I am trying to share an announcement of an Agriculture meeting to the "Twin Cities Linux Users Group." Please excuse the cut and paste text, but I suspect all the HTML links have my identity encoded. There must be some way to better integrate urban technology with enormous and diverse Minnesota resources. I don't have a clue how to do it. But the U of MN. and Linux computer skills are a good gamble. The contact phone number is toll free. Register Today for AURI's New Uses Innovation Forum ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When Tuesday March 21, 2017 at 6:00 PM CDT -to- Wednesday March 22, 2017 at 5:00 PM CDT Where Crowne Plaza 3131 Campus Drive Plymouth, MN 55441 Dear Rick, With record crop yields projected for several regional commodities, the support and expansion of value-added agricultural products within Minnesota and the greater Midwest is of the utmost importance. To that end, AURI is inviting you to register today for New Uses Innovation Forum for Minnesota's agricultural industry. in Plymouth, MN, is bringing together experts and entrepreneurs from the new uses arena, R&D, and private sector. Together, they will participate in open discussions about the latest innovations and opportunities for developing new uses for Minnesota grown crops and agricultural processing byproducts. The day's events include: * Panel discussions, * Q&A sessions, * Networking opportunities and * Keynote addresses tailored to the interests of MN agriculture. Above all, this will be an event to bring people together under the common goal of encouraging new growth and innovation here in Minnesota. In addition, there will be a welcome reception held at the Crowne Plaza on the evening of March 21st, to which all attendees are invited. This evening event will include networking opportunities, complimentary hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar and welcome messages from AURI and some of the event's sponsors The cost of registration is $55, which covers all conference materials, meals and networking breaks as well as your ticket to the welcome reception. We hope to see you on March 22nd. In the meantime, if you'd like to learn more, please contact Erik Evans at AURI by calling 612-704-1120 or by email at Sincerely, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute Rick Engebretson wrote: > I don't pretend to be an up-to-date scientist. I've mentioned how > proud I was doing some transformation of co-ordinates calculations (I > learned in analytic mechanics physics) to draw a somewhat 3D > representation of the alpha-helix and beta-sheet poly-peptide > structures. More accurate were electro-optic coefficients calculated > by dividing mean dipole by root-mean-square moment. How I pulled that > off on an Epson QX10 Z80 computer and printer I don't know. But when I > handed it out Otto was excited, "Who did this?" I said to an > impressive group that I did. But real images were already being made, > just not doing the electro optic stuff. Now-a-days I have several very > advanced free Linux graphics programs for large molecules I don't know > how to use, an OpenGL screensaver using protein data-bank files that > invites lots more uses, and a lot of that stuff came from the U of MN. > Major league stuff, and I've even seen some of it includes some > peptide "circuit" analysis. We've come a long way. > > Today I got some energy Minnesota legislator staffer wanting a big > story about biomass, biochar, climate, etc. We even have the UN on our > Minnesota butts for using fossil fuels not to freeze to death. More > wars won't "Make America Great Again." > > Science matters. > > Iznogoud wrote: >> Rick, >> The quantum inferences, like frequency of inter-atomic vibrations, >> etc, are >> things that most people would not understand even if it was explained >> to them. >> I do not think too many people on this list know what you are talking >> about. >> Now, from the knowledge base that trickles down from the physical >> chemists we >> can all understand that one thing or two are or may be possible with >> certain >> "large" molecules. And the only connection to this and computers that >> I see >> right away is the calculations that go in support of chemistry and >> biology. >> >> I was involved in developing a code to do quasi-classical Monte-Carlo >> style >> calculations of certain (simple) reaction rates. There were billions >> of MD >> collisions simulated, and lots of CPU hours of electronic structure >> (quantum >> mech.) calculations to go behind it. All of this was running on >> thousands of >> cores powered by the Linux kernel... So, this type of work has been >> happening >> and will be happening for a long time to come. We are already there, >> as you >> probably know. >> >> There is a large supercomputing accessibility project called Xsede. >> People and >> companies can submit proposals to request computer time to do things >> like what >> you said (all computational, of course). I encourage the geeks among >> us to look >> it up. It is not tech-oriented in the "iphone" "app" and "IoT" way, >> but rather >> the old-school stuff Rick is talking about. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >