Clippings: articles and translations by Bernstein and articles about Bernstein. Personal papers of Bernstein.Index: English, 126 pp.; Inventory, 48 pp., typedAuthor, journalist, translator, playwright. Active in Jewish communal organizations. Secretary of the American Jewish Committee. Founder in 1914 and editor of *Der tog*, editor of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. Correspondent for the *New York Herald* in Russia, 1917-1920 and at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. Instituted a libel suit in the 1920s against Henry Ford and the *Dearborn Independent* for publishing the *Protocols of the Elders of Zion*. U.S. envoy to Albania, 1931-1933. Born in Vladislavov, Lithuania. Lived in Russia and the U.S
Jacob : the lover who lost his patience
No full textCelebrated Israeli novelist Meir Shalev delivers the opening keynote address, entitled "Jacob - The Lover Who Lost His Patience", of the "Symposium on Modern Hebrew and Israeli Literature", sponsored by the Michigan State University Jewish Studies Program and the MSU Libraries. Shalev suggests that many interpreters of the story of Jacob try to portray Jacob in a much better light than he deserves. He then proceeds with his own version of the story, provides additional insights on the characters Rachael and Leah and says that his is a more "secular interpretation" of the classic biblical tale. A question and answer session follows. The event is convened by MSU Librarian Deborah Margolis and MSU Professor Marc Bernstein introduces Shalev. Held at the Main Library. Part of the MSU Libraries' Colloquia Series
Jacob Viner’s Reminiscences from the New Deal (February 11, 1953)
No full textThis paper presents and reproduces an unpublished oral history interview given by Jacob Viner in 1953. The interview released by Viner for the Columbia Oral History Project gives us a valuable opportunity to throw light on his advisory activity during the New Deal Era. In our introduction we attempt to make a critical appraisal of Viner's reminiscences and to state the contribution they can provide to our general knowledge of the period. In addition, we also attempt to find out some biographical and interpretative elements useful to understand Viner’s own vision and his contribution to important economic policy processes during the New Deal.
NEW RESULTS IN ZERO-FIELD PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE (ZFPMR) OF TRIVALENT GADOLINIUM IN SEVERAL DIAMAGNETIC HOSTS
No full textThis research was sponsored under grants from the National Science Foundation, Army Research Office (Durham), Office of Naval Research, and the Research Corporation. E. R. Bernstein and G. H. Dobbs, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 44, 1314 (1973).Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Princeton UniversityZero-field paramagnetic resonance (ZFPMR) for the ground S-state of trivalent gadolinium will be presented for a variety of diamagnetic hosts, including several ethylsulfates and several lattices having the fluorite structure. Special emphasis will be placed upon not only the zero-Field line shape, but also on new crystal field and hyperfine constants derived from zero-field spectra not previously available from conventional electron paramagnetic resonance spectra
Some Results on the Schroeder–Bernstein Property for Separable Banach Spaces
No full textAbstractWe construct a continuum of mutually non-isomorphic separable Banach spaces which are complemented in each other. Consequently, the Schroeder–Bernstein Index of any of these spaces is 2ℵ0. Our construction is based on a Banach space introduced by W. T. Gowers and B. Maurey in 1997. We also use classical descriptive set theory methods, as in some work of the first author and C. Rosendal, to improve some results of P. G. Casazza and of N. J. Kalton on the Schroeder–Bernstein Property for spaces with an unconditional finite-dimensional Schauder decomposition.</jats:p
The Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand complex and Kasparov theory for SL(3,C)
No full textInternational audienceLet G=SL(3,C). We construct an element of G-equivariant K-homology from the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand complex for G. This furnishes an explicit splitting of the restriction map from the Kasparov representation ring R(G) to the representation ring R(K) of its maximal compact subgroup, and the splitting factors through the equivariant K-homology of the flag variety of G. In particular, we obtain a new model for the gamma element of G.The proof makes extensive use of earlier results of the author concerning harmonic analysis of longitudinal psuedodifferential operators on the flag variety
Close-Packed Silicon Microelectrodes for Scalable Spatially Oversampled Neural Recording
No full textObjective: Neural recording electrodes are important tools for understanding neural codes and brain dynamics. Neural electrodes that are closely packed, such as in tetrodes, enable spatial oversampling of neural activity, which facilitates data analysis. Here we present the design and implementation of close-packed silicon microelectrodes to enable spatially oversampled recording of neural activity in a scalable fashion. Methods: Our probes are fabricated in a hybrid lithography process, resulting in a dense array of recording sites connected to submicron dimension wiring. Results: We demonstrate an implementation of a probe comprising 1000 electrode pads, each 9 × 9 μm, at a pitch of 11 μm. We introduce design automation and packaging methods that allow us to readily create a large variety of different designs. Significance: We perform neural recordings with such probes in the live mammalian brain that illustrate the spatial oversampling potential of closely packed electrode sites.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Simons Center for the Social BrainNational Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Director’s Pioneer Award DP1NS087724)National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Grant R01NS067199)National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH grant Grant 2R44NS070453- 03A1)National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Grant R01DA029639)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative, NSF DMS 1042134)Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (Harvey Prize)New York Stem Cell FoundationNational Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH grant CBET 1053233)United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA Grant HR0011-14-2-0004)Paul G. Allen Family Foundatio
