Madrid Conference Research Articles

On the spectroscopy of quantum dots in microcavities

At the occasion of the OECS conference in Madrid, we give a succinct account of some recent predictions in the spectroscopy of a quantum dot in a microcavity that remain to be observed experimentally, sometimes within the reach of the current state of the art.

The 3rd workshop on information credibility on the web (WICOW 2009)

On the 20th April, 2009 the 3rd Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2009) was held as part of WWW 2009 conference in Madrid, Spain. Nine full papers and a keynote speech were presented in four sessions. This report briefly outlines the main outcomes of the workshop.

Recollections of the Nakba through a Teenager's Eyes

Muhammad Hallaj, a political scientist specializing in Palestinian affairs and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was born in Qalqilya, Palestine, in 1932. After earning his doctorate from the University of Florida in 1966, he taught at Florida's Jacksonville University and then at the University of Jordan in Amman. Hallaj returned to the West Bank in 1975, where he served as dean of social sciences and later as academic vice president of Birzeit University before becoming the first director of the Council for Higher Education in the West Bank and Gaza. While taking a leave to go to Harvard University as a visiting scholar in 1983, Hallaj was denied a visa to return to the West Bank. Among the positions he has held since then have been editor of Palestine Perspectives (1983––1991), member (and subsequent head) of the Palestinian delegation on Refugees to themultilateral peace talks following the Madrid conference (1991––1993), and executive director of the Palestine Center and the Jerusalem Fund. At the request of JPS, Dr. Hallaj shared his memories of the 1948 war and its aftermath, which he experienced as a high school student in Jaffa, and then in Qalqilya and Tulkarm.

First Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, 14–17 November, Madrid, Spain

The newly founded European Philosophy of Science Association had its first conference in Madrid in November 2007. The conference was hosted by the Complutense University of Madrid and brought together over 300 philosophers of science from Europe and the rest of the world. The conference call for papers was launched in March 2007 and the response to it was beyond the expectations of the Steering Committee of EPSA. Over 400 abstracts were submitted in all kinds of areas in the philosophy of science. The 30-strong Programme Committee, consisting of renowned philosophers of science working in Europe and chaired by Mauro Dorato (Rome) and Miklos Redei (London), faced the difficult task of selecting 175 papers for presentation at the conference. Hard decisions had to be made within a very strong field of contributions and the result of the selection procedure was that the quality of papers presented in EPSA07 was invariably high. The conference was structured around five sections: General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Philosophy of Social Sciences, Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science, and Social and Historical Studies of the Philosophy of Science. Detailed information about the programme may be found at the conference website: http://www.ucm.es/info/epsa07. A numbir of papers have also been posted at the Pittsburgh Philosophy of Science Archive section devoted to the conference: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/view/confandvol/EPSA07. Here we provide a short review of the most relevant topics discussed. Within the first section (General Philosophy of Science), there were sessions devoted to nearly every topic actively pursued in philosophy of science today, such as causation, realism, confirmation, reductionism, structuralism, experiment and observation, prediction, models and representation, and simulation. The second section (Philosophy of Natural Sciences) concerned mainly philosophical aspects of physics and the biomedicai sciences. Most of the

MCQT’06: Computational Methods and Applications in Queueing Theory

This Special Volume is devoted to selected papers presented at the Second Madrid Conference on Queueing Theory (MCQT’06) held at the Complutense University of Madrid during July 3–7, 2006. The Madrid Conference on Queueing Theory aims to be a meeting place where scientists and technicians in the field can find a discussion forum to promote research, encourage interaction and exchange ideas. The conference is open to all trends in Queueing Theory including development of the theory, methodology, computational advances and applications. This second conference gathered 91 participants from 23 countries. The Program Committee had the following members: I.J.B.F. Adan (The Netherlands), E. Altman (France), J.R. Artalejo (Spain, Chairman), H. Bruneel (Belgium), S.R. Chakravarthy (USA), X. Chao (USA), B.D. Choi (Korea), A.N. Dudin (Belarus), G. Koole (The Netherlands), G. Latouche (Belgium), V. Ramaswami (USA), T. Takine (Japan), P.G. Taylor (Australia) and U. Yechiali (Israel). O.J. Boxma (The Netherlands) gave the Opening Lecture. The papers in this Volume make a significant contribution to the topic “Computational Methods and Applications in Queueing Theory”. Each submission was reviewed by two referees and finally 10 papers were selected. The journal Queueing Systems devoted volume 56, issues 3–4, to papers focused on the topic “Theoretical and Methodological Advances in Queueing Theory ”. I am deeply indebted to the members of the Local Committee (M.J. Alcon, I. Atencia, A. Gomez-Corral, M.J. Lopez-Herrero, P. Moreno and A. Rodrigo) who carried out the major share of the logistic work, and to the late Prof. Peter Hammer, former Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Operations Research, for entrusting me with this editorial work. I also would like to thank all of the authors who submitted to this Volume and to the referees who reviewed the papers carefully.

