@article{13436, abstract = {Cross-metathesis reactions of α,β-unsaturated sulfones and sulfoxides in the presence of molybdenum and ruthenium pre-catalysts were tested. A selective metahesis reaction was achieved between functionalized terminal olefins and vinyl sulfones by using the ‘second generation’ ruthenium catalysts 1c–h while the highly active Schrock catalyst 1b was found to be functional group incompatible with vinyl sulfones. The cross-metathesis products were isolated in good yields with an excellent (E)-selectivity. Both the molybdenum and ruthenium-based complexes were, however, incompatible with α,β- and β,γ-unsaturated sulfoxides.}, author = {Michrowska, Anna and Bieniek, Michał and Kim, Mikhail and Klajn, Rafal and Grela, Karol}, issn = {1464-5416}, journal = {Tetrahedron}, keywords = {Organic Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Biochemistry}, number = {25}, pages = {4525--4531}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {{Cross-metathesis reaction of vinyl sulfones and sulfoxides}}, doi = {10.1016/s0040-4020(03)00682-3}, volume = {59}, year = {2003}, } @article{1457, abstract = {Among the major mathematical approaches to mirror symmetry are those of Batyrev-Borisov and Stromdnger-Yau-Zaslow (SYZ). The first is explicit and amenable to computation but is not clearly related to the physical motivation; the second is the opposite. Furthermore, it is far from obvious that mirror partners in one sense will also be mirror partners in the other. This paper concerns a class of examples that can be shown to satisfy the requirements of SYZ, but whose Hodge numbers are also equal. This provides significant evidence in support of SYZ. Moreover, the examples are of great interest in their own right: they are spaces of flat SLr-connections on a smooth curve. The mirror is the corresponding space for the Langlands dual group PGLr. These examples therefore throw a bridge from mirror symmetry to the duality theory of Lie groups and, more broadly, to the geometric Langlands program.}, author = {Tamas Hausel and Thaddeus, Michael}, journal = {Inventiones Mathematicae}, number = {1}, pages = {197 -- 229}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {{Mirror symmetry, langlands duality, and the Hitchin system}}, doi = {10.1007/s00222-003-0286-7}, volume = {153}, year = {2003}, } @article{1458, abstract = {The moduli space of stable bundles of rank $2$ and degree $1$ on a Riemann surface has rational cohomology generated by the so-called universal classes. The work of Baranovsky, King-Newstead, Siebert-Tian and Zagier provided a complete set of relations between these classes, expressed in terms of a recursion in the genus. This paper accomplishes the same thing for the noncompact moduli spaces of Higgs bundles, in the sense of Hitchin and Simpson. There are many more independent relations than for stable bundles, but in a sense the answer is simpler, since the formulas are completely explicit, not recursive. The results of Kirwan on equivariant cohomology for holomorphic circle actions are of key importance.}, author = {Tamas Hausel and Thaddeus, Michael}, journal = {Journal of the American Mathematical Society}, number = {2}, pages = {303 -- 329}, publisher = {American Mathematical Society}, title = {{Relations in the cohomology ring of the moduli space of rank 2 Higgs bundles}}, doi = {10.1090/S0894-0347-02-00417-4}, volume = {16}, year = {2003}, } @article{1459, abstract = {In this paper we explicitly calculate the analogue of the 't Hooft SU (2) Yang-Mills instantons on Gibbons-Hawking multi-centered gravitational instantons, which come in two parallel families: the multi-Eguchi-Hanson, or Ak ALE gravitational instantons and the multi-Taub-NUT spaces, or Ak ALF gravitational instantons. We calculate their energy and find the reducible ones. Following Kronheimer we also exploit the U(1) invariance of our solutions and study the corresponding explicit singular SU (2) magnetic monopole solutions of the Bogomolny equations on flat ℝ3.