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Xu group give talks at MAA meeting, Elmira College, Oct 20, 2012

URGE alumni visit Oct 5, 2012

URGE 2010 cohort members Bobby Dygert and Dan Padgett, both now working for Google, and URGE 2009 cohort member Becky Hager, now in the Statistics PhD program at NC State, visited the Department on Friday Oct 5, and chatted with current students. 2010 cohort member Michael Mastroianni, and "honorary URGE alumna" Becky Lo, were also present. Some photos of the event.

Conferences for Zurek group

Northeast Regional Meeting of the ACS, Rochester, NY, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 2012.

There are two exciting Inorganic Chemistry sessions planned. I am organizing one featuring keynote talks by younger chemists who are becoming known for great work in catalysis: Alex Radosevich (Penn St.), Rory Waterman (U. Vermont), Daniel Weix (U. Rochester), and Eva Zurek (U. Buffalo). Henry Gysling is organizing another session on the same day that will include Kit Cummins (MIT) and Craig Hill (Emory), as well as Mike Neidig, a great new faculty member at Rochester.
We intend for each session to have a mix of faculty, postdocs and students. You may apply to be part of these sessions by submitting an abstract at http://abstracts.acs.org. Please select Inorganic General Session (Oral) so that the abstract is routed appropriately. Please note that the deadline for abstracts is August 10, so you have less than two weeks left to apply. http://nerm.sites.acs.org

American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA, April 7-11, 2013.

Conference for Matott group

American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 3-7, 2012.

Conference for Xu group

Still under discussion.

3rd NY Conference on Applied Mathematics

Dear Colleagues,

 I would like to invite you to participate in and/or to present at the 3rd 
 New York Conference on Applied Mathematics (NYCAM), which will be held at 
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY on October 13, 2012.

 This conference series aims at bringing together researchers from New
 York State, the province of Ontario and the Northeastern United States
 who are working in diverse branches of applied and computational 
 mathematics. A primary intent of the conference is to strengthen ties
 between applied mathematicians/scientists working in the region. The
 first and the second NYCAM were held at Rochester Institute of Technology 
 in 2009 and at University at Buffalo, SUNY in 2011. 
 The responses to them were very enthusiastic, with wide  range of participants 
 from undergraduates, graduates,  postdocs, faculty, to industrial researchers. 
 More  information about the upcoming conference as well as the previous ones can be found from  
 http://homepages.rpi.edu/~lif/NYCAM/index.html. The online registration is now available. 
 As you would see that the presentations are of 3 different forms:  a
 10-min advertisement talk which will be in the morning with the whole
 audience, a standard 25-min talk in one of the parallel sessions in the 
 afternoon,  and the poster. There is also a special issue in
 International Journal of Applied Nonlinear Science, which is dedicated to 
 publishing some papers from this conference. Limited funds are available to 
 partially support the travel (mainly the lodging) of those who present
 their research. 

 We hope to see you at the conference and/or to share your research.
 On-line registration should be submitted by September 20, 2012. 
 If you want to be considered for financial support, 
 please register no later than September 15, 2012. 

 Best regards
 Fengyan Li
 for the organizing committee
 Fengyan Li, Associate Professor
 Department of Mathematical Sciences
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
 110 8th Street, Troy, NY, 12180
 http://www.rpi.edu/~lif/Office: (518) 276-3201
 Fax: (518) 276-4824 

Molecular Structure from X-ray Diffraction

Dr. Bob Blessing, Senior Research Scientist, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and Professor of Structural Biology, UB
1:00-2:30pm Tuesday, June 5 at HWI.

Tour of crystallization and diffraction labs at HWI

Dr. Walter Pangborn, Executive Vice President and Principal Research Scientist, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and Assoc. Prof. of Structural Biology, UB
2:30-3:30pm, Tuesday, June 5 at HWI.

Tech Savvy 7, Saturday, March 17

Photos here

Kickoff Event, Sunday Nov. 6, 10:00am-3:00pm

Hauptman Woodward scouting photos

Phenomenon for 20-second explanations

Stars in milk

Downstairs, there are 15 desks for 2 chairs each (double if facing both directions), and should be enough chairs for 40 or more. We should open the room up to its full size.

Upstairs, for lunch, there are 16 tables and 64 chairs.