Sunday, December 19, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
February 1-2: Workshop on the responsible conduct of defined research (University of Delaware)
The workshop is open to faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students post-doctoral researchers and professional staff and cover topics ranging from integrity and honour in research, the authorship of science featuring the editor-in-Chief of the magazine Science and a group of teachers.
Highlights of the workshop will be a session on science communication to the public, presented by the American Association for the advancement of science (AAAS).
The programme aims at the natural sciences, social sciences and engineering. For graduate student participants, it should be noted present as an end of non-crédit during transcription.
February 1, a morning on research ethics and compliance research afternoon session will be offered. Students who have already attended sessions of the ethics of research and compliance are welcome, but are not required to attend these sessions again. For the session of the ethics of research, in particular, the rehearsals of the participants, provide a rich perspective in discussions of the case study.
February 2, the author panel session involving professors of the UD and moderated by Beverly Purnell, editor-in-Chief of science, will offer, as well as the meeting of the AAAS Science communication. Two sessions will be repeated morning and afternoon.
Continental breakfast, lunch and breaks are included in the workshop free of charge to participants.
Pre-registration is required and can be performed on this Web site.
"The University was recognized by the Office of research for the development of this program to inform and assist the community of researchers to better understand and comply with new federal mandates in the conduct of research of the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health," said Elizabeth (Missy) Peloso, Director of research of compliance to the UD. "Furthermore this model has been included in a national discussion on how colleges and universities can meet new federal requirements, National Council of University research administrators eSeminar.
In addition to Community research UD, the program also will host the research collaborators who are part of the Delaware INBRE (network of biomedical research excellence idea) of Christiana care system and Delaware State University.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Seniors receive Computing Research Association braces (Tamu)
The Computing Research Association (CRA) recently honored two seniors computer and engineering outstanding research in their specific areas of computer science: Jory Denny has been named finalist for the outstanding researcher of baccalaureate Prize 2011 and Jeffrey Deuel named honorable mention.
These are important prizes in computing research at the undergraduate level, and only the best entries are considered for the award.
Students first nation autour cycle are nominated by their teachers, and an Award Committee research nominations for excellence demonstrated with regard to calculation of research. Quality research plays a major role in the decision-making processes, but also considered as is the student academic record as well as community service.
Centered Denny research on multiple robotic problems ranging from motion simulation of the behaviour of group planning.
His first project involves the development and improvement of planning techniques in complex environments of movement. Complex environments are large and may contain areas of free space or narrow passages. Denny work improves the existing methods of motion planning by improving the identification of the region.
"I've designed and implemented a method of storing parts of hierarchical modular way, which is used in a manner recursive rupture and descends into regions, if necessary. Previously only a common statistical clustering method K-means, was used for the identification of the region. I've questioned the effectiveness of the K-means and conducted a comparative study of it with other statistical methods of grouping to identify the regions on a wide variety of environments. "We concluded that various methods considerably change the created regions and have an impact on the effectiveness of motion planning", said Denny.
His work has led to a document by first author on the topic that is currently in review at the IEEE robots and automation (ICRA) International Conference in 2011. Denny wrote the first draft of this document, developed and implemented the algorithm and designed experimental analysis for it.
Second draft of the Denny focuses on the modular design and behavioral Framework implementation and multi-agent interactions. The research explored communication explicitly how between agents can affect behaviour and dynamic group formation in the hierarchical structure of the group.
"My first contribution was design and explicit implementation of decentralised communication infrastructure for the simulation and experimental Robotics inter-agent communication." I designed and implemented a passage generic message simulation behaviors with this communication implementation framework and improving the framework for distributed applications. Message passing framework manages two main types of communication, intragroup and Intergroup. I discovered that agents can benefit from explicit message passing, improving efficiency of capture to the prosecutors in the heuristic-based research-evasion strategies. »
Denny has overseen by Dr. Takis Zourntos (Department of electrical and computer engineering) and Dr. Nancy Amato.
Deuel work focused on the construction of a podcast for Nokia phones smart search engine.
A phone application has been designed to take a research podcast user-defined, compile results from prominent podcast search engines and create the html to display the results in a manner which is easily visible on a portable code. This page will open in the default browser of the user using a method of connection of their choice. On this page that they could choose for more information about a specific result, download of podcasts on their phone or view other results if desired.
"One of the most important aspects of this generation is the speed with which he is completing each task," said Deuel. "Initially research obtained full results for each podcast." Popular topics could serve up to 1,000 sets of podcast, each with several episodes. To expedite the process, I found a way that allows the research retrieve only the basic information about each result during the initial search. We used a second server Java who consults the source for the result site and displays relevant information page. This method significantly reduces the time loading for popular queries. »
Deuel research supervised by Dr. Frank Shipman.
Written by Tony Okonski tonyo@cse.tamu.edu
Barrufet receives award of research for the transport of heavy crude oil (Tamu)
Maria Barrufet, Professor, assistant Chief of Department of Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering and Baker Hughes with President, has received $50,000 for a contract of one year for the proposed research retirements 11-0456: value chain analysis of Heavy Oil wellhead at the refinery.
Dr. Maria BarrufetCrude oils heavy or extra strong cannot be transported by pipeline without prior reduction of viscosity. This is commonly achieved by blending with light hydrocarbon oil. Currently most operators dilute bitumen and heavy oil to the location of these solvents which are routed in recovery or an adjacent; classical oilfield facility This diluted product is then transported (boat, train, truck and pipeline) on the market (a processing plant or a refinery).
Barrufet-led research project will examine the entire value chain (analysis of the value and market analysis) heavy oil from where it is produced in the wells to when it is delivered to the refinery. This research retirements project objectives are to understand and to estimate the value of upgrading of heavy oil in the versus practice carry diluent to the location of the centralized facilities construction is a great distance from the field.
Submitted by Nancy Luedke about:nancy.luedke@pe.tamu.edu