NIST Technicalendar May 1 to May 5, 2000 The NIST Technicalendar is issued each Friday. 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://www.nist.gov/tcal/.
Please evaluate the web Technicalendar using our 30 Second Evaluation

In this Issue: Meetings at NIST Meetings Elsewhere Announcements Talks by NIST Personnel NIST Web Site Announcements NIST Administrative Calendar (current)   NIST Vacancy Announcements (current)

Also available: Previous Issues of the Technicalendar Quick Technicalendar (current) Last week's Quick Technicalendar Last week's Technicalendar Detailed Search NIST Journal of Research (Current TOC) Change User Options

No Scheduled Events

10:30 AM - Caught Between Two Worlds: When Leadership Calls
1:30 PM - Combining Results from Inter-Laboratory Measurements of a Common Measurand

10:45 AM - Frustrated Magnetism in Spinel Antiferromagnets
1:30 PM - Coherence Related Phenomena in Lithium Molecules by All-Optical Multiple Resonance Spectroscopy

10:30 AM - New High-Yield Process for Industrial Quantity Production of Ozone, Based on Molecular Spectroscopy Principles
10:30 AM - The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy: A Different View of Science
1:30 PM - Colorimetry and the ISO Guide for Uncertainty of Measurements
2:30 PM - Modeling Scattering From Structures Near an Interface

10:30 AM - Creativity & Invention: Making the Most of It

5/1 -- MONDAY

No Scheduled Events

5/2 -- TUESDAY

10:30 AM - OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, NIST SEMINAR: Caught Between Two Worlds: When Leadership Calls
As Vice President of Business Excellence for Unisys, Dr. Stahley is responsible for assessing overall customer satisfaction and advocacy, helping to resolve critical customer issues, and establishing Unisys total quality initiatives throughout the company including the Unisys Total Quality Process (UTQP), ISO 9000 registrations, and the Unisys Business Excellence (UBE) process which is based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. With 40 years in the information industry, including 34 years with Unisys, Dr. Stahley has held a variety of positions including field engineer, system and software designer, division manager, and international program manager. He has a broad background in commercial applications, defense systems, and overall change management. Some of his key accomplishments include work on the first digital air defense system in Western Europe, support of ground systems for Project Apollo's moon landing, development of the first multiprocessor executive program for the US Navy, and support to the United States Air Traffic Control system. Besides running a major system's division with profit and loss responsibility, he also led the engineering organization that developed the next generation, large scale commercial computer system for Unisys in the 1980s. Dr. Stahley is a judge for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program, a senior member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and co-chair of Performance Improvement Council of the Conference Board. He has trained hundreds of senior executives, managers, and employees in Business Excellence and is a frequent presenter to customers, suppliers, industry groups, and others on total quality, organizational excellence, change efforts, and motivational topics. Dr. Stahley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Huntsville, and a Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences from Walden University. Please note, the lecture will be videotaped, and copies will be available in the Libraries in Gaithersburg and Boulder.
Dr. James Stahley , Vice President, Business Excellence, Unisys.
Administrative Building, Red Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Sandra Heydemann, 301-975-3032, sandra.heydemann@nist.gov)
Special Assistance Available

1:30 PM - OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY DIVISION SEMINAR: Combining Results from Inter-Laboratory Measurements of a Common Measurand
Raghu Kacker , ITL Statistical Engineering Division.
Bldg 221, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: Raju Datla, 301-975-2131, rdatla@nist.gov)


5/3 -- WEDNESDAY

10:45 AM - NIST CENTER FOR NEUTRON RESEARCH SEMINAR: Frustrated Magnetism in Spinel Antiferromagnets
Seung-hun Lee , NIST/University of Maryland.
Bldg 235, Rm. E100. (NIST Contact: Julie Borchers, 301-975-6597, julie.borchers@nist.gov)

1:30 PM - ATOMIC PHYSICS DIVISION SEMINAR: Coherence Related Phenomena in Lithium Molecules by All-Optical Multiple Resonance Spectroscopy
Qianbing Qi , Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA.
Physics Bldg, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: William Phillips, 301-975-6554, william.phillips@nist.gov)


