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8:30 AM - Electronic Book '99 "The Next Chapter"
10:30 AM - A Precise Calibration Technique for Measuring High Gas Temperatures
10:30 AM - A Talk on Quantum Cryptography or How Alice Outwits Eve

10:00 AM - The Scientific Simulation Initiative: A Bold Step into the 21st Century
11:00 AM - Mathematical Modeling of Extrusion and Die Flows of Generalized Newtonian Fluids

9:00 AM - Manufacturing Applications: Embracing the Collaborative Commerce Model
9:00 AM - Magnetism of Solids: Bulk and Surface, Theory and Experiment
10:30 AM - Tomography of Integrated Circuit Interconnects
10:30 AM - Why Einstein Would Love Spaghetti in Fundamental Physics
10:30 AM - Two Tasks of Knowledge Discovery: Niche Finding and Benchmarking
3:30 PM - Extension of Optical Lithography: A Thin Film Imaging Approach

10:30 AM - Determination of Thermo-mechanical Stress Intensity Factors in Ceramic-Metal Functionally Gradient Materials

9/20 -- MONDAY

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9/21 -- TUESDAY

8:30 AM - HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS AND SERVICES DIVISION SEMINAR: Electronic Book '99 "The Next Chapter"
The Information Technology Laboratory has announced the second annual workshop on technical innovation and standards for the emerging electronic book (e-book) industry. This workshop will examine factors affecting the nascent e-book industry. Topics will range from technologies that allow readers to download text from World Wide Web sites directly into their e-books to legal issues involving digital rights management. Participants will include e-book manufactures, authors, computer hardware and software executives, traditional publishers, educators, literary agents and others with an interest in the industry. The workshop will feature topics including, handheld, paperless electronic books, web-based electronic books, new technologies, progress on the Open Electronic Book Standards Committee, electronic rights management issues, and novel applications for electronics books. Speakers will include publishers, display manufacturers, storage developers, authors, end-users, software tool developers, and educators. There will be an evening reception and numerous exhibits. Included in these exhibits are several commercial products from companies such as Everybook, Inc., IBM… as well as technology demonstrations developed by the Information Technology Lab at NIST. Noted speakers include award winning author Harlan Ellison, Dick Brass (Vice President for Technology, Microsoft Corp.), Rocky Laroia (Manager of Strategy and Planning, IBM Mobile Storage), and keynote speaker John Warnock (Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems Incorporated). Along with a representative from Japan’s E-Book Consortium.
Victor McCrary , Project Leader, Information Technology Laboratory, victory.mccrary@nist.gov.
Administration Bldg, Red Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Victor McCrary, 301-975-4321, victory.mccrary@nist.gov) http://www.nist.gov/ebook99

10:30 AM - FIRE SCIENCE DIVISION SEMINAR: A Precise Calibration Technique for Measuring High Gas Temperatures
Suleyman Gokoglu , Research Scientist, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH.
Polymer Bldg. (224), Rm. B245. (NIST Contact: Rik Johnsson, 301-975-3083, rikj@nist.gov) http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/info/seminars/sep21-99.gokoglu.htm

10:30 AM - MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES DIVISION AND COMPUTER SECURITY DIVISION JOINT SEMINAR: A Talk on Quantum Cryptography or How Alice Outwits Eve
S. Lomonaco, Jr. , Univ. of Maryland.
NIST North Bldg, Rm. 618. (NIST Contact: B. Mitchell, 301-975-3808, william.mitchell@nist.gov)


9/22 -- WEDNESDAY

10:00 AM - PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES DIVISION SEMINAR: The Scientific Simulation Initiative: A Bold Step into the 21st Century
Dr. Thom Dunning , Assistant Director for Scientific Simulation Initiative, U.S. Department of Energy,, Germantown, MD.
Administration Bldg, Lecture Rm. A. (NIST Contact: Walter J. Stevens, 301-975-5968, walter.stevens@nist.gov)

11:00 AM - POLYMERS DIVISION SEMINAR: Mathematical Modeling of Extrusion and Die Flows of Generalized Newtonian Fluids
Prof. Adeniyi Lawal , Dept. of Chemical, Biochemical & Materials Engr., Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
Bldg 224, Rm. A315. (NIST Contact: Charles Han, 301-975-6772, charles.han@nist.gov)


9/23 -- THURSDAY

9:00 AM - MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS INTEGRATION DIVISION SEMINAR: Manufacturing Applications: Embracing the Collaborative Commerce Model
As information technology advances, so do those software applications that enable manufacturers to better serve their customers with improved products and operational efficiencies. This seminar will provide an overview of the technologies, standards and markets for the three application classes unique to manufacturing: concurrent-art-to-product, manufacturing enterprise planning, and plant floor systems. Additionally, the speaker will describe the relationship of each of these classes of manufacturing applications to electronic commerce--specifically to what Gartner Group calls "Collaborative Commerce."
Dave Burdick , Analyst, Manufacturing Applications Strategy, Gartner Group.
Bldg 220, Rm. A108. (NIST Contact: Mary Beth Algeo, 301-975-2888, algeo@nist.gov)

