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Rajeev Motwani Stanford Computer Science Forum - Annual Affiliates Meeting, Stanford, May 2003. Department of Computer Science Room 474 Gates Computer Science Building 4B Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-9045 Phones: 650-723-6045 (office) Department of Computer Science Room 495 Gates Computer Science Building 4B Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-9045 Phones: 650-723-4377 (office) theory.stanford.edu /people/rajeev/rajeev.html   (173 words)

Nikon MicroscopyU: Small World Competition - Exhibition Tour Schedule June 2, 2006 to August 20, 2006 - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Rd. N.W., Albuquerque, NM 87104 November 3, 2006 to January 14, 2007 - Museum of Science and Industry, 4801 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33617 December 30, 2005 to February 1, 2006 - Oregon Museum of Science, 1945 S.E. Water Avenue, Portland, OR 97214 www.microscopyu.com /smallworld/tours.html   (733 words)

National Center for Science Education AntiEvolution.org February 8, 2006: Creationism emerged as a subsidiary theme as allegations of political interference with climate science at NASA were in the news. The National Center for Science Education, Inc. --NCSE -- is a nonprofit, tax-exempt membership organization working to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack. Dubbed the Missouri Science Education Act, HB 1266 would, if enacted, require public school science teachers in grades 6 through 12 to comply with a list of "best practices" in order... www.antievolution.org /cs/aggregator/sources/5?from=40   (1053 words)

ICCS 2006 Home Page The theme for ICCS 2006 in Reading, UK, is "Advancing Science through Computation", to mark several decades of progress in computational science theory and practice, leading to greatly improved applications science. These proceedings series have become a major intellectual resource for computational science researchers and serve to both define and advance the state of the field. ICCS 2006 is the sixth in the series of highly successful conferences: ICCS 2005 in Atlanta, ICCS 2004 in Krakow, Poland; ICCS 2003 held simultaneously in Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia, ICCS 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and ICCS 2001 in San Francisco, USA. www.iccs-meeting.org /iccs2006   (244 words)

CogSci 2006 Conference The Cognitive Science Society will hold its 2006 conference in Vancouver, Canada, at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel. We encourage all cognitive science researchers from around the world to attend CogSci 2006. Each year, in addition to submitted papers, we invite speakers who help to highlight some aspect of cognitive science. www.cogsci.rpi.edu /~rsun/cogsci2006   (409 words)

Northwest Ohio Regional Science Olympiad Science Olympiad is an international nonprofit organization devoted to improving the quality of science education, increasing student interest in science, and recognizing outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. Science Olympiad tournaments are academic competitions that consist of individual and team events balanced between biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, and technology. The Northwest Ohio Regional Science Olympiad for middle school and high school students will be held at OSU Lima on Saturday, March 4, 2006, and will be co-directed by Beth Gray and www.lima.ohio-state.edu /events/olympiad   (244 words)

Science Education Program SCED 442 Teaching Science in the Secondary School Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Summer 2005 SCED 552 Review of Research in Science Education Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Summer 2005 SCED 554 Issues in Science Education Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Summer 2005 www.fullerton.edu /catalog/academic_departments/sced.asp   (1905 words)

U.S. Department of Defense Official Website - 01/05/2005 - Final Edition WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2006 – Defense Department installations have begun implementing the new regulation stating that anyone driving a motor vehicle on an installation cannot use a cell phone unless the vehicle is safely parked or the driver is using a hands-free device. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2006 – Military service is "very, very satisfying," and today's servicemembers recognize the critical role they are playing in the country's defense, the top U.S. military officer said today. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2006 – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called today's escalated violence in Iraq another indication that Dec. 15 elections there were "a major blow to al Qaeda" and a sign of desperation among terrorists hoping to disrupt the Iraq's progress. www.defenselink.mil   (426 words)

Materials Science and Engineering -- Northwestern University Our graduate program in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is ranked second in the the country and our undergraduate program is ranked third according to the 2006 U.S. News and World Report Rankings. A faculty position in the area of computational materials science is available commencing September 1, 2006. David Seidman has been selected to receive the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award for 2006 from ASM International, one of their highest awards www.matsci.northwestern.edu   (144 words)

University of Houston Computer Science Department The Department of Computer Science and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics held a symposium on The Amazing Journey of CS@UH: Algorithms, Computers, and Design on Friday, January 27, 2006 at the University of Houston. Rakesh Verma moderated a panel on ``Automata Theory – Its Relevance to Computer Science Students and Course Contents’’ at the ACM SIGCSE 2006 symposium (March 1 – 4, 2006) in Houston. The Department of Computer Science and the College of Technology has organized a workshop on Tools and Applications for Parallel Computing for those interested in computational science and high performance computing. www.cs.uh.edu   (719 words)

