New Journals: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering

We now have trial (until the end of 2007) access to the following Wiley Interscience Journals:

• Chemistry - An Asian Journal (a ’sister journal’ of Angewandte Chemie and Chemistry - A European Journal )
• IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Laser & Photonics Reviews
• Macromolecular Reaction Engineering
• physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters

If you find any of these journals useful in your research, please contact Deborah Kegel or Teri Vogel. Your feedback will help us when we need to decide about licensing these titles after the trial period ends.

Mathematicians Map E8

Mathematicians have mapped the inner workings of one of the most complicated structures ever studied: the object known as the exceptional Lie group E8. This achievement is significant both as an advance in basic knowledge and because of the many connections between E8 and other areas, including string theory and geometry. The magnitude of the calculation is staggering: the answer, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan. read more
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SE 2 class-materials price info

Looking for prices of structural and constuction materials? We’ve got a guide for you from our Get Research Help page. This is also the page to signup for your SE2 library classes (Dr Qiao will be giving you more details in Friday’s lab classes).

Science of Synthesis Workshop - April 17

The Science & Engineering Library is delighted to host this training session for Science of Synthesis.

Thieme’s Science of Synthesis is one of the core resources for the synthetic chemist, a critical collection of synthetic methods in organic and organometallic chemistry that highlight the highest quality and most relevant experimental procedures in great detail.

Up to 28 (and counting) volumes, Science of Synthesis is searchable by bibliographic information, reaction details and substance information–including structures. It also serves as a bridge to the entire Houben-Weyl archive, your gateway to the synthetic literature going back over 150 years.

Trainer: Michael Poynter, Thieme
For: Interested faculty, staff and students
When: Tuesday, April 17, 9:15-10:15am (with 20 minutes for Q&A)
Where: CLICS (Revelle Plaza), room 264

RSVP is encouraged. For more information contact tmvogel@ucsd.edu.

Math Awareness Month

April is Math Awareness Month - and this year’s theme is Math and the Brain. The S&E Library is exhibiting several books on various mathematical and computational applications and imaging of neurons and the brain. And see the full-scale poster on our display panel on the 2nd floor, courtesy of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), along with relevant SIAM News articles on advances in neuroscience & mathematics.

Math, Computer Science, and interested Engineering students - Did you know that SIAM grants free memberships to UCSD students because of our Academic membership? Grad students may fill out the application at the SIAM student site and undergrads should contact the UCSD Math Department to have your name sent to SIAM.

CHEMLIBnetBASE: 260+ Chemistry Books Online

UCSD now has CHEMLIBnetBASE!!

CHEMLIBnetBASE is a searchable e-book collection of 260+ chemistry titles, including:

• Ewing’s Analytical Instrumentation Handbook
• Handbook of Affinity Chromatography
• Fluorescence Sensors and Biosensors
• Handbook of Chiral Chemicals
• Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy
• Practical Guide To Chemometrics
• Advances in Chromatography, V. 42-44
• Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
• Handbook of Photochemistry
• CRC Handbook of Tables for Organic Compound Identification

You can browse or search across the collection, and the individual titles are currently getting cataloged in Roger.

1. CHEMLIBnetBASE will be remotely accessible via the proxy shortly.
2. As will many of the CRCnetBASE e-book collections, make sure your browser is set up so that Adobe Acrobat Reader opens within your browser and not as a separate program. Otherwise, the hyperlinking within the e-book PDFs will not work.

New UCSD Articles: SE/MAE

Recent articles from authored/co-authored by UCSD faculty (and possibly staff and students) from the Department of Structural Engineering and Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, as indexed in Web of Science.

Probabilistic risk analysis in subsurface hydrology
Tartakovsky DM (Tartakovsky, Daniel M.)
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 34 (5): Art. No. L05404 MAR 15 2007

DMTA based investigation of hygrothermal ageing of an epoxy system used in rehabilitation
Xian GJ (Xian, Guijun), Karbhari VM (Karbhari, Vistasp M.)
JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE 104 (2): 1084-1094 APR 15 2007

Electrical characterization of carbon nanotube Y-junctions: a foundation for new nanoelectronics
Bandaru PR (Bandaru, Prabhakar R.)
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 42 (5): 1809-1818 MAR 2007

Infiltration pressure of a nanoporous liquid spring modified by an electrolyte
Han A (Han, A.), Qiao Y (Qiao, Y.)
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH 22 (3): 644-648 MAR 2007

Prediction of long-term prestress losses
Youakim SA (Youakim, Samer A.), Ghali A (Ghali, Amin), Hida SE (Hida, Susan E.), Karbhari VM (Karbhari, Vistasp M.)
PCI JOURNAL 52 (2): 116-130 MAR-APR 2007

Source seeking with non-holonomic unicycle without position measurement and with tuning of forward velocity
Zhang CL (Zhang, Chunlei), Arnold D (Arnold, Daniel), Ghods N (Ghods, Nima), Siranosian A (Siranosian, Antranik), Krstic M (Krstic, Miroslav)
SYSTEMS & CONTROL LETTERS 56 (3): 245-252 MAR 2007
Continue reading New UCSD Articles: SE/MAE…

New E-Books from National Academies

Some new titles from the National Academies Press:

• Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
• Assessment of Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Technology for Detection and Identification of Concealed Explosives and Weapons
• Exploring Opportunities in Green Chemistry and Engineering Education: A Workshop Summary to the Chemical Sciences Roundtable
• Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8
• Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2006 Symposium
• Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System

Alloy Phase Diagram Center Online - Available

You gave us good feedback during the trial period, and UCSD now has access to ASM’s Alloy Phase Diagram Center Online. Explore, search and view more than 11,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 2400 systems.