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APR.'05
Issue 6
Cal State Fullerton 1
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Dean's Office
News From Around the College
McCarthy Hall 166
(714) 278-2638
Biology
Dean: Two Biology graduate students received first and second place awards for Masters
Dr. Kolf O. Jayaweera level presentations at the recent 16th Sigma Chapter - Graduate Women in Science
kjayaweera@fullerton.edu Conference held at Cal State Fullerton on March 19. Both students work in the
laboratory of Dr. Kathryn Dickson. First place for a presentation by a Masters
Associate Dean: student went to Danielle Neumann who spoke on Comparison of Digestive Enzyme
Dr. David Fromson Activities in Tunas and their Ectothermic Relatives. And, second place went to Joan
dfromson@fullerton.edu M. Backey for her talk on A Comparison of Lactate Processing in Endothermic and
Ectothermic Sharks.
Assistant Dean:
Rochelle Woods Chemistry and Biochemistry
McCarthy Hall 488 Recent publications by Dr. Katherine Kantardjieff (including one co-authored with
rwoods@fullerton.edu Dr. Mori Jamshidian) have been highlighted in the Faculty 1000 of Biology (http://
www.facultyof1000.com). This online service systematically features the most
Department of Biological interesting papers in every subject in biology, regardless of the journal in which they
Science were published. The articles describe correlations smong protein crystallization
McCarthy Hall 282 parameters and their applications in high-throughput crsytallography.
(714) 278-3614
Dr. Robert A. Koch, Chair Kantardjieff, K.A., Jamshidian, M. and B. Rupp, Distributions of pI vs pH provide
rkoch@fullerton.edu prior information for the design of crystallization screening experiments.
Bioinformatics, 2004. 20(14): p. 2171-2174.
Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry Kantardjieff, K.A. and B. Rupp, Matthews coefficient probabilities: Improved
McCarthy Hall 580 estimates for unit cell contents of proteins, DNA, and protein-nucleic acid
complexes. Prot Sci, 2003. 12(9): p. 1865-1871.
(714) 278-3621
Dr. Maria Linder, Chair
Kantardjieff, K.A. and B. Rupp, Protein isoelectric point as a predictor for increased
mlinder@fullerton.edu
crystallization screening efficiency. Bioinformatics, 2003. 20(o2004): p. 1-7.
Department of Geological Geology
Sciences Dr. Jeffrey Knott was co-convener at an International Quaternary Association
McCarthy Hall 254 (INQUA) Commission on Stratigraphy and Chronology The Drylands Dating Sub-
(714) 278-3883 committee is a group of international scientists who met at Zzyzx March 23-26 to
Dr. Diane Clemens-Knott, Chair select type localties for comparison of various geochronologic methods. One of the
dclemensknott@fullerton.edu sites being nominated for study is presently being examined by Geological Sciences
student Marsha Sohn for her M.S. thesis. Sohn will be lead investigator and
Department of Mathematics collaborate with several internationally known laboratories in the study. Aron Taylor,
McCarthy Hall 154 an M.S. student in Geological Sciences also applied and was accepted to participate in
(714) 278-3631 the workshop. This is the first workshop for this sub-commission with future
Dr. Paul Deland, Chair workshops planned for Argentina, the Canary Islands and Australia.
pdeland@fullerton.edu
Drs. Matthew Kirby with Steve Lund (USC) and Jeanette Arkle (CSUF Geography
Department of Physics major) will present a paper at the USGS Workshop on Late Cenozoic Drainage History
McCarthy Hall 611 of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and
(714) 278-3366 Biotic Perspectives entitled Centennial-Scale Record of Late-Quaternary Climate
Dr. Roger Nanes, Chair Dynamics from the San Bernardino Mountains: Baldwin Lake, Southern California.
rnanes@fullerton.edu The meeting is held at Zzyzx from April 12-14.
Program in Science Education Dr. Matthew Kirby received a Supplement for Underrepresented Minority Research
McCarthy Hall 527 Fellowship for his ACS/PRF grant Developing Late-Holocene Records of Flood-
(714) 278-2307 Producing, Precipitation Variability from Small Lakes in Southern California. The
Richard Lodyga, Director Supplement is a $5,000 summer stipend/research materials grant. funded by The
rlodyga@fullerton.edu American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund for research by undergraduate
geology major Joe Carrasco.