}, author = {Etesi, Gábor and Tamas Hausel}, journal = {Communications in Mathematical Physics}, number = {2}, pages = {275 -- 288}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {{On Yang-Mills instantons over multi-centered gravitational instantons}}, doi = {10.1007/s00220-003-0806-8}, volume = {235}, year = {2003}, } @article{576, abstract = {We study the free expansion of a pancake-shaped Bose-condensed gas, which is initially trapped under harmonic confinement and containing a vortex at its centre. In the case of a radial expansion holding the axial confinement fixed we consider various models for the interactions, depending on the thickness of the condensate relative to the value of the scattering length. We are thus able to evaluate different scattering regimes ranging from quasi-three-dimensional (Q3D) to strictly two-dimensional (2D). We find that as the system goes from Q3D to 2D the expansion rate of the condensate increases whereas that of the vortex core decreases. In the Q3D scattering regime we also examine a fully free expansion in 3D and find oscillatory behaviour for the vortex core radius: an initial fast expansion of the vortex core is followed by a slowing down. Such a nonuniform expansion rate of the vortex core implies that the timing of its observation should be chosen appropriately.}, author = {Onur Hosten and Vignolo, Patrizia and Minguzzi, Anna and Tanatar, Bilal and Tosi, Mario P}, journal = {Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics}, number = {12}, pages = {2455 -- 2463}, publisher = {IOP Publishing Ltd.}, title = {{Free expansion of two-dimensional condensates with a vortex}}, doi = {10.1088/0953-4075/36/12/306}, volume = {36}, year = {2003}, } @article{6156, abstract = {Social and solitary feeding in natural Caenorhabditis elegans isolates are associated with two alleles of the orphan G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) NPR-1: social feeders contain NPR-1 215F, whereas solitary feeders contain NPR-1 215V. Here we identify FMRFamide-related neuropeptides (FaRPs) encoded by the flp-18 and flp-21 genes as NPR-1 ligands and show that these peptides can differentially activate the NPR-1 215F and NPR-1 215V receptors. Multicopy overexpression of flp-21 transformed wild social animals into solitary feeders. Conversely, a flp-21 deletion partially phenocopied the npr-1(null) phenotype, which is consistent with NPR-1 activation by FLP-21 in vivo but also implicates other ligands for NPR-1. Phylogenetic studies indicate that the dominant npr-1 215V allele likely arose from an ancestral npr-1 215F gene in C. elegans. Our data suggest a model in which solitary feeding evolved in an ancestral social strain of C. elegans by a gain-of-function mutation that modified the response of NPR-1 to FLP-18 and FLP-21 ligands.}, author = {Rogers, Candida and Reale, Vincenzina and Kim, Kyuhyung and Chatwin, Heather and Li, Chris and Evans, Peter and de Bono, Mario}, issn = {1097-6256}, journal = {Nature Neuroscience}, number = {11}, pages = {1178--1185}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, title = {{Inhibition of Caenorhabditis elegans social feeding by FMRFamide-related peptide activation of NPR-1}}, doi = {10.1038/nn1140}, volume = {6}, year = {2003}, } @article{6157, abstract = {In many animal species individuals aggregate to live in groups. A range of experimental approaches in different animals, including studies of social feeding in nematodes, maternal behavior in rats and sheep, and pair-bonding in voles, are providing insights into the neural bases for these behaviors. These studies are delineating multiple neural circuits and gene networks in the brain that interact in ways that are as yet poorly understood to coordinate social behavior.}, author = {de Bono, Mario}, issn = {0022-3034}, journal = {Journal of Neurobiology}, number = {1}, pages = {78--92}, publisher = {Wiley}, title = {{Molecular approaches to aggregation behavior and social attachment}}, doi = {10.1002/neu.10162}, volume = {54}, year = {2003}, } @article{9455, abstract = {Proteins of the ARGONAUTE family are important in diverse posttranscriptional RNA-mediated gene-silencing systems as well as in transcriptional gene silencing in Drosophila and fission yeast and in programmed DNA elimination in Tetrahymena. We cloned ARGONAUTE4 (AGO4) from a screen for mutants that suppress silencing of the Arabidopsis SUPERMAN(SUP) gene. The ago4-1 mutant reactivated silentSUP alleles and decreased CpNpG and asymmetric DNA methylation as well as histone H3 lysine-9 methylation. In addition,ago4-1 blocked histone and DNA methylation and the accumulation of 25-nucleotide small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that correspond to the retroelement AtSN1. These results suggest that AGO4 and long siRNAs direct chromatin modifications, including histone methylation and non-CpG DNA methylation.}, author = {Zilberman, Daniel and Cao, Xiaofeng and Jacobsen, Steven E.