The NIST Technicalendar, issued each Friday, covers scheduled events which are of interest primarily to the NIST staff All items MUST be submitted electronically from this web page by 12:00 NOON each Wednesday unless otherwise stated in the NIST Technicalendar. The address for online weekly editions of the NIST Technicalendar and NIST Administrative Calendar is: http://nvl.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/calendars/. Requests for copies of this calendar should be sent to Ms. Sharon Mingo, Editor, Building 820, Room 125, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001, (Telephone: 301-975-3570; FAX: 301-926-4431; or E-mail: sharon.mingo@nist.gov).
All lectures and meetings are open unless otherwise stated.
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AI PLANNING: A NEW APPROACH Dana Nau Prof., Computer Sciences & Dir., Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory, Univ. of Maryland. Monday, February 22, 1999, 11:00AM, Lecture Room D, Administration Building. Biography: Dana Nau ( http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/nau/ ) is professor of Computer Science and Director of the Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory at the University of Maryland. His research interests include artificial intelligence in planning and searching and computer-integrated design and manufacturing. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1979 and now has more than 200 technical publications. An NSF Graduate Fellow and later an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, he has also been awarded the ISR Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty award at the University of Maryland, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
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David L Carroll Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University. Clemson, SC Wednesday, February 24, 1999, 10:30AM, Rm. B165, Bldg 221. Carbon based nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes, provide a unique insight into the role of topological symmetries in the electronic structure of low dimensional systems. Recently, the application of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy has allowed direct, spatially resolved determination of electronic structure in these macromolecular systems with surprising results. This talk will present some of our latest STM/STS results in symmetry breaking due to lattice doping, pentagonal defects, and ordered aggregation. These results will be discussed within the context of tight binding calculations currently used to model the local density of electronic states (LDOS) |
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BRANCHED POLYMERS AND DENDRIMERS Dr. Jean M. J. Frechet Department of Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley. Berkeley, CA Thursday, March 4, 1999, 11:00AM, Rm. B245, Bldg. 224. |
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ANTI-ANGIOGENIC THERAPY OF EXPERIMENTAL CANCER Judah Folkman Director, Surgical Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Boston. Friday, March 5, 1999, 10:30AM, Green Auditorium, Administration Bldg. Colloquia are videotaped and available in the NIST Res Lib  Special Assistance Available
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN DATA MINING Usama Fayyad Senior Researcher,Decision Theory & Adaptive Systems Group, Microsoft Research. Redmond, CA Monday, March 8, 1999, 10:30AM, Lecture Room D, Administration Building. Biography: Usama Fayyad is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research (http://research.microsoft.com/~fayyad). His research interests include scaling data mining algorithms to large databases, learning algorithms, and statistical pattern recognition, especially classification and clustering. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. |
| 2/22--MONDAY 2:00PM 842 - ATOMIC PHYSICS DIVISION SEMINAR: "Applications of the Finite Difference Time Domain Method to Optical Problems," S. T . Chu, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, Kawasaki, Japan. Rm. B165, Bldg 221. (NIST contact: Garnett Bryant, 301-975-2595, garnett.bryant@nist.gov.) |
| 2/23--TUESDAY 10:30AM FIRE RESEARCH SEMINARS: "A Computational Study of Characteristic Instabilities that Arise in Flows With and Without Buoyancy," F. . Battaglia, Post Doc, Fire Safety Engineering Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD Rm. B245, Polymer Bldg. (NIST contact: Rik Johnsson, 301-975-3083, rikj@nist.gov.) http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/info/seminars/feb2399.battaglia.htm |
| 2/23--TUESDAY 10:30AM 842 - ATOMIC PHYSICS DIVISION SEMINAR: "Analyzing images from near-field optical microscopy," G. W. Bryant, Atomic Physics Division, NIST, Rm. B165, Bldg 221. (NIST contact: Garnett Bryant, 301-975-2595, garnett.bryant@nist.gov.) |