9:00 AM - ELECTRON AND OPTICAL PHYSICS DIVISION SEMINAR: Magnetism of Solids: Bulk and Surface, Theory and Experiment
Samed Khalilov , Information & Computer Complex (ICC) of the Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute".
Bldg. 221, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: Mark Stiles, 301-975-3745, mark.stiles@nist.gov)

10:30 AM - ELECTRON AND OPTICAL PHYSICS DIVISION SEMINAR: Tomography of Integrated Circuit Interconnects
Z. Levine , Electron and Optical Physics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD.
Radiation Physics Bldg, Rm. B105. (NIST Contact: Z. Levine, 301-975-5453, zachary.levine@nist.gov)

10:30 AM - SURFACE AND MICROANALYSIS SCIENCE DIVISION SEMINAR: Why Einstein Would Love Spaghetti in Fundamental Physics
There are some questions in physics that we cannot answer due to the lack of a complete theory of gravitation. Some of these are, "How does the force of gravity work on objects a billion billion times smaller than the hydrogen atom?" or "What was the universe like, at the instant after the BIG BANG?" or "What is the complete physics of Black Holes?" For such questions it is critical to know how the force of gravity can be consistent with the principles of quantum mechanics. In these arenas, the laws of gravity and all the other forces must be very different from those seen in every day experience. Einstein suspected this and it led him to the belief that there must exist a "unified field theory" to describe our world. He spent the last forty years of his life unsuccessfully searching for this construction. More recently there appeared new ideas called "superstring theory" that have apparently succeeded. This talk is an accessible introduction for a general audience to the idea of superstrings.
Sylvester James Gates, Jr. , John S. Toll Professor of Physics, Physics Department, University of Maryland.
Administration Building, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Robert Fletcher, 301-975-3912, robert.fletcher@nist.gov)

10:30 AM - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY SEMINAR: Two Tasks of Knowledge Discovery: Niche Finding and Benchmarking
Dr. Valdés-Pérez's goal is to improve on the current state of scientific, engineering, and other professional reasoning by developing methods and tools that partially automate tasks of knowledge discovery. This talk concentrates on two examples of such tools. The first task, called "niche finding" is to concisely articulate what is unique about a specific member of a set of individuals, based upon a block of data on that set. Applications to areas such as linguistic data, historical data, and functional genomics will be discussed. The second task is benchmarking designs, where one wants to be able to report not just a ranking of designs being benchmarked but information on the comparative advantages of the designs. Recently-developed profiling methods allow the articulation of concise knowledge such as "Design A is better than designs B, C, D on problems having property P, and better than E, F on problems having property Q". Applications to numerical methods and chemical catalysis are discussed. Biographical Sketch: Raúl Valdés-Pérez received his Ph.D. under Herbert Simon at Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 and has been on the research faculty there since that time. His main research interest concerns improved ways of finding interesting new knowledge in science, business, and other professions where knowledge creation is central. He develops novel methods and interactive software for both data-intensive and knowledge-intensive tasks. He has collaborated and published discoveries in the three natural sciences and various social sciences. He is an Editor of the journal Machine Learning and a member of the advisory committee for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Raúl Valdés-Pérez , Senior Research Computer Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University.
Administration Bldg, Lecture Rm. B. (NIST Contact: Larry Reeker, 301-975-5147, larry.reeker@nist.gov)

3:30 PM - POLYMERS DIVISION SEMINAR: Extension of Optical Lithography: A Thin Film Imaging Approach
Q. Lin , IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center. M. Angelopoulos , IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Bldg 224, Rm. B245. (NIST Contact: Wen-li Wu, 301-975-6839, wen-li.wu@nist.gov)


9/24 -- FRIDAY

10:30 AM - STRUCTURES DIVISION SEMINAR: Determination of Thermo-mechanical Stress Intensity Factors in Ceramic-Metal Functionally Gradient Materials
Sami EL-BORGI , Assistant Professor, Polytechnic School of Tunisia, La Marsa, Tunis, Tunisia, sami@nist.gov.
Bldg 226, Rm. B221. (NIST Contact: Sami EL-BORGI, 301-975-5286, sami@nist.gov)


ADVANCE NOTICE

10/1/99 10:30 AM - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY SEMINAR: Agent Science: Fomenting a Revolution in Information Technology
Intelligent agent technology has been proposed as a leading contender for help in searching, managing, and filtering the world's exponentially growing wealth of online knowledge. To date, however, progress has been slow, with shortcomings that range from the technical (no underlying theoretical "agent science") to the political (reliance on e-commerce to create a market). This talk considers how agent-based computing changes the nature of the way we should view software creation, acquisition, and use. It also describes some exciting new DARPA programs that will enable the government to take a leadership role in developing both the infrastructure for this new computing revolution and the underlying theory on which it must be based. Biography: Jim Hendler is currently a program manager in charge of "agent-based systems" for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In addition, he is a Professor and head of both the Mobile Robots Laboratory and the Advanced Information Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland, where he has worked since January 1986. He has joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, the Institute for Systems Research, and is also an affiliate of the Electrical Engineering Department. He has authored over 100 technical papers about agents, robotics, knowledge representation and high performance computing. Hendler was the recipient of a Fulbright Foundation Senior Scholar Fellowship, is a member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and was recently chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Prof. James Hendler , Program Manager, Agent-Based Systems, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, VA.
Administration Bldg, Lecture Rm. A. (NIST Contact: Elizabeth Fong, 301-975-3250, elizabeth.fong@nist.gov)

