The Enriched Support Program (ESP) and Aboriginal Enriched Support Program (AESP) at Carleton University recognize that grades don’t always tell the whole story. ESP/AESP provides you with a pathway to degree admission while you study first-year courses in a supportive learning community. As an ESP/AESP student, you can:

-start first-year university studies
-learn in a supported environment
-strengthen academic skills and habits
-earn admission to a degree program

Hear more about our programs at our ESP/AESP Information Night on Wednesday, May 22nd at 7:00 p.m.

Location: 2017 Dunton Tower www.carleton.ca/campus

Please rsvp to: esp@carleton.ca or by clicking on the ‘register’ button below.

http://www5.carleton.ca/safety/documentsforms/rape-aggression-defense-system-course-registration/

If you have any questions please email the RAD Administrator, S/Cst Alicia Poole, alicia_poole@carleton.ca

Upcoming speakers series dates:

May 23, 2013: Chris Waddell presents his new book that talks about the ever changing notion of communications and journalism in Canada titled: How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics

The Author, Chris Waddell, will be in attendance along with a stellar panel including:

Colin Horgan  – House of Commons reporter and books editor for iPolitics.ca
Susan Delacourt – the Toronto Star’s Senior political writer in Ottawa
Paul Wilson – Faculty in the Clayton Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management, and former director of policy in the Prime Minister’s Office.

About the author:
Christopher Waddell is Director of the School of Journalism and Communication and holds the Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism, the first chair of its kind in Canada.

About the book:
How Canadians Communicate IV: Media and Politics engages with the challenges of political reporting in the current age of twitter, blogs and the permanent political campaign. With contributions from such diverse figures as Elly Alboim, Richard Davis, Tom Flanagan, David Marshall, and Roger Epp, How Canadians Communicate IV provides a comprehensive review of political communication in Canada over the past thirty years, demonstrating the intimate connection between the future of news and the future of politics.

This workshop is intended for Carleton staff and faculty.

A gardening expert will be joining us to share some advice and tips for small container gardening, which can be used in apartments, condos, kitchens and decks!

More details coming soon!

Register today!

Frederik Roeder is a German health economist, who has studied hospital management, health economics and international business at the universities of Goettingen (Germany), Bayreuth (Germany), Maribor (Slovenia), and Tongji Shanghai (China). Since 2011, he has served as a Visiting Professor for Health Economics at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and as a Visiting Professor for Healthcare Management and Economics at Ilia State University (Georgia). Mr. Roeder is the Managing Director of Healthcare Solutions, focusing on knowledge transfer and policy advice for health care systems in transition. Besides working with Central and Eastern European countries, he has also provided advice to the Republic of Georgia and various East Asian countries.

The conference will feature panelists made up of former Visiting Professors and current teaching faculty, alumni from academia and the workplace, and a guest panel comprised of Professors Stephen McBride and Charlotte Yates from McMaster University, and Professor Marjorie Cohen from Simon Fraser University. Admission is free, but registration is requested. Please RSVP to political_economy@carleton.ca. For a conference program, please visit http://www.carleton.ca/politicaleconomy.

Finger foods will be served and an RSVP would be appreciated.

HPCVL, SciNet, and SHARCNET. The series of workshops will cover many topics in High Performance Computing, including parallel programming for multicore machines, clusters, and GPU’s. The time was chosen directly before the HPCS 2013, Canada’s foremost Supercomputing Conference, which takes place on June 2-6, 2013, also at the University of Ottawa.

Here is an outline of the Summer School program:

Day 1 (single stream): Tuesday, May 28, 2013

09:00 – 12:30 Linux Command Line: A Primer
13:30 – 16:30 Introduction to High Performance Computing
Instructor: Jonathan Dursi, SciNet, University of Toronto.

Day 2 (dual stream): Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Stream 1
9:00-12:30 & 13:30 – 16:30 Introduction to Shared-Memory Programming With OpenMP
Instructor: Hartmut Schmider, HPCVL, Queen’s University.

Stream 2
09:00-12:30 & 13:30-16:30 Programming GPUs with CUDA (Part 1)
Instructor: Pawel Pomorski, SHARCNET, University of Waterloo

Day 3 (dual stream): Thursday, May 30, 2013

Stream 1
09:00-12:30 & 13:30-16:30 Introduction to Distributed-Memory Programming With MPI
Instructor: Hartmut Schmider, HPCVL, Queen’s University.

