From awd at cs.cmu.edu Thu Nov 15 12:21:18 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:21:18 -0500 Subject: [Research] Fw: Sad news - Lynda Kelley Message-ID: -------- Original message -------- Subject: Sad news - Lynda Kelley From: "Holt, Kristin - FSIS" To: "Coutourier, Daryl - FSIS" ,"'Sheehan, Deborah (CDC/OID/NCEZID) (CTR)'" ,"Gerner-Smidt, Peter (CDC/OID/NCEZID)" ,"jbesser at cdc.gov" ,"ERibot at cdc.gov" ,"Alvares, Christopher - FSIS" ,"Andreassi, Anthony - FSIS" ,"Sutaye, Jay - FSIS" ,"Brown, Brenda L. (CDC/OID/NCEZID)" ,"Woody, Ronald - FSIS" ,"Hise, Kelley B. (CDC/OID/NCEZID)" ,"'CBraden at cdc.gov'" ,"'RTauxe at cdc.gov'" ,"'PFields at cdc.gov'" ,"'Aliang at cdc.gov'" ,"'DMorse at cdc.gov'" ,"'IWilliams at cdc.gov'" ,"dwarnock at cdc.gov" ,"awd at cs.cmu.edu" ,"Huckabee, Mark T." ,"karenchen at cmu.edu" ,"Dunham, Adrienne M." ,"PGriffin at cdc.gov" ,"'DCole at cdc.gov'" ,"tgomez at cdc.gov" ,"SLance at cdc.gov" CC: Some of you may have heard the sad news that our friend and colleague, Lynda Kelley, died last night.? She was hit by a car while crossing the road after getting her mail near her home in rural Georgia, outside Athens, GA. The funeral will be held at Lord and Stephens Funeral Home in Bogart, GA (1211 Jimmy Daniel Road, near Athens), date to be determined. I am sorry to have to share this sad news but I thought you would want to know, if you hadn?t yet heard.? We have lost a true champion of public heath, food defense, and veterinary medicine and a fun, loving, and dear friend.? ? I will send details regarding the funeral when they are available.? ? Regards, Kristin ? Kristin G. Holt, D.V.M., M.P.H. FSIS Liaison to CDC USDA, FSIS, OPHS, OAA? c/o CDC Food Safety 1600 Clifton Rd., N.E.?????? MS A-38 Atlanta, GA 30329 office tele: 404-639-3379 / cell phone: 706-215-3175 e-mail: kristin.holt at fsis.usda.gov or kgholt at cdc.gov?? ? ? This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krw at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Nov 16 15:08:48 2012 From: krw at andrew.cmu.edu (Karen Widmaier) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:08:48 -0500 Subject: [Research] Business and Travel Expense Policy - RI Experience and Guidance In-Reply-To: <504F7757.7050201@cmu.edu> References: <504F7757.7050201@cmu.edu> Message-ID: <01df01cdc436$30f086c0$92d19440$@andrew.cmu.edu> Hello, Just a little reminder regarding expense reimbursements: From: robotics-support-staff-bounces at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu [mailto:robotics-support-staff-bounces at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Cheryl Wehrer Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:40 PM To: Ri-people Subject: Business and Travel Expense Policy - RI Experience and Guidance Dear RI People, As you may know, the university implemented a new Business and Travel Expense Policy effective March 14, 2011 (see http://www.cmu.edu/finance/controller/bte/files/bte_policy.pdf .) I am writing to share some of RI's experience with the policy and to provide some important guidance. * Please submit all expense reimbursement requests to your administrator promptly. Promptly is within thirty days of the occurrence of the expense. Under the new policy, expenses submitted in Oracle later than 90 days after the expense is incurred will be treated as compensation/taxable income. This is an IRS requirement (see explanatory excerpt from policy website below). We in RI average about five taxable ERs per month due to late submissions. * Expense reimbursement requests submitted to your administrator greater than thirty days after the expense are in the "risk window" for tax implications. If you submit a reimbursement request past thirty days, please actively monitor your expense report (ER) submission to ensure that it is submitted in Oracle well before day 90. Employees receive emails from Oracle when ERs are submitted on their behalf by an administrator. This is your verification that the expense report has been submitted in Oracle. * We have continued emphasis on business justifications for expenses for both expense reports and PCard transactions. Report preparers will do their best to fill in the blanks for you, but they may need information beyond what you have typically provided in the past. Expense justifications should include the answers to these questions: * Who Who was the purchase for? Who are the affected individuals? * What What was purchased? What does the purchase represent? * Why (How) Why was the item purchased? Why did the event take place? How does it relate to business? * When When did the activity/charge occur? * Where Where is the event held? Where does the item reside? If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or your usual expense preparer or approver. Thank you, Cheryl _______________________ Excerpt from: https://cms-staging.andrew.cmu.edu/finance-controller/bte/faqs/taxes.html Why are expense reimbursements taxable after 90 days? The IRS requires an employer to require its employees to submit business and travel expenses for reimbursement by the employer within a reasonable period of time following the incurrence of the expenses. Otherwise, the reimbursement is taxable to the employee. The IRS has indicated that requiring an employee to submit an expense for reimbursement within 60 days of the incurrence of the expense meets the reasonable period of time test. See additional information from external tax advisors . After considering relevant factors, including benchmarking of peer institutions, financial and sponsor reporting obligations, IRS-related information and the frequency of faculty and staff travel, Carnegie Mellon has determined that, to comply with IRS requirements, it would be appropriate and within IRS requirements to require employees to submit business and travel expenses for reimbursement by the University within 90 days of the incurring the expense or completing the travel. As a result, any request for reimbursement of an expense submitted more than 90 days following the date the expense was incurred or the travel was completed will be treated as taxable to the employee (and subject to income and withholding