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Geology
Several members of the Department of Geological Sciences are attending the Geological Society of America
Cordilleran section meeting including Drs. Diane Clemens-Knott, Phil Armstrong, and Jeff Knott. Dr.
Clemens-Knott's abstract is titled: Geochronologic constraints on Early Cretaceous deposition of nonma-
rine sediments and volcanics, and synplutonic deformation, western Sierra Nevada batholith, CA. By
Clemens-Knott, D. and Saleeby, J.B.
Mathematics
Dr. Charles H. Lee presented two papers that he has been collaborating with scientists at NASA Jet
Propulsion Laboratory at the 2005 IEEE Aerospace Engineering Annual Conference: The Impacts of Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter Roll Steering on Phoenix Relay Link, and Orbit Design Based on Global Maps of
Telecom Metrics.
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Dr. Bogdan Suceava will present a talk (joint work with Wladimir Boskoff, Univ. Ovidius, Romania) in the
AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics American Mathematical Society entitled Barbilian Spaces:
The History. The Western Section Spring Meeting takes place Saturday-Sunday, April 16-17 at UC Santa
Barbara.
Abstract: The Cayley-Poincare model of the Lobachevsky's non-Euclidean geometry yields naturally a
distance that can be represented as a logarithmic oscillation. Analyzing the generality of this procedure
of constructing the distance, Dan Barbilian (1895 - 1961) established a theory of metric spaces endowed
with this specific distance. Recent results connect the geometries with constant Gaussian curvature to the
Barbilian spaces and emphasize how Barbilian distances yield generalized Lagrange metrics irreducible
to Lagrange, Finsler or Riemann metrics. This work presents the history of the developments of these
mathematical ideas from the first half of the 20th Century until today.
Physics
Dr. Murtadha Khakoo recently had an article published entitled, Electron impact excitation of argon and
krypton: improved r-ratios. It is in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics,
December 2004.
Miscellaneous
A new Opportunity Center tutoring schedule is now available online at: http://nsm.fullerton.edu/content/
student/tutorschedule.html
MARC Scholarship Application Deadline is April 15. Applications are available in the MARC Office, MH-488
and on the MARC website, http://marc.fullerton.edu.
Last month's newsletter incorrectly noted that Sarah Millus, Kelly Connell, and Cindy Duong, recepients of
the Fleckles Awards all worked in Dr. Kathryn Dickson' s lab. Cindy Duong works in Dr. Dickson's lab, while
Sarah Millus works with Dr. Paul Stapp and Kelly Connell works with Dr. Michael Horn.
TSUNAMI!!!
The Colleagues of the College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics will host an entertaining and informative
presentation by Drs. David Bowman, Matt Kirby and Brady Rhodes on "The Great Indonesian Earthquake
and Tsunami: What Happened, and Could It Happen Here?" at the Fullerton Marriott on Wednesday, April
20 at 7:30 a.m. This inaugural Colleagues Colloquium Dean's Breakfast Briefing is presented by the
Department of Geological Sciences and sponsored in part by Earth Tech.
The great (M=9.0) earthquake that struck Sumatra on December 26, 2004 was the fourth-largest earthquake
since 1900. The ensuing tsunami impacted coastal communities throughout the Indian Ocean and claimed
more than 280,000 lives. This special presentation will review the cause an impact of the earthquake and
tsunami, and discuss the possibility of a similar event happening in California.
Seating is extremely limited for this event so contact Doug Colby at 714-278-7018 or e-mail
dcolby@fullerton.edu to reserve your place today. Tickets are $10 for non-members and free for Colleagues
members. Registration begins at 7:00 a.m. and the breakfast and presentation will begin at 7:30 a.m. and
conclude at 9:00 a.m. For information and registration visit us online at http://nsm.fullerton.edu/colleagues
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Graduate Forum
The California Diversity Forum for Graduate Education will be held Saturday April 9, 2005 at the University of San
Diego from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. This forum is one of the best opportunities for juniors, seniors and gradate
students to meet with faculty in specific graduate disciplines, attend workshops on graduate schools, and meet
recruiters. This event is by invitation, so students who feel they are good candidates for graduate school should
register on line. The committee is planning for 1,200 students from 23 campuses in southern California. Information
on the Diversity Forum: http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/draft-new-div-forum/
A charter bus will leave CSUF at 6:00 a.m. and return approximately 5:00 p.m. that evening. There will be a $20
deposit that must be given to Gerald Bryant in UH-179, for riding the bus, but this will be returned when the
students board the bus. If you do not show up, the check will go into a university fund account. If you have any
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other questions, please contact Gerald Bryant at (714) 278-7364.
