Please join the NCAR Library on Wednesday, November 11 for an artists' reception
highlighting the works of two of our very own - Carlye Calvin and Jamaica Jones.
Carlye, the UCAR photographer, is best known for her images of storms, clouds, and
scientists roaming unfriendly terrain. In this new show, she shows off a more colorful side
with nostalgic images taken along Route 66.
Complimenting the photographs is a collection of jewelry by Jamaica Jones. Once a
professional jewelry designer, Jamaica creates delicate works from vintage glass, vintage
lucite, crystal and sparkling gems.
In keeping with the Route 66 theme, we will celebrate this new show with root beer floats and
pie between 3 and 4 pm on Wednesday, November 11.
For more information, contact Jamaica Jones at ext. 2674, jamaica@ucar.edu.
The EAC-sponsored Annual Craft Fair is today from 10:00am - 2:00pm in the Center
Green 1 Auditorium.
Free gift wrapping is offered again this year. A variety of wrapping paper is available and
includes designs that are holiday and non-holiday specific.
Thirty-nine vendors have reserved tables. Check out photos of some of the merchandise
at the 2009 Craft Fair Link below. Some of the merchandise that is not pictured on the
web site includes: Guatemalan goods, aprons, coasters, truffles, lighted glass gift blocks,
quilted lunch bags, ornaments, handmade cards, photography calendars, skin-care
products, metalworks, fabric-backed glass plates, tamales, gift bags, crystal treasures,
and more.
Come and register for a door prize from one of the following merchants: Noodles &
Company, Borders Books, Laudisio's Restaurant, Vic's Coffee, Dushanbe Teahouse, Antica
Roma, Tokyo Joe's Restaurant, Mike O'Shay's, Trattoria Restaurant, Walnut Brewery, Heidi's
Deli, Smash Burger, Baker Street Pub & Grill, Fantasy Orchids Florist, Trek Bicycle Store of
Boulder, Sunflower Market, King Sooper's, Mad Green's, Herb's Meats and Specialty
Foods, Nick-n-Willy's Pizza, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Savory Spice Shop, Daphne's Greek
Cafe, Colorado Spirit / Sweet Adelines Barbershop Chorus.
See you at the Craft Fair,
Pat Steinkamp and Alyson Ellerin
EAC Event co-chairs
For more information, contact Pat Steinkamp at ext. 2662, pats@ucar.edu, or see the Web page at EAC Craft Fair.
Please join us in the ML Main Seminar Room Wednesday, November 11,
2009 from 10am - 11am.
Title: Air Pollution Simulation with gridMathematica
ABSTRACT: In the first part of this talk are discussed the
mathematical formulation for 2D and 3D air pollution models, two
types of simulation of the chemical processes (with ODE's and QSSA),
several spatial discretization schemes with their grids and
anisotropies, a Crank-Nicholson time stepping scheme and related
spatial operator approximation, and boundary conditions. In the
second, programming part of the talk two types of parallelization
are discussed: in pseudo domains and physical domains. The object-
oriented design and implementation of the data feeding is also
described.
If you are interested in computer books, register for Books24x7
and automatically receive the new book list weekly via email.
Listed below is a sampling of the latest e-books added to Books24x7,
a database of electronic books in the computing field.
Many of your favorite computing titles found on the NCAR Library
shelves are also included in this database.
To access full text searchable books in Books24x7 go to
http://library.books24x7.com/ and log into your personal account. If
you need to create an account select “Register” and enter your email
address on the next page. No other information is required. In a
few moments you will receive a confirmation email with your user name
and password.
Drupal 6 Site Blueprints: Ready-Made Plans for 12 Different
Professional Drupal Sites
By T. Ogunjobi, 2009
Essentials of Interactive Computer Graphics: Concepts and
Implementation
By K. Sung, P. Shirley and S. Baer, 2008
Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and
Trusted Information
By D. McGilvray, 2008
GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos
By J. Johnson, 2008
Jumping from ASP to ASP.NET
By D. Parsons, 2008
Learning Processing: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Images,
Animation, and Interaction
By D. Shiffman, 2008
Master Data Management
By D. Loshin, 2009
Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting
Usability Metrics
By T. Tullis and W. Albert, 2008
Oracle VM Manager 2.1.2: Manage a Flexible and Elastic data Center
with Oracle VM Manager
By T. Singh, 2009
USB Complete: The Developer's Guide, Fourth Edition
By J. Axelson, 2009
Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices,
Second Edition
By L. Shklar and R. Rosen, 2009
Windows 7 Inside Out
By E. Bott, C. Siechert and C. Stinson, 2010
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Insiders Guide to Microsoft's Hypervisor
By J. Kelbley, M. Sterling and A. Stewart, 2009
Word 2007 Document Automation with VBA and VSTO
By S. Driza, 2009
For more information, contact Leslie Forehand at ext. 8505, forehand@ucar.edu, or see the Web page at Books 24x7.
