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July 7, 2005

Notices

Board of Regents Meeting

The University of Washington Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 21. in Petersen Room on the 4th floor of the Allen Library, Seattle campus. The Regents will meet in formal session to take official action on personnel appointments and changes, gifts and grants, contracts and agreements with outside agencies, and other University business.


OTHER NEWS

UW Valerian and Sleep Study Seeking Participants

UW researchers are seeking men age 55–80 yrs old for a study of how valerian, an herbal medicine, affects sleep and how the body eliminates Valerian during sleep. Participants must be non-smokers and not currently taking any type of sleep aids. The study will involve:


  • Twelve overnight stays of about 8–10 hours at the Sleep Research Laboratory in the School of Nursing over an 8-week period.
  • Taking both Valerian and placebo at bedtime for two weeks each, in random order.
  • Keeping a diary of medications and symptoms.
  • For more information, please call 206-543-9029

RAID 2005 – Eighth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection

September 7-9, Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle

This symposium brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, government and industry to discuss intrusion detection technologies and issues from the research and commercial perspectives. The symposium is intended to further advances in intrusion defense by promoting the exchange of ideas in a broad range of topics, such as:


  • Risk assessment and risk management,
  • Intrusion tolerance,
  • Deception systems and honeypots,
  • Vulnerability analysis and management,
  • IDS assessment,
  • IDS survivability,
  • Privacy aspects,
  • Data mining techniques,
  • Visualization techniques,
  • Cognitive approaches,
  • Biological approaches,
  • Self-learning,
  • Case studies,
  • Legal issues,
  • Critical infrastructure protection (CIP)

For more information, including registration and abstract submission, visit http://www.conjungi.com/RAID/cfp.htm.

Blood drives

Friday, July 8 from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Health Sciences Lobby, third Floor C-Wing.

Wednesday, July 13 from 10 to 11:45 a.m. and 12:30 to 4 p.m. by the statue of George Washington near Meany Hall.


DEGREE EXAMS

Members of the graduate faculty are invited to attend the following examinations. Chairpersons are denoted in parentheses.

General Examinations


  • Brandon Garnett Bale, Applied Mathematics, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 8. Guggenheim Hall, 306. (Profs. Nathan Kutz and Bernard Deconinck).
  • Sandip Basu, Business Administration, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 12. Mackenzie Hall, 367. (Prof. Suresh Kotha).
  • Jaeshin Kim, Civil And Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 19. More Hall, 218. (Prof. Gregory Korshin).
  • Min Li, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 12. Health Sciences Center, F-643. (Profs. Steve Self and Jon Wakefield).
  • Qunhua Li, Statistics, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 12. Padelford Hall, C-301. (Prof. Marina Meila).
  • Maurine D. Miner, Public Health and Community Medicine – Pathobiology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 19. Health Sciences Center, I-140. (Prof. Nancy Freitag).
  • Stewart Edward Moughon, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 21. FHCRC, B3-159. (Prof. Vaikuntanath Samudrala).
  • Sarika S. Ogale, Pharmacy – School of, Ph.D. 1 p.m. Thursday, July 14. Health Sciences Center, H-371. (Prof. Sean Sullivan).
  • Pamela Ann Shaw, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 9 a.m. Thursday, July 21. FHCRC, M1-A303. (Prof. Ross Prentice).
  • Daniel R. B. Sluss, Chemistry, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 21. Chemistry Bldg., 239. (Profs. Philip Reid and Larry Dalton).
  • Yupeng Wang, Public Health and Community Medicine – Environ & Occup Hlth Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 12. Health Sciences Center, T-635. (Prof. Zhengui Xia).
  • Mark Wicks, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 20. Miller Hall, 216. (Prof. Maresi Nerad).
  • Jinyao Zhang, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 19. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 303. (Prof. Carl Sechen).

