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Campus in Brief

CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Department of Public Safety would like to remind the campus community about telephone procedures to get assistance from Mines Police. The Golden Police Department does all radio dispatching of Mines officers 24/7. For non-emergencies or information, call 3333 first. If there is no answer, leave a message or let the call roll to Golden Dispatch. (If you leave a message, be aware that the message may not be checked during non-office hours.) If it's not an emergency but you need an officer, let the call roll to Golden. In any urgent situation always call 911.

Shipping hazardous material? Any transport of dangerous goods must be coordinated through the Environmental Health and Safety Department (EHS). Remember that “transport” includes: shipping via U.S. Postal Service, UPS, FedEx, etc.; transporting in state or personal vehicles; carrying on your person in public transportation (e.g. on an airplane). Complete the pre-shipment form and submit it to EHS. Please call ext. 3316 with any questions.


CAMPUS EVENTS
Homecoming: Miner League Sports
Oct. 2-4
Click for the schedule.

Concerts in the Library – David Carey
Oct. 10
Noon-1 p.m., Library, Boettcher Room
David Arthur Carey is in his senior year in the undergraduate physics department. David will play both the piano and guitar.


ACADEMIC LECTURES
Department of Chemical Engineering Shell Seminar Series: Chemistry and Applications of Low Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition
Oct. 3
3 p.m., Alderson Hall, Room 151
Gregory N. Parsons, North Carolina State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences: Symbolic Computation of Lax Pairs of Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Partial Difference Equations
Oct. 3
3 p.m., Chauvenet Hall, Room 143
Willy Hereman, Mines Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department

Department of Chemistry & Geochemistry Seminar: From Chocolate to Chili Peppers to “CSI” Using Open Air Ionization to find the Chemical Composition of Almost Anything
Oct. 3
4 p.m., Coolbaugh Hall, Room 219
Robert B. Cody, JEOL USA, Inc.

Mines Executive Lecture Series: Energy Outlook and the Role of Natural Gas
Oct. 7
4 p.m., Green Center, Metals Hall
Andy Swiger ’78, President ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company
Refreshments following the talk. Please RSVP to Pat Bohner at 303-273-3135 or patricia.bohner@is.mines.edu

Physics Colloquium: Neutron-Rich Nuclei in Heaven and Earth
Oct. 7
4 p.m., Meyer Hall, Room 220
Jorge Piekarewicz, Florida State University, Dept. of Physics

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering: Recent Progress of Steel Plates for Ship Hull Structures
Oct. 9
4 p.m., Hill Hall, Room 202
Ge (George) Wang, senior managing principal engineer, ABS Corporate Technology, Houston and Shiro Imai, general manager, Plate Technical Sales & Marketing, Nippon Steel

CSM Academy Seminar: Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy in Recycling
Oct. 10
4 p.m., Arthur Lakes Library, Boettcher Room
Pat Taylor
Libations to follow at the Faculty Club.


RECOGNITIONS
John Tilton, University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Division of Economics and Business, recently gave a public lecture at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, where he is spending two months as a guest professor in the Institute of Environmental Decisions. He spoke on the Resource Curse or the belief that mineral and other resource production in developing countries actually retards their economic growth. The talk was based on research that he and Graham Davis, also a professor in the division, have been conducting together over the past several years.