Stream 2
09:00-12:30 & 13:30-16:30 Programming GPUs with CUDA (Part 2)
Instructor: Pawel Pomorski, SHARCNET, University of Waterloo

Day 4 (dual stream): Friday, May 31, 2013

Stream 1
09:00-12:30 & 13:30-16:30 Combining MPI with OpenMP: A Double-Layer Master-Slave
09:00-12:30 & 13:30-16:30 The HPCVL Working Template: A Tool For Parallel Programming
Instructor: Gang Liu, HPCVL, Queen’s University.

Stream 2
09:00-12:30 & 13:30-16:30 Parallel Programming with the Posix Thread Library
Instructor: Hartmut Schmider, HPCVL, Queen’s University.

Registration is free and open to all Canadian HPC users – current or prospective.

Please note: Seating is limited. We will send out reminders to those registered before the event and re-assign unconfirmed spots. Please make sure that you attend if you have registered. If you register and do not attend, you are denying a spot to your peers.

Important: Most of the workshops have a hands-on lab component that will be conducted on servers supplied by the HPC consortia. Since the lecture rooms do not provide desktop computers, please bring your laptop if you want to participate in the exercises.

For more information: http://www.hpcvl.org/ss2013

To register: http://www.hpcvl.org/ss2013_Registration

Anyone who has taken part in the community over the past year, has been a guest speaker or panelist, or would like to see what the community is all about is encouraged to join us on May 28, 2013 in 2017 Dunton Tower (not our regular meeting place).

We look forward to celebrating with you!

Inspiring each other to improve… Supporting each other to success!

Click here for more information or contact freshthinking@carleton.ca.

Join fellow Ottawa area Sprott School of Business Alumni for a wine tasting guided by an experienced sommelier. Relax and enjoy a selection of wines from around the world accompanied by delicious canapés from Sidedoor Contemporary Kitchen & Bar in the Byward Market. Reunite with your fellow business alumni as you learn how to pair wines for all your business entertaining needs!

Tickets are $25 each. The ticket price includes a selection of wines paired with Sidedoor signature canapés.

To register please visit: http://forms.carleton.ca/sprott/sprott-alumni-wine-tasting/

As space is limited, please kindly register by May 23rd, 2013.

Dr. David Boteler, Ph.D., C.Eng., FIET, Canadian Space Weather Forecast Centre, Natural Resources Canada:
“The Growing Threat to Technology from Space Weather”

E. Paola de Rose, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada:
“How Satellite Earth Observation Can Help Canada Understand and Manage its Lands and Water”

Shane Roberts,Vice President, NCRB; emergency management futurist andinternationalsecurity expert:
“Killer Asteroids (NEOs): Views from Hollywood, the White House and the UN”

As the finale of the “Take the Stairs” Challenge (As the finale of the “Take the Stairs” Challenge*, Healthy Workplace is presenting you with another challenge – to climb the 23 floors (approximately 460 stairs) to the top of Dunton Tower. This is NOT a race; you can take your time and wen you make it to the top, your name will be entered in a draw to win a personalized Healthy Workplace spring jacket.

*http://www1.carleton.ca/healthy-workplace/activitiesprograms/take-the-stairs/

Inspired by the global and local collaborative initiatives of The Hub, the Hub Ottawa Installation is envisioned as an integrative network and support structure which would be in resonance with the open concept and inclusiveness of its environment. As a woven structure of bands of plywood and translucent wiremesh fabric, the interwoven network reflects its material capabilities and properties while simultaneously responding and adapting to its setting. The resulting modulating patterns within the overall collaborative weave, their resonant configurations, and holistic co-dependence of parts are envisioned as fluent metaphors for the Hub’s inclusive, social, innovative, and collective goals and their equivalent parallels within the multicultural diversity of the Canadian setting.

The Indiegogo fund raising campaign for the Resonant Currents project at HUB Ottawa kicked off last Thursday with a YouTube video and how donations can be made:

http://ottawa.the-hub.net/uncategorized/resonant-currents-art-installation-at-hub-ottawa

Indiegogo site:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/resonant-currents-art-installation-at-hub-ottawa?show_todos=true3

Please spread the word to your contacts and help with the funding campaign!