}, issn = {1095-9203}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {Multidisciplinary}, number = {5607}, pages = {716--719}, publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science}, title = {{ARGONAUTE4 control of locus-specific siRNA accumulation and DNA and histone methylation}}, doi = {10.1126/science.1079695}, volume = {299}, year = {2003}, } @article{9495, abstract = {RNA interference is a conserved process in which double-stranded RNA is processed into 21–25 nucleotide siRNAs that trigger posttranscriptional gene silencing. In addition, plants display a phenomenon termed RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) in which DNA with sequence identity to silenced RNA is de novo methylated at its cytosine residues. This methylation is not only at canonical CpG sites but also at cytosines in CpNpG and asymmetric sequence contexts. In this report, we study the role of the DRM and CMT3 DNA methyltransferase genes in the initiation and maintenance of RdDM. Neither drm nor cmt3 mutants affected the maintenance of preestablished RNA-directed CpG methylation. However, drm mutants showed a nearly complete loss of asymmetric methylation and a partial loss of CpNpG methylation. The remaining asymmetric and CpNpG methylation was dependent on the activity of CMT3, showing that DRM and CMT3 act redundantly to maintain non-CpG methylation. These DNA methyltransferases appear to act downstream of siRNAs, since drm1 drm2 cmt3 triple mutants show a lack of non-CpG methylation but elevated levels of siRNAs. Finally, we demonstrate that DRM activity is required for the initial establishment of RdDM in all sequence contexts including CpG, CpNpG, and asymmetric sites.}, author = {Cao, Xiaofeng and Aufsatz, Werner and Zilberman, Daniel and Mette, M.Florian and Huang, Michael S. and Matzke, Marjori and Jacobsen, Steven E.}, issn = {1879-0445}, journal = {Current Biology}, number = {24}, pages = {2212--2217}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {{Role of the DRM and CMT3 methyltransferases in RNA-directed DNA methylation}}, doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2003.11.052}, volume = {13}, year = {2003}, } @article{11121, abstract = {In metazoa, the nuclear envelope breaks down and reforms during each cell cycle. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), which serve as channels for transport between the nucleus and cytoplasm1, assemble into the reforming nuclear envelope in a sequential process involving association of a subset of NPC proteins, nucleoporins, with chromatin followed by the formation of a closed nuclear envelope fenestrated by NPCs2,3,4,5,6,7. How chromatin recruitment of nucleoporins and NPC assembly are regulated is unknown. Here we demonstrate that RanGTP production is required to dissociate nucleoporins Nup107, Nup153 and Nup358 from Importin β, to target them to chromatin and to induce association between separate NPC subcomplexes. Additionally, either an excess of RanGTP or removal of Importin β induces formation of NPC-containing membrane structures—annulate lamellae—both in vitro in the absence of chromatin and in vivo. Annulate lamellae formation is strongly and specifically inhibited by an excess of Importin β. The data demonstrate that RanGTP triggers distinct steps of NPC assembly, and suggest a mechanism for the spatial restriction of NPC assembly to the surface of chromatin.}, author = {Walther, Tobias C. and Askjaer, Peter and Gentzel, Marc and Habermann, Anja and Griffiths, Gareth and Wilm, Matthias and Mattaj, Iain W. and HETZER, Martin W}, issn = {1476-4687}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {Multidisciplinary}, number = {6949}, pages = {689--694}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, title = {{RanGTP mediates nuclear pore complex assembly}}, doi = {10.1038/nature01898}, volume = {424}, year = {2003}, } @article{11122, abstract = {Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are large multiprotein assemblies that allow traffic between the cytoplasm and the nucleus. During mitosis in higher eukaryotes, the Nuclear Envelope (NE) breaks down and NPCs disassemble. How NPCs reassemble and incorporate into the NE upon mitotic exit is poorly understood. We demonstrate a function for the conserved Nup107-160 complex in this process. Partial in vivo depletion of Nup133 or Nup107 via RNAi in HeLa cells resulted in reduced levels of multiple nucleoporins and decreased NPC density in the NE. Immunodepletion of the entire Nup107-160 complex from in vitro nuclear assembly reactions produced nuclei with a continuous NE but no NPCs. This phenotype was reversible only if Nup107-160 complex was readded before closed NE formation. Depletion also prevented association of FG-repeat nucleoporins with chromatin. We propose a stepwise model in which postmitotic NPC assembly initiates on chromatin via early recruitment of the Nup107-160 complex.