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8:25 AM - astm-nist workshop on materials data in the internet era

10:30 AM - Getting the "Right" Scientific Information in the Future:Dreams and Problems
11:00 AM - Advanced Technology Vehicles

10:00 AM - Some Examples of Multiple Orthogonal Polynomials

5/24 -- MONDAY

8:25 AM - ASTM-NIST WORKSHOP ON MATERIALS DATA IN THE INTERNET ERA
The number and variety of materials databases have grown tremendously in the last 15 years. However, the same time period has seen the decline of integrated materials data networks, that is, one-stop shopping for all materials data needs, despite the continuing advances in materials science and engineering and the attendant growth in the generation of materials data, and the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a dynamic new on-line delivery medium. Co-sponsored by ASTM Committee E49 on Computerized Systems and Chemical and Material Information, and by the NIST Standard Reference Data Program, this workshop will consider the two main driving forces of: (1) the growing body of materials data, and (2) the burgeoning growth of the Internet/WWW. The intent of the workshop will be to define the next step for the computerization and delivery of materials information in response to these driving forces. Questions to be addressed include: 1. What community action, if any, is needed to improve the usability of the Internet/WWW in delivering materials information? 2. What gaps in materials databases exist, and how can they be addressed? 3. What additional standards are needed to facilitate materials database building? Delivery? Integration? 4. What actions are needed to sustain the materials data community, especially as the WWW promotes individual actions? The workshop will feature a mixture of invited talks, panel sessions, plenary discussions, and networking opportunities. Attendees will not be charged a registration fee.
Various Speakers , -.
Administration Building, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Charles P. Sturrock, 301-975-6027, sturrock@nist.gov)


5/25 -- TUESDAY


5/26 -- WEDNESDAY

10:30 AM - GETTING THE "RIGHT" SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IN THE FUTURE:DREAMS AND PROBLEMS
Helene Bestougeff , Universite Paris 7.
Bldg 820 (NIST North), Rm. 152. (NIST Contact: Bijan Mashayekhi, 301-975-3289, bijan.mashayekhi@nist.gov)

11:00 AM - ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY VEHICLES
"No car company will be able to thrive in the future with 100 percent dependency on internal combustion engines." This quote comes from GM Chairman John F. Smith Jr. In 1994, GM launched the EV1, the most energy efficient mass-produced vehicle in history. This talk will chronicle electric and hybrid vehicle developments within GM (and to a lesser extent within the automotive industry). Particular focus will be on what limitations remain if electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles are to become sustainable transportation offerings. If time permits, a specific example of how research fits into the puzzle will be overviewed; in this case, an overview of recently published results on the electrochemisty of intercalation materials, with emphasis given to the investigation of charge transfer and intercalate diffusion associated with lithiated graphite.
Mark Verbrugge , Chief Engineer, Energy Management Systems, General Motors.
Administration Building, Lecture Rm. D. (NIST Contact: Mike Winchester, 301-975-3886, michael.winchester@nist.gov)


5/27 -- THURSDAY

10:00 AM - SOME EXAMPLES OF MULTIPLE ORTHOGONAL POLYNOMIALS
Walter Van Assche , Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Kapellen, Belgium.
Bldg N I S T North, Rm. 618. (NIST Contact: Dan Lozier, 301-975-2706, dlozier@nist.gov)


5/28 -- FRIDAY


ADVANCE NOTICE

6/1/99 11:00 AM - THE STATE OF NIST ADDRESS
Raymond Kammer , Director.
Administration Building, Red Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Walter Jones, 301-975-6766, wwj@nist.gov)
Special Assistance Available

6/3/99 8:00 AM - 5TH HUMAN FACTORS AND THE WEB CONFERENCE
The purpose of these conferences is to provide a forum for sharing information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are interested in producing web sites that are more useful and usable.
Peer-reviewed paper presentations , -.
Administration Building, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Sharon Laskowski, 301-975-4535, hfweb@nist.gov) http://www.nist.gov/hfweb
Special Assistance Available

