October 28-30, 2005
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STUDENT OBSERVATORY, FRI 8:30 -11PM
An Interplanetary Closeup: Mars Through
a Big Lens
The UNL Student Observatory's big glass will be trained on Mars at
a Friday public night event tonight (10/28) at the observatory, atop
the Stadium Parking Garage at 10th & T Streets.
This weekend, Mars will be at the closest it will get to Earth until
2018 and Nebraska will not get as favorable a view of the red planet
again until 2020. Visitors to the observatory last Friday saw some
of the dust storms that have broken out in the southern hemisphere
of Mars over the last two weeks. UNL astronomer Martin Gaskell said
it is expected that dust activity will continue to be seen all week.
There is no charge for admission to the observatory and children
of all ages are particularly welcome. Visitors are advised to dress
warmly as the observatory is unheated.
STUDENT
OBSERVATORY | PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY |
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SOCCER |
NEBRASKA SOCCER FIELD, FRI 4PM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Iowa State Cyclones
FOOTBALL |
MEMORIAL STADIUM, SAT 11AM
Nebraska Cornhuskers vs. Oklahoma Sooners
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UNL, UNMC TEAM FOR SURGICAL ROBOTS, TECHNIQUES
UNL, Med Center Efforts Yielding
a Tiny Revolution
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Shane Farritor and prototype medical robots
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Medical responders of the future may be
three inches tall or less. But, these tiny-wheeled robots – slipped
into the abdomen and controlled by surgeons hundreds of kilometers
away – may be giants in saving the lives of roadside accident
victims and soldiers injured on the battlefield.
Each camera-carrying robot – the
width of a lipstick case – would illuminate the patient's abdomen,
beam back video images and carry different tools to help surgeons
stop internal bleeding by clamping, clotting or cauterizing wounds.
Sound far-fetched? Not for engineers and physicians at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln and University of Nebraska Medical Center, who
already are turning the sci-fi idea into reality with a handful of
miniature prototypes.
"We want to be the Microsoft leader in this technology and be
the state that changes the way surgery is done," said Shane
Farritor, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering in UNL's College of Engineering and Technology.
"This work has the potential to completely change the minimally
invasive surgery landscape," said Dmitry Oleynikov, M.D., director
of education and training for the minimally invasive and computer-assisted
surgery initiative at UNMC. "This is just the start of things
to come regarding robotic devices at work inside the body during
surgery."
It's a stark contrast to existing laparoscopic techniques, which
allow surgeons to perform operations through small incisions. The
benefits of laparoscopy are limited to less complex procedures, however,
because of losses in imaging and dexterity compared to conventional
surgery.
"We're the first in the world to come up with this technology," Dr.
Oleynikov said. "Everybody knows this is a Nebraska effort."
MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING | UNMC
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Opening This Weekend: Shake Hands
with the Devil, 2046
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Shake Hands with the Devil and 2046, opening
Friday evening.
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Shake Hands with the Devil is
the most powerful documentary produced about the Rwandan genocide.
Peter Raymont's film is a respectful portrait of Roméo Dallaire,
the Canadian commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force in
Rwanda in 1994, according the Stephen Holden, film critic for the
New York Times.
In 100 days – between April 6 and July 16, 1994 – an
estimated 800,000 men, women and children were brutally killed in
the obscure African country of Rwanda. The victims – many horrifically
hacked to death with machetes – were Tutsi, and moderate Hutus
who supported them.
Director Wong Kar-Wai's style reaches its fullest expression in his
stunning film 2046. Picture period sets and intricate costuming,
finely wrought atmospheres, languid shots, glamorous cigarette smoke,
lamplight, and allusions to film noir make 2046 one of the
most compelling and beautiful films to be released this year.
2046 is a meditation on memory, eroticism, love, loss, and
longing which surpasses the director's beautiful, widely acclaimed In
the Mood for Love (2000) in terms of formal ambition and visual
sumptuousness. With its intriguing, layered structure, the film follows
the adventures of Chow Wo Man (Tony Leung), a womanizer who is writing
a science fiction novel about a future year in which all memories
are suspended. The film shuttles between the Blade Runner-like
world of Chow's futuristic novel (complete with androids and other
metaphors of emotional disconnection) and late-'60s Hong Kong – where
Chow writes from a hotel room, and engages in relationships with
a series of beautiful, complex women. The film also journeys to Singapore
and through the increasingly mysterious corridors of the protagonist's
memory.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | SHAKE
HANDS WITH THE DEVIL | 2046 |
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ARBOR SUITE, EAST CAMPUS
UNION, 2PM
IANR and Agricultural Economics Seminar
- 'Experiences with Agricultural Trade Policy'
Clayton Yeutter, UNL alumnus and former United
States Secretary of Agriculture
237 WALTER SCOTT ENGINEERING
CENTER, 2:30PM
Mechanical Engineering Seminar - 'Micro/Nano
Sensor Embedding in Metals and Ultrasonic-based Nanomanufacturing of
Metal Matrix Nanocomposites'
Dr. Xiaochun Li, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
210 FILLEY HALL, 3PM
Agricultural Economics Seminar - 'Grader
Bias in Cattle Markets? Evidence from Iowa'
Brent Hueth, Iowa State University
327 KEIM HALL, 3PM
Agronomy and Horticulture Seminar - 'Current
Efforts in Domestication; Alternative Crops Development for the High
Plains'
David Baltensperger, Panhandle Research and
Extension Center
112 HAMILTON, 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Synthetic Investigations
of Antimitotic Agents'
Professor Madeleine M. Joullie, University
of Pennsylvania
117 BESSEY, 3:30PM
Geosciences Stout Lecture - 'Sea Ice Forecasting,
Autonomous Vehicles, and the International Polar Year'
Sheldon Drobot, University of Colorado
1007 OLDFATHER, 3:30PM
Philosophy Department Lecture - "Qualia
and the 'Harder Problem'"
Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell University
115 AVERY, 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'From Matroids
to Equations and Back'
Peter Vamos, University of Exeter
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