Read a (Science) Book!!

Looking for something to read while you wait for the last Harry Potter to come out? Participating in SSHL’s Summer Reading Contest and want something beyond the typical summer fare? Don’t forget the S&E Browsing Collection of popular science books: hot topics, biographies, puzzles, science meets pop culture, and more.

AND, if you read a book or find out about one that you think we should add to the collection, send an email to tmvogel@ucsd.edu. Or post your suggestions as a [non-spam] comment.

Roger [Keyword] Searching Improvements

When you do keyword searches in Roger, how do you like to see your results displayed? By relevance? By date? Now you can have both!!

The results of your Roger keyword search will still display first by relevance: those 5 to 1-star groupings, each one starting with the most recent title.

NOW, you can change the results display to the DATE option to see the most recent titles first (regardless of relevancy) or by TITLE for an A-Z list. The ‘date’ option was the way it always looked before we moved to the relevancy view.

Nature Journals Downtime - 6/23

At 9:00 PM (PDT) on Saturday, June 23rd Nature Publishing Group (NPG) expects 15-30 minutes downtime on nature.com and its associated service sites–including the Nature Journals.

If you have trouble accessing the journals beyond the 30 minutes, please e-mail Teri Vogel. NPG will be upgrading key components of the nature.com infrastructure over the next few weeks, and we want to monitor their ‘anticipated’ downtime carefully.

New UCSD Articles: CSE/ECE

Recent articles authored/co-authored by UCSD faculty from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

Bhardwaj, S., Williams, R. J., & Acampora, A. S. (2007). On the performance of a two-user MIMO downlink system in heavy traffic. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 53(5), 1851-1859.

Chen, C. H., Tsai, F., Lien, V., Justis, N., & Lo, Y. H. (2007). Scattering-based cytometric detection using integrated arrayed waveguides with microfluidics. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 19(5-8), 441-443.

Dayeh, S. A., Soci, C., Yu, P. K. L., Yu, E. T., & Wang, D. L. (2007). Influence of surface states on the extraction of transport parameters from InAs nanowire field effect transistors. Applied Physics Letters, 90(16), 3.

Deutsch, A., Sui, L. Y., & Vianu, V. (2007). Specification and verification of data-driven Web applications. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 73(3), 442-474.

Hartmann, P., Donko, Z., Kalman, G. J., Kyrkos, S., Rosenberg, M., & Bakshi, P. M. (2007). Collective modes in 2-D Yukawa solids and liquids. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 35(2), 337-341.

He, L., Kahng, A. B., Tam, K. H., & Xiong, J. J. (2007). Simultaneous buffer insertion and wire sizing considering systematic CMP variation and random L-eff variation. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 26(5), 845-857.

Kyrkos, S., Kalman, G. J., & Rosenberg, M. (2007). Beam-plasma interaction in two-dimensional Yukawa lattices. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 35(2), 342-345.

Pamarti, S., & Galton, I. (2007). LSB dithering in MASH delta-sigma D/A converters. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I-Regular Papers, 54(4), 779-790.

Rosing, T. S., Mihic, K., & De Micheli, G. (2007). Power and reliability management of SoCs. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (Vlsi) Systems, 15(4), 391-403.

Smarr, L. (2007). Riding the light towards new science. Nature Photonics, 1(3), 133-135.

Suraprapapich, S., Shen, Y. M., Odnoblyudov, V. A., Fainman, Y., Panyakeow, S., & Tu, C. W. (2007). Self-assembled lateral Bi-quantum-dot molecule formation by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. Journal of Crystal Growth, 301, 735-739.

Zhou, S., Yao, B., Chen, H. Y., Zhu, Y., Hutton, M., Collins, T., et al. (2007). Efficient timing analysis with known false paths using biclique covering. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 26(5), 959-969.

Zhu, Z. Y., Peng, H., Cheng, C. K., Rouz, K., Borah, M., & Kuh, E. S. (2007). Two-stage Newton-Raphson method for transistor-level simulation. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 26(5), 881-895.

Pluto: Not the Biggest Dwarf Planet?

From this week’s Science: The Mass of Dwarf Planet Eris (M.E. Brown & E.L. Schaller, Caltech)

The discovery of dwarf planet Eris was followed shortly by the discovery of its satellite, Dysnomia, but the satellite orbit, and thus the system mass, was not known. New observations with the Keck Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescopes show that Dysnomia has a circular orbit with a radius of 37,350 ± 140 (1-{sigma}) kilometers and a 15.774 ± 0.002 day orbital period around Eris. These orbital parameters agree with expectations for a satellite formed out of the orbiting debris left from a giant impact. The mass of Eris from these orbital parameters is 1.67 x 10²² ± 0.02 x 10²² kilograms, or 1.27 ± 0.02 that of Pluto.

See also: Michael Brown’s page at Caltech on Eris

Looking for more article? Check out: Poor Pluto not even the largest dwarf planet (CNN), Dwarf planet Eris bigger than Pluto (Astronomy Magazine), Giant KBO Eris more Massive than Pluto (The Planetary Society) and other articles via Google News.

Web of Science - back to 1900

UCSD now has the complete Web of Science. Instead of getting cut off at 1955 in your search for citations or cited references, you can search back to 1900, increasing your access to the older literature and the articles these authors cited.

Trivia Contest Winners - Monday

Congratulations to Monday’s contest winners: Becky Creekmur (Management Science) - 2 passes to the Reuben Fleet Science Center & Imax Theater; and Chaddy Elhawary (Chemistry) - an Einstein t-shirt.

Creative entry form folding won unofficial prizes for Phann Sourm, Darren Yang, and Chau Nguyen - S&E key chains.

All entries with 5 correct answers, including each day’s winners, will be included in today’s drawing for the iPod Shuffle grand prize.

Trivia Contest Winners - Friday

The winners of Friday’s Trivia Contest are Alexa Pham (General Biology, Psychology) and David Wong (Chemical Engineering). Alexa’s prize is a $25 gift certificate for Amazon.com. David’s is a t-shirt that says, “I’m positive I lost an electron.” A third contestant, Jennifer Inouye, won honorable mention for the most creatively folded entry form. Her prize is an S&E key chain.

Congratulations to Alexa, David, and Jennifer.

The contest continues today with 5 new questions. Contestants who answer all 5 questions correctly are entered in a drawing for an iPod Shuffle.

Trivia Contest Winners - Thursday

Congratulations to Steven Shimizu (Chemical Engineering) and Caryn Urbanczyk (Bioengineering), winners of Thursday’s Science & Engineering Trivia Contest prizes. Steven won a Kingston 1GB flash drive and Caryn won an AAAS Baby Einstein T-shirt and poster.

The contest continues Friday, June 8 and Monday, June 11 with 5 new questions each day. Contestants who answer all 5 questions correctly are entered in a drawing for an iPod Shuffle.

Take a Study Break - You might win an iPod

The Science & Engineering Library is pleased to announce its 3rd Annual S&E Trivia Contest, timed to coincide with the lead-in to finals and the peak of student stress levels. Take a break and answer 5 science questions each day on June 7, 8 and 11. You may be one of the 2 winners each day, and you could be entered in a drawing for the Grand Prize - an iPod Shuffle! Pick up contest forms at the Reference Desk in the S&E Library.