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IT events | 2007–08

May 13

Dam removal in the upper midwest: motivations, science, and design

Monthly lectures through the Partnership for River Restoration and Science in the Upper Midwest (PRRSUM) explore topics related to Upper Midwest research, training, and practice in river restoration.

Time: 4–5:30 p.m.

Location: St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Auditorium

FFI: Visit the Web site

May 13–14

Intelligent Storage Workshop
(ISW 2008)

The sixth annual workshop will include such topics as: green storage systems, power management in the data center, future impacts of hybrid and solid state disk drives, quality of storage service in exabyte storage systems, moving data to knowledge - eScience and storage systems, and more. Register online.

Time: Networking reception, 5 p.m; Dinner, 6:30 p.m.; Program, 7:30 p.m.

Location: Room 402, Walter Library

FFI: Visit the Web site

May 13–14

Medtech Investing Conference

BF and LifeScience Alley™ present this national conference to bring together the most active investors to discuss their investing strategies, the niches they are targeting, and share their views of present and emerging areas of opportunities. Each year this conference unites national VCs, corporate investors and other private equity investors to provide deal flow, co-investing, syndication opportunities and to provide emerging growth companies with access to this investor base. Register online.

Location: Radisson Plaza Hotel, 35 South Seventh St., Minneapolis

FFI: Visit the Web site

May 15–18

Continuous Advances in QCD

The Eighth Workshop on Continuous Advances in QCD is the latest in a series of workshops organized biannually by the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute. These workshops summarize recent developments in quantum chromodynamics and gauge theories at large. Topics discussed are at the cutting edge of QCD, and include supersymmetric tools, holographic descriptions of QCD, large-N methods, heavy quarks, and others. Due to limited space, participation is by invitation only.

FFI: Visit the Web site, or e-mail the organizers

May 18–21

Inaugural International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EM08)

EM08 will provide a major forum for the exchange of information and discussion of recent developments in, and applications of, solid and fluid mechanics. Technical sessions will highlight and promote new thrusts and innovative developments in the field regardless of the discipline that inspired them. Register online for reduced rates before April 4.

Location: University of Minnesota Campus

FFI: Visit the Web site

May 20

Greenhouse Gas Seminars

"Transportation Options in a Greenhouse: Alternative Strategies to Lowering Our Carbon Footprint"

This seminar will be held in conjunction with the 19th Annual CTS Transportation Research Conference.

Stephen H. Schneider, Stanford University, will highlight incentives to bring about a transition to cleaner transport, along with promising technology and policy options being pursued by other states and countries. He will also compare the transport sector with the industry and building sectors to predict how much can feasibly be done. The cost to attend this luncheon seminar is $30.

Time: 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Location: Saint Paul RiverCentre
175 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul

FFI: Visit the Web site, e-mail Sara Van Essendelft, or call 612-624-3708.

May 20–21

19th Annual CTS Transportation Research Conference

Researchers and practitioners from Minnesota and the Upper Midwest will share their research findings in a variety of transportation-related areas. The conference will cover all modes of transportation including highway, transit, rail, air, water, and others.

Location: St. Paul RiverCenter, St. Paul

FFI: Visit the Center for Transportation Studies, e-mail, or call Sara Van Essendelft at 612-624-3708.

May 28–30

Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) 2nd Annual Conference

The vision of the ERC is to create new fluid power technology that is compact and efficient. This will lead to significant fuel savings as the new technologies are implemented in existing and new applications. Registration will be available shortly.

Location: Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

FFI: Visit the Web site

May 30

History | Gender | Computing
Public Conference

Women were active participants in building and programming the first electronic digital computers, and notably prominent in the first generation of computer programmers in the 1950s, but they have faced serious barriers to full participation in the computing professions.

This international conference, with participants from six countries, examines gender and the diverse uses of computing in offices, libraries, schools, mass media, and the computing profession. Register online.

Time: 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

Location: Andersen Library

FFI: Visit the Web site, or e-mail questions to cbi@umn.edu

June 10

Design methods for in-stream structures: available techniques and research needs

Monthly lectures through the Partnership for River Restoration and Science in the Upper Midwest (PRRSUM) explore topics related to Upper Midwest research, training, and practice in river restoration.

Time: 4–5:30 p.m.

Location: St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Auditorium

FFI: Visit the Web site