The university is producing a series of webinars based on David’s full day course (which you can also attend June 21 in the River Building. Contact READ for special pricing).

Topic Overview

Accessibility is important for everybody. Most adults suffer from some level of disability or difficulty that can be mitigated through accessible technologies. And when we design for the extremes, everyone benefits.

This live taping will provide you familiarity with guidelines that will help your Web and PDF content be a more effective resource for your entire audience. You’ll also gain familiarity with assistive technologies that help people with specific disabilities and difficulties.

You’ll be more poised to comply with the the AODA regulations, and you’ll also be broadening the audience for your content while enriching the experience of your entire audience. No programming knowledge required!

Whether you are new to document accessibility or already familiar with it, you’ll learn immediately-applicable tips and techniques.

Disclaimer

Please note that this presentation will be video-recorded by Carleton University and will be made available for subsequent viewing by means which may include posting on Internet websites, public screening, publication and television broadcast. By attending this presentation participants acknowledge and grant permission for their image and/or comments to be recorded and used in any future distribution of this material as stated above.

By registering you are agreeing to share your name and email address with the hosts.

Join your fellow alumni alongside Jay Nordenstrom, BA/02, president of the Carleton University Alumni Association, and Roseann O’Reilly Runte, president and vice-chancellor of Carleton University, for a fantastic evening to recognize the contributions and achievements of our dedicated volunteers and our accomplished graduates.

As Master of Ceremonies, CTV news reporter Stefan Keyes, BJ/09, will lead us through a delightful evening including musical entertainment by Petr Cancura, BMus/01, and his band Down Home.

This year’s award recipients are:
A.D. Dunton Alumni Award of Distinction: Eric Sprott, BCom/65
Humanitarian Alumni Award: Maude Barlow, BA/74
Young Alumni Achievement Award: Chris Dieni, PhD/09
Alumni Volunteer of the Year: Linda Gunning, CCR/04

Saturday, June 1, 2013
6 p.m. reception
7 p.m. dinner and awards ceremony
Atrium, 2nd floor, River Building
Carleton University
Tickets: $60/person

To register please visit: https://forms.carleton.ca/advancement/alumni-leadership-gala-2013/

Presented by Carleton Music, all proceeds will go to the Patrick Cardy Fund to support the refurbishment of ‘Studio A’  in the Loeb Building.

Featuring performers: Julie Nesrallah (mezzo-soprano), Roddy Elias (guitar), Cathy Baerg (flute), Elaine Keillor (piano), The Cosmos Saxophone Quartet (Mike Tremblay, Vince Rimbach, René Lavoie and Ian Babb), Suren Barry (piano), The Lisgar Collegiate String Ensemble (Trudy Bradley, conductor), and James Wright (piano).

Tickets are $35.00 each. To purchase a ticket, please go to http://forms.carleton.ca/advancement/patrick-cardy-tribute/.

You may also wish to consider making a donation to the Patrick Cardy Fund for Studio A in tribute to Patrick.  To make your secure gift online today, visit Carleton University’s futurefunder http://futurefunder.carleton.ca/projects/renovate-music-studio-a-in-tribute-to-patrick-cardy/.

The Book Club meets once a month to discuss a new book. This is the last book until the group connects after summer.

For more information contact Brenda Heming, English Chapter President at bhemingediting@yahoo.ca

The Enriched Support Program (ESP) and Aboriginal Enriched Support Program (AESP) at Carleton University recognize that grades don’t always tell the whole story. ESP/AESP provides you with a pathway to degree admission while you study first-year courses in a supportive learning community. As an ESP/AESP student, you can:

-start first-year university studies
-learn in a supported environment
-strengthen academic skills and habits
-earn admission to a degree program

Hear more about our programs at our ESP/AESP Information Night on Tuesday, June 11th at 7:00 p.m.

Location: 2017 Dunton Tower www.carleton.ca/campus

Please rsvp to: esp@carleton.ca or by clicking on the ‘register’ button below.

This is a free event, hosted by the School of Social Work, the Ontario Association of Social Workers and the Social Work Chapter of the Carleton University Alumni Association.

This is a free event, sponsored by the School of Social Work, the Ontario Association of Social Workers and the Social Work Chapter of the Carleton University Alumni Association.

Do you have a question for Greg Ip, U.S. Economics Editor of The Economist? Here is your chance to ask him.

