http://blog.ucsd.edu/se News & Events Blog Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:35:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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) http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/07/07/science-magazine-special-issue-on-mercury/ 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 http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/07/07/se-hours-for-july-1-6/ 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 ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/07/01/looking-for-books-journals-downstairs/ 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 ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/06/30/recent-ucsd-publications-ece/ 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 ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/06/23/wiley-journals-unavailable-june-28-29/ 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 ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/06/09/se-browsing-collection-new-books/ 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 ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/06/06/4th-annual-se-library-trivia-contest/ 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 ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/06/05/acs-undergrad-symposium-literature-award/ 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, ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/06/04/ieee-spectrum-feature-the-singularity/ 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 ... http://blog.ucsd.edu/se/2008/06/03/recent-ucsd-physics-articles/