Help for Structural Materials students

Need help finding information (prices, property, background) on a material for your class assignments? Try our new
Engineering Pathfinders - this one is designed for the SE 2 class.

“That Famous Equation and You”

Brian Green’s essay on the 100th anniversary of the publication of Einstein’s “E=mc² article,” published in the Sept 30 New York Times (free but registration required, after that use this link and search for Einstein.)

The original article, along with his other “annus mirabilis” articles, were reprinted in a supplementary issue of Annalen der Physik earlier this year.

Reference Hours in the Chemistry Dept

This week, the Chemistry Librarian will resume Remote Reference, bringing the S&E Library to you. It’s an opportunity for faculty, staff and students in the Chem/Biochem Department to get reference assistance or help with databases, and to find out about the new online resources available.

Where: Natural Sciences Building (NSB) 2303 - the computer lab

When: Wednesdays, alternating between 10-noon and 1-3pm, with additional hours scheduled as needed. A schedule is posted on our website.

You are also free to contact me (tmvogel@ucsd.edu | 4-1216) directly to arrange a time to meet outside these hours.

New UCSD Articles: Chem/Biochem

Recent articles from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, as indexed in Web of Science. UCSD-affiliated authors in bold (though some are in other departments like Pharmacology).

Predicting bulk ambient aerosol compositions from ATOFMS data with ART-2a and multivariate analysis
Zhao WX, Hopke PK, Qin XY, Prather KA
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA 549 (1-2): 179-187 SEP 6 2005

Molecular recognition of RNA by neomycin and a restricted neomycin derivative
Zhao F, Zhao Q, Blount KF, Han Q, Tor Y, Hermann T
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION 44 (33): 5329-5334 2005

Utilizing the intramolecular Fukuyama-Mitsunobu reaction for a flexible synthesis of novel heterocyclic scaffolds for peptidomimetic drug design
Zapf CW, Del Valle JR, Goodman M
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS 15 (18): 4033-4036 SEP 15 2005

Fluorescent multiplex analysis of carrier protein post-translational modification
Mercer AC, La Clair JJ, Burkart MD
CHEMBIOCHEM 6 (8): 1335-1337 AUG 2005

Planetesimal sulfate and aqueous alteration in CM and CI carbonaceous chondrites
Airieau SA, Farquhar J, Thiemens MH, Leshin LA, Bao H, Young E
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (16): 4166-4171 AUG 15 2005

An antiaromatic porphyrin complex: Tetraphenylporphyrinato(silicon)(L)(2) (L = THF or pyridine)
Cissell JA, Vaid TP, Rheingold AL
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 127 (35): 12212-12213 SEP 7 2005

Biosensing using porous silicon double-layer interferometers: Reflective interferometric Fourier transform spectroscopy
Pacholski C, Sartor M, Sailor MJ, Cunin F, Miskelly GM
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 127 (33): 11636-11645 AUG 24 2005

Carbon dioxide reduction and carbon monoxide activation employing a reactive uranium(III) complex
Castro-Rodriguez I, Meyer K
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 127 (32): 11242-11243 AUG 17 2005

The phosphoinositide-3-phosphatase MTMR2 associates with MTMR13, a membrane-associated pseudophosphatase also mutated in type 4B Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Robinson FL, Dixon JE
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 280 (36): 31699-31707 SEP 9 2005

Calculation of the Maxwell stress tensor and the Poisson-Boltzmann force on a solvated molecular surface using hypersingular boundary integrals
Lu BZ, Cheng XL, Hou TJ, McCammon JA
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 123 (8): Art. No. 084904 AUG 22 2005

Catalytic independent functions of a protein kinase as revealed by a kinase-dead mutant: Study of the Lys72His mutant of cAMP-dependent kinase
Iyer GH, Garrod S, Woods VL, Taylor SS
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 351 (5): 1110-1122 SEP 2 2005

Joys of molecules. 1. Campaigns in total synthesis
Nicolaou KC
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 70 (18): 7007-7027 SEP 2 2005

Boundary layer chemistry probed by in situ infrared spectroscopy during SiO2 deposition at atmospheric pressure from tetraethylorthosilicate and ozone
Flores LD, Crowell JE
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 109 (34): 16544-16553 SEP 1 2005

The role of protein kinase C in regulation of TCDD-mediated CYP1A1 gene expression
Machemer DEW, Tukey RH
TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES 87 (1): 27-37 SEP 2005
Continue reading New UCSD Articles: Chem/Biochem…

SciFinder Scholar 2006

SciFinder Scholar 2006 for Windows (98/2000/XP/Me/NT4.0) is now available for download off the UCLA site. A version of OS X will be available soon, according to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).

I’m working on updating our SFS page, but here are some resources to help you get started with SFS 2006. If you have any questions about downloading or using SFS 2006, please contact e-mail me or call 534-1216.

• Classes - I will be offering two hands-on sessions on SFS 2006 in CLICS: Wed, Oct 5 at 2-3pm, and Thurs, Oct 6 at 10-11am. Students and faculty new to SciFinder Scholar are also welcome to attend. Send an e-mail to scilib@ucsd.edu to register.

• From CAS, a list of new features in SciFinder Scholar 2006.
• SciFinder e-Seminars - Online presentations about SFS 2006, from 7 to 60 minutes long. View previously recorded seminars or sign up for to view and participate in upcoming seminars. You’ll need to download the WebEx software to watch them.

Welcome Week Activities

The Science & Engineering Library is offering a number of tours and classes for Welcome Week, to help you become familiar with our library and the services and resources we provide.

There’s no signup for these classes, but please contact Susan Shepherd (534-2480) or Teri Vogel (534-1216) if you have any questions:
• 30-minutes tours of the S&E library, especially helpful since we share the building with another 5+ libraries (10-10:30 M-F, 4-4:30 M-Th)
• Library Tips for Engineering Students, a hands-on orientation to the online engineering resources (3-4 Tu, 11-noon Wed -**both classes at S&E/Geisel)
• Library/Info Resources for Chemistry Majors, a hands-on orientation to the online chemistry resources (12-1:30 Wed, 1:30-3 Fri -**both classes at CLICS)

We’re also offering classes throughout the quarter: SciFinder 2006, INSPEC, EndNote, Engineering Resources, and RSS for keeping up with news and research.

New UCSD Articles: Math/CSE

Recent articles from faculty in the Math and Computer Science & Engineering Departments, as indexed in Web of Science. UCSD-affiliated authors in bold.

Improving the Gilbert-Varshamov bound for q-ary codes
Vu V, Wu L
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY 51 (9): 3200-3208 SEP 2005

What is a concept?
Goguen J
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3596: 52-77 2005

Visual tracking and recognition using probabilistic appearance manifolds
Lee KC, Ho J, Yang MH, Kriegman D
COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING 99 (3): 303-331 SEP 2005

A virtual reality platform for modeling cognitive development
Jasso H, Triesch J
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3575: 211-224 2005

Feedback-based synchronization in system area networks for cluster computing
Song HJ, Chien AA
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 16 (10): 908-920 OCT 2005
Continue reading New UCSD Articles: Math/CSE…

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (new)

UCSD now has online access to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from 1945 to the present. You can browse the collection by author, issue, and topic (from The Manhattan Project to the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Contributing authors included Einstein, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Teller, Pauling and Sakharov. It’s written for both scientific readers and the general public.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago and were deeply concerned about the potential future use of nuclear weapons and nuclear war… More than 5,250 writers have contributed more than 18,000 articles, forming an archive of primary source material that is recognized internationally as an indispensable resource on international security issues.