Final Examinations


  • Saonli Basu, Statistics, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Thursday, July 21. Padelford Hall, C-301. “Allele-Sharing Methods for Linkage Detection Using Extended Pedigrees” (Prof. Elizabeth Thompson).
  • Kevin Nelson Chang, Civil And Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 13. More Hall, 119. “Identification and Evaluation of Non-Infrastructure Regional Freight Mobility Issues” (Prof. Nancy Nihan).
  • Sanjay Chaudhuri, Statistics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Friday, July 15. Padelford Hall, C-301. “Using the Structure of D-Connecting Paths as a Qualitative Measure of the Strength of Dependence” (Profs. Michael Perlman and Thomas Richardson).
  • Peter John Couperus, Mathematics, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 12. Padleford Hall, C-36. “Combinatorial Problems on Abelian Cayley Graphs” (Prof. Eric Babson).
  • Jennifer Lee Eklund, Genome Sciences, Ph.D. noon Wednesday, July 13. Health Sciences Center, K-069. “Design and Characterization of Homing Endonuclease I-PpoI Variants with Novel DNA Sequence Specificity” (Prof. Raymond Monnat, Jr.).
  • Jamie Michelle Goodwin-White, Geography, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 15. Smith Hall, 408. “Placing Progress: Contexts of Inequality and Internal Migration in Immigrant Incorporation” (Prof. Mark Ellis).
  • Sandra Helena Hernandes, Education, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 20. Miller Hall, 112. “Critical Self-Knowledge: A Preliminary Analysis Towards a Pedagogy of Teachers’ Development” (Prof. Nathalie Gehrke).
  • Mark Daniel Holland, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 13. Electrical Engineering Bldg. 1, M-406. “Automatic Creation of Product-Term Based Reconfigurable Architectures for System-on-a-Chip” (Prof. Scott Hauck).
  • James Patrick Linder, English, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 13. Padleford Hall, A-101C. “Speculating on Space: Spatio-Social Consolidation and Community” (Profs. Priscilla Wald and Kathryn Cummings).
  • Arif Al Mamun, Economics, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 14. Savery Hall, 302. “Essays in Economics of the Family: Incorporating Cohabitation” (Prof. Shelly Lundberg).
  • Sandra Toro Martell, Education, Ph.D. 11 a.m. Monday, July 18. Miller Hall, 212. “The Good Field Trip: How Students from Diverse Socio-Economic Backgrounds Learn Science, Art, and Technology at a Museum” (Prof. Leslie Herrenkohl).
  • Rich John Matthies, Romance Languages and Literature, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Friday, July 8. Padelford Hall, B-202. “Fort Apache: The Literary Lives of the Parisian “Banlieue” Savage” (Prof. Douglas Collins).
  • Kathryn K. Schaffer Miknaitis, Physics, Ph.D. 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 13. North Physics Lab (CENPA), 178. “A Search for Matter-Enhanced Neutrino Oscillations through Measurements of the Day and Night Solar Neutrino Fluxes at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory” (Prof. John Wilkerson).
  • Timothy J. Miller, Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Thursday, July 14. Fishery Science Bldg., 203. “Estimation of Catch Parameters from a Fishery Observer Program with Multiple Objectives” (Prof. John Skalski).
  • Gary F. Mitchell, Business Administration, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 14. Mackenzie Hall, 367. “Managing Risks in Complex Projects Using Compression Strategies” (Prof. Theodore Klasorin).
  • Susan L. Neely-Barnes, Social Work, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 20. Social Work/Speech and Hearing Sciences Bldg., 116. “Consumer Choice in Developmental Disability Services: Assessing the Impact on Quality of Life Indicators” (Prof. Maureen Marcenko).
  • Mark A. Oakes, Psychology, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 14. Guthrie Hall, 211. “Directed Forgetting of Autobiographical Events” (Prof. Susan Joslyn).
  • Claire Jane O’neal, Chemistry, Ph.D. 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 20. Chemistry Bldg., 102. “Structural Studies of the Cholera Toxin Catalytic Subunit” (Prof. Wilhelmus Hol).
  • Hyo Jung Park, Nursing – School of, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 12. Health Sciences Center, T-612. “Severity of Bloating in Women with Irritable Bowel Syndrome” (Prof. Margaret Heitkemper).
  • Li-Xuan Qin, Public Health and Community Medicine – Biostatistics, Ph.D. 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 12. Health Sciences Center, F-643. “The Clustering of Regression Models Method with Applications in Gene Expression Data” (Prof. Steven Self).
  • Elyse Martine Shapiro, Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. 2 p.m. Monday, July 11. Electrical Engineering Bldg., 303. “Optimizing E. coli for the Detection of Antimicrobial Compounds” (Prof. Francois Baneyx).
  • Jeremy N. Thomas, Earth and Space Sciences, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Friday, July 15. Condon Hall, 139. “Lightning-Driven Electric and Magnetic Fields Measured in the Stratosphere: Implication for Sprites” (Prof. Robert Holzworth).
  • Yen H. Tong, Business Administration, Ph.D. 3 p.m. Thursday, July 21. Mackenzie Hall, 367. “Determinants and Economic Consequences of Discretionary Accounting Conservatism” (Prof. D. Shores).
  • Chunhua Weng, Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, Ph.D. 10 a.m. Thursday, July 21. Health Sciences Center, K-069. “Supporting Collaborative Clinical Trial Protocol Writing through an Annotation Design” (Prof. John Gennari).
  • Tao Xie, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 2:30 p.m. Monday, July 11. Paul Allen Center, CSE-203. “Improving Effectiveness of Automated Software Testing in the Absence of Specifications” (Prof. David Notkin).
  • Li Zhang, Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 20. Paul Allen Center, CSE-203. “Spacetime Stereo and Its Application” (Prof. Steve Seitz).