text: Hamas's military wing has vowed to take revenge for al-Mabhouh's death [AFP] "Preliminary investigations indicate that the crime was committed by a professional criminal gang that was following the victim before he came to the United Arab Emirates, it said in a statement. "The culprits left a trace behind that points to them and will help in chasing and arresting them." Izzat al-Rishq, a Hamas official, said: "I cannot reveal the circumstances. We are working with the authorities in the United Arab Emirates."Israeli officials have so far offered no comment on the incident. Electric shockA brother of al-Mabhouh said he had been killed by electric shock after an electrical appliance was held to his head. "The first results of a joint investigation by Hamas and the [United Arab] Emirates show he was killed by an electrical appliance that was held to his head," Fayed al-Mabhouh told AFP by telephone. "Material was sent to a Paris laboratory which confirmed he was killed by electric shock." Al-Mabhouh, who was born in the Gaza Strip but who had been living in Syria since 1989, was allegedly assassinated a day after he arrived in Dubai. Al-Mabhouh's body was brought to Damascus, where he was buried on Friday.'Important' figure Rula Amin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Lebanon, said: "It seems that Hamas has decided to reveal this incident [Al-Mabhouh's alleged killing] about ten days after it happened - it took place on January 20. "Why they only decided to talk about it now, we still don't know." Al-Mabhouh is said to have engineered the capture of two Israeli soldiers during a Palestinian uprising in the 1980s and was imprisoned several times by Israeli forces. Israel razed his home in Gaza. Hamas has said he was an "important" member of Izz al-Din al-Qassam brigades, Hamas's military wing named after a Syrian religious leader who fought British colonial forces in Palestine in the 1930s. SOURCE: Al Jazeera and agencies


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Today's Q&A features Amy Fellner Dominy, author of OyMG! (Walker, May 2011) and the newly-released AUDITION & SUBTRACTION (Walker, Sept. 4, 2012). She is a former advertising copywriter and playwright. You can learn more about her work (and order her books) at amydominy.com. She's got a fun blog there, too, and a recent entry tells the good and bad of a book launch.
Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your writing career, and how you moved from copywriter to playwright to YA/MG author?
A: I always loved to write, but I knew I needed a steady job out of college. Advertising was a perfect fit: I could write and get a paycheck every two weeks. Funny enough, I became known for my campaigns aimed at teens. I also got really good at catchy headlines, and writing dialogue for TV and radio spots. Little did I know these things would come in handy down the road….
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Q: The title and cover copy for your first novel, OyMG is so fun and clever. Did you come up with the title? Was it something that came to you early in your writing process, or did you mull and fret and fuss over it (like I do!) for months? AUDITION & SUBTRACTION, is great, too! I'm always curious to hear the story behind the title. (And, if I put your books under my pillow, will I wake up with great title ideas for my books, too?)
A: First of all—thanks for the nice words!! And yes, I mulled and fretted and fussed. J When it sold, the title was Honestly, Ellie but my editor wanted something else. With my copywriting background, I figured no problem. I came up with lists of titles. Here are a few:
Sizzle, Secrets and Matzo Ball Soup
Love, Hate and Debate
Still, nothing was quite perfect. We were reaching the 11th hour, when I came up with OyMG. Immediately, everyone at Walker loved it. Truthfully, I was worried about using a title with slang, but ultimately the publisher felt strongly about it.
For Audition & Subtraction, that wasn't the first title, but it came to me pretty quickly. For me, it's always a matter of combining the familiar in unfamiliar ways. (Or putting books under your pillow might work, too.)
Q: I hope I'm not the only one who loves to hear the "how I got my agent/publisher" story. I'm amazed at how many different ways this happens. Can you share yours?
A: I love these stories, too, and I love sharing mine! I was at an SCBWI conference and the first page of OyMG was read out loud in front of everyone as part of a First Page Panel. Everyone laughed, two editors said they'd love to see the book and so did the one agent who was there: Caryn Wiseman with Andrea Brown Literary Agency. About a month later, I signed with Caryn—partly, I think, on the strength of that first page.
Q: Your first novel is geared toward a 12 and older reader, and the second is 10-14. How would you describe the differences in writing for those slightly different target audiences, and do you think about the age of your reader as you're writing?
