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the conference website.

Parker in China

Tarazaga in Washington D.C.

L.S. Randolph Professor Robert Parker was
the keynote speaker
at the International
Conference on Power
Parker
Transmissions held in
Chongqing, China from
Oct. 27-30. This is an international
event with 250 participants; held
every three years, it is the major
conference worldwide in power
transmission systems and one of
the two most prominent conferences in the field. Parker's keynote
was titled, “Unique Vibration
Phenomena in High-Speed, Aerospace Gears."

Assistant Professor
Pablo Tarazaga and
post-doctoral student
Sriram Malladi, presented a poster, "Using
Tarazaga
Smart Infrastructure
to Improve Health" to the Virginia
Academy of Science, Engineering
and Medicine at the VASEM's 2016
Annual Summit at the National
Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. Nov. 17-18. While there,
the two met Virginia Senator Mark
Warner.

Cheng in Germany
Associate Professor
Jiangtao Cheng spoke
at the Light, Energy
and the Environment
Congress, at the
Cheng
Kongresshalle am Zoo
in Leipzig, Germany, from Nov.
14-17. Cheng's talk was titled,
"Electrowetting-controlled Optofluidic Window Shelt