Week of September 22, 2008 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Deparmental picnic stats
People: 91
Dogs: 3
Chicken: 50 pieces
Saucy Southerner meat: 2 gallons
Smoked turkey: 3 pounds
Leftovers: very little
Lecture Notes on Computational Structural Biology
by Zhijun Wu
World Scientific Publishing Company 2008
Here's what the critics are saying: "While the field of computational structural biology or structural bioinformatics is rapidly developing, there are few books with a relatively complete coverage of such diverse research subjects studied in the field as X-ray crystallography computing, NMR structure determination, potential energy minimization, dynamics simulation, and knowledge-based modeling. This book helps fill the gap by providing such a survey on all the related subjects. Comprising a collection of lecture notes for a computational structural biology course for the Program on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State University, the book is in essence a comprehensive summary of computational structural biology based on the author s own extensive research experience, and a review of the subject from the perspective of a computer scientist or applied mathematician. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation of the biological importance and mathematical novelty of the research in the field."
Introducing new student assistant
Please welcome senior Jenni Welder from Woodward, Iowa. Welder starts in the main office today. This advertizing major will be working with Ellen on course evaluations as well as assisting office staff in a variety of other tasks.
University Convocation and Awards Ceremony
Monday, September 22 at 3:15 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union. Presentation of the University's most distinguished faculty and staff awards. Reception to follow.
Irrelevant but overheard
"The roundest knight at king Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi."
Colloquia and Seminars
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, September 22 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Anna romanowska (ISU/Warsaw University of Technolgy) on Idempotent semirings
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September 23 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Jacob Manske on It's my poset and I'll cry if I want to
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, September 23 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on The Casimir operator (continued)
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, September 23 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Arka Ghosh (ISU Dept. of Statistics) on Optimal prices and production rate in a closed food supply chain with re-manufacturing under heavy traffic
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, September 24 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver -
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, September 24 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Geoff Tims on Introduction to elliptic curves, Part II
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, September 24 at 4:10 p.m. in 250 Carver - Roger Alexander on Web pages at ISU
Interior-Point Methods Seminar :
Thursday, September 25 at 2:10 p.m. in 118 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on Self-concordant functionals (continued)
Transitions
Graduate student birthdays this week:
None that we know about.
Transitions is a new feature in Weekly Reader where announcements regarding life transitions, i.e., family, job, etc. of those associated with the Department may be published at the request of the individual. Send submissions to tuttle@iastate.edu
