U-T Article - Mark Thiemens

There’s an interesting feature article in today’s Union-Tribune about (Division of Physical Sciences Dean) Mark Thiemens: Glass-blowing UCSD chemist preserves an art lost to most scientists.

In a darkened laboratory on the UCSD campus, Mark Thiemens peers intently into the blue flame of a blowtorch, directing its fierce, fusing heat at the glowing orange ends of two glass tubes, each a piece of a larger latticework of interconnected beakers, flasks and bulbs.

Chancellor Interview in C&EN

An interview with UCSD Chancellor (and chemist) Marye Anne Fox is the cover story in the Sept 17 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. In the interview she talks about UCSD, challenges and opportunities for research and funding, corporate relationships, and science and technology policy.

Text Messages from Roger

Want to write down a call number from Roger and don’t have anything to write it on? You can now send them to your phone.
Bring up the single record view for an item in Roger. Click , enter your phone and select your phone mobile provider, and click ’send.’ The item’s title, location and call number will be sent to your phone.

Older German Chem Journals - Now Online

UCSD now has online access to several key German chemistry journals….back to Year One.

• Angewandte Chemie (aka Zeitschrift für Angewandte Chemie or Die Chemie) - 1887-1997
• Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie (aka Annalen der Pharmacie, Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, or Liebigs Annalen) - 1832-1997
• Chemische Berichte (aka Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft) - 1868-1997

Welcome Week at S&E

Here’s what’s happening at the Science & Engineering Library during Welcome Week.

The S&E Library is in the east wing of Geisel Library (through the main gate, then take 2 right turns). No registration is required for any of these activities.

There’s a Science & Engineering Library??!! - S&E Library Instruction Room
(For new and returning students at all levels)

Monday, Sept 24 - 10:00-11:00am
Tuesday, Sept 25 - 10:00-11:00am
Wednesday, Sept 26 - 2:00-3:00pm
Thursday, Sept 27 - 2:00-3:00pm

Yes! Come to this brief workshop/tour for an introduction to your Science & Engineering Library. In the hands-on workshop portion, you’ll learn what’s different about an academic science library and have a chance to try out some of our electronic resources. The tour will give you the lay of the land in the S&E Library. After the tour, stay for refreshments.

Jump Start Your Chemistry Research - S&E Library Instruction Room
(For new researchers, as well as experienced faculty, staff and graduate researchers who want a refresher)

Monday, Sept 24 - 1:30-3:00pm
Wednesday, Sept 26 - 9:30-11:00am

This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the rich collection of electronic and print resources available at UCSD for your chemistry & chemical engineering research, including: SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, Compendex and Beilstein/Gmelin. From selecting the best databases to getting the desired books, articles and data–we’ll cover it all.

Jump Start Your Engineering Research - S&E Library Instruction Room
(For new researchers, as well as experienced faculty, staff and graduate researchers who want a refresher)

Tuesday, Sept 25 - 1:30-3:00pm
Thursday, Sept 27 - 9:30-11:00am

Come to this hands-on workshop to learn about the wealth of library information resources for Engineering researchers: article databases like Compendex, Inspec, Engineered Materials Abstracts, and electronic resources like ENGnetBASE, Knovel…and MORE!

Science and Engineering Library Tours - S&E Library Entrance

Monday, Sept 24 - 4:00-5:00pm
Tuesday, Sept 25 - 4:00-5:00pm
Wednesday, Sept 26 - 4:00-5:00pm
Thursday, Sept 27 - 4:00-5:00pm

Come in for a tour and learn where to find books, computers, study areas, power for your laptop, Legos and puzzles, friendly help, and much more. Join us for refreshments and conversation at the end of the tour.

UCSD @ ACM SIGCOMM

Some of the UCSD papers that were presented at the recent ACM SIGCOMM conference in Kyoto, with links to the abstracts and papers:

Automating Cross-Layer Diagnosis of Enterprise Wireless Networks - Y.-C. Cheng, M. Afanasyev, P. Verkaik, P. Benko, J. Chiang, A. Snoeren, S. Savage, G. Voelker
- see also JSE Press Release

Orbis: Rescaling Degree Correlations to Generate Annotated Internet Topologies - Priya Mahadevan, Calvin Hubble, Dmitri Krioukov, Bradley Huffaker, Amin Vahdat
- see also JSE Press Release

Cloud Control with Distributed Rate Limiting - Barath Raghavan, Kashi Vishwanath, Sriram Ramabhadran, Kenneth Yocum, Alex Snoeren
- AWARDED BEST STUDENT PAPER AT CONFERENCE

CSA Databases - New Alerting

As BML reported earlier this week, CSA has created a new personalization portal for their databases, including METADEX, Aerospace & High Technology, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, GeoRef, Meteorological & Geophysical Abstracts, and the SAGE materials science e-journal collection.

From the search results, click Alert Me. Log in to your CSA profile–now called My Research (you can also create an account from here). In My Research, you can then set up your search alert to receive new citations by e-mail or RSS.

You can also get to My Research from any of the CSA databases by clicking Please log in to My Research. From this page you can create new alerts or manage existing alerts, and set default database and interface options for searching.

Roger Changes

This week, you’ll notice the ALL BUT SLIDES search option in Roger is gone.

In its place is a new search “scope” for BOOKS, and you can still search everything in the catalog (ALL) or search just the JOURNALS & SERIALS.

New Engineering E-Books (Synthesis)

The following new titles were published on the Synthesis Digital Library of Computer Science and Engineering during the month of August:

• Electronically Scanned Arrays by Robert Mailloux, UMass Amherst (Antennas Series)
• Fundamentals of Electromagnetics Vol 1: Internal Behavior of Lumped Elements by David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Computational Eletromagnetics Series)
• Fundamentals of Electromagnetics Vol 2: Quasistatics and Waves by David Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Computational Eletromagnetics Series)
• Fundamentals of Spread Spectrum Modulation by Rodger Ziemer, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (Communications Series)
• Pragmatic Logic by William Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Digital Circuits and Systems Series)

Synthesis features lecture-sized e-books written by well-known authors on topics of interest to electrical, computer science, and biomedical engineering, and is intended for students & researchers looking for good overviews on advanced engineering topics. A new series on technology management and entrepreneurship has just been added.