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TASSA Newsletter The Bridge - Volume 6, Issue 3, Fall
2017
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TASSA NEWS
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CONFERENCE
DATE CHANGED!
TASSA'18
CONFERENCE
JUNE 2-3, 2018 BOSTON, MA
TASSA'18
Conference will be held on June 2-3, 2018 in Boston, MA at the Boston
University. The conference chair will be Dr. Selim Ünlü, Professor at
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University.
TASSA conferences bring a very large number of
Turkish-American Scientists together and also provide a networking
opportunity for future collaborations.
TASSA team welcomes all Turkish-American Scientists and Scholars to
the conference.
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Two TASSA Board Members are Elected
to Science Academy in Turkey :
Mehmet Toner and Aydoğan Özcan:
Congratulations to two members of the TASSA board, Prof. Mehmet Toner
of Harvard University and Prof. Aydoğan Özcan of University of
California at Los Angeles, who are elected as full members of the
Science Academy in Turkey on December 2nd, 2017.
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TASSA Participated at the 2017 European Research Day
(ERD)
TASSA participated at the 2017 European Research Day (ERD) held on 21
September in Washington DC. ERD is an event organized by EURAXESS
North America where European and non-European researchers meet,
discuss and exchange concepts about their research projects,
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TASSA
President Visited Three Universities in Istanbul
TASSA President, Haluk Unal, visited three universities during his
visit to Istanbul in October: Bogazici, Ozyegin and Istanbul Aydin
universities.
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TURKISH SCIENCE DIASPORA NEWS
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Research by Professor Fatih Guvenen
on Income Inequality
Research by Professor Fatih Guvenen (University of
Minnesota Department of Economics) on income inequality contributes
to the heightening scientific and public debate on the topic. Guvenen
and his co-authors use the US Social Security Administration database
which contains information about...
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Meet
the Yellowbox©: New Lab Space at MIT Media Lab
YellowBox©
is the first-of-its-kind cleanroom built inside the Media Lab,
and the key facility to accomplish the Conformable Decoders group's
research endeavors, which is directed by Canan Dagdeviren.
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New
Industrial Property Law in Turkey
The new Industrial Property (IP) Law entered into
force on January 10, 2017 in Turkey and the regulations regarding
this law published on September 28, 2017. The law regulates all IP rights
(trademarks, patents, utility models, designs, geographical signs,
etc.)
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Writing in Turkish with US keyboard is easier with
Yazgaç
Typing in Turkish using the standard English keyboard has
been an ever-present challenge for Turkish-Americans. In fact, this
problem has been around for so long that most fellow expats have
adapted to reading and writing in Turkish sans the special Turkish
letters  and
instead replace them with the closest versions available on the US
keyboard layout, which are without dots (c, i, s, g, u, o).
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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE
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Melik Demirel on Revolutionary Properties of
Evolutionary Materials
Recent advances in the nanotechnology of materials
combined with parallel improvements in biotechnology and synthetic
biology, have demonstrated that we can achieve more complex
biomimetic materials with properties engineered precisely to optimize
performance.
On
the right: Dr. Demirel is on a research exhibition boat in the
Mediterranean capturing live squid
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YOUNG SCIENTIST OF THE MONTH
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Funda
Durupinar Babur
1) Would you please tell us about yourself and your
journey that led you to become a scholar. My journey to become a
computer scientist started early in my life. I was inclined towards
math and science. That and my fascination with video games -not
just playing them but understanding their design and graphics
steered me towards the decision to study computer engineering as a
major.
Full Interview
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SCIENCE
CARTOONS
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In every issue of The Bridge, we will now include
science cartoons by Ergun Akleman. In this issue, we have a page
from Engineering History: History of Science
Click for the full Cartoon
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MEET
OUR INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
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Istanbul MEDIPOL University
Established 2009
Type: Foundation University
Foundation Turkey Education, Health, and Research Foundation (TESA)
Rector: Prof. Dr. Sabahattin Aydın
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2016
TASSA CONFERENCE SPONSORS
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TASSA INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
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TASSA's mission is to promote
educational, scientific and technological cooperation between the USA
and Turkey and to facilitate the advancement of science in Turkey and
the USA through scientific exchange, educational programs and
increased networking.
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