SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS.THURSDAY MORNING Room 706 8:30 Geology and Geography Symposium: ACTIVE TECTONICS IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI Terry Panhorst, Organizer; Stephen Obermeier, Keynote Speaker THURSDAY MORNING Executive Room 9:00 SIGMA XI Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society was founded in 1886 at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a handful of graduate students. Members of the non-profit honor society elect others on the basis of their research achievements or potential. SYMPOSIUM: ISSUES OF ETHICS IN THE PRACTICE OF SCIENCE AND IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH Charles T. Swann, Organizer Ethics play an important part in science from the research labs to codes of professional practice. This symposium is designed to explore how ethics issues may influence your work, your classroom, and how you do business. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate. THURSDAY MORNING Imperial Room 10:10 History and Philosophy of Science The history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science. Although many scholars in the field are trained primarily as either historians or as philosophers, there are degree-granting departments of Symposium: ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING SCIENCE Robert P. Waltzer, Belhaven College Belhaven College is a college in Jackson, Mississippi that was founded by the Presbyterian Church (USA) but that is independently run by a Board of Trustees. It is a private college whose tuition currently runs about $7000 per semester plus about $3500 for room and board. , Jackson, MS 39202 This series of talks addresses the nature of science: what it is and how it is done. Ken Curry, a biologist, will look at the generation of theories, using evolution as an example. Kant Vajpayee, an engineer, will consider our assumptions about the physical world, our descriptions of it, and how our descriptions match it. David Magers, a physical chemist, will examine how science fits into the modern context of society and the presuppositions by which societies do science. A question and answer period for all the speakers will follow. THURSDAY AFTERNOON Room 2 5:00 Dodgen Lecture: TICKS AND TICK ECOLOGY IN MISSISSIPPI: IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN DISEASE TRANSMISSION Jerome Goddard, Medical Entomologist, Mississippi Department of Health FRIDAY MORNING Room 2 9:00 MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR SUPERCOMPUTING RESEARCH (MCSR MCSR Men Can Stop Rape MCSR Motor Carrier Safety Regulations MCSR Materiel Condition Status Report MCSR Minimum Commercial Security Requirements MCSR Material Cost & Status Report ) USER ADVISORY GROUP MEETING David G. [Roach.sup.*] and Germana Peggion, University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in Booneville, Tupelo, and Southaven. , University, MS 38677 and University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS 39522 The Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research was established in 1987 by the Mississippi Legislature The Mississippi Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The bicameral Legislature is comprised of the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, with 122 members, and the upper Mississippi Senate, with 52 members. and the Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL IHL International Humanitarian Law IHL I Have Lost IHL Institutions of Higher Learning IHL International Hockey League IHL Internet Header Length IHL International House of Logorrhea IHL Idiopathic Hearing Loss IHL Idiopathic Hepatic Lipidosis ) in order to provide high performance supercomputing support for research and instruction at all state universities. The Mississippi Supercomputer User Advisory Committee (MSUAG) was established by the IHL Research Consortium to provide user input and advice to MCSR management and technical staff on policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental for the Center's operations. It includes member representatives from all IHL institutions. The Advisory Group will meet at this MAS conference. Mr. David G. Roach, Director of the MCSR, and Dr. Germana Peggion, MSUAG Chair and Professor at USM-Stennis, will conduct the meeting. The agenda includes an update on MCSR HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. facilities and services, introduction of new MCSR staff members, and site reports and ongoing research updates by MSUAG representatives. IHL Faculty and graduate students with an interest in high performance computing are also invited to attend. |
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