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Sweet Science Series – Onondaga Lake Cleanup And Tour Of The Onondaga Lake Visitors Center

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September 17th, 6:00-7:30 pm

Refreshments at 5:30 pm

Onondaga Lake Visitors Center, 280 Restoration Way, Syracuse, NY 13209

Please Note there will be some construction in the parking lot.

The Central NY community has played a key role in the efforts to clean up Onondaga Lake. The Onondaga Lake Visitors Center was built to provide the public with access to the significant work taking place by hundreds of scientists, engineers, and skilled craft laborers from this region. From significant improvements in water quality, to the return of native plants and animals, you will see the progress being made to restore the natural beauty and habitat of Onondaga Lake.


People interested in learning more about the Onondaga Lake cleanup are invited to attend the free Sweet Science Series presentation on Tuesday, September 17th, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Onondaga Lake Visitors Center, 280 Restoration Way, Syracuse NY 13209. Admission is free and open to the public. Light snacks will be served at 5:30pm. Walk-ins are welcome, but we ask that people RSVP to sweet.science@tacny.org by September 15th.

Presenter Information

Craig Milburn is Managing Partner at Brown & Sanford Consulting and serves Honeywell as Program Manager of Communications and Government Affairs on the Onondaga Lake project. His main responsibilities include developing and implementing strategy for communication activities, charitable programs, and government affairs. He works closely with community members on the Onondaga Lake Citizen Participation Working Group, local stakeholders and government officials to keep them apprised of the progress with the lake cleanup. Craig has overseen three community planning projects that gathered community input for future uses of Honeywell-owned land along Onondaga Lake and nearby areas. He’s lived in Central New York since 1994 and is a 2007 graduate of Leadership Greater Syracuse.

About Sweet Science Series

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lectures, a program founded in 1913, is now called the Sweet Science Series and features discussions about topics in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an informal atmosphere for adults of all levels of technical understanding. A minimum of six free and open to the public presentations are held each year.

About TACNY

Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York. For more information, see www.tacny.org

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TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series – Tour Of The Rock Cut Road Waste-To-Energy Facility

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Tuesday, 10 May 2016, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Tour begins at 4pm (note this is not the same time as typical Sweet Lectures). Please RSVP by mailing sweet.lecture@tacny.org. Thank you.

The local Waste-to-Energy Facility, just off of Route I-481 in Jamesville, is a key component of OCRRA’s solid waste management system. This Facility processes all of the community’s non-recyclable trash, while also:

* generating enough electricity for 25,000 – 30,000 households

* reducing the volume of material that needs to be landfilled by 90%.

We will walk through the facility and see the various aspects of the waste to energy process.

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lectures, a program founded in 1913, features discussions about topics in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an informal atmosphere. A minimum of six Sweet Lectures are held each year.

Technology Alliance of Central New York

Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York.

For more information about TACNY, visit www.tacny.org.

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TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series – Cyber Vulnerabilities For Ground, Air, And Space Vehicles

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Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 5:45 – 7:15 p.m.

Doors open at 5:45, introduction and announcements at 6:00, followed by the lecture.
Please RSVP by emailing sweet.lecture@tacny.org. Thank you.

Onondaga Community College, 101 Whitney Applied Technology Center


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Presenter:

2016feb24_bayDr. John S. Bay is the Executive Director of the Cyber Research Institute (CRI), in Rome, NY. The CRI is a not-for-profit research company chartered by the State of New York in 2012 to perform research and advanced technology outreach for the benefit of the public.

Dr. Bay received his Ph.D. In electrical engineering from The Ohio State University in 1988. From 1988 to 1999, he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), specializing in control theory and robotics. In 1999, be became an Engineering Fellow at the Raytheon Company, leading C4ISR research projects. In 2001, he transitioned to the federal government as a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where lead programs in embedded systems, command-and-control, and autonomous vehicles until 2005. From 2005 until 2009, he was Chief Scientist of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, in Rome, NY, overseeing all aspects of the Directorate’s C4I technology development mission. In 2009, he returned to industry as Sr. Vice President and Chief Scientist at Assured Information Security (AIS), before becoming the Executive Director of the Cyber Research Institute in 2014.

Dr. Bay is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to embedded systems, winner of an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, recipient of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service, and recipient of the HKN C. Holmes MacDonald award for teaching.

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lectures, a program founded in 1913, features discussions about topics in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an informal atmosphere. A minimum of six free and open to the public Sweet Lectures are held each year.

Technology Alliance of Central New York

Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York.

For more information about TACNY, visit www.tacny.org.

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TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series – The Study Of Vortex Dynamics In Engineering Applications

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Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 5:45 – 7:15 p.m.

Onondaga Community College, 101 Whitney Applied Technology Center


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Doors open at 5:45, introduction and announcements at 6:00, followed by the lecture. Please RSVP by replying to this email, or direct mailing sweet.lecture@tacny.org. Thank you.

Professor-Melissa-Green-in-Lab_CropProfessor Melissa Green’s research interests include vortex-dominated wakes generated by swimming offlying of animals and the coherent structure composition of reacting and non-reacting turbulent flow fields. Increased understanding of how these flows are organized can lead to advances in basic research, model development for flow simulation, dynamics and control plus improvements in existing technology. In order to investigate these flows, Dr. Green integrates quantitative and qualitative experimental techniques with comprehensive data analysis such as Lagrangian coherent structures identification.

Green earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, and her BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining the faculty of Syracuse University in 2012, Professor Green was an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at the US Naval Research Laboratory. In 2014, she was the recipient of the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award.

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lectures, a program founded in 1913, features discussions about topics in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an informal atmosphere. A minimum of six free and open to the public Sweet Lectures are held each year.

Technology Alliance of Central New York

Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York.

For more information about TACNY, visit www.tacny.org.

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TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series – The Forest Biorefinery: A Tool For Economic Revitalization Of Rural New York Communities

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Tuesday, 12 January 2016, 5:45 – 7:15 p.m.

Doors open at 5:45, introduction and announcements at 6:00, followed by the lecture.
Please RSVP by emailing sweet.lecture@tacny.org.

Onondaga Community College, 101 Whitney Applied Technology Center


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2015dec31_amidonPresenter: Thomas Amidon, Ph.D.; Professor and Chair, Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Dr. Thomas Amidon currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering at the SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry (SUNY-ESF). He is also Chief Technology Officer of Applied Biorefinery Sciences. Prior to his arrival in Syracuse in 2000, Tom spent 24 years at International Paper in various roles including Laboratory Manager of the Corporate Research Center in Tuxedo, NY. Tom is Director of the Empire State Paper Research Institute (ESPRI), a leading international research organization in the pulp and paper industry.

He earned a Ph.D. degree in Silviculture from SUNY-ESF, as well as earning his BS and MS there.

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lecture Series

TACNY John Edson Sweet Lectures, a program founded in 1913, features discussions about topics in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in an informal atmosphere. A minimum of six free and open to the public Sweet Lectures are held each year.

Technology Alliance of Central New York

Founded in 1903 as the Technology Club of Syracuse, the nonprofit Technology Alliance of Central New York’s mission is to facilitate community awareness, appreciation, and education of technology; and to collaborate with like-minded organizations across Central New York.

For more information about TACNY, visit www.tacny.org.

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