}, author = {Walther, Tobias C. and Alves, Annabelle and Pickersgill, Helen and Loı̈odice, Isabelle and HETZER, Martin W and Galy, Vincent and Hülsmann, Bastian B. and Köcher, Thomas and Wilm, Matthias and Allen, Terry and Mattaj, Iain W. and Doye, Valérie}, issn = {0092-8674}, journal = {Cell}, keywords = {General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology}, number = {2}, pages = {195--206}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {{The conserved Nup107-160 complex is critical for nuclear pore complex assembly}}, doi = {10.1016/s0092-8674(03)00235-6}, volume = {113}, year = {2003}, } @article{11764, abstract = {In this paper we consider the online ftp problem. The goal is to service a sequence of file transfer requests given bandwidth constraints of the underlying communication network. The main result of the paper is a technique that leads to algorithms that optimize several natural metrics, such as max-stretch, total flow time, max flow time, and total completion time. In particular, we show how to achieve optimum total flow time and optimum max-stretch if we increase the capacity of the underlying network by a logarithmic factor. We show that the resource augmentation is necessary by proving polynomial lower bounds on the max-stretch and total flow time for the case where online and offline algorithms are using same-capacity edges. Moreover, we also give polylogarithmic lower bounds on the resource augmentation factor necessary in order to keep the total flow time and max-stretch within a constant factor of optimum.}, author = {Goel, Ashish and Henzinger, Monika H and Plotkin, Serge and Tardos, Eva}, issn = {0196-6774}, journal = {Journal of Algorithms}, number = {2}, pages = {314--332}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {{Scheduling data transfers in a network and the set scheduling problem}}, doi = {10.1016/s0196-6774(03)00054-3}, volume = {48}, year = {2003}, } @article{11766, abstract = {This paper studies the multicast routing and admission control problem on unit-capacity tree and mesh topologies in the throughput model. The problem is a generalization of the edge-disjoint paths problem and is NP-hard both on trees and meshes. We study both the offline and the online version of the problem: In the offline setting, we give the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for trees, and an -factor approximation algorithm for meshes. In the online setting, we give the first polylogarithmic competitive online algorithm for tree and mesh topologies. No polylogarithmic-competitive algorithm is possible on general network topologies (Lower bounds for on-line graph problems with application to on-line circuits and optical routing, in: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 1996, pp. 531–540) and there exists a polylogarithmic lower bound on the competitive ratio of any online algorithm on tree topologies (Making commitments in the face of uncertainity: how to pick a winner almost every time, in: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 1996, pp. 519–530). We prove the same lower bound for meshes.}, author = {Henzinger, Monika H and Leonardi, Stefano}, issn = {0022-0000}, journal = {Journal of Computer and System Sciences}, number = {3}, pages = {567--611}, publisher = {Elsevier}, title = {{Scheduling multicasts on unit-capacity trees and meshes}}, doi = {10.1016/s0022-0000(03)00043-6}, volume = {66}, year = {2003}, } @inproceedings{11860, abstract = {Many daily activities present information in the form of a stream of text, and often people can benefit from additional information on the topic discussed. TV broadcast news can be treated as one such stream of text; in this paper we discuss finding news articles on the web that are relevant to news currently being broadcast.We evaluated a variety of algorithms for this problem, looking at the impact of inverse document frequency, stemming, compounds, history, and query length on the relevance and coverage of news articles returned in real time during a broadcast. We also evaluated several postprocessing techniques for improving the precision, including reranking using additional terms, reranking by document similarity, and filtering on document similarity. For the best algorithm, 84%-91% of the articles found were relevant, with at least 64% of the articles being on the exact topic of the broadcast. In addition, a relevant article was found for at least 70% of the topics.