5/4 -- THURSDAY

10:30 AM - OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY DIVISION SEMINAR: New High-Yield Process for Industrial Quantity Production of Ozone, Based on Molecular Spectroscopy Principles
Huei Tarng Liou , Guest Researcher.
Bldg 221, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: Jon Hougen, 301-975-2379, hougen@nist.gov)

10:30 AM - ELECTRON AND OPTICAL PHYSICS DIVISION SEMINAR: The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy: A Different View of Science
Based on the first five months of a one year detail to OSTP, Pat Gallagher from the NIST Center for Neutron Research will describe the role of OSTP in science policy and the typical experience of a policy analyst in Washington. An overview will be included of some current policy issues in front of OSTP and the budget making process.
Pat Gallagher , NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD, pgallagh@ostp.eop.gov.
Bldg. 245, Rm. B105. (NIST Contact: Patricia Elspas, 301-975-3708, patricia.elspas@nist.gov)

1:30 PM - OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY DIVISION SEMINAR: Colorimetry and the ISO Guide for Uncertainty of Measurements
Recently there has been an international push to unify the method of estimating uncertainties and their propagation through the calibration chain. In this presentation, the methods of the ISO Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) are applied to the derivation of uncertainties in color measurement. Expressions are presented for (x,y) and (u,v) color spaces. Examples are given for broad-band sources such as a luminance standard (including distribution temperature) and traffic lanterns, and for narrow-band sources such as LEDs. Correlation effects are markedly different across these examples and uncertainties in chromaticity coordinates vary throughout color space, as well as within the orthogonal pair themselves. Correlation between the tristimulus values generally reduces the uncertainty from that calculated by the usual sum of squares. The results can be applied to both tristimulus colorimeter and spectral colorimeter measurements. Estimation of uncertainty in correlated color temperature (CCT) is also presented, using GUM techniques and, as examples, the spectra adopted by CORM for its comparison of CCT calculation methods.
Dr. Jim Gardner , National Measurement Laboratory, CSIRO, Australia.
Physics Bldg, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: Yoshi Ohno, 301-975-2321, ohno@nist.gov)

2:30 PM - OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY DIVISION SEMINAR: Modeling Scattering From Structures Near an Interface
Dr. Teresita Quinteros , Center of Research in Optics and Electronics for Industrial Applications (ACREO), Stockholm, Sweden.
Bldg. 221, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: Thomas Germer, 301-975-2876, germer@nist.gov)


5/5 -- FRIDAY

10:30 AM - DIRECTOR'S OFFICE, NIST SEMINAR: Creativity & Invention: Making the Most of It
What are the secrets to getting an invention or a technical process into the marketplace? How do you find top talent and stimulate passion? Which sources of capital are better and why? What strategies increase speed to market without sacrificing quality? How can government facilitate competitive advantages for companies? What attitudes create bureaucratic barriers and what are the implications of fewer barriers? An admirer of Jack Rabinow and the creative spirit that he represented, John Preston lectures worldwide on what it takes to turn ideas into products. He has participated in the founding of more than 80 technology based companies.
John Preston , President & CEO, Atomic Ordered Materials and Senior Lecturer, MIT.
Administration Building, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Barbara Coalmon, 301-975-4203, coalmon@nist.gov)
Special Assistance is Available


ADVANCE NOTICE

5/11/00 10:30 AM - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY SEMINAR: The Politics and Policies of Information Systems Trustworthiness
Trustworthiness in the information technology infrastructure has emerged as a major policy issue for the next century. Can people depend on computer and communications systems? How much and for what? Who knows and who cares? Experts have lamented the state of system security, for decades, but it still remains a problem. Now the circle of concerned government players is widening, and the prospects for government intervention loom larger. Government postures do not map comfortably onto the technical landscape, but new programs and policies may well change the incentives and targets for the research community. Bio:Marjory Blumenthal manages the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. She is principal author or substantive editor of numerous reports and articles. The majority of her work has been interdisciplinary. She directed projects that culminated in "Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age" and "Trust in Cyberspace." She supervised (and contributed to) the work leading to "Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society.' In 1998 she was a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. She developed and taught an MIT course on public policy for computer science graduate students and pursued personal research interests. Blumenthal did her undergraduate work at Brown University and her graduate work at Harvard University.
Marjory Blumenthal , Executive Director, Computer Science & Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Wash DC.
Administration Building, Lecture Room A. (NIST Contact: Larry Reeker, 301-975-5147, larry.reeker@nist.gov)

