[CLUE-Announce] CLUE North Meeting (Oct 2002)

[El Presidente de CLUE]

Greetings,

Please join us for the next CLUE North meeting.  We meet the third Thursday of 
each month.  

Please visit the CLUE North home page at:  http://clue.denver.co.us/north/ 
There, you will find meeting maps and directions.  We hope you will join us to 
learn how you can use Linux in your laboratory, presented by Ed Hill 
(abstract below).

Date:  Thursday, October 17, 2002
Time:  7:30 pm
Place:  Regis University, Adult Education Center

Jeffery Cann
CLUE President

---------------------- Presentation Abstract -------------------------

Linux for Your Lab, presented by Edward H. Hill III, PhD

This talk will present various examples demonstrating how Linux and other Free 
and/or Open Source projects can be used in academic/research or engineering 
laboratory settings. The talk will focus on Linux uses that are not common in 
typical office or business settings (eg. the talk is not about 
email/print/file /web servers). Examples will be drawn from:

    * data acquisitiona and porces automation;
    * data analysis and visualization;
    * scientific computing and grid-like ("idle worksation");
    * authoring papers and presentations (examples with LaTeX and BibTeX).

Ed is a post-doctoral researcher with the Environmental Science and 
Engineering Division at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. His 
interests include:

    * theoretical and experimental aspects of subsurface flow and transport,
    * X-ray and gamma-ray attenuation techniques for experimental measurement 
of porous media fluid mechanics,
    * subsurface NAPL remediation,
    * computational methods for simulation and analysis of the above-mentioned 
processes, and
    * all manner of Linux, Unix, Free Software, and Open-Source computing.