Science Magazine - Special Issue on Mercury

Teri — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:35:02 +0000

In the July 4 issue of Science, you’ll find a series of reports based on observations from the MESSENGER spacecraft’s flyby of Mercury earlier this year. There will be another flyby in October.

Mercury, Up-Close Again - Science, July 4, 2008
MESSENGER Website, with photos and other mission details (NASA/APL)

S&E Hours for July 7-13

Teri — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:07:45 +0000

S&E Hours for July 7-13:

Monday-Thursday: 7:30am - 9:45pm
Friday: 7:30am - 6:45pm
Saturday: 10am - 5:45pm
Sunday: 10am - 9:45pm

Looking for books, journals downstairs?

Teri — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:32:47 +0000

This month, we are splitting the S&E Stacks into S&E Journals and S&E Books. Everything is still here, but you should look at the book call numbers on the shelves (not the call number signs) to locate a book. Journal volumes may be on carts in the middle area if you don’t see them on the shelves where they used to be located.

Need help? Go to the S&E service desk on the 2nd floor and we’ll be glad to help you find the journal/book(s) you need. You can also use the Request feature in Roger to have the books pulled and waiting for you at the S&E Circulation Desk.

Recent UCSD Publications: ECE

Teri — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:26:22 +0000

Recent publications from faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering:

Chan, A. B., and N. Vasconcelos. 2008. Modeling, clustering, and segmenting video with mixtures of dynamic textures. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 30 (5):909-926.

Huang, A. M., and T. Q. Nguyen. 2008. A multistage motion vector processing method for motion-compensated frame interpolation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 17 (5):694-708.

Ikeda, K., M. Nezhad, and Y. Fainman. 2008. Wavelength selective coupler with vertical gratings on silicon chip. Applied Physics Letters 92 (20).

Kao, M. P., and T. Nguyen. 2008. A fully scalable motion model for scalable video coding. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 17 (6):908-923.

Kim, Y. H., A. Sutivong, and T. M. Cover. 2008. State amplification. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 54 (5):1850-1859.

Park, S. J., and G. M. Rebeiz. 2008. Low-loss two-pole tunable filters with three different predefined bandwidth characteristics. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques 56 (5):1137-1148.

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Wiley Journals Unavailable June 28-29

Teri — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:28:39 +0000

This weekend, the Wiley InterScience website (including access to the Wiley encyclopedias and journals like Angewandte Chemie Intl Edition and Advanced Materials) will be unavailable, so the Blackwell journal content can be moved over to the Wiley site. As of Monday, all of our licensed Blackwell journals will be available on the Wiley InterScience platform.

S&E Browsing Collection - New Books

Teri — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:29:22 +0000

These books have just been added to the S&E Browsing Collection. Click the title to see if the book’s available or place a request for one that’s checked out.

+ The ten most beautiful experiments
+ Nanotechnology 101
+ Nets, puzzles, and postmen
+ Very special relativity : an illustrated guide
+ Crime scene chemistry for the armchair sleuth
+ Symmetry : a journey into the patterns of nature
+ Rocketeers : how a visionary band of business leaders, engineers, and pilots is boldly privatizing space
+ Making mathematics with needlework : ten papers and ten projects
+ Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel
+ You call this the future? : the greatest inventions sci-fi imagined and science promised
+ Archimedes to Hawking : laws of science and the great minds behind them
+ Welcome to BioTech nation : my unexpected odyssey into the land of small molecules, lean genes, and big ideas
+ Earth, the sequel : the race to reinvent energy and stop global warming
+ Stories of modern technology failures and cognitive engineering successes

4th Annual S&E Library Trivia Contest

sushepherd — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:30:22 +0000

Take a break from studying and enter the 4th Annual S&E Trivia Contest. Pick up the questions at the S&E service desk. You may be the lucky winner of one of three prizes given each day. Entries with all questions answered correctly will be eligible for a drawing for the Grand Prize (a $50 gift certificate for ThinkGeek.com). Prizes are on display in the S&E Library. Come in and play!

ACS Undergrad Symposium Literature Award

Teri — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:29:59 +0000

Last Thursday the American Chemical Society - Student Affiliates held their 2nd Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Among the awards given that night was one from the S&E Library for best use of the literature, which was awarded to Margaret Yandell. She will receive a $125 bookstore giftcard, and her winning poster will be on display in the library starting next week.

Characterization of the ROS Generating Capacity and Radical Content of Combusted Particulate Matter
Margaret A. Yandell
Principal Investigator, Kimberly A. Prather

IEEE Spectrum Feature: The Singularity

Teri — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:52:00 +0000

Looking for some interesting reading this week, or while you’re taking a break next week during finals? Check out this month’s IEEE Spectrum feature on “The Singularity.”

This is the idea that, as a consequence of exponentially accelerating technological innovation and continuously self-improving artificial intelligence, computer power will outstrip human brainpower, leading to the end of human culture as we know it. Not a century from now, mind you, but somewhere between 2030 and 2045, depending on whom you talk to. — from Un-assuming The Singularity

You’ll find articles from science fiction author/SDSU emeritus professor Vernor Vinge (Signs of the Singularity), Caltech’s Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi (Can Machines Be Conscious?), and University of Sheffield’s Richard A. L. Jones (Rupturing the Nanotech Rapture), among others. The articles and accompanying videos are free, and UCSD affiliates can also access the entire IEEE Spectrum issue via IEEE Explore.

Recent UCSD Physics Articles

Teri — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:27:56 +0000

New articles from the UCSD Physics faculty.

Creveling, D. R., P. E. Gill, and H. D. I. Abarbanel. 2008. State and parameter estimation in nonlinear systems as an optimal tracking problem. Physics Letters A 372 (15):2640-2644.

Duan, H., G. M. Fuller, and Y. Z. Qian. 2008. Stepwise spectral swapping with three neutrino flavors. Physical Review D 77 (8).

Espinosa, J. R., B. Grinstein, D. O’Connell, and M. B. Wise. 2008. Neutrino masses in the Lee-Wick standard model. Physical Review D 77 (8).

Hirsch, J. E. 2008. Spin Meissner effect in superconductors and the origin of the Meissner effect. Europhysics Letters 81 (6).

Ho, P. C., N. P. Butch, V. S. Zapf, T. Yanagisawa, N. A., Frederick, S. K. Kim, W. M. Yuhasz, M. B. Maple, J. B. Betts, and A. H. Lacerda. 2008. The high field ordered phase and upper critical field of the filled skutterudite system Pr(Os1-xRux)(4)Sb-12. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 20 (21).

Miller, C. W., I. K. Schuller, R. W. Dave, J. M. Slaughter, Y. Zhou, and J. Akerman. 2008. Temperature and angular dependences of dynamic spin-polarized resonant tunneling in CoFeB/MgO/NiFe junctions. Journal of Applied Physics 103 (7).

Rahimi, S., M. B. Maple, and R. W. Hill. 2008. Thermal conductivity of the superconducting filled skutterudite compounds PrOs4Sb12 and PrRu4Sb12. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 20 (21).

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