University of Houston Computer Science Department The Department of Computer Science is proud to announce that in the 2006 UH Sigma Xi competition, Sean O'Malley and George Toderici of the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory (www.cbl.uh.edu), led by Dr. Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, have each won a poster award in the category of Graduate Computer/Computational Sciences and Math. Rakesh Verma moderated a panel on ``Automata Theory – Its Relevance to Computer Science Students and Course Contents’’ at the ACM SIGCSE 2006 symposium (March 1 – 4, 2006) in Houston. The Department of Computer science at the University of Houston is conducting a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program this summer, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). www.cs.uh.edu   (481 words)

Nano-2006 International Conference on Nanostructured Materials - Nano 2006 will be held at the campus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India from August 20 to 25, 2006. Nano-2006 will be held in Bangalore, the garden city and the science capital of India. The host, Indian Institute of Science, is a leader in post-graduate education in India and is internationally known for its scientific and engineering research and development. met.iisc.ernet.in /~nano2006   (891 words)

American Political Science Association (APSA) Due to the lack of progress in the protracted labor-management dispute in San Francisco, the APSA Council decided it was inadvisable to hold the 2006 meeting in San Francisco as originally planned. Founded in 1903, American Political Science Association, is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries. The dates of the meeting will remain the same, from August 31 through September 4, 2006. www.apsanet.org   (891 words)

2005 Resources, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) National Middle School Science Bowl 2006 is two competitions: an academic competition in which middle school students answer fast-paced questions about math and science (earth, physical, life, and general science) and a model fuel cell car competition that challenges students to design, build, and race model cars. The Elegant Universe: It's String Theory is a 3-hour miniseries exploring one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed: the "theory of everything." String theory proposes that the fundamental ingredients of nature are tiny strings of energy whose different modes of vibration underlie everything that happens in the universe. It unites the laws of general relativity and quantum mechanics, breaking a logjam that has frustrated scientists for nearly a century. wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov /cfapps/free/displaydate.cfm?yr=2005   (8849 words)

Tennis Books and Videos Science and Racket Sports III: The Eight International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress and the Third World Congress of Science and Racket Sports; Adrain Lees; Hardcover; December 2004; List: $125.00 The Wacky World of Tennis; Glenn Sheiner; Paperback; May 2002; List: $13.95 Championship Tennis (1987); Ivan Lendl; VHS Tape; $3.45 www.tennisserver.com /books.html   (7101 words)

badscience » Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science column from the Guardian and more… April 8th, 2006 at 11:53 am (bad science, complementary medicine) April 15th, 2006 at 3:55 am (bad science, complementary medicine, nutritionists, mail) While all the proper grown up public intellectuals like Rod Liddle were getting a bee in their bonnet about Creationism being taught in a handful of British schools, I’ve accidentally stumbled upon a vast empire of pseudoscience being peddled in hundreds of everyday state schools up and down the country. www.badscience.net   (714 words)

Science/AAAS Table of Contents: 14 April 2006; 312 (5771) SCIENCE COMMUNICATION: Enhanced: Environmental Science Adrift in the Blogosphere © 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science. ASTROBIOLOGY SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2006: Life Slow Enough to Live on Radioactivity www.sciencemag.org /content/current   (1181 words)

Index page -- Science Olympiad The Science Olympiad is an academic interscholastic competition which is designed to increase student interest in science and to help improve the quality of science education across the nation. This year's Elementary Science Olympiad was held on Saturday March 11, 2006. The competition is scheduled for Saturday, March 11, 2006 and hosted again at the Auburn University campus. www.auburn.edu /%7Eharriga/olympiad   (1132 words)

Tulare County Regional Science Olympiad Science Olympiad is an international non-profit organization devoted to improving the quality of science education, increasing student interest in science, and providing recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. Science Olympiad tournaments are rigorous academic interscholastic competitions that consist of a series of individual and team events for which students prepare throughout the year. These events are balanced between the various science disciplines of biology, earth science, chemistry, physics and technology. www.tcoe.org /ScienceOlympiad/index.htm   (194 words)

RMOTC - Science Bowl The 2006 Wyoming Regional Science Bowl was held on Saturday, February 11, 2006, at Casper College. The National Science Bowl is held in Washington D.C. in early May and provides an unforgettable experience for students as they tour the Capitol, attend seminars on the latest scientific developments presented by industry and government research centers, and compete with students from around the country. Dedicated to science education and securing a scientific workforce, the U.S. Department of Energy developed the National Science Bowl, in 1991, to encourage high school students from throughout the United States to excel in math and science and to pursue careers in those fields. www.rmotc.com /Science_Bowl/Science.html   (1031 words)