A: You've hit on what's been my greatest challenge /difficulty as an author—and that's writing for the slippery category of "tween." Truth is, I wrote both books about 14-year-olds and in the case of OyMG, my publisher felt it should be marketed YA and in the case of Audition & Subtraction, it should be marketed as middle grade. In both cases, I went in and tweaked a bit to fit the proper ages. For instance, the word "crap" was okay for YA but I had to delete it in the MG.
I really like writing about 8th graders, but I'm not sure it's wise from a marketing standpoint. I don't know if anyone else feels the same way or has had different experiences with this. I keep hoping the market will adjust to make room for a separate category of tween.
Q: As a former clarinet player myself, I always love a book with great clarinet-playing characters. I'm starting a list... I've got two such books on it so far (your new book and Jandy Nelson's THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE). Considering the prevalence of vampire-werewolf-faerie-angel-demon-dystopian books out there, I'm thinking clarinet players are woefully under-represented in YA literature. Your thoughts?
A: LOL! I love it--the next big thing in YA: Clarinet players. Finally, a trend I'd be ahead of. J
Q: Tell us about your marketing efforts. What has worked best for you?
A: Well, there's strength in numbers and that's certainly true of marketing. One of the best things I did was join The Class of 2k11, a group of debut authors. We banded together to help share each other's news, we traveled to BEA together, appeared at conferences and we're still running giveaways through our newsletter. I've seen writers accomplish the same thing through joint blogs and things like that.
The rest of it—who knows. I've created SWAG and trailers, done school visits, launch parties, conferences, posted on blogs, given away books, and anything else I could think of.
For Audition & Subtraction, I'm trying public humiliation. I've created My WORST Blog Tour—starting the 17th—in which I share my WORST memories (and pictures) of middle school on a different blog each day. I'm hoping it creates some interest. I'll let you know!!
Q: Finally, what are you working on now/next?
A: My editor at Walker is excited to see my next middle grade book. The only problem is my next book has a main character who is 15. (Which technically makes it a YA.) It's called BAD KAT and I was trying to write it as a middle grade, honest, but it refused to cooperate. So, hopefully, what's next is a home for Kat, and a new middle grade that will be fabulous and funny and not full of "crap." J
Thanks, Amy. And we'll all be on the lookout for those middle grade photos!
Visit Amy's Facebook page to follow her WORST blog tour: https://www.facebook.com/amyfellnerdominyauthor
UPDATED: Read a follow-up to this interview with questions from other YA authors, here.
Visit Amy's Facebook page to follow her WORST blog tour: https://www.facebook.com/amyfellnerdominyauthor
UPDATED: Read a follow-up to this interview with questions from other YA authors, here.

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There are some things that politics and football have in common, not least of which is the feeling that, in order to survive and thrive at the top table, you need a big ego. It should probably come, therefore, as no great surprise to hear that the new Member of Parliament for Bradford West, George Galloway, has marked his first week as the elected representative for his new seat by making soothing noises in the direction of Bradford City Football Club and its supporters. Whether you agree with his politics or not, it is difficult to argue that Galloway's win in this seat was not stunning. He managed to take the seat from the Labour party with a massive majority of over 10,000, a result which, somewhat ironically, may have been cheered as loudly at the headquarters of the Conservative party amongst his own supporters for the reputational damage that his victory did to Labour at a time of considerable difficulty for the coalition government.
What, though, is a newly-elected Member of Parliament to do, once he is safely installed in office? Well, Galloway has big plans for some of the city's more venerable landmarks, and Bradford City Football Club is amongst them. "I have big plans for Bradford City FC", he told the press last weekend."With my connections in the Arab world, I am actively speaking to and seeking out sovereign wealth funds and Middle Eastern princes to pump investment into the club. There is massive potential." At this point, the standard reaction of the football supporter is supposed to include pound signs appearing in the eyes, but Bradford City supporters have greater cause than many to be wary of anybody talking about pumping money into their club.
The story of the last ten years in the history of Bradford City FC has been a story of one of English footballs more enduring hangovers. When the club was promoted into the Premier League in 1999, the scale of the task facing the club for it just to hold onto this newly-acquired status would be immense. Yet in the last day of their first season at these exalted heights, they confirmed their survival with a win against Liverpool. It was a result that would instigate a chain of events that can be traced more or less directly through the clubs history since, right the way through to their current precarious position, just above the relegation places in League Two.