Advisement Dates
Biology Geology
April 11-29 April 11-15, 18-22
Chemistry Math
April 18- May 6 April 25-29
Physics
e-mail:
jfeagin@fullerton.edu
2005 NSM-ICC SYMPOSIUM & POSTER PRESENTATION
Wednesday April, 13th
Location: Titan Theatre
Noon-2p.m.
-Poster presentations by CSUF undergraduate and graduate students
-Professional panel offering career information to interested students
2-3p.m. The Great Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami: What Happened, and Could it Hap-
pen Here? Presented by Drs. Dave Bowman and Brady Rhodes
MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM IN DENMARK
This summer program builds on the long-standing semester DIS program and is designed as an introduction to
marine biology and ecology for students of biology in general, ecology, environmental science, and related
fields. Courses include:
* Marine Biology of European Coastal Waters
* Ecology and Human Impact in the North and Baltic Seas
Students may opt to take both these courses or one of these courses and one summer Humanities and Social
Sciences course. For more information contact Matthew Walters, Study Abroad Advisor at (714) 278-7626 or go
to: http://www.discopenhagen.org/Academic/Science/MBE/summer/summerIndex.shtml
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Seminar Schedules
Biology Math
All seminars meet Wednesdays @ 4:00 p.m. in MH-513
Tuesday, April 5, 4:00 p.m. in MH 476
April 6 Elementary Mathematics for Teachers: A
Now you see it, now you don't: Control of gene Mathematician's Perspective
expression in the mouse with the lac operator- Dr. Scott Baldridge, Louisiana State University
repressor system.
Dr. Heidi Scrable Department of Neuroscience This talk describes a mathematics course, designed by
University of Virginia, Charlottesville mathematicians, for prospective elementary teachers.
The course is based on a new textbook written by Scott
April 13 J. Baldridge and Thomas H. Parker: Elementary
Mathematics for Teachers. The goal of the textbook and
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Molecular mechanisms used by Salmonella to
modulate expression of its genes in response to the course is to present mathematics clearly and
environmental stimuli correctly while keeping the focus on material that
Dr. Eduardo Groisman Department of Molecular elementary school teachers will be addressing in their
Microbiology Washington University classrooms.
April 20 Thursday, April 14, 2:00 p.m. in MH 476
Surfing Fish, Terrestrial Eggs, and California Decoding Reed-Solomon Codes
Beachess Dr. Daqing Wan, UC Irvine
Dr. Karen Martin
Pepperdine university We will give a simple and self-contained introduction
to recent developments linking number theory and the
April 27 decoding of Reed-Solomon codes.
The Endangered Species Act
Dr. Wayne White Division of Endangered Species U.S. Saturday, April 30, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. in MH 476
Fish and Wildlife Service. Problem Solving Workshop
Dr. Bogdan Suceava, CSUF,
9:00 am - Games Adrian Vajiac, Chapman University,
Chemistry and Biochemistry 10:00 am Geometric Transformations and Applications
Other talks will be announced. For more information please
All seminars meet Thursdays @ 4:00 p.m. in go to http://math.fullerton.edu
MH-468
April 7
TBA Geology
Mr. Ryan Shade Graduate Student All seminars meet Wednesdays @ 4:30 p.m. in MH-
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry 327
CSUF
April 6
April 14 The Poverty Hills, Owens Valley, California: A
Synthetic Applications of Mega-Landslide Deposit, Not a Transpressional
Trichloroisocyanuric Acid Uplift
Dr. Gene Hiegel Dr. Kim Bishop, CSULA
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
CSUF April 20
Early Paleozoic History of the Cuyania terrane of
April 21 western Argentina: evidence from U-Pb
Photochemical Formation and Processing of geochronology of detrital zircons from Cambrian
Atmospheric Organic Aerosols and Ordovician sandstones
Dr. Paul Ziemann Dr. Stanley Finney, CSULB
Dept. of Environmental Science UCR
April 27
April 28 TBA
TBA Dr. Richard Laton, CSUF
Ms. Kwanruthai Tadpetch
Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
CSUF