10/1/99 10:30 AM - DIRECTOR'S OFFICE, NIST SEMINAR: Unconventional Optics for Commerical Applications
There is a relentless commercial pressure to make products better, smaller, and cheaper, and to get them to market faster. In response, Polaroid has designed and built a series of sub-micron precision machines to expand our options for unconventional product designs. We use these machines for 3-D profilometry of optical surfaces on molding tools and molded plastic lenses and mirrors. We grind unique optical surfaces in glass and metals and routinely diamond-cut semiconductors and plastic prototypes. We cut production masters for aspheric lenses and mirrors, Fresnel lenses and mirrors, and diffractive optical elements for achromatization and athermalization. Applications in our high-volume Polaroid camera products include six different aspheric optical parts without even rotational symmetry. We use diamond-cut, multifaceted mirrors in a variety of new industrial products incorporating high-power laser diodes.
William Plummer , Director, Optical Engineering, Polaroid Corporation.
Administration Bldg, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Barbara Coalmon, 301-975-4203, coalmon@nist.gov)
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MEETINGS ELSEWHERE


9/20 -- MONDAY

No Scheduled Events

9/21 -- TUESDAY

No Scheduled Events

9/22 -- WEDNESDAY

4:00 PM - THE DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN RATIO IN THE GAS NEAR THE SUN
M. Sahu , -.
Bldg, Rm. .
Hannan Hall, The CUA, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: F. Bruhweiler, 202-319-5333, bruhweiler@cua.edu)



9/23 -- THURSDAY

4:30 PM - CRYSTAL ENGINEERING: DESIGN OF PREDICTABLE HYDROGEN-BONDED ARCHITECTURES
C. Aakeroy , Dept. of Chemistry, Kansas State Univ..
Bldg, Rm. .
Reiss 262, GU, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: Prof. Bachman, 202-687-4027, -)

4:00 PM - PHASE SEPARATION, SCALING, AND CROSSOVER IN POLYMER SOLUTIONS
M. Anisimov , Institute for Physical Science and Technology, UMD.
Bldg, Rm. .
Rm. 1325, Chemistry Bldg., UMD, College Park, MD. (NIST Contact: J. Weeks, 301-405-4802, jdw@ipst.und.edu)



9/24 -- FRIDAY

2:30 PM - COLORING AND OTHER QUANDLE INVARIANTS OF SURFACES IN 4-MANIFOLDS
W. Rosicki , Gdansk Univ..
Rm. 307, Funger Hall, GWU, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: Y. Rong, 202-994-6890, rong@gwu.edu)

1:00 PM - EMBEDDED MINIMAL SURFACES AND THREE MANIFOLD TOPOLOGY
B. Minicozzi , The Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD.
Rm. 223, Funger Hall, GWU, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: F. Baginski, 202-994-6269, baginski@gwu.edu)



ADVANCE NOTICE

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TALKS BY NIST PERSONNEL

SEMANCIK, S. : THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED GAS MICROSENSORS: USING MICROARRAYS AS SENSOR PLATFORMS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH TOOLS.
Northwestern University, Center for Catalysis & Surface Science, Annual Scientific & Industrial Afilliates Mtg., Omni-Orrington Hotel, Evanston, IL, 9/14.

OLSON, D. : HEAT TRANSFER IN SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE WITH CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS.
Twentieth International Congress of Refrigeration, Sydney Convention Center, Sydney, Australia, 9/20.

MIGDALL, A. : USING CORRELATED PHOTONS TO MEASURE THE ABSOLUTE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY OF AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES.
Optical Fibre Measurement Conference, Nantes, France, 9/20.

JACH, T. : QUASICRYSTAL ELEMENT CORRELATIONS FROM X-RAY STANDING WAVES.
7th International Conference on Quasicrystals, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany, 9/20.

PIPINO, A. : EVANESCENT WAVE CAVITY RING-DOWN SPECTROSCOPY: A NEW PLATFORM FOR THIN-FILM CHEMICAL SENSORS.
SPIE, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, 9/21.

MAY, W. : NIST PROGRAM IN CHEMICAL METROLOGY: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACT.
Forum on Metrology SIM - INEN, Reupublica de El Salvador, Quito-Ecuador, 9/21.

PHELAN, JR., F. : MICROSCALE FLOW MODELING IN COMPOSITE PREFORM MATERIALS.
Katholieke University, Leuven, Belgium, 9/21.

SEMANCIK, S. : SOLID STATE GAS MICROSENSORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL MONITORING.
SPIE International Symposium on Environmental & Industrial Sensing, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA, 9/22.

PIPINO, A. : EVANESCENT WAVE CAVITY RING-DOWN SPECTROