[Cz-editcouncil] Introductions and wiki work

[Larry Sanger]

Dear Prof. Aref,
 
I had no idea.  I'm very sorry for your loss--I'm sure I couldn't say
anything else that hasn't already been said a thousand times this week.
 
Regards,
Larry

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cz-editcouncil-bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of Hassan
Aref
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:52 PM
To: The Citizendium Editorial Council
Subject: Re: [Cz-editcouncil] Introductions and wiki work


Dear All,

My name is Hassan Aref.  I am a professor of engineering science and
mechanics at Virginia Tech.  Yes, that school.  My office is in Norris Hall.
Yes, that building.  Liviu Librescu's office was next door to mine.  Kevin
Granata's was around the corner and down the hall.  It has been the week
from Hell here.  Frankly, we're fresh out of words and fresh out of tears,
although we start teaching on Monday and the tears have a way of welling up
when one leasts expects them. 

I was personally very fortunate.  I had decided to work at home Monday
morning and then to go in for an exam at 1.  Then the news unfolded.  My
colleagues, the staff, and many students witnessed horrific things that day,
things that will be with them forever.  They allowed us in the building on
Thursday (first and third floor office residents only) under police escort.
I didn't have the guts to go.  Some of my colleagues who did go (they almost
had to in some cases since they had left essential things behind), said it
was very trying. 

We continue to believe that the accumulation of human knowledge is one of
the noblest things we do on this little planet of ours.  We continue to
believe that education will make a better world.  That is part of why I am
interested in Citizendium.  I also believe that the current generations are
in a unique situation historically and epistemologically, essentially in the
same situation relative to the electronic document as some earlier
generations were relative to the printed document.  That aspect too is
exciting. 

My main area of expertise is fluid mechanics and its attendant physics,
applied mathematics, and numerous applications in engineering, meteorology,
astronomy, biology and so on.  "Everything flows," said Heraclitus, and so
by extension the study of flow would seem to be somewhat important!  At a
minimum, I hope to coerce some of my professional peers into contributing
high quality articles in my general domains of expertise (including those
where I may only know enough to be dangerous). 

My bio is at

http://en.citizendium.org/wi
<http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Hassan_Aref> ki/User:Hassan_Aref
<http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Hassan_Aref> 

I look forward to working with you all on this. 

Hassan Aref
Reynolds Metals Professor
Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, 320 Norris Hall
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Niels Bohr Visiting Professor
Center for Fluid Dynamics 
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark

On 4/20/07, Larry Sanger <sanger at citizendium.org> wrote:
> Dear editors,
> 
> Will you please do two things for me today, or this weekend anyway? 
> 
> (1) Introduce yourself, briefly, to the list.  Others will appreciate
this.
> 
> (2) Actually do at least a little work on the wiki.  It's embarrassing to
> think there are people in authority, as you all are now, who have not 
> actually edited the wiki.  This is a working Council; it isn't merely an
> advisory body, members of which can get by without considerable knowledge
of
> the project.
> 
> You might also want to update your user page.  I *believe* you all have
bios 
> on the wiki (I don't think I would have invited you if you didn't), but if
> you don't, please add one.
> 
> More later about council procedures and our first topics.
> 
> --Larry 
> 
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