| 2/23--TUESDAY 2:00PM 854 - POLYMERS DIVISION SEMINAR: "Spinodal Dewetting at the Liquid-Liquid Interface," P. F. Green, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, TX Rm. A315, Bldg 224. (NIST contact: Alamgir Karim, 301-975-6588, alamgir.karim@nist.gov.) |
| 2/26--FRIDAY 10:30AM 854 - POLYMERS DIVISION SEMINAR: ""Path Dependent Microstructure Orientation and Anisotropic Gas Transport in Semicrystalline Block Copolymers"," P. . Kofinas, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, Rm. A315, Bldg 224. (NIST contact: John Barnes, 301-975-6786, John.Barnes@nist.gov.) |
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 7TH ANNUAL AUTOMOTIVE LASER APPLICATIONS WORKSHOP Frank Ewasyshyn VP, DaimlerChrysler Corporation. Ron Shriver VP, Honda of America Manufacturing Jim Tobin, President, Lamb Technicon, Dr. Eckard Beyer, Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology, Dr. Ray E Hundsdoerfer, Exec. VP., HAAS-Laser GmbH Tuesday, March 9, 1999, 8:00AM, - Wednesday, March 10, 1999 The Dearborn Inn, Dearborn, MI. http://meonline.engin.umich.edu/catalog.htm Contact 313-202-1800
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| 2/22--MONDAY 10:00AM NAVY CENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (NCARAI) SEMINAR: "Algorithms for the Control of Multi-Agent Hierarchical Systems," S. Sastry, Electronics Research Lab., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA. NCARAI Conf. Rm., Bldg. 256, Bolling AFB, Washington, DC . (For further information contact: - -, 202-404-7036, -.) http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/seminars/ |
| 2/22--MONDAY 11:00AM CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON GEOPHYSICAL LAB. (GL) SEMINAR: "Oxygen Isotopes in Meteorites: Probing the Astronomy/Geology Discontinuity," R. Ash, GL, Seminar Rm., Main Bldg., GL-DTM Grounds, Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC . (For further information contact: S. Schmidt, 202-686-2410, schmidt@gl.ciw.edu.) |
| 2/24--WEDNESDAY 3:45PM CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PHYSICS DEPARTMENT SEMINAR: "Surface Electronmigration on Metals," Philip Rous, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, The Catholic University of America 620 Michigan Ave NE; Room 106 Hannan Hall . (For further information contact: Robin Selinger, 202 319 6740, selinger@cua.edu.) |
| 2/24--WEDNESDAY 4:15PM GEORGETOWN UNIV. (GU) CHEMISTRY DEPT. SEMINAR: "Signal Transduction by a Soluble Adenylyl Cyclase: Cloning, Isolation, and Charaterization of a Novel Enzyme," L. Levin, Cornell Univ., Reiss 262, GU, Washington, DC . (For further information contact: Prof. Roepe, 202-687-7300, -.) |
| 2/25--THURSDAY 4:00PM UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-CHEMICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SEMINAR: "Fibrous-Bed Bioreactor for Animal Cell and Tissue Cultures," Shang-Tien Yang, Professor, Columbus, OH, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building #2108 College Park, MD 20742 . (For further information contact: Jan Sengers, (301) 405-2983, js45@umail.umd.edu.) |
| CLARK, C. : "Generating Solitons and Vortices in BECs by Trap Rotation and Optical Imprinting," Workshop on Bose-Einstein Condensation and Degenerate Fermi Gases, JILA, Boulder, Colorado, 2/12/99. |
| AMIS, E. : "Dendrimers: Macromolecular Cartoons for Chemistry and Physics," Dutch Polymer Institute, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands, 2/22/99. |
| CHIANG, M. : "The Effect of Hygrothermal Aging on Swelling and Tg Depression for a Particle-Flled, Epoxy-based Adhesive," Adhesion Society Meeting, Panama City, FL, 2/23/99. |
| ROBERTS, J. W. : "Janus: A Reconfigurable Testbed for the Evaluation of Hardware and Software Issues for an Electronic Book Reader," Wireless Symposium / Portable by Design, San Jose, California, USA, 2/25/99. |
| DEVANEY, J. E. : "Parallel Computing and the Structure of Science," Computational Science Seminar Series, George Mason University, Sci. and Tech. Bldg. 1, Rm. 206, Fairfax, Va., 2/25/99. |
| VANDERHART, D. L. : "Partitioning of Defect Structures within the Semicrystalline Morphology of Polymers Using Solid State NMR," Florida State Univerisity, Tallahassee, FL, 2/26/99. |
| NAKATANI, A. : "Chain Dimensions in Polysilicate Filled PDMS," Dow Corning Corp., Midland, MI, 2/26/99. |
| JACOX, M. : "Infrared Spectroscopic Evidence for NeHF+ and HFFH+," 5th Winter Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, 2/28/99. |
| JACOX, M. : "The Infrared Spectra of (NO)2+, (NO)2-, and (NO)3- Trapped in Solid Neon," 5th Winter Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, 2/28/99. |
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Employees Lounge, Administration Building
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Professor M. E. Glicksman from Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, New York will give a lecture on Dendritic Growth on Tuesday March 9, 1999 at 10:30am in the Materials Building (223) Room B307.