5/17/00 10:30 AM - INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS DIVISION SEMINAR: Optimal Routing Under Visibility and Turn Constraints
Ali Boroujerdi , Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.
Administration Building, Lecture Room A. (NIST Contact: David Coombs, 301-975-2865, coombs@cme.nist.gov)

5/19/00 11:00 AM - STATISTICAL ENGINEERING DIVISION SEMINAR: An Interpretation of the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement
This paper attempts to clear up the apparent ambiguity of the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM) due to mixing up of the frequentist and the Bayesian concepts, and proposes a simple and widely applicable approach to set the coverage factor that defines an expanded uncertainty interval with a desired minimum coverage probability.
Raghu Kacker , Statistical Engineering Division, ITL, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD.
Administration Building, Lecture Room D. (NIST Contact: Raghu Kacker, 301-975-2109, raghu.kacker@nist.gov)

5/24/00 10:30 AM - INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS DIVISION SEMINAR: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Jeff Uhlmann , Naval Research Laboratory.
Administration Building, Lecture Room B. (NIST Contact: David Coombs, 301-975-2865, coombs@cme.nist.gov)

---

MEETINGS ELSEWHERE


5/1 -- MONDAY

10:00 AM - VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR 2D AND 3D INFORMATION SPACES
Y. Leung , School of Information Technology, Swinburne Univ. of Technology.
Bldg, Rm. .
NCARAI Conf. Rm., Bldg. 256, Bolling AFB, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: - -, 202-404-7036, symposia@aic.nrl.navy.mil) http://www.it.swin.edu.au/schil/

11:00 AM - SURFACE CHEMISTRY OF SULFIDE MINERALS DURING OXIDATATIVE DISSOLUTION: KINETIC CONSTRAINTS AND MECHANISTIC CLUES
M. McGuire , Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Bldg, Rm. .
Seminar Rm., Main Bldg., GL-DTM Grounds, Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: - -, 202-686-2410, -)

4:15 PM - SUPER ANIONS AND SUPERACIDS
C. Reed , Univ. of California, Riverside, CA.
Reiss Science Bldg., Rm. 262, GU, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: Prof. Pope, 202-687-6073, -)



5/2 -- TUESDAY

No Scheduled Events

5/3 -- WEDNESDAY

4:15 PM - CRYSTALLIZATION OF AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTES IN ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES
S. Martin , GU Alum/Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Rm. 262, Reiss Science Bldg., GU, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: - Chemistry Club, 202-687-6073, -)



5/4 -- THURSDAY

No Scheduled Events

5/5 -- FRIDAY

No Scheduled Events

ADVANCE NOTICE

No Scheduled Events

---

TALKS BY NIST PERSONNEL

RUEGG, R. : DELIVERING PUBLIC BENEFITS WITH PRIVATE SECTOR EFFICIENCY THROUGH THE ATP.
National Academy of Science, National Academy of Science, 2100 C Street, NW Washington, DC, 4/25.

WU, W. : APPLICATION OF SMALL ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING FOR MEASURING DEEP SUB-MICROMETER LITHOGRAPHIC FEATURE SIZE AND LINE PROFILE.
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 5/1.

SUENRAM, R. : MICROWAVE (INCLUDING TERAHERTZ) SPECTROSCOPY.
Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC), Seattle, WA, 5/1.

CHI, P. : HIGH PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF ARSENIC IMPLANTATION DOSE IN SILICON BY SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY.
13th Annual SIMS Workshop, Harvey Resort and Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, NV, 5/1.

SIMONS, D. : SUMMARY OF SIMS ACTIVITIES AT NIST.
13th Annual SIMS Workshop, Harveys Resort and Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, NV, 5/1.

FAHEY, A. : ELEMENTAL AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF GEOLOGICAL AND INSULATING SAMPLES BY TOF-SIMS.
13th Annual workshop on SIMS, Harveys Resort and Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, NV, 5/1.

QUINN, G. : FLEXURAL STRENGTH OF CYLINDRAL TEST SPECIMENS.
American Ceramic Society 102nd Annual Meeting, American Center St. Louis, MO, 5/1.

