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ISSA holds Graduate Student Conference
Sheeraz Hyder
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: Campus News
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On a chilly Wednesday morning Michael Yatauro, a graduate student in the Mathematics Department, discussed mathematical references in The Simpsons. That was one of the topics covered at the ISSA 6th annual Graduate Student Conference. The Conference was an opportunity for graduate students in the Imperatore School of Sciences and Arts to present their current research or a topic of interest to them to an audience consisting of their professors and peers. The morning started with Parisa Babaali, a teaching assistant in the Mathematics Department speaking about the "Generic Properties of Random Automata." At 10:15 Brian Borowski from the Computer Science department spoke on the research being undertaken by the Marine Security Laboratory at Stevens.
Jenny Mahoney from the Physics and Engineering Physics department spoke on the impact ionization of various silicon chlorides by electron bombardment at 11 a.m. Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate student Veronika Kozlovskaya presented her research on various encapsulation and release routes for Poly(methacrylic acid) capsules. There was a lunch break and a poster session where guests were invited to look at some of the other research being undertaken by their peers. After lunch keynote speaker Wilson Rickerson, gave a presentation called "Answer the Call 2007." It is a program based former Vice President Al Gore's Oscar award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Rickerson is a Boston-based energy consultant focusing on renewable energy policy. He is one of nearly 1,000 citizens that has been trained by The Climate Project to deliver a 45-minute presentation based on Gore's global warming slideshow as presented in An Inconvenient Truth. The Climate Project is a non-profit group that in conjunction with Participant Productions, Inc. that has been working to make the public aware of the "urgency, impact and need for action to confront global warming" through a combination of "education, research and citizen action programs."
Jenny Mahoney from the Physics and Engineering Physics department spoke on the impact ionization of various silicon chlorides by electron bombardment at 11 a.m. Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate student Veronika Kozlovskaya presented her research on various encapsulation and release routes for Poly(methacrylic acid) capsules. There was a lunch break and a poster session where guests were invited to look at some of the other research being undertaken by their peers. After lunch keynote speaker Wilson Rickerson, gave a presentation called "Answer the Call 2007." It is a program based former Vice President Al Gore's Oscar award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Rickerson is a Boston-based energy consultant focusing on renewable energy policy. He is one of nearly 1,000 citizens that has been trained by The Climate Project to deliver a 45-minute presentation based on Gore's global warming slideshow as presented in An Inconvenient Truth. The Climate Project is a non-profit group that in conjunction with Participant Productions, Inc. that has been working to make the public aware of the "urgency, impact and need for action to confront global warming" through a combination of "education, research and citizen action programs."
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