WPI Research is the research magazine of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It contains news and features about graduate research in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering, along with notes about new grants, books, and faculty achievements.
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> NEW BOOKS BY WPI FACULTY > CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Christopher Brown, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Surface Metrology Laboratory at WPI, and Torbjorn Bergstrom, operations manager for WPI's Manufacturing Laboratories, were co-chairs for the 7th International Conference on Axiomatic Design, held at WPI in June 2013. Thomas Eisenbarth, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was general co-chair for the 15th Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, held in Santa Barbara, Calif., in August 2013. Cosme Furlong, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was a co-chair of the 14th International Symposium on MEMS and Nanotechnology in Lombard, Ill., in June 2013. Michael Gennert, professor of computer science and director of the Robotics Engineering Program, co-chaired the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications in Woburn, Mass. His co-chair was Helen Greiner, founder and CEO of CyPhy Works Inc. Taskin Padir, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and robotics engineering, was technical program chair. Frank Hoy, Paul R. Beswick Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, served on the advisory committee for the 9th annual Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), held in Viña del Mar, Chile. He is also co-president of the FERC board of directors. Elke Rundensteiner, professor of computer science, was co-program chair for the 2013 ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, held in Arlington, Texas. THE MADONNA ON THE MOON By Rolf Bauerdick; translated by David Dollenmayer Knopf, 2013 Translated from German into English by Dollenmayer, professor of German, this deeply enchanting debut novel by Bauerdick, a photojournalist who has reported on Eastern Europe's Gypsies, won the European Book Prize. It is a tragicomedy, thriller, and coming-of age story wrapped up together. METAL TRANSPORTERS Edited by José Argüello and Svetlana Lutsenko Academic Press, 2012 Argüello, Walter and Miriam Rutman Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Lutsenko of Johns Hopkins University, explore the most recent advances in the study of the transporters and pumps that move metal ions across cell membranes. These ions play important roles in the physiology of living organisms. MURPHY'S AMERICAN DREAM By James Dempsey Stay Thirsty Publishing, 2013 This debut novel by Dempsey, instructor of writing and rhetoric, tells the story of Alexander Aloysius Aristophanes Murphy II, an émigré from England who "battles the forces of greed, lust, and basic human decency" in Boston. Available only as an e-book, it is described as a comedy noir in the spirit of The Ginger Man, The Big Lebowski, and Pulp Fiction. PAVEMENT ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, SECOND EDITION By Rajib B. Mallick and Tahar El-Korchi CRC Press, 2013 This comprehensive overview by Mallick, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and El-Korchi, head of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, includes coverage of emerging areas in pavement engineering, such as sustainable pavements and environmental mitigation in transportation projects. Worcester Polytechnic Institute > 45