RIDGE, K. : EFFECTIVE MIMICRY OF RHODOPSIN SIGNALING FUNCTIONS BY AN ENGINEERED CYTOPLASMIC DOMAIN.
Gordon Reseach Conf. on Photosensory Receptors & Signal Transduction, II Ciocco, Barga, Italy, 5/2.

HUIE, R. : AN AB INITIO BASED SCREENING TOOL FOR THE ATMOSPHERIC LIFETIMES OF HALON REPLACEMENTS.
Halon Options Technical Working Conference 2000 (HOTWC 2000), Albuquerque, New Mexico, 5/2.

GEORGE, W. (Co-Authors: H.El-Sayed M.Salit ) Travis J.; Devaney J. : PARALLEL MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD INVERSION FOR ESTIMATING WAVENUMBER-ORDERED SPECTRA IN EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY.
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, 5/2.

QUINN, G. : FRACTURE TOUGHNESS TESTING STANDARDS FOR ADVANCED CERAMICS.
American Ceramic Society 102nd Annual Meeting, American Center, St. Louis, MO, 5/2.

ROBERSON, S. : ORGANIC DEPTH PROFILING USING THE TOF-SIMS IV.
13th Annual Workshop on SIMS, Lake Tahoe, NV, 5/2.

WONG-NG, W. : PHASE EQUILIBRIA AND CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY OF THE SRO-R2O3-CUO SYSTEMS, R=LANTHANIDES.
The American Ceramic Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis Convention Center, 5/2.

DOUGLAS, J. : COLLECTIVE MOTION IN COOLED LIQUIDS.
Regional ACS Meeting, Madison, WI, 5/3.

GILLEN, G. : CARBON CLUSTER PRIMARY ION BEAMS FOR SIMS.
13th Annual Workshop on SIMS, Lake Tahoe, NV, 5/3.

VERKOUTEREN, J. : PHASE MAPPING OF PLASMA-SPRAYED YTTRIA-STABILIZED ZIRCONIA.
The American Ceramic Societies Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 5/3.

WONG-NG, W. : CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTY INVESTIGATION OF THE HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTOR SOLID SOLUTION PHASE, BA2-X(ND,YB)1+XCU3O6+Z.
The American Ceramic Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis Convention Center, 5/3.

DOUGLAS, J. : INFLUENCE OF BOUNDARIES ON BLEND PHASE SEPARATION.
Rheology Research Center Seminar, Madison, WI, 5/4.

DUNKERS, J. : FIBER OPTIC FLOW AND CURE MONITORING FOR LIQUID COMPOSITE.
International Conference on Trends in Optical Nondestructive Testing, Lugano, Switzerland, 5/4.

DUNKERS, J. : THE APPLICATION OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY TO PROBLEMS IN POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES.
International Conference on Trends in Optical Nondestructive Testing, Lugano, Switzerland, 5/4.

REARDON, M. : USING COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS TO ASSOCIATE GUNPOWDER AND GUNSHOT RESIDUES.
Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ, 5/4.

---

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MEMORANDUM TO NIST PERSONNEL FROM ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
In the interests of more properly handling and disposing of waste paper materials at NIST, and of more effectively contributing to the preservation of the environment, a more aggressive program is being enacted to place color-coded and clearly labeled containers throughout the facilities to collect the different kinds of waste paper. This program will not work without the assistance of all NIST personnel. Please help us make the program successful by disposing of waste paper materials and trash in the proper containers as follows: white paper only (typing or copy paper) in the small grey rectangular cans or the large white round containers; office mix, co-mingled paper in the blue rectangular cans; waste and lunch in the brown and grey round office cans, the burgundy square containers, or the yellow-top round containers; and aluminum cans only in the green rectangular containers. Any questions regarding the program should be directed to the Environmental Services Group.
NIST Contact: DuWayne Engelhart, 301-975-5921, duwayne@nist.gov

---

NIST WEB SITE ANNOUNCEMENTS

No Web Site announcements this week.

---

For more information, contact Ms. Sharon Mingo, Editor, Stop 2500, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899-2500; Telephone: 301-975-TCAL (8225); Fax: 301-926-4431; or Email: tcal@nist.gov.

All lectures and meetings are open unless otherwise stated.

---

NVL Webmaster