300 Saturday Sunday 01020304050607 18192021222300 What is New in Somasundaram's Website http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/whatsnew.html Tue 22 Jul 2008 13:55:13 EST en-us Copyright: (C) 2006-2008 Thayumanasamy Somasundaram soma@sb.fsu.edu http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/Photos/Somasundaram125x125.jpg http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma 125 125 Thayumanasamy Somasundaram's Work Website Sat 31 May 2008 08:35:15 EST Current RSS Feeds

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/RSS/rss.xml http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/RSS/rss.xml Sat 31 May 2008 08:35:15 EST I travelled to Knoxville, Tennessee to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association. I came a day early to participate in the special workshop on Macromolecular Neutron Crystallography.

]]> http://www.amercrystalassn.org http://www.amercrystalassn.org Fri 16 May 2008 09:58:15 EST In 2006 I designed a Eyewash/SafetyShower sign that took two safety labels and placed them back to back in between two Plexiglass plates. The design all owed everyone to see the signs and was cheap costing a dollar per sign. FSU Safety office was impressed with the design they borrowed the idea for signs in new buildings.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/Proj/safety-sign.html http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/Proj/safety-sign.html Thu 08 May 2008 10:00:00 EST Julio Hernandez from Rigaku Americas Corporation continued the work installation of the inverse phi itself, adjusting the beam and aligning the cryo noz zle. Finally the counter to read the sample-detector was added. There was a problem in the read-out but we began to address the issue.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray/Photos/inverse_phi_upgrade.html http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray/Photos/inverse_phi_upgrade.html Wed 07 May 2008 10:00:00 EST Julio Hernandez from Rigaku Americas Corporation began the installation of Inverse-phi on the R-Axis/generator (West side). We dismantled the regular ph i, 2-theta stage and moved the R-Axis IIc detector in the morning. Then he added new table legs, aligned them and new R-Axis IV sled was added.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray/Photos/inverse_phi_upgrade.html http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray/Photos/inverse_phi_upgrade.html Thu 01 May 2008 08:45:00 EST A visitor from New Jersey was at the x-ray facility looking at th possbility of using the facility collect data on solid state materials using single cr ystal diffractometer and/or area detector.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray Wed 23 Apr 2008 15:15:45 EDT I met with MarTech staff Jim, Eric, Drs van Winkle and Linda about the instruments in the x-ray facility that are shared between MarTech and IMB.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray Wed 16 Apr 2008 16:30:15 EDT I put silver behenate, a silver salt of long chain aliphatic acid (AgC₂₂H₄₃O₂) I obtained from the The Gem Dugout, PA in a capillary and started to record the data using our SAXS system. The first time we were able to see the rings of Silver Behenate.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray Tue 08 Apr 2008 14:00:30 EDT I took pictures during the Kasha Seminar and Award Ceremony that followed. The visitor was Dr. Alla Korepanova from Abbott. The photos will be posted on the website in the seminar and MOB sections.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/ http://www.sb.fsu.edu/ Thu 06 Mar 2008 16:47:13 EDT After completing the preliminary work on the extra web site last month I continued to work on to develop the site with on the fly data generation. This meant few templates will be standardized and the contents then will be added or modified as and when there was a need. I completed the latter part today. It is now waiting for approval.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma Wed 05 Mar 2008 10:00:30 EDT I have completed the compilation of the all the necessary files and data needed.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma Mon 25 Feb 2008 09:30:44 EDT I completed the preliminary work for the extra website. The base templates were added with static contents in them.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma Thu 21 Feb 2008 11:30:00 EDT I was asked to be the one of the judges for elementary school science fair at betton hills preparatory school. They needed me since they were running short of a judge. There was a heavy downpour as I left but enjoyed the talents of young scientists.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma Tue 12 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EDT I travled to SER-CAT for collecting data for Tom and Michael. There was plenty of snow in Chicago. Our data collection began on Wednesday and went on ok.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma Sun 13 Jan 2008 17:30:00 EDT I have been elected unanimoulsy as Director of Media Relations for the Asian Coalition of Tallahassee (ACT). I will co-ordinate this two other colleaues at the Asian Coalition.

]]> http://www.asiantlh.org/aboutus.php http://www.asiantlh.org/aboutus.php Mon 03 Dec 2007 19:30:00 EDT I read some Thirukkural verses from the Chaper 11 (Gradtitue) at UCT as part of the remembrance service on the occasion of the World AIDS Day UTC-WAD.

]]> http://somabhanu.googlepages.com/2007wad http://somabhanu.googlepages.com/2007wad Sat 17 Nov 2007 16:30:15 EDT I was elected as the General Secretary of the India Association of Tallahassee (IATLH) during the Glimpses of India program.

]]> http://www.iatlh.org/about/execcomm.html http://www.iatlh.org/about/execcomm.html Fri 16 Nov 2007 16:15:00 EDT The X-Ray Facility will remain closed between Saturday, December 22, 2007 and Tuesday, January 1, 2008 due to the 2007 Winter Break.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray/Holiday07_Closing.html http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~xray/Holiday07_Closing.html Mon 29 Oct 2007 12:30:00 EDT I gave a talk in Bigbend Kiwanis Club on Monday, October 29, 2007 as part of IC-Global Ambassador program. I spoke about South India: The Less Known India. There were about 30 people in the audience for the 30 minute talk.

]]> http://www.ic.fsu.edu http://www.ic.fsu.edu Fri 07 Sep 2007 14:03:11 EDT I gave the Etiquettes seminar for new MOB students in KLB 112.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma Fri 07 Sep 2007 14:03:11 EDT Copy of the Speech given at the 3rd Bereavement Conference in Tallahassee.

]]> http://somabhanu.googlepages.com http://somabhanu.googlepages.com Wed 05 Sep 2007 11:20:25 EDT New Favion Icon added to the site.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/somasundaram_32x32.ico http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/somasundaram_32x32.ico Fri 17 Aug 2007 14:00:30 EDT New IMB Website final preparations.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/ http://www.sb.fsu.edu/ Fri 20 Jul 2007 09:15:03 EDT New IMB Website final preparations.

]]> http://www.sb.fsu.edu/ http://www.sb.fsu.edu/ Wed 18 Jul 2007 18:30:00 EDT Two Young Scholars Program students' poster session in Dodd Hall.

]]> http://bio.fsu.edu/ysp http://bio.fsu.edu/ysp Fri 15 Jun 2007 11:00:00 EDT EIEG-XRAY final presentation.

]]> http://www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/eieg http://www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/eieg/ Thr 14 Jun 2007 09:30:00 EDT EIEG 'dry run' presentation.

]]> http://www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/eieg http://www.research.fsu.edu/foundation/eieg/ Tue 12 Jun 2007 09:30:00 EDT Two Young Scholars Program students start crystallization project.

]]> http://bio.fsu.edu/ysp http://bio.fsu.edu/ysp Mon 11 Jun 2007 15:30:00 EDT Two Young Scholars Program students arrive.

]]> http://bio.fsu.edu/ysp http://bio.fsu.edu/ysp Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:15:12 EDT Somasundaram's Publications List has been updated.

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