What followed in the summer of 2000 became known as "Bradford City's six weeks of madness." Emboldened by Premier League survival, club chairman Geoffrey Richmond decided to, as it were, speculate to accumulate. Marquee signings, such as the Italian midfielder Benito Carbone and new record signing David Hopkin, arrived at Valley Parade on fat salaries as the club gambled almost everything on a second season of Premier League riches, but what happened next was as depressing as it was predictable. Manager Paul Jewell, who had taken the club up and kept them there, quit for Sheffield Wednesday during that summer and his assistant, Chris Hutchings, was promoted into the manager's seat. The team, however, failed to gel in its second Premier League season and was relegated back from whence it came in bottom place in the table, having collected just twenty-six points from their thirty-eight league matches.
The summer of 2001 was not the best of times to be getting relegated into the Championship, either. As ITV Digital started to collapse, the clubs of the Football League started to buckle under the weight of bills underwritten by television contract money that would now not being received and in May of 2002 the broadcaster collapsed, leading to widespread financial panic amongst the division's clubs. Bradford City were not immune from this and, having finished their first season back in the Football League in fifteenth place in the table, were amongst those to enter into administration in 2002. It was a blow from which the club has never fully recovered. Further relegations followed in 2004 and 2007, and at the time of writing the club is still not guaranteed holding on to a Football League place that it has held since its very formation in 1903.
Even if we set aside how exactly a local Member of Parliament might put such "big plans" into place and whether it is morally justifiable for an elected official to be looking to seek investment for what is ultimately one private company, there are questions that should be asked over the wisdom of any such idea. The reflex reaction for the football supporter when faced with phrases such as "sovereign wealth funds and Middle Eastern princes" is for the eyes to glaze over and for Sheikh Mansour and the riches that he has lavished upon Manchester City to drift into the mind's eye. Regardless of who Galloway may or may not have access to, though, there is no such thing in life as a free lunch, and for every Sheikh Mansour in football's recent past, there has been a Munto Finance – the shape-shifting and, as things turned out, non-existent vehicle for a fraudster which promised Notts County the earth but almost ended up killing it – or the succession of individuals that drove Portsmouth to the brink more than once.
The relationship between politicians and football can be mutually beneficial, but it can also be fractious. At one end of the spectrum, Plymouth Moor View MP Alison Seabeck and Darlington MP Jenny Chapman have worked tirelessly for their local football clubs when in serious financial difficulty over the last year or so, and there are others that have done the same. At the other end of the spectrum, however, the influence can be more malign. For example, David Bellotti, one of those responsible for the asset-strip of Brighton & Hove Albion's Goldstone Ground in 1997 had previously represented Eastbourne as a Liberal Democrat MP and to this day sits as the councillor for Lyncombe ward on Bath and North East Somerset council. Whether his constituents are aware of the fact that his actions – along with those of others – almost killed a football club and left it homeless is not known.
There is certainly something a little jarring about seeing a politician purported to be of the left making such noises in the direction of a football club. "Sovereign wealth funds" and the like can only be framed as being from one of capitalism's more extreme ends, and Bradford City would be well-advised to consider anybody making offers of investment that seem too good to be true for a football club that is near the foot of League Two. This is nothing to do with the nationality or race of those concerned, of course – it has become standard – if unofficial – for supporters to carry out their own version of "due diligence" on any new owner or investor before they get involved, and this is even more commonplace at clubs at which there have been problems in the past.
George Galloway is more than used to the public sphere and the attention that comes with it, and there is nothing wrong per se with a Member of Parliament taking an interest in their local football club, but Bradford City, for all the decline that they have suffered in recent years, are solvent at the time of writing. Perhaps Galloway could use his position to try and encourage more people to turn out on a Saturday afternoon or to encourage the club to move towards greater supporter ownership in terms of the way that it is run. Either of these, we would contend, would be better for the long-term health of the club than perpuating the myth that the only way that any football club can make progress both on and off the field is through the munificence of an individual – or group of individuals – with no previously recorded interest in the city's football club.
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BEST Certificates of Participation (COPs)
On December 09, 2013, $89.51 million of COPs were issued for lease purchase agreements entered into by the Treasurer. The Certificates mature on March 15, 2036.
Find out more about the program and the grant awards made to date here.