taxes). -- Cheryl Wehrer | Associate Director for Finance and Administration | Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon | 412-268-3744 | wehrer at cmu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Sun Nov 18 19:27:55 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:27:55 -0500 Subject: [Research] Sad news - Lynda Kelley In-Reply-To: <50A6313C.9050107@cs.cmu.edu> References: <50A6313C.9050107@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <50A97D0B.9090302@cs.cmu.edu> Dear Autonians, Thank you very much for your words of sympathy. Lynda was one of our best partners in research. She had a unique talent to create seemingly impossible partnerships and alliances, always putting the common good way above any and all particularities. She has opened many opportunities for us to try our talents against problems of particular importance. It has been joy and honor to work with her. Her funeral was on Saturday. We sent nice flowers with the following note: "Lynda, You Will Never Be Forgotten. Friends From Carnegie Mellon University Auton Lab." Artur From awd at cs.cmu.edu Tue Nov 27 14:17:10 2012 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:17:10 -0500 Subject: [Research] This Friday: A very interesting talk & PM tea, co-sponsored by the Auton Lab Message-ID: <50B511B6.4080800@cs.cmu.edu> (BTW, those interested who are not affiliated with CMU are welcome to join as well so please feel free to spread the word) Lecture: November 30th 2012, 12:00pm-1:20pm, Hamburg Hall Auditorium (Hamburg Hall 1000), Carnegie Mellon University. Pizza provided. Tea: November 30th 2012, 4:30pm-6:30pm, Gates-Hillman Center 6115, Carnegie Mellon University. Title: ?Explaining complex physical events using large scale simulations. Case Study: Crash of Polish Air Force One in Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010.? Abstract: We will show how a large scale simulation approach, that has proven successful in researching dynamics of high-energy impact in engineering, can be used to validate results of forensic investigations of air traffic accidents. In our case study involving the tragic April 2010 crash of Polish Air Force One in Russia, we use the finite element methodology to enable comprehensive high fidelity simulations of certain events that reportedly might have occurred during the crash. Using only publicly available data as inputs, we analyze physics of a presumed collision of a wing of the aircraft and a birch tree, and look into various scenarios of structural disintegration. Curiously, our results expose infeasibility of many findings published in the official investigation reports. The presentation will be preceded by a short introduction to the historical and political context of the crash. We argue for and emphasize the benefits of using a scientific method to explain complex events taking place in the physical world. Presentation by: Wieslaw Binienda, Ph.D., F.ASCE, Professor and Chair, Civil Engineering Department, University of Akron, Technical Expert of the Polish Parliamentary Committee for the Investigation of the Smolensk Crash; with introduction by Maria Szonert-Binienda, Esq., attorney for several families of the Smolensk crash victims. Carnegie Mellon University sponsors: Auton Lab, The Robotics Institute, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. From schneide at cs.cmu.edu Tue Nov 27 15:55:04 2012 From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:55:04 -0500 Subject: [Research] Auton Lab Meeting NIPS poster practice - Friday 9:30am Message-ID: <50B528A8.5010403@cs.cmu.edu> We will have an Auton Lab meeting this Friday at 9:30am in NSH 3305 to hold a practice poster session for the people presenting posters at NIPS (Ina, Xuezhi, Yifei). We will also have anyone who will be doing a "poster spotlight" talk practice that as well at the beginning. Jeff. From tzukuoh at cs.cmu.edu Thu Nov 29 17:45:20 2012 From: tzukuoh at cs.cmu.edu (Tzu-Kuo Huang) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:45:20 -0500 Subject: [Research] Auton Lab Meeting NIPS poster practice - Friday 9:30am In-Reply-To: <50B528A8.5010403@cs.cmu.edu> References: <50B528A8.5010403@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <026f01cdce83$3615fa20$a241ee60$@cmu.edu> Unfortunately I cannot make it because I will accompany my wife to her doctor's appointment. If it lasts for more than 1hr I might be able to show up late. Thanks, TK -----Original Message----- From: research-bounces at autonlab.org [mailto:research-bounces at autonlab.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schneider Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:55 PM To: research at autonlab.org Subject: [Research] Auton Lab Meeting NIPS poster practice - Friday 9:30am We will have an Auton Lab meeting this Friday at 9:30am in NSH 3305 to hold a practice poster session for the people presenting posters at NIPS (Ina, Xuezhi, Yifei). We will also have anyone who will be doing a "poster spotlight" talk practice that as well at the beginning. Jeff. _______________________________________________ Research mailing list Research at autonlab.org https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research From schneide at cs.cmu.edu Thu Nov 29 17:48:13 2012 From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:48:13 -0500 Subject: [Research] Reminder: Auton Lab Meeting NIPS poster practice - Friday 9:30am In-Reply-To: <50B528A8.5010403@cs.cmu.edu> References: <50B528A8.5010403@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <50B7E62D.5020209@cs.cmu.edu> Please join us tomorrow morning and see all the best NIPS posters without even needing to go to Nevada! Jeff. On 11/27/2012 03:55 PM, Jeff Schneider wrote: > > We will have an Auton Lab meeting this Friday at 9:30am in NSH 3305 to hold a > practice poster session for the people presenting posters at NIPS (Ina, Xuezhi, > Yifei). > > We will also have anyone who will be doing a "poster spotlight" talk practice > that as well at the beginning. > > Jeff. > _______________________________________________ > Research mailing list > Research at autonlab.org > https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research >