Professor of Environmental Science Richard Bowden co-authored the paper “Above- and Belowground Litter Controls on Forest Soil Dynamics,” presented at the annual meeting of the Soil Science Society of America in November 2006. The paper described research that examines how alteration of organic matter inputs to soil affect soil organic matter turnover, degradability and chemical composition, thus controlling long-term forest productivity.
Katheryn Ferris '06, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Rodney Clark, and Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Lee Coates recently published the paper “Topical Inhibition of Nasal Carbonic Anhydrase Affects the CO2 Detection Threshold in Trained Rats” in the journal Chemical Senses. Katie Ferris is a first-year medical student at the Pennsylvania State University - College of Medicine.
Computer science instructor Gregory M. Kapfhammer will co-chair the Workshop on Integrating System Environments into Software Testing (WISEST 2007) at the upcoming International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2007) in London. The leading research conference in software testing and analysis, ISSTA is attended by academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners. ISSTA selectively supports the co-location of workshops that focus on novel research areas. More information about the workshop is available at: http://cs.allegheny.edu/wisest2007/.
Mike Richwalsky of the Office of Public Affairs was the November speaker at the Digital Library Colloquium Series presented by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences, and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. His presentation was entitled “Meta-search in the liberal arts, libraries and beyond.”
Associate Professor of Computer Science Robert Roos has been selected as one of thirteen judges for the 31st ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals sponsored by IBM, to be held March 12-16 in Tokyo. This is the twelfth consecutive year that Roos has served as a judge.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Andrew Thall presented the poster “Extended-precision floating-point numbers for GPU computation” at ACM SIGGRAPH 06, the Annual Conference on Computer Graphics, held in Boston this summer.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Yuting Zhang is the co-author of four recent papers: “Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs,” which will appear in the 26th IEEE INFOCOM (INFOCOM’07), one of the top conferences in the area of networks; “Adversarial Exploits of End-Systems Adaptation Dynamics,” which will appear in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2007; “Comments on Window-Constrained Scheduling,” which will appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers; and “Process-Aware Interrupt Scheduling and Accountability,” which will appear in the Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2006), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2006, the best conference in the real-time area.
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