Conformal and asymptotic properties of embedded genus-g minimal surfaces with one end
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-82).Using the tools developed by Colding and Minicozzi in their study of the structure of embedded minimal surfaces in R3 [12, 19-22], we investigate the conformal and asymptotic properties of complete, embedded minimal surfaces of finite genus and one end. We first present a more geometric proof of the uniqueness of the helicoid than the original, due to Meeks and Rosenberg [45]. That is, the only properly embedded and complete minimal disks in R3 are the plane and the helicoid. We then extend these techniques to show that any complete, embedded minimal surface with one end and finite topology is conformal to a once -punctured compact Riemann surface. This completes the classification of the conformal type of embedded finite topology minimal surfaces in R3. Moreover, we show that such s surface has Weierstrass data asymptotic to that of the helicoid, and as a consequence is asymptotic to a helicoid (in a Hausdorff sense). As such, we call such surfaces genus-g helicoids. In addition, we sharpen results of Colding and Minicozzi on the shapes of embedded minimal disks in R3, giving a more precise scale on which minimal disks with large curvature are "helicoidal". Finally, we begin to study the finer properties of the structure of genus-g helicoids, in particular showing that the space of genus-one helicoids is compact (after a suitably normalization).by Jacob Bernstein.Ph.D
Scalable Fluidic Injector Arrays for Viral Targeting of Intact 3-D Brain Circuits
No full textOur understanding of neural circuits--how they mediate the computations that subserve sensation, thought, emotion, and action, and how they are corrupted in neurological and psychiatric disorders--would be greatly facilitated by a technology for rapidly targeting genes to complex 3-dimensional neural circuits, enabling fast creation of "circuit-level transgenics." We have recently developed methods in which viruses encoding for light-sensitive proteins can sensitize specific cell types to millisecond-timescale activation and silencing in the intact brain. We here present the design and implementation of an injector array capable of delivering viruses (or other fluids) to dozens of defined points within the 3-dimensional structure of the brain (Figure. 1A, 1B). The injector array comprises one or more displacement pumps that each drive a set of syringes, each of which feeds into a polyimide/fused-silica capillary via a high-pressure-tolerant connector. The capillaries are sized, and then inserted into, desired locations specified by custom-milling a stereotactic positioning board, thus allowing viruses or other reagents to be delivered to the desired set of brain regions. To use the device, the surgeon first fills the fluidic subsystem entirely with oil, backfills the capillaries with the virus, inserts the device into the brain, and infuses reagents slowly (<0.1 microliters/min). The parallel nature of the injector array facilitates rapid, accurate, and robust labeling of entire neural circuits with viral payloads such as optical sensitizers to enable light-activation and silencing of defined brain circuits. Along with other technologies, such as optical fiber arrays for light delivery to desired sets of brain regions, we hope to create a toolbox that enables the systematic probing of causal neural functions in the intact brain. This technology may not only open up such systematic approaches to circuit-focused neuroscience in mammals, and facilitate labeling of brain regions in large animals such as non-human primates, but may also open up a clinical translational path for cell-specific optical control prosthetics, whose precision may enable improved treatment of intractable brain disorders. Finally, such devices as described here may facilitate precisely-timed fluidic delivery of other payloads, such as stem cells and pharmacological agents, to 3-dimensional structures, in an easily user-customizable fashion.National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2 OD002002-01)National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Challenge Grant 1RC1MH088182-01)National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Grand Opportunities Grant 1RC2DE020919-01)National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH Grand Opportunities Grant NIH 1R01NS067199-01)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF 0848804)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF 0835878)McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Neurotechnology Award Program)National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan FoundationDr. Gerald Burnett and Marjorie BurnettUnited States. Dept. of DefenseSociety for Neuroscience (SFN Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience)Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media LaboratoryBenesse FoundationWallace H. Coulter Foundatio
Parameters of Hecke algebras for Bernstein components of p-adic groups
No full textLet G be a reductive group over a non-archimedean local field F. Consider an
arbitrary Bernstein block Rep(G)^s in the category of complex smooth
G-representations. In earlier work the author showed that there exists an
affine Hecke algebra H(O,G) whose category of right modules is closely related
to Rep(G)^s. In many cases this is in fact an equivalence of categories, like
for Iwahori-spherical representations.
In this paper we study the q-parameters of the affine Hecke algebras H(O,G).
We compute them in many cases, in particular for principal series
representations of quasi-split groups and for classical groups.
Lusztig conjectured that the q-parameters are always integral powers of q_F
and that they coincide with the q-parameters coming from some Bernstein block
of unipotent representations. We reduce this conjecture to the case of simple
p-adic groups, and we prove it for most of those.Comment: Various minor improvements in Section 2. The proof of the previous
Theorem 3.3 was flawed (in part c). Now that theorem is stretched over Lemma
3.3--Theorem 3.5. Proposition 4.10 was incorrect and has been repaired. At
the same time, Theorem 4.9 has been simplified a little. In version 3, the
paragraph 4.6 on F4 has been rewritten, now with more complete result
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