Sylvia Thomson, MJ/94, CBC Washington Bureau Producer, will sit down for a conversation with Mr. Ip at the National Press Club. Greg Ip is the U.S. Economics Editor of The Economist, former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and author of The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World.

Great Grad Speaker Series featuring Greg Ip BAHons/89

Thursday, June 13, 2013
6 p.m. Reception
6:45 p.m. Presentation
The National Press Club, First Amendment Room
529 14th Street. NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC

For more information, email cu_proud@carleton.ca or call 1-866-287-7683.

To submit questions for Mr. Ip to address at the event, please email them to cu_proud@carleton.ca before May 31st.

June 13th, 2013, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Senate Room (6th Floor) Robertson Hall, Carleton University

Invited speakers and guests from Europe and Russia include:

Dr. Amelia Hadfield, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Dr. Nikolay Kaveshnikov, Head of Department of European Integration Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University)
Dr. Andrei Belyi (virtual participant), Associate Professor, University of Tartu

Coffee, light refreshments, and snacks will be provided.

Registration for this event is required due to space limitations. To RSVP, please fill in the registration form.

Registration Link: http://www6.carleton.ca/eurus/cu-events/the-eus-external-energy-relations-russian-and-canadian-dimensions

Event Description:
This half-day workshop will examine the EU’s external energy relations, with a goal of better understanding how and to what extent EU energy policies have an impact beyond its borders, and the degree of vulnerability of the EU’s energy security, particularly in relation to its reliance on Russian energy resources.

June 20, 2013
Anderson Links Golf Course
4175 Anderson Rd
Ottawa City, ON K0A 1K0

12 p.m. – Registration
1 p.m. – Shotgun Start
6 p.m. – Dinner

Tournament Registration: $200.00
Register online: http://forms.carleton.ca/advancement/golf-tournament-june-2013-2/
Limited Space Available.

The Texas Scramble tournament includes 18 holes of golf (cart included), complimentary driving range, contest, prizes, silent auction, lunch and dinner.

Team supporters have an opportunity to sponsor a current Raven Hockey player for dinner and golf.

Sponsorship opportunities are available. Contact Marty at marty_johnston@carleton.ca

This fun-filled afternoon brings faculty and staff together to enjoy some food and celebrate the accomplishments of the past year.

We hope to see you there!

Friday, July 12, 2013
Hylands Golf Club
2102 Alert Road
Ottawa, ON

11 a.m. Registration Opens
1:30 p.m. Shotgun Start
6 p.m. Dinner
Tournament registration: $150
Register online at:

Register online: http://forms.carleton.ca/advancement/2013-pat-obrien-golf-tournament/

The Texas Scramble tournament includes 18 holes of golf (cart included), complimentary driving range, putting contest, prizes, silent auction and dinner. Plus, honour the recipient of the 2013 Pat O’Brien Memorial Scholarship.

Team supporters have an opportunity to sponsor a current Raven basketball player for dinner and/or golf at the Pat O’Brien Golf Classic.

For sponsorship opportunities or additional information, please contact:
Sarah Fee, Alumni and Donor Relations
613-520-2600 ext. 8193/1-866-CU PROUD (287-7683)
sarah_fee@carleton.ca

A two course meal will be served in order to put the classroom learning into immediate practice.

Please join us from September 27 to 29, 2013, as Canadians from across the country converge on Ottawa for a conference on improving the quality of life in our communities through the arts.

Co-hosted by the Michaëlle Jean Foundation and Carleton University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Forum will mobilize researchers, business leaders, legal experts, policymakers, youth, health practitioners, artists, and others to explore cutting-edge research and social innovation for bettering the lives of underserved Canadians and revitalizing communities.

Over three days, forum participants will explore ways in which grassroots youth organizations, arts communities and academia can work with sectors as varied as health, business, and law, to discuss issues such as youth crime, mental health, unemployment, and social exclusion, through the arts. Our goal is to produce a national agenda outlining ways in which all sectors of Canadian society can enhance grassroots strategies for inclusion, personal and community development, and prosperity for all Canadians.

The Power of the Arts Forum weekend will feature a town hall, plenary sessions and workshops, as well as a celebration of Canadian achievement in the arts.

Registration

Please visit http://www.carleton.ca/fass/power-of-the-arts-forum to register and for more information.