Monthly Archives: June 2010

Glimpse into the Future of Energy

By Cadence | Published: June 21, 2010
From the Environment Institute “Two new public seminar series starting in July will offer insight into how developments in clean, cost-effective energy technology will shape our future. Run by the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Energy Technology, the free public seminars will focus on different aspects of energy. “Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy” – organised in conjunction with [...]
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ISI 2009 Impact Factors now out

By Cadence | Published: June 21, 2010
From ConservationBytes.com “Last year I reported the 2008 ISI Impact Factors for some prominent conservation journals and a few other journals occasionally publishing conservation-related material. ISI just released the 2009 Impact Factors, so I’ll do the same again this year, and add some general ecology journals as well. For all you Australians, I also recently reported [...]
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The 21st century nuclear renaissance is starting – good news for the climate

By Cadence | Published: June 21, 2010
From BraveNewClimate “Despite what some may like you to believe, the nuclear renaissance is upon us. Don’t let anyone get away with telling you otherwise — they are badly misleading you. Indeed, given that the the real-world facts are so readily available, one really does have to wonder how long these ideologues imagine they can pull [...]
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Post-doc position available

By Cadence | Published: June 21, 2010
From Australian Centre for Visual Technologies Blog “The ACVT has the following position available: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Search in large image sets Australian Centre for Visual Technologies University of Adelaide, Australia http://www.acvt.com.au Duration: 2 years The Australian Centre for Visual Technologies (ACVT) is one of the largest computer vision and image analysis research groups in Australia, with expertise in image based modelling, video [...]
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PhD Scholarships Available

By Cadence | Published: June 21, 2010
From Australian Centre for Visual Technologies Blog “Scholarships are available for outstanding Australian and International candidates to pursue a PhD at the University of Adelaide within the ACVT. Students must have completed an Honours or Masters degree (or equivalent) with a research project component, with good grades, from a high-quality institution…”
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CVPR Best Paper Award

By Cadence | Published: June 21, 2010
From Australian Centre for Visual Technologies Blog “Our paper: Efficient Computation of Robust Low-Rank Matrix Approximations in the Presence of Missing Data using the L1 Norm, Anders Eriksson and Anton van den Hengel, ??2010 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2010), June 2010, San Francisco, USA, IEEE 2009 won the CVPR’10 best paper [...]
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Biodiversity SNAFU in Australia’s Jewel

By Cadence | Published: June 21, 2010
From ConservationBytes.com “The biodiversity guru of Australia’s tropical north, John Woinarksi, has just published the definitive demonstration of the magnitude of mammal declines in Kakadu National Park (Australia’s largest national park, World Heritage Area, emblem of ‘co-management’ and supposed biodiversity and cultural jewel in Australia’s conservation crown)…”
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World Cup Soccer Ball – the Physics of the JabulaniSea level rise – it’s still happening, isn’t it? Part 1

By Cadence | Published: June 15, 2010
From BraveNewClimate “The recent reports in the media and the spin-off commentaries on sea level rise have been enough to confuse anyone. Here, I wish to set the record straight on a few key points…”
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By Cadence | Published: June 15, 2010
From Science at Adelaide “The 2010 World Cup is about to commence and there has been a lot of speculation on the accuracy of the new soccer ball. The University of Adelaide’s Professor Derek Leinweber decided to take a closer look this new ball (Jabulani) to investigate further…”
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“Four in 40″ Barry Brook Podcast Now Available

By Cadence | Published: June 15, 2010
From the Environment Institute “Barry Brook’s 10 minute presentation for the latest Four in 40 series is now available as a podcast. “Four in 40? is a collaboration between The University of Adelaide and the DWLBC, where 4 speakers each speak for 10 minutes on their research and its implications for policy (and vice versa), followed by [...]
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