UCAR Staff Development Presents: DAVE BEAZLEY, Ph.D, author,
professor, and consultant, teaching:
PYTHON PROGRAMMING: Intermediate-Advanced
Monday-Wednesday
December 14-16, 2009
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
CG2-CTTC
Cost: $300/pp (NCAR Staff Fees Paid by NCAR Directorate)
Here is a one-of-a-kind, intermediate-advanced course for Python
programmers who want to learn more about applying Python's most
advanced features to a variety of practical problems in systems
building. The course starts with core material related to network
programming and advances into thread programming, multiprocessing, I/O
handling, and distributed computation. Topics include introduction to
the Python interpreter, basic programming language features, and data
processing idioms, organizing programs into functions, modules,
objects, and classes. Touring standard library modules, basic
principles of object-oriented programming, testing, and debugging.
Python's interface to the outside world and the operating system,
including iterators, generators, text processing, regular expressions,
files, file system, subprocesses, and C extensions. Even the most
advanced Python programmers will walk away from this class with new
insight and ideas.
To register, visit the Staff Development Catalog via Connect:
www.fin.ucar.edu/hrisConnect/employee.
The UCAR Wellness Committee (WAC) is pleased to have the opportunity
to offer Weight Watchers at Work.
An informational meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 12, 2009,
11:30 a.m. at ML Main Seminar. There are a number of membership
options available ranging from $99 for 9 weeks to about $150 for a
longer session with free on-line tools. Additional information on WW,
resources and memberships provided at the meeting.
Future WW brown bag meetings will be on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. for
weigh-ins with educational meetings starting at noon. All meetings
will be at the Mesa Lab.
You *must* RSVP for this meeting to assess interest. Please contact
Joanne Graham before 11/8/09 at joanneg@ucar.edu to reserve a spot.
For more information, contact Cheryl Cristanelli at ext. 8708, cherylc@ucar.edu.
UCAR/NCAR has a rich, multicultural tapestry of employees and visitors from all over the
world. Besides working on teams, we celebrate our diversity by playing together. Join the
Communicating Science ESL group for its second Multicultural Potluck and Stories event
and help make it as much fun as the 2005 Multicultural Potluck and the 2007 Lunar New
Year dinner party!
On November 13th from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Center Green Cafeteria we’ll enjoy a menu of
exciting choices as we travel from station to station to sample:
-Delectable and authentic home-cooking from an array of nations
-Aromatic teas from romantic climes
-Beers brewed by the best everywhere
-Wine from vineyards scattered across the globe
-World music
-Cultural imagery, costumes and tales to delight individuals and families
Sign up to help host a table and tell your story with photos, games and great food and
drink by contacting Marina La Grave (mlagrave@ucar.edu) no later than Friday November
6th.
Entertainment provided by DANCING GROUP FRON ZAMBIA , you and your colleagues!
Donation: $5.00 per person.
For more information, contact Marina LaGrave at ext. 2488, mlagrave@ucar.edu.
Save 20% off the ticket price on all Boulder Chamber Orchestra general (adult) ticket orders
for the 2009-2010 season. This discount is brought to you by the Employee Activities
Committee. Please enter the promo code NCAR to receive the discount. For more
information or to purchase tickets online, visit http://boulderchamberorchestra.org.
For more information, contact Janet Scannell at ext. 1093, anstett@ucar.edu.
Purchase discount tickets for the Colorado Ballet and the Colorado
Symphony Orchestra. This discount is brought to you by the Employee
Activities Committee.
Colorado Ballet: Save 15% on any performance for the 2009-2010 season.
Tickets may be purchased by calling the box office at 303.837.8888, ext. 2 or in person at
Colorado Ballet, 1278 Lincoln Street, Denver, CO 80203. Please mention the promo code
NCAR to receive the discount. For more information or to purchase
tickets online, visit http://coloradoballet.org.
Colorado Symphony Orchestra: Save 20% on any performance for the
2009-2010 season. Tickets may be purchased by calling the box office
at 303.623.7876 or in person at Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th
Street, Denver, CO 80202. Please mention the promo code NCAR to
receive the discount. For more information or to purchase tickets
online, visit http://coloradosymphony.org/.
For more information, contact Janet Scannell at ext. 1093, anstett@ucar.edu.
NCAR and EcoArts Connections Present
Visualizing Climate Change:
The Work of GHG Photos
September 17, 2009 - December 31, 2009
Named after the scientific shorthand for “greenhouse gases” the
photographers of GHG Photos have traveled the world to document the
causes and effects, as well as the attempts to mitigate and adapt to a
changing climate. Visualizing Climate Change brings together the work
of the handful of photographers who have dedicated the last couple
years of their life to illustrating the changing climate. The images
capture a range of subjects including forest fires, floods, glacial
retreat, sea level rise, arctic habitat loss, and a myriad of other
effects the world is experiencing.
The show was designed by GHG Photos with the Henry Gregg Gallery and
premiered at the NY Photo Festival. It features the work of Gary
Braasch, Ashley Cooper, Benjamin Drummond, Peter Essick, Steve
Kazlowski, and Joshua Wolfe.
For more information, contact Linda Carbone at ext. 1185, lcarbone@ucar.edu.