6/3/99 11:00 AM - ORGANIC VAPOR SEPARATION WITH POLYMERIC MEMBRANES
Membrane vapor-gas separation systems are beginning to be applied to a number of gas separation problems in the petrochemical, refinery and natural gas processing areas. In this talk factors that determine the selection of the membrane materials and their fabrication into membrane modules and systems will be described. The application of the systems to a variety of process streams including propylene/nitrogen separations in polypropylene plants, hydrocarbon/hydrogen separations in refineries and natural gas liquid/methane separations in natural gas processing will be covered.
Dr. Richard Baker , President, Membrane Technology and Research, Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
Bldg. 224, Rm. B245. (NIST Contact: Freddy Khoury, 301-975-6753, freddy.khoury@nist.gov)

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MEETINGS ELSEWHERE


5/24 -- MONDAY



5/25 -- TUESDAY

6:00 PM - HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING OF SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS AND HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS
Planetary science observations made with the GSFC, acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) camera are described. This camera is a RF-tunable spectrophotometric imager. The visible version of this camera has a spectral bandwidth of 25 cm-1 and a tuning range from 0.5 to 1.0 micron while the near-IR version has a bandwidth of 12 cm-1 and a tuning range from 1.6 to 3.2 micron. I will briefly discuss observations of Jupiter and Saturn made at the Starfire Optical Range 1.5-meter laser-beacon adaptive optics telescope facility. The superior spectral resolution of the AOTF camera was exploited to image these objects both in and out of molecular absorption bands, allowing one to sound to different depths in their respective atmospheres. The enhanced spatial resolution provided by the adaptive optics facility allowed us to observe cloud and storm activity in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn that are not normally observable with conventional ground-based telescopes. In this seminar I will emphasize post-observation data processing including the determination of point-spread-function and deconvolution techniques to enhance the collected images. Recently, the near-IR version of this camera was used to generate spectral image cubes of works of art, paintings and of the Star Spangled Banner Flag while in situ at the National Museum of American History. I will discuss the science objectives and data-collection phase of these projects.
John Hillman , Senior Scientist, Lab. for Extraterrestrial Physics, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, john.hillman@gsfc.nasa.gov. (NIST Contact: Eric Shettle, 202-404-8152, Shettle@poamb.nrl.navy.mil) http://look.net/NCS/nextmtg.html



5/26 -- WEDNESDAY



5/27 -- THURSDAY

4:15 PM - FROM RICE TO SNOW: THE PHYSICS OF GRANULAR MATTER
P.-G. de Gennes , ESPCI/Condensed Matter Physics, College de France. (NIST Contact: Prof. Martire, 202-687-5933, -)

4:00 PM - THE CHALLENGE FROM VIRUSES
D. Baltimore , California Institute of Technology/Nobel Laureate. (NIST Contact: The Conference Office, 301-610-5959, -)



5/28 -- FRIDAY



ADVANCE NOTICE

6/7/99 8:00 AM - POROUS MEDIA: SYNTHESIS, INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS
ALSO: POLYMER MICROSCOPY, Professor David Martin -- AND -- INFRARED TECHNOLOGY: FUNDAMENTALS AND SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS, Professor Anthony LaRocca 8:00 a.m., Monday, June 7 - Friday, June 11, 1999, Univ. of Michigan --ALSO-- SURFACE ENGINEERING AND MATERIAL PROCESSING, Dr. Karthikeyan Nagaranthnam 8:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 9 - Friday, June 11, 1999, Univ. of Michigan, North Campus, Ann Arbor, MI
Dr. Massoud Kaviany , Professor.
Bldg, Rm. . (NIST Contact: Jeff Goss, 734-647-7200, jeffgoss@engin.umich.edu) http://meonline.engin.umich.edu/catalog.htm

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TALKS BY NIST PERSONNEL

MCKENNA, G. : SIZE AND CONFINEMENT EFFECTS ON THE GLASS TRANSITION.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 5/25.

