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NIST 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation Plan

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Omid Sadjadi, Craig Greenberg, Elliot Singer, Lisa Mason, Douglas Reynolds
The 2021 Speaker Recognition Evaluation (SRE21) is the next in an ongoing series of speaker recognition evaluations conducted by the US National Institute of

IRIS-HEP Blueprint Workshop Summary: Learning from the Pandemic: the Future of Meetings in HEP and Beyond

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Mark Neubauer, Todd Adams, Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy, Gabriele Benelli, Tulika Bose, David Britton, Ben Galewsky, Bo Jayatilaka, Brendan Kiburg, Maciej Gladki, Aman Goel, Jonathan E. Guyer, Pat Burchat, Joel Butler, Timothy Cartwright, Tomáš Davídek, Jacques Dumarchez, Peter Elmer, Matthew Feickert, Mandeep Gill, Benjamin Krikler, David Lange, Claire Lee, Nick Manganelli, Giovanni Marchiori, Meenakshi Narain, Ianna Osborne, Jim Pivarski, Harrison Prosper, Graeme Stewart, Eduardo Rodrigues, Roberto Salerno, Marguerite Tonjes, Jaroslav Trnka, Vera Varanda, Vassil Vassilev, Gordon Watts, Sam Zeller, Yuanyuan Zhang
The COVID-19 pandemic has by-and-large prevented in-person meetings since March 2020. While the increasing deployment of effective vaccines around the world is

Securing AI Testbed (Dioptra) Documentation

Author(s)
Harold Booth, James Glasbrenner, Howard Huang, Cory Miniter, Julian Sexton
The NCCoE has built an experimentation testbed to begin to address the broader challenge of evaluation for attacks and defenses. The testbed aims to facilitate

Demonstration that Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering Requires More than One Bit of Faster-than-Light Information Transmission

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Yu Xiang, Michael Mazurek, Joshua Bienfang, Michael Wayne, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Morgan Mitchell, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Qiongyi He, Marty Stevens, Krister Shalm, Howard Wiseman
Schrödinger held that a local quantum system has some objectively real quantum state and no other (hidden) properties. He therefore took the Einstein-Podolsky

Environmental Protection Agency Blind Audit 2018

Author(s)
Christina Cecelski, Cassie Goodman, Jennifer Carney
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted a blind audit of EPA protocol calibration gas mixtures produced by specialty gas manufactures. The

Optimal Cybersecurity Investments for SIS Model

Author(s)
Van Sy Mai, Richard La, Abdella Battou
We study the problem of minimizing the (time) average security costs in large systems comprising many interdependent subsystems, where the state evolution is

Annotated Bibliography of Key Publications on Business and Economic Recovery from Disasters

Author(s)
Sahar Derakhshan, Juri Kim, Maria Watson, Stephanie Chang, Charolotte Brown, Noah Dormandy, John Handmer, Jennifer Helgeson, Yoshio Kajitani, Adriana Keating, Ilan Noy, Adam Rose, Anne Wein, Norihiko Yamano
This Working Group focuses on the economic recovery of businesses and economies from the COVID-19 pandemic. With communities around the world experiencing

Observations on COMET

Author(s)
Daniel J. Bernstein, Henri Gilbert, Meltem Sonmez Turan
This note provides two observations on COMET, a second round candidate of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process. The first observation uses

Mechanical Quantum Sensing in the Search for Dark Matter

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Jacob Taylor, Gadi Afek, Sunil Bhave, Daniel Carney, Gordan Krnjaic, David Moore, Robinjeet Singh, Cindy Regal, Benjamin M. Brubaker, Andrew Geraci, Jonathan D. Cripe, Sohitri Ghosh, Jack Harris, Anson Hook, Jonathan Kunjummen, Rafael Lang, Li Tongcang, Tongyan Lin, Zhen Liu, Joseph Lykken, Lorenzo Magrini, Jack Manley, Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Alissa Monte, Fernando Monteiro, Thomas Purdy, C. J. Riedel, Swati Singh, Kanupriya Sinha, Juehang Qin, Dalziel Wilson, Yue Zhao
Numerous astrophysical and cosmological observations are best explained by the existence of dark matter, a mass density which interacts only very weakly with