Madrid conference on women with disabilities

Madrid conference on women with disabilities

Imaging through Altantic Margin basalts: An introduction to the sub‐basalt mini‐set

The 2005 EAGE annual conference in Madrid featured a novel session, convened and chaired by the authors of this introduction, dedicated to sub-basalt imaging. Novelty lay in the structure of the session: three oral talks, three parallel posters delivered in the same room spanning the coffee break; three more oral talks and a moderated discussion at the end. The session captured the flavour of a genuine workshop with good discussion from the floor and an audience that was ready to chat around the posters with their cups of coffee. The co-chairs were encouraged to capture as many of the papers as possible for a mini-thematic set and while fewer papers than had been hoped have ended up in the set, this introduction sets the context for the following three papers, acknowledges the contributions of all the presenters in the session with a summary of their key results and selectively comments on recent developments in the topic.

What you see before your eyes: documenting Raphael Lemkin's life by exploring his archival Papers, 1900–1959

There's a serious risk that a commemoration of Raphael Lemkin's work will not become an act of remembering, but an act of forgetting, obliterating what was so singular about his achievement. (Micha...

Belated Occupation, Advanced Militarization: Edward Said’s Critique of the Oslo Process Revisited

Previous articleNext article No AccessBelated Occupation, Advanced Militarization: Edward Said’s Critique of the Oslo Process RevisitedDan RabinowitzDan Rabinowitz Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 31, Number 2Winter 2005 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/430979 Views: 107Total views on this site Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref © 2005 by The University of Chicago.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article: Bibliography of Periodical Literature, Journal of Palestine Studies 34, no.44 (Jun 2005): 222–235.https://doi.org/10.1525/jps.2005.34.4.222

Current activities of the international commission on radiological protection.

The advice of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is aimed principally at the regulators and operators that have responsibility for establishing protection standards. ICRP's present recommendations were published in 1991. Since then, the Commission has published additional recommendations, and the system of protection has become increasingly complex. The Commission has decided to simplify its system and make it more coherent. In 2005, the Commission plans to adopt a new set of recommendations that should be seen as a consolidation of earlier recommendations. In the review of the current system of protection, many topics are being looked at and all committees are currently addressing issues of relevance for the revision. A proposal for the new recommendations on radiological protection will be discussed at the 11th International Radiation Protection Association conference in Madrid in 2004. When the Commission adopts the new recommendations in 2005, 15 y will have passed since the 1990 recommendations were adopted.

US policy and the Israeli–Palestinian dispute

Eight months after the 1991 Gulf War, America used its strengthened influence to force Israel and its neighbours to the Madrid conference and set a peace process in motion. With a US-led war against Iraq again in prospect, at issue is what approach Washington will take towards the Israeli-Palestinian dispute once Baghdad has been defeated. What is clear is that the administration's policy will be shaped by its pre-existing attitudes toward the protagonists as well as conditions on the ground.

The Fuego System Concept

FUEGO is a satellite system intended to provide the firefighting forces in the world with early fire warning and fire monitoring capabilities. It is being conceived with the users, by fostering continuous user direction of the development process. This system concept is presented. We present the user requirements that have evolved from user consultation and have been confirmed in the First FUEGO Users Conference in Madrid. The sensor arrangement is discussed including the sort of algorithm envisaged and the necessary supporting spectral bands and sensitivity. Technological aspects are reviewed. The operational concept is briefly described. The architecture is shown to be flexible and adapted to user expectations. From the operational concept the satellite and ground segment requirements and design are presented, to show the feasibility in technical and programmatic terms. The main system issues are analysed for criticality and basic conclusions are derived. A summary of cost benefit analysis is presented. A satellite system is therefore proposed as an operational mission to support the forest firefighting activity.

The mutability of rhetoric: Haydar ‘Abd Al‐Shafi's Madrid speech and vision of Palestinian‐Israeli rapprochement

This essay draws from Edwin Black's Rhetorical Questions to illuminate the role of mutability in rhetoric, consciousness, and social idioms as it is displayed in Haydar ‘Abd al‐Shafi's speech delivered at the Madrid conference on October 31, 1991. Shaft's speech represents a significant mutation in Palestinian discourse. In this speech, the symbolic mold and the hereditarian social idioms that had controlled the Palestinian narrative until the intifada yielded to a mixed idiom that retained the hereditarian values essential for Palestinian identity but opened up space for the convictional values necessary for negotiation and rapprochement with Israel. This essay demonstrates that rhetorical critical theory could benefit from a close reading and application of the themes in Rhetorical Questions.

The Israeli-Syrian peace talks: 1991-96 and beyond

The Madrid Conference and the Israeli-Syrian track from Shamir to Rabin slow progress between Oslo and May 1995 chiefs of staff II - inside and outside the negotiating room Peres takes over the Wye Plantation Talks - a hopeful new experiment interrupted disintegration the past as prelude.

