This is the January 2003 newsletter of the ITC Research Computing Support Group. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the information presented here, please contact the ITC Research Computing Support Group via e-mail to res-consult@virginia.edu, or at the Research Computing Support Center (RCSC), 244 Wilson Hall, 243-8800. The RCSC is open 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday.
Do you sometimes feel like you're alone on an island, trying to survive the challenges of teaching or doing research while struggling with the management and technology tasks that come along with it?
If the answer is "yes," come out to Tools for Survival on the Academic Island, hosted by ITC Training Services on January 14, 2003, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Wilson Hall. All faculty, researchers and instructors are encouraged to attend!
ITC's professionals will deliver the tips and tricks you need to harness technology. Of particular interest to researchers -
Teaching and Technology Initiative (TTI) and faculty projects will be on display as well as other ITC and Library resources. You could even walk away with a snappy new Dell Axim X5 Handheld Computer.
For more information about the Open House, contact the Open House Coordinator at ITC Training Services or visit the Open House Web site at http://www.itc.virginia.edu/training/conferences/faculty_technology_openhouse/.
The Research Computing Support Center will be hosting a series of colloquia as the new year starts. All talks will be from 3:30pm to 4:45pm in the Research Computing Support Center, Wilson Hall, Room 244. Please join us for:
More information, including ordering and pricing details, is available through the Web at http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/stata/.
New features in SecureCRT 4.0.2 include:
Please join the Department of Health Evaluation Sciences for the first
seminar of the semester, entitled "Environmental, Life-Style, and
Physical Precursors of Clinical Parkinson's Disease: Recent Findings
From the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study." The speaker is
R. D. Abbott, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics,
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Health
Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine.
The talk will be at 4pm in Classroom A of the Department of
Health Evaluation Sciences.
For more information on VASUG or to contact an officer visit the VASUG Web
page at http://www.vasug.org/.
July 13-15, 2003 Waterloo Maple announces a call for papers for the Maple Summer Workshop 2003.
Deadline for submissions is February 7, 2003.
The Maple Summer Workshop is an annual international meeting that brings together
members of the Maple community to share techniques and innovative uses of Maple
in education, research, and industry.
The program committee welcomes papers on:
Health Evaluation Sciences Research Seminar on January 29, 2003
Virginia SAS Users Group Meeting on February 19, 2003
The next VASUG meeting
is in the planning stages and scheduled for February 19, 2003. Newcomers are welcome,
and members who would like to present a topic should let one of the other officers
know as soon as possible.
Call for Papers for the Maple Summer Workshop 2003
Wilfred Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
For more information on submission procedures and the Workshop, please visit http://www.maplesoft.com/msw.
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