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Giulia Galli delivers Nelson W. Taylor Award talk at Penn State
Prof. Galli gave the keynote address of the 2019 Nelson W. Taylor Lectureship in Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University. Her talk was titled "Asking 'why' matters to predict the future," and focused on insights and first principles predictions of material properties relevant to energy conversion processes and quantum information technologies.
Galli Group is participating in a new center to develop more efficient flexible solar cells
The Galli Group will be participating in the new Center for Self-Assembled Organic Electronics (SOE), funded by a Muri grant from the Office of Naval Research. The center will focus on "developing strategies for controlling the structure of organic electronic materials at the nanoscale," and will combine synthesis, theory and simulations to develop next-generation materials for solar energy conversion.
Paper on spin-phonon interactions published in Nature Physics
The paper Spin-phonon interactions in silicon carbide addressed by Gaussian acoustics, in collaboration with David Awschalom group, has been published in Nature Physics; it is highlighted on the UChicagoNews website and at phys.org.
The software tool, QRESP, developed within MICCOM has been released
The open-source software tool, QRESP, was released and is described in a paper published in Scientific Data; see highlight at UChicagoNews website in an article on reproducibility of data.
Paper on defects and surface charges published in Nature Materials
The paper The role of defects and excess surface charges at finite temperature for optimizing oxide photoabsorbers, has been published in Nature Materials; it is highlighted on the UChicagoNews website.
Giulia Galli awarded 2018 Materials Research Society Theory Award
The MRS Materials Theory award recognizes "exceptional advances made by materials theory to the fundamental understanding of the structure and behavior of materials." Galli has been awarded for "the development of advanced first-principles simulation methods and their application to the understanding, prediction, and design of complex nanostructured materials." She will receive the award at the 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit in Boston.
Galli Group is participating in four EFRCs
The Galli group is participating in four EFRCs announced by DOE in June 2018 (see Awards List): Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS) at ANL, Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE) at NREL, Quantum Materials for Energy Efficient Neuromorphic Computing (Q-MEEN-C) at UCSD, and Center for Novel Pathways to Quantum Coherence in Materials (NPQC) at LBL.
Paper on all inorganic nanostructured materials published in Nature Nanotechnology
The paper, Surface chemistry and buried interfaces in all-inorganic nanocrystalline solids, in collaboration with Dmitri Talapin, has been published in Nature Nanotechnology; see highlight on the UChicagoNews website.
Dept. of Energy taps Argonne to lead effort focused on advanced materials for energy-water systems
Argonne National Laboratory has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to lead an Energy Frontier Research Center focused on advanced materials for energy-water systems.
Paper on water under pressure published in PNAS
The paper, Ab Initio Spectroscopy and Ionic Conductivity of Water Under Earth Mantle Conditions, has been published in PNAS; see highlight on the UChicagoNews website.
Open Positions - Postdoctoral Researcher
Multiple postdoctoral positions are available in the Galli Group at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.
Candidates should submit 1) a full CV, including contacts for at least two references, and 2) a cover letter of intent to email@example.com.
Paper on diamondoids published in Nature
The paper, Sterically Controlled Mechanochemistry Under Hydrostatic Pressure, in collaboration with Melosh's group in Stanford, has been published in Nature; see highlight at the UChicagoNews website.
Paper on electron affinity of water published in Nature Communications
The paper, Electron Affinity of Liquid Water, has been published in Nature Communications; it is highlighted on the UChicagoNews website.
Nov 7th, 2017: Marie Curie 150th birthday
Today is 150th anniversary of Marie Curie birthday. Below please find a collection of posts celebrating it.
J. Phys. Chem. (ACS) Editorial and Virtual Issue
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (RSC) Blog and Cover Gallery
Physics Today
Hindustan Times
Marie Curie Blog
Virtual Special Issue by The Lancet (Elsevier)
Meng Ye awarded the 2017 Richard J. Plano Dissertation Prize
Meng Ye just received the 2017 Richard J. Plano Dissertation Prize from Rugters University.
See her dissertation.
APS launches Physical Review Materials
PRMaterials expands the scope of the existing APS journals beyond their current emphasis on the physics of materials.
See the Editorial Board of the latest addition to the Physical Review family of journals.
Paper on the structure of salt water published in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
The paper Local and Global Effects of Dissolved Sodium Chloride on the Structure of Water has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters; it is highlighted on the IME website.
Exascale resources will allow unprecedented large-scale first principle simulations on the atomic scale
Our work was featured on the report of the joint assessment by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF) of the scientific and engineering research community's science drivers requiring capable exascale high performance computing (HPC). Each of the three agencies analyzed the aggregate responses to the request for information in the context of their missions and programmatic goals. The report comprises a joint collaborative synthesis of these respective analyses and summary conclusions.
Open position - Managing Director of MICCoM
An open position for a Managing Director of MICCoM at the University of Chicago and at ANL is available
Candidates should submit 1) a full CV, including contacts for at least two references, and 2) a cover letter of intent to both firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com, with "MICCoM Managing Director" in the subject line (PDF attachments only).
Research on quantum bits highlighted by RCC
A paper by Hosung Seo, with Giulia Galli, and Abram Falk, recently published in Nature Communications, investigates the performance of quantum bits in a material, for applications in quantum computing, by experimentally and theoretically studying the coherence time of electron spin associated with divacancy defects.
Research on quantum bits highlighted by the ASCR
The recent publications on new qubits built out of defects in aluminum nitride and silicon carbide in the Galli group have been highlighted in the DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) website.
Paper published in Nature Materials on Jan. 9th, 2017
The article "Modelling heterogeneous interfaces for solar water splitting", by T. Anh Pham, Yuan Ping, and Giulia Galli, has been published in Nature Materials.
New students and postdoc joined the group
Welcome to the new undergraduate students Boon King Quek and Sergio Mazzotti, graduate students Siyoung Kim, Jeffrey Gustafson, and Han Yang, as well as the new postdoc Meng Ye, from Rutgers University, who just joined the Galli group!
Former CDAC Summer Scholars at University of Chicago
Former CDAC Summer scholars, including Viktor Rozsa, are now graduate students at the University of Chicago.
Two group papers published in Nature Communications and Science Advances
Read highlights of Quantum decoherence dynamics of divacancy spins in silicon carbide by H. Seo et al. and The fate of carbon dioxide in water-rich fluids under extreme conditions by D. Pan et al. on IME and UoC pages. See also the highlight of the Deep Carbon Observatory and that of the Geochemical News.
WEST Data Collections are live!
The WEST Data Collections provide open web-based access to electronic structure properties computed with WEST. Explore the GW100 and GWSOC81 sets.
ALCC Award 2016
Marco Govoni, Alex Gaiduk and Hosung Seo have been awarded 53.7 Millions hours on MIRA at ANL.
Quantum Science Research website live
Paper published in JACS
Our paper "Photoelectron spectra of aqueous solutions from first principles" by Alex P. Gaiduk, Marco Govoni, Robert Seidel, Jonathan Skone, Bernd Winter, and Giulia Galli was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Memorial lecture series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory
Understanding and predicting materials for sustainable energy sources: The key role of density functional theory. Memorial lecture delivered by Giulia Galli at UCSD, March 31st, 2016.
DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship
Viktor Rozsa has been awarded the DOE NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship.
Highlighted Paper
Our paper "Design of defect spins in piezoelectric aluminum nitride for solid-state hybrid quantum technologies", by Hosung Seo, Marco Govoni, and Giulia Galli published in Scientific Reports 6, 20803 (2016) was highlighted by NERSC, Sciencedaily, BLCS.
Paper on defect spins
Our paper "Designing defect spins for wafer-scale quantum technologies" in collaboration with the Awschalom's group was published in the 40th issue of the MRS bulletin
DOE announces Computational Materials Sciences Awards
One the three centers, MICCoM (Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials) is established at Argonne National Lab and is led by Prof. Giulia Galli. MICCoM's mission is to develop open-source advanced software tools to help the scientific community model, simulate and predict the fundamental properties and behavior of nanoscale and mesoscale materials for energy conversion technologies — including metastable materials assembled far from equilibrium conditions. [DOE announcement] Press releases by ANL, UChicago, and IME.
Theta Early Science Program
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has selected the project "First-Principles Simulations of Functional Materials for Energy Conversion" as one of the six projects for its Theta Early Science Program (ESP), a collaborative effort designed to help prepare scientific applications for the architecture and scale of the new supercomputer. The proposal – led by Giulia Galli (U.Chicago & ANL), with co-PIs Marco Govoni (ANL) and Francois Gygi (UCD) – will combine ab initio molecular dynamics (Qbox code) and post-density functional theory methods (West code) to optimize properties of nanostructured materials for use in solar and thermal energy conversion devices at an unprecedented level of accuracy. The ultimate goal is to provide a truly predictive tool for device performance within a Materials Genome Initiative design framework. [link]
IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Peter Scherpelz has been awarded the IC (Intelligence Community) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. [link]
The website www.west-code.org is online!
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Alex Gaiduk has been awarded the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. [link]
Highlighted paper
Our paper "Surface dangling bonds are a cause of B-type blinking in Si nanoparticles", by Nicholas Brawand, Márton Vörös and Giulia Galli published in Nanoscale 7, 3737 (2015) was highlighted by NERSC, Sciencedaily and BLCS [link]
UofC Science-Art Show
Nicholas Brawand has been awarded the first place in The University of Chicago's Interdivisional Science-Art Show.
Paper selected as ACS Editors' Choice
Our paper "Large Scale GW Calculations", by Marco Govoni and Giulia Galli has been selected to be featured in ACS Editors' Choice, in addition to being published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 11, 2680 (2015). [link]
2015 Aneesur Rahman Fellowship in Computational Physics
Márton Vörös has been awarded the Rahman fellowship by Argonne National Laboratory.
INCITE Award 2015
Giulia Galli and Francois Gygi have been awarded 180 Millions hours on MIRA at ANL. [link]
Poster Award 2014
Dr. Alex Gaiduk has been awarded the third price for poster presentation at the Argonne annual postdoctoral meeting.
Featured INCITE project
Our INCITE project Vibrational and Optical Spectroscopy of Electrolyte/Solid interfaces is featured on the Argonne Leadership Computing page.
2014 UCD Outstanding Chemistry Dissertation Award
T.A.Pham, who is graduating in August, has been awarded the 2014 UCD Outstanding Chemistry Dissertation Award. In September Anh moves to LLNL as a Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow. [link].
Paper published in Nature Communications
Our paper "The refractive index and electronic gap of water and ice increase with increasing pressure", by Ding Pan, Quan Wan and Giulia Galli was recently published on Nature Commun. 5, 3919 (2014) [link_ime] [link_dco].
Paper featured on the cover of Chemical Physics Letters
Our paper "Structural and electronic properties of aqueous NaCl solutions from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with hybrid density functionals", by Alex P. Gaiduk, Cui Zhang, Francois Gygi, and Giulia Galli is featured on the cover Chem. Phys. Lett. 604, 89 (2014) [link].
Paper featured on the cover of Physical Review Letters
Our paper "Solar nanocomposites with complementary charge extraction pathways for electrons and holes: Si embedded in ZnS", by Stefan Wippermann, Márton Vörös, Adam Gali, Francois Gygi, Gergely Zimanyi and Giulia Galli is featured on the cover Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 068103 (2014) [link].
2013 Paul de Mayo Award for Excellence in Chemical Research
Dr. Alex Gaiduk has been awarded the 2013 Paul de Mayo Award for Excellence in Chemical Research by the University of Western Ontario in Canada. [link]
NERSC 2014 NISE Allocation Award
Dr. Márton Vörös and Dr. Marco Govoni have been awarded 5 million hours of resource time at NERSC through the NERSC Initiative for Scientific Exploration (NISE).
INCITE Award 2014
Giulia Galli and Francois Gygi awarded 70 Millions hours on MIRA at ANL. [link]
Deep Carbon Observatory
Deep Carbon Observatory: new Extreme Physics and Chemistry proposal funded (October 2013). [link]
CCI-Solar: center renewed for 5 years (July 2013). [link]
3rd CMCSN Workshop at UC Davis
The third coordination meeting of the CMCSN network "Structure and Dynamics of Water and Aqueous Solutions in Material Science" will be held at at the alumni center of the University of California, Davis on June 24-26, 2013.
CECAM conference "Energy from the Sun"
The CECAM conference "Energy from the Sun: Computational Chemists and Physicists Take Up the Challenge", organized by Wanda Andreoni, Vincenzo Barone, Stefano Fabris, Giulia Galli and Alessandro Mattoni was held on September 10-14, 2012 at Chia Laguna, in Cagliari, It. [announcement]
1st DCO Workshop at UC Davis
First workshop of the "Physics and Chemistry of Deep Carbon" directorate of the DCO was held at the alumni center of the University of California, Davis on March 29-31, 2012.
1st UCD-LLNL at UC Davis
The first UCD-LLNL joint quantum simulations workshop was held on Oct.20-21, 2011. [link] [group picture]


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Students IntroduceMusic Therapy Program at Jail
EAU CLAIRE While Lee Anna Rasar has 20 years of experience using dance therapeutically in various settings, even she wasn't expecting the response she got from women inmates at the Eau Claire County jail.
"Within seconds, they were all smiling broadly," Rasar said of the women inmates she and student volunteers interacted with to determine the effectiveness of using dance and movement to music to help in the areas of social behavior, emotional expression, stress and anger management, and physical fitness.
"It's unusual for these women to smile, much less continuously. At one point, they were giggling so much that a guard came in to check to make sure everything was all right."
The smiles are typical for other groups she has worked with but she was unsure if the inmates many of whom suffer from a range of stress related health problems would react in a similar manner given their circumstances, said Rasar, associate professor of allied health professions at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.
"The women in jail were so depressed that I wasn't sure this would work for them," Rasar said. "But it was the neatest thing to see that within 30 seconds, every one of them had a big smile on their face."
After each session, the women reported on a post test to be feeling relaxed, energized, having hope for the future, and feeling happy, Rasar said. The same women had reported on a pre test feeling depressed, stressed and hopeless before the sessions, she said.
"It's good doing these exercises," one inmate wrote on her evaluation of the program. "I feel a lot better after doing them. If I'm tired or sad, these dances make me happy. Music helped us realize our feelings and made us happy to exercise."
"Every single woman every day made positive comments," Rasar said. "That was amazing to me. And the same changes occurred for each woman, individually, every time we did this. This indicates they had true responses to the physical activity."
"You could see it in their faces," Joni Olson, a UW Eau Claire senior music therapy major, said of the women's positive reaction. "They would look tired when they got there but once they got going, their faces would light up. They'd be smiling and laughing as they danced."
For Olson, the project was a chance to work with a population that she had not interacted with in the past.
"I benefited a lot from the experience," Olson said, noting that after she graduates in May she hopes to work with music therapy with children or the elderly in schools or a nursing home. "Even if I don't work with this population again, I have an idea of what's it like and that can only help me."
Initially, she said, some of the inmate were skeptical as to their motives for coming to the jail. "They were a little leery at Comprar Levitra first. Anavar Just Cardio I had one woman say that she wouldn't do it if she were in my position," Olson said. "But, once they realized why we were there, they relaxed and it went well. They really got into it."
Women had the option of participating but every one available attended each time it was offered, Rasar said. "They all chose to come," she said. "Everyone of them came every time. Even when they were sick, they would come and sit by the wall to watch."
Rasar and UW Eau Claire students Olson and Karlina Mahle spent four hours weekly for four weeks leading the dance therapy sessions this summer in addition to participating in two music therapy sessions weekly and one video session weekly. During music therapy sessions, the women planned their own stress management tapes which the music therapy student later prepared for them to take home and use after their release.
"The nurse at the jail told me that the women had a lot of physical problems, most of which were because of stress," Rasar said, adding that the jail nurse told her 90 percent of the women's physical problems were related to stress. "Many of these women are in jail but "Anadrol 50" have kids so they're worried about their children and future jobs, they're living in a small space, and they have limited interaction with others."
The general state of their physical and mental health was characterized by anxiety, agitation, stress, lethargy, fatigue, sleep disturbance, cardiovascular problems, lack of coping skills, altered thought processes, and weight gain. Headaches, hives, asthma and other respiratory complications, cardiovascular difficulties, and acne are common stress related ailments seen in this population.
Among the areas targeted by Rasar and her students for study were determining the effectiveness of using dance and movement to reduce stress/muscle tension; initiate verbal and social interaction; develop an interest in general physical fitness; and channel emotional expression into safe and healthy outlets of expression.
The jail had a formal exercise program for the male inmates but nothing for the females, Rasar said. The nurse at the jail reported a decrease in medical needs among the females as a "Achat Anabolisant Belgique" result of the dance sessions, she said.
In addition to the structured group dance session, Rasar and the students also created stress management tapes for each individual inmate. The dance and movement to music programs included on the tapes were tailored to meet the needs of each individual, Rasar said.
"Some needed a tape to help them "Oxandrolone Powder India" calm down when they are agitated or angry, some wanted it just for exercise or emotional support," said Rasar, who received UW Eau Claire's Excellence in Service Award in 1997.
When selecting music, Rasar said she and students chose a variety of cultural dances to teach the women. They were careful to select dance steps paired to specific songs that none of the women knew to avoid separating the women who knew the dance from those who did not, Rasar said, noting that the women were of various ethnic backgrounds.
"We used music to talk about different cultures," Rasar said. "We stayed away from stylized dances choreographed to specific songs that people know. We were using the music for exercise so we didn't want to create an us vs. them mentality among those who knew it and could perform it well and those who didn't and couldn't."
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"The music was really a perfect mix for them," "4-chlorodehydromethyltestosterone Ireland" Rasar said. "When they were tired and out of breath, we slowed it down for them. It was the right combination of dance steps."
They also tried to help the women find positive messages in many of the songs, Rasar said. For example, when they played "On the Road Again," they used a freedom step for women from an Eastern European folk dance and then talked about freedom and the opportunities that were ahead after jail, she said.
When the formal sessions ended, Rasar was pleased to be told by the women that they continued the exercise program on their own in their cells. And Anavar And Clen many of those who were released from jail since the program have been in touch to get music or referrals, Rasar said. "They took ownership in it," she said of the dance program.
Rasar and the students plan to present their findings at the newly formed American Music Therapy Association in 1998. They also may present the information during a UW System conference.


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Department of Chemical Engineering
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Enjoying a settled academic position in a highly dynamic and successful department, I define my research and teaching interests by the multiple challenges of sustainable development in developing countries, esp. as these pertain to resource flows. My interests span topics in the fields of Sustainability and Systems Analysis, Renewable Fuels Processing (biogas, biodiesel and bio-ethanol), Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption. Since joining the University of Cape Town in 1998, 49 Masters and 4 PhD students have completed their theses under my supervision, and we have published some 50 peer-reviewed papers or book chapters. I have taught widely in the undergraduate curriculum and have introduced sustainability into the curriculum at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. In 2009, I led a team that hosted the 4th international Life Cycle Management conference in Cape Town. As of 2016, I am the Deputy Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
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Family and general physicians, geriatricians, neurologists, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other health care professionals with a special interest in the mental health of the elderly should plan to attend this meeting.
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For today's post I hand over to my travelling companion; Julia Melson. Time to let a shopping expert give some advice, especially when it comes to the worlds largest shopping mall! So with pictures by myself (once again looking up rather than at shops) and words by Julia, Part 2 is all about Souks and Shops and the journey in between.
Dubai Mall however offers slightly more to the western visitor, expats and locals alike, especially with a taste for the commercial lifestyle. To start with the journey from the Souks to the Mall was 'interesting' to say the least. With the metro segregated into female and mixed carriages, one can only feel slightly perplexed. As a local lady abruptly 'shoved' the men into the mixed carriages and a companion being disciplined for chewing gum on the train we felt somewhat under scrutiny.
The mall however was something entirely different. A mall is an understatement. The noun 'urban resort' more fitting. The mall itself is set over four vast floors. A mix of UK, European and American based chain stores such as Next and Marks and Spencers to suit the array of British and American expats whilst stores such as Victoria Secrets and Bershka for the European visitor. Floors are divided into fashion/shoes/electrical and so on.
A three hour trip simply was not enough for this. A suggestion for seasoned shoppers- prepare a plan of attack and stick to it. You can plan your trip using the interactive maps located throughout the mall or pick up a leaflet. Stick to where you need to go and browse when you're done. The three hours was way too short, especially with a visit to the fountain show and aquarium which were sacrificed for shoes and handbags. Real ones and not the souk ones.
One last suggestion. Ladies - invest in some hiking boots and walking sticks and leave the Primark flip flops for Sunday afternoon Tesco trips.
My thanks to Julia for her input Please let me know what you think. How did you rate the souks and the shops? Is the Dubai Mall the shopping mecca for shopaholics?
Next week we continue in Dubai with The Second Tower.
Next week we continue in Dubai with The Second Tower.


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