Coombsweb: National Institute for Asia and the Pacific Server The home of PSWWWVL with Google rank #1 among the 120,000,000 pacific studies pages world-wide (Mar 2006). The home of ASWWWVL with Google rank #1 among the 119,000,000 asian studies pages world-wide (Mar 2006). Asian-Pacific Studies at the ANU and NLA coombs.anu.edu.au   (673 words)

Department of Political Science The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognized international activities of one student and one staff member in the Department of Political Science during its annual international dinner on Monday, March 6, 2006. Alex Tuckness, associate professor of political science, has been appointed director of the Public Policy and Administration Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences effective Aug. 1, 2006. The annual Manatt-Phelps Lecture in Political Science was established by Thomas and Elizabeth Phelps and Charles and Kathleen Manatt. www.pols.iastate.edu   (438 words)

Employment Opportunities in the Mathematical Sciences Mathematics: Hartwick College, a private liberal arts and sciences college of 1480 students, located in Oneonta, NY in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountains invites candidates for a full-time tenure-track teaching position for the 2006-07 academic year at the rank of Assistant Professor (pending final administrative approval). A Ph.D. in Mathematics, Statistics or Mathematics Education is required by the time of employment, August 16, 2006. Candidates should have broad mathematical interests and be able to successfully teach general education courses as well as major courses: more specifically, candidates should be interested in teaching geometry, logic, algebra or statistics and in conveying the history and significance of mathematics. www.maa.org /pubs/employ.html   (9648 words)

Wisconsin Science Olympiad, Div C The Science Olympiad has been recognized as a model program in the National Science Standards by the National Research Council. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at UW–Madison are providing facilities, equipment, and their tremendous staff to enable us to implement a quality Science Olympiad competition. They have been involved with Science Olympiad in other states for many years and we sincerely welcome them to Wisconsin. www.wisconsinso.org /divc   (771 words)

Mid-Hudson Regional Science Olympiad - Campus Life - SUNY Ulster SUNY Ulster's Olympiad is part of the National Science Olympiad Program which had its first National Olympiad in 1985. The Mid-Hudson C Division Regional Science Olympiad for 2006 was held on February 11, 2006 at Ulster Community College (SUNY Ulster). The Mid-Hudson Regional, Division C, Science Olympiad is organized and presented by the dedicated efforts of educators, community leaders, and business partners from the Hudson Valley. www.sunyulster.edu /people/SciOlympiad.asp   (294 words)

OUTREACH - Texas Science Olympiad Science Olympiad is a nonprofit organization developed to improve the quality of science education, increase student interest in science, and provide recognition of outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. TSO Program Objectives The Science Olympiad tournaments are rigorous academic interscholastic competitions that consist of a series of individual and team events which students (grades 6-12) prepare for during the year. TSO Coaching Resources A Science Olympiad Coaches Manual and Rules will be mailed to team coach upon receipt of tournament entry form and fee. outreach.science.tamu.edu /scienceolympiad.asp   (1277 words)

Marine Sciences Summer Internship Program The 2006 Marine Sciences Summer Intern Program is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences. Ten science, engineering, and mathematics undergraduates will be awarded 2006 summer internships to conduct guided research in marine science. Interns will work semi-independently on a project designed by the intern and assigned faculty adviser (Marine Biology, Oceanography, Physical Ocean Science and Engineering) and present written and oral reports at the end of the summer. www.ocean.udel.edu /graduate/reu.html   (466 words)

Brown University Department of Computer Science Amy Greenwald, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has received a 2006 Sloan Research Fellowship for her work with “AI agents”—artificially intelligent, programmed decision-makers. Computer Science Reunion and Networking Reception on May 27, 2006 Brown Computer Science is a friendly, collegial department. www.cs.brown.edu   (111 words)

Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Purdue University is seeking applicants for positions in core and emerging areas of Computer Science and multidisciplinary areas spanning science and engineering. The 2006 conference was the second of its kind and grew from 60 participants to 130 participants in 2006. Purdue CS participated in the Indiana Women in Computing (InWIC) conference on February 3rd and 4th. www.cs.purdue.edu   (450 words)

Political Science and Communication - University of Canterbury The School of Political Science and Communication announces two conferences in August 2006. Congratulations to Dr Anne-Marie Brady on winning a Marsden Grant to research "Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China." This was one of two Marsden's awarded in the College of Arts and continues the Political Science programme's success in acquiring these prestigious grants. The School is home to a web-based workshop for the Christchurch City Council, under the direction of Dr. Joanna Goven: Invitation to design the future: creating a waste strategy for Christchurch. www.pols.canterbury.ac.nz   (225 words)

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