2013 DataCite Summer Meeting : Making Research better

Summer 2013 REU Research Summary : MicroBooNE

This paper is a final write-up of my work at Columbia University/Nevis Labs as part of the NSF-sponsered REU program. The paper begins with a discussion of the physics and scientific goals of MicroBooNE. It then moves on to a summary of my contributions to the project. These include commissioning of the TPC readout equipment, calibration of the PMT readout system, and construction of an interac...

Understanding and Preventing Violence: Summary of Research Activities, Summer 2013

Making lives better through practice and research.

Expert knowledge is the defining feature of any profession. Research is the currency by which ownership of that knowledge is vested. Among the nations, Canada rightfully stands as the historical champion for expertise within the chiropractic profession. As the evidence has accumulated and the era of competition engaged, Canada has again taken leadership through its efforts to integrate chiropra...

Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes: meeting modern challenges in undergraduate summer research.

Summer undergraduate research programs in science and engineering facilitate research progress for faculty and provide a close-ended research experience for students, which can prepare them for careers in industry, medicine, and academia. However, ensuring these outcomes is a challenge when the students arrive ill-prepared for substantive research or if projects are ill-defined or impractical f...

The Summer Meeting in Kingston

The fifty-eighth Summer Meeting and the thirty-fourth Colloquium of the American Mathematical Society were held at Queen's University and the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, from August 31 to September S, 19S3 in conjunction with meetings of the Canadian Mathematical Congress, the Mathematical Association of America, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Economic ...