}, author = {Henzinger, Monika H and Chang, Bay-Wei and Milch, Brian and Brin, Sergey}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web}, isbn = {978-158113680-7}, location = {Budapest, Hungary}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, title = {{Query-free news search}}, doi = {10.1145/775152.775154}, year = {2003}, } @inproceedings{11897, abstract = {This paper addresses the problem of topic distillation on the World Wide Web, namely, given a typical user query to find quality documents related to the query topic. Connectivity analysis has been shown to be useful in identifying high quality pages within a topic specific graph of hyperlinked documents. The essence of our approach is to augment a previous connectivity analysis based algorithm with content analysis. We identify three problems with the existing approach and devise algorithms to tackle them. The results of a user evaluation are reported that show an improvement of precision at 10 documents by at least 45% over pure connectivity analysis. }, author = {Bharat, Krishna and Henzinger, Monika H}, booktitle = {21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval}, isbn = {978-1-58113-015-7}, issn = {01635840}, location = {Melbourne, Australia}, pages = {104–111}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, title = {{Improved algorithms for topic distillation in a hyperlinked environment}}, doi = {10.1145/290941.290972}, year = {2003}, } @inproceedings{11909, abstract = {This article presents a high-level discussion of some problems that are unique to web search engines. The goal is to raise awareness and stimulate research in these areas.}, author = {Henzinger, Monika H and Motwani, Rajeev and Silverstein, Craig}, booktitle = {18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, issn = {1045-0823}, location = {Acapulco, Mexico}, pages = {1573--1579}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, title = {{Challenges in web search engines}}, year = {2003}, } @article{207, author = {Browning, Timothy D}, journal = {Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society}, number = {3}, pages = {385 -- 395}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, title = {{Sums of four biquadrates}}, doi = {10.1017/S0305004102006382}, volume = {134}, year = {2003}, } @article{208, abstract = {For any ε > 0 and any diagonal quadratic form Q ∈ ℤ[x 1, x 2, x 3, x 4] with a square-free discriminant of modulus Δ Q ≠ 0, we establish the uniform estimate ≪ε B 3/2+ε + B 2+ε/Δ Q 1/6 for the number of rational points of height at most B lying in the projective surface Q = 0.}, author = {Timothy Browning}, journal = {Quarterly Journal of Mathematics}, number = {1}, pages = {11 -- 31}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, title = {{Counting rational points on diagonal quadratic surfaces}}, doi = {10.1093/qjmath/54.1.11}, volume = {54}, year = {2003}, } @inproceedings{2337, author = {Lieb, Élliott H and Robert Seiringer}, editor = {Karpeshina, Yulia and Weikard, Rudi and Zeng, Yanni}, pages = {239 -- 250}, publisher = {American Mathematical Society}, title = {{Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases in traps }}, doi = {10.1090/conm/327/05818}, volume = {327}, year = {2003}, } @article{2354, abstract = {We investigate the ground state properties of a gas of interacting particles confined in an external potential in three dimensions and subject to rotation around an axis of symmetry. We consider the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) limit of a dilute gas. Analysing both the absolute and the bosonic ground states of the system, we show, in particular, their different behaviour for a certain range of parameters. This parameter range is determined by the question whether the rotational symmetry in the minimizer of the GP functional is broken or not. For the absolute ground state, we prove that in the GP limit a modified GP functional depending on density matrices correctly describes the energy and reduced density matrices, independent of symmetry breaking. For the bosonic ground state this holds true if and only if the symmetry is unbroken.}, author = {Robert Seiringer}, journal = {Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical}, number = {37}, pages = {9755 -- 9778}, publisher = {IOP Publishing Ltd.}, title = {{Ground state asymptotics of a dilute, rotating gas}}, doi = {10.1088/0305-4470/36/37/312}, volume = {36}, year = {2003}, }