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The transfer of Cray programs to the Origin 2000 is proceeding quite well and few problems remain to be solved. If this trend continues there is a high probability that the Cray will be phased out at the end of March 1999. Plans are underway to add additional computing resources to the NIST central facility. Please note that Cray binary files must be converted before they are moved from the Cray or they will not be readable on other equipment. If you have concerns, please contact the consultants immediately. By Email : consult@nist.gov By Phone : (301) 975-2968 In person at the Desk : 1:00 - 4:00 pm ET, Bldg 225, Rm A148, Gaithersburg Boulder users may additionally contact John koontz at x5180
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The U.S. - Hungarian Science and Technology Joint Fund announced two grant possibilities. The first supports the travel of young Hungarian and U.S. researchers for 3 to 12 months long study trips to the U.S. or Hungary. The deadline for submission is April 15, 1999. The second grant is to support U.S. - Hungarian bilateral workshops. The deadline for the workshop grant submission is March 31, 1999.
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This year, the U.S. stanards community will celebrate World Standards Day on September 22. To highlight the importance of standards to industry and government, the sponsors of World Standards Day, including NIST, are again holding a paper competition. The theme for the 1999 World Standards Day paper contest will be "Standards Development: Balancing Need and Speed". PRIZES: The author(s) of the winning submission will receive $2,500 and a commemorative plaque. Prizes of $1000 for 2nd place and $500 for third place may also be awarded. Winning papers will be published by ANSI, the Standards Engineering Society, and others. ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to individuals in private sector or government facilities. The paper may be co-authored. RULES: The paper must be original and not previously published. NIST papers should be processed through WERB or BERB in the usual way. Entries must received by August 1, 1999. Contest rules and application forms may be obtained through the Standards Engineering Society home page at http://www.ses-standards.org or call Jean-Paul Emard at Electronic Industries Alliance, 703-907-7518. For further information contact Pat Cooke, 301-975-4033, patrick.cooke@nist.gov.
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Diversity is about inclusion of all. To this end we have included on our web site links to: DoC's Human Resources that includes: - Alternate Work Schedule Information - Leave Handbook - Managers' Handbook - Demo Project NIST Administrative Manual with information on: - Use of Grounds - Inventions/Patents - Parking - Training NIST Human Resources with information on - Health Benefits - Performance Appraisals - Awards - Employee Conduct and Rights - Labor Organizations with FAQ and More. Please stop by.
http://www-i.nist.gov/itl_diversity/
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Last year, the Director of NIST appointed a task group charged to identify and make available an evolving system of leadership and management development and training options suitable for the NIST culture and research environment. A sub-committee of that task group surveyed about 1,000 employees including seniors managers, middle managers, and non-management staff. The results of that survey are presented on the website. In the coming weeks the website will be expanded to include the final report of last year's task group, and ongoing activities in this area. http://www-i.nist.gov/survey/
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