NATO's Visegrad allies: The first test in Kosovo

At the NATO's Madrid conference in 1997, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were asked to join Europe's premier military alliance. In order to gain admission, these states engaged in extensive lobyying efforts and made considerable diplomatic promises to convince full members of their shared values and willingness to assist in NATO's post‐Cold War mission. However, only days after their membership was ratified, the alliance initiated a bombing campaign on Kosovo. This article examines the contributions of the Visegrad states in this operation, and finds much disparity in the diplomatic and military support provided to NATO. The findings have implications not only for NATO's ability to provide for European security in the future, but also for Eastern European states and others who seek full membership in the alliance.

The fifty years' war: Israel and the Arabs

Part 1 Palestine, Egypt and the new state of Israel: the vote for partition crisis in America the winds of change secret contracts in Paris sabotage in Egypt confrontation. Part 2 The 1967 war: storm is gathering Eban's mission Eshkol's black Sunday prelude to war the 1967 war land-for-peace offer. Part 3 Sadat's historic quest for peace: changing camps? courting the West the road to war the 1973 war Sadat astonishes the world negotiating peace at Camp David. Part 4 Homelands the young Yasser Arafat black days a big explosion will happen in Lebanon Sharon and Gemayel the 1982 war homelands all falls apart. Part 5 The long road to Madrid: searching for partners the new equation Arafat's political initiative Saddam Hussein's cunning linkage the long road to Madrid the Madrid Conference. Part 6 Peace at last?: deadlock in the Washington talks secret talks with Oslo. Part 7 Talks with Syria: vicious circle the rise and fall of Shimon Peres Bejamin Netanyahu - new man at the helm.

ITAMAR RABINOVICH, The Brink of Peace: The Israeli–Syrian Negotiations (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998). Pp. 298. $35 cloth, $15.95 paper.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made an astute decision in the summer of 1992 when he entrusted the highly respected rector of Tel Aviv University, Itamar Rabinovich, with the task of reinvigorating the moribund Israeli–Syrian negotiations that had grown out of the Madrid Conference the previous October. Rabinovich had launched a stellar academic career by writing what remains arguably the best study of Syrian domestic politics during the Ba⊂thist era; his subsequent work explores the dynamics of the civil war in Lebanon, the intricacies of Egypt's relations with Palestine during the 1940s and 1950s, and the origins of inter-Arab diplomacy, among many other topics. More important, in 1991 Rabinovich published an authoritative yet accessible overview of the tangled history of direct talks among the governments of Israel and its Arab neighbors in the years immediately after the 1948 war. The book not only undermines the general presumption that the Arab–Israeli dilemma is inherently insoluble, but also elucidates the miscalculations and tactical errors that derailed early attempts to resolve the conflict. Rabinovich was clearly the right person to supervise delicate bargaining with the Syrians, and might have been expected to compose a notable account of his experiences once his term as Israel's chief negotiator came to an end.

The public beginning of the ISLRR at the International Low Vision Conference in Madrid

(1999). The public beginning of the ISLRR at the International Low Vision Conference in Madrid. Visual Impairment Research: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 47-49.

The Effects of the Peace Process on Political Liberalization in Jordan

In April 1989, economic riots triggered a political liberalization process in Jordan. Initially promising, the political opening was first side-tracked at the time of the Madrid conference in 1991 and had effectively stalled by summer 1994, as the government changed the electoral and other laws and curbed public freedoms. In chronicling the retreats in liberalization from 1991 to the present, the author argues that while there have been numerous pressures on the Jordanian political system since 1989, one can draw clear causal relationships between these retreats and developments in the "peace process."

Enhancing CASE Environments by Using Linguistics

In this paper it is argued that CASE environments could and should be enhanced considerably by using theories and knowledge from linguistics. The environments should 'know' about the language of their users and the domains they are used for. By basing the modeling techniques supported by the CASE tool on linguistic theories and by incorporating Natural Language parsing and generating tools, the CASE environment is able to handle the users' language in an accurate way. More specifically, the CASE environment deals with the meaning of words, instead of the meaningless strings themselves. These meanings, which are retrieved from an online lexicon, are linked to the words used in both the requirements documents as well as in the conceptual models in order to achieve a certain degree of consistency between the two of them. The base structure of these models is automatically derived by analyzing the textual requirements documents that describe the domain under consideration. This Natural Language analysis consists of parsing the texts and retrieving the word meanings that corresponds to concepts that may be of interest for modeling this domain accurately. Furthermore, the resulting models can be validated by people who are not familiar with the modeling notations used, by paraphrasing the models to Natural Language sentences. This paper mainly focuses on the profits gained by using linguistic knowledge in CASE environments, on the philosophy behind this approach and on three specific Natural Language components: the lexicon, Natural Language analysis and text generation for requirements validation. This article is based on the paper "Truly Intelligent CASE Environments Profit from Linguistics" [7], which was presented during the SEKE conference in Madrid (June 1997).