2023 Sigma Xi and IEEE Annual Awards Banquet
2023 Sigma Xi and IEEE Annual Awards Banquet
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- Date: 15 May 2023
- Time: 05:30 PM to 09:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- United States 87110
- Building: Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown
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- Co-sponsored by UNM Sigma Xi Chapter
- Starts 27 April 2023 05:00 PM
- Ends 14 May 2023 11:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
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- Menu: Seared Alaskan Salmon, Grilled Sirloin, Portobello Stack
Agenda
You are cordially invited to attend the 2023 Sigma Xi and IEEE Annual Awards Banquet on Monday, May 15th at the Sheraton Uptown, 2600 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM.
Program
5:30 pm: Check-in
6:00 pm: Dinner (select one of the options below)
Fresh Garden Salad: Ranch Dressing and Balsamic Vinaigrette
Warm Dinner Rolls w/ Butter
Seared Alaskan Salmon
Balsamic Reduction | Roasted Red Potato Crab Salad | Oven tried Cherry Heirloom Tomatoes
Grilled Sirloin
Burgundy Mushroom Jus | Boursin Whipped Potatoes | Roasted Broccolini
Portobello Stack
Marinated Portobello | Vegetables | Black Beans | Red Pepper Coulis
Dessert
Iced tea, lemonade, and coffee
7:00 pm: IEEE and Sigma Xi Awards
7:30 pm: Sigma Xi Initiation
8:00 pm: Banquet Talk - “Dancing with Deadpool: Science and the challenge of life with less water in the American West”
Speaker: John Fleck, Professor of Practice in Water Policy and Governance in the University of New Mexico Department of Economics and director of the University's Water Resources Program
Speaker Biography: a former science journalist, is Writer in Residence at the Utton Center, University of New Mexico School of Law; and Professor of Practice in Water Policy and Governance in the University of New Mexico Department of Economics. He is the author of Water is For Fighting Over and Other Myths About Water in the West and co-author, with Eric Kuhn, of Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River. He is working with Bob Berrens on a new book – Ribbons Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of a Modern American City.
Abstract: When the leaders of the federal government and the seven U.S. states of the Colorado River Basin gathered a century ago to divide the region's waters, they made a grave mistake: they ignored scientists who tried to tell them the river could not provide as much water as they thought. In the 21st century, we are far better at accepting and incorporating good science, but science alone cannot tell us how to live with less as our communities grow while our water supply shrinks. Writer John Fleck has spent a dozen years in the belly of this beast, chronicling our successes and failures as we struggle to make a life with less water in the West.