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About the Program

In celebration of the bond between the written word and the achievement of scholars, the UCSC Library, the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, and the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences are proud to sponsor the Honored Faculty, Honored Books Program. This joint initiative recognizes the achievements of faculty in the school who have attained tenure and/or received promotion. The occasion is marked by the celebration of both the scholar and a book they select as having most influenced them as a scientist and educator. The faculty and their selected books are celebrated with a gala reception held in the Science & Engineering Library. The honored book is added to the library collection and inscribed with a personalized bookplate in their honor. This commemorative Web site showcases the titles that the faculty members selected along with their description of the significance of the book to their lives and careers.

2007 Honored Faculty

Luca de Alfaro

Associate Professor, Computer Engineering


Erik Asphaug

Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences

Giacomo Bernardi

Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Robert Boltje

Professor, Mathematics

Shaowei Chen

Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Theodore Holman

Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Herbert (Herbie) Lee

Associate Professor, Applied Math and Statistics

Roberto Manduchi

Associate Professor, Computer Engineering


Scott Oliver

Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry


Xavier Prochaska

Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics


Hamid Sadjadpour

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering


Jim Whitehead

Associate Professor, Computer Science




The Honoring Ceremony

The faculty and their selected books will be celebrated with a gala reception in the Science & Engineering Library Current Periodicals Room on Wednesday, February 21st, at 2:30 in the afternoon.

 

Program:

 

Welcome and Introduction of Chancellor

University Librarian Virginia Steel

 

Opening Remarks

EVC & Campus Provost David S. Kliger

 

Recognition of Faculty

Dean Stephen S. Thorsett, Division of Physical and Biological Sciences

To be determined, Baskin School of Engineering

 


Reception immediately following

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Honored Books

Bayes's Theory by J.A. Hartigan

selected by Herbert Lee


Biomimetic Materials Chemistry ed. by Stephen Mann selected by Scott Oliver

Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers
by N.J.A. Sloane and A.D. Wyner

selected by Hamid Sajadpour

Cours d'Arithmetique by Jean Pierren Serre selected by Giacomo Bernardi

Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms by Christopher Walsh

selected by Theodore Holman


Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter

selected by Xavier Prochaska

If this is a Man by Primo Levi selected by Luca De Alfaro

Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace selected by Giacomo Bernardi

Nanoparticles: from Theory to Application ed. by Gunter Schmid

selected by Shaowei Chen


The Past through Tomorrow by Robert A. Heinlein

selected by Jim Whitehead

Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions, Fourier Analysis, and Uncertainty
by D. Slepian

selected by Roberto Manduchi


Surface of Mars by Michael H. Carr

selected by Erik Asphaug


 

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