HAGWOOD, C. : STATISTICAL PROBLEMS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC, 4/29.

VANGEL, M. : THE ANALYSIS OF INTERLABORATORY STUDY DATA.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 5/5.

VANGEL, M. : THE ANALYSIS OF INTERLABORATORY STUDY DATA.
University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, 5/7.

WU, W. : SURFACE MICROROUGHNESS OF POLYMER THIN FILMS.
IBM Corp., Yorktown Heights, NY, 5/18.

AKPALU, Y. : EVOLUTION OF DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS TO LAMELLAR CRYSTALS IN LINEAR POLYETHYLENE.
XIth International Conf. on Small Angle Scattering (SAS99), Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, 5/20.

MCCLELLAND, J. : ATOM OPTICS FOR NANOFABRICATION.
Atom Optics Applications Workshop, Centre de Physique des Houches, Les Houches, France, 5/24.

CLARK, C. : THE DESIGNER SUPERGAS.
John Anderson Research Colloquium, Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 5/24.

MARTZLOFF, F. : UPDATE ON A CONSUMER-ORIENTED GUIDE ON SURGE PROTECTION" AND "THE FALLACY OF MONITORING SURGE VOLTAGES: SPDS AND PCS GALORE!.
PQA '99, Charlotte, NC, 5/25.

WONG-NG, W. (Co-Authors: T. A.Vanderah R. S.Roth ) Toby, B., Huang, Q., Geyer, R.G. : MICROWAVE CERAMICS: STRUCTURE AND PROPERTY OF COMPOUNDS IN THE BAO:FE2O3:TIO2 SYSTEM.
American Crystallographic Association, Buffalo, NY, 5/25.

PARNAS, R. : MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION FOR POLYMER COMPOSITES.
SAMPE '99, Long Beach, CA, 5/25.

GRUELL, H. : POLYMER INTERDIFFUSION THROUGH MEMBRANES.
German Neutron Scattering Conference, Berlin, Germany, 5/26.

STEINER, B. : DOMAIN ESTABLISHMENT IN PERIODICALLY POLED LITBIUM NIOBATE.
APS/Division of Laser Science, IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, and Optical Society of America, Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, MD, 5/27.

MCCLELLAND, J. : LASER-FOCUSED ATOMIC DEPRESSION-NANOFABRICATION VIA ATOM OPTICS.
3rd International Workshop on MBE - Growth Physics and Technology, Institute of Vacuum Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 5/27.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

NIST COMMITTEE FOR WOMEN
POSTERS ARE MISSING!! Two large posters of "Women's Work Counts" were hanging on a board near the cash registers in the cafeteria of building 101 in celebration of Take Our Daughters to Work Day on April 22nd. They were taken off the board sometime between April 23rd and the following week and cannot be located. NCW planned to redisplay these costly posters at next year's event. If you have any information of their whereabouts, please call Connie Chang, x4318. They can also be dropped off anonymously in the inner hallway of Conference Facilities, 101-B110, across from the cafeteria.
NIST Contact: Connie Chang, 301-975-4318, connie.chang@nist.gov

UPGRADE OF NIST SGI ORIGIN2000 SYSTEM AMUR
AMUR (amur.nist.gov) has now been upgraded to 32 processors and 32 gigabytes of memory. Questions may be directed to the Scientific Computing Help Desk. The help desk can be contacted in several ways: Email : consult@nist.gov Phone : (301) 975-2968 Desk : 1:00 - 4:00 pm ET, Bldg 225, Rm A148, Gaithersburg, Boulder users may additionally contact John Koontz, x5180.
NIST Contact: Judith Devaney, 301-975-2882, judith.devaney@nist.gov

1999 U.S. WORLD STANDARDS DAY PAPER COMPETITION
This year, the U.S. standards 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.
NIST Contact: Patrick Cooke, 301-975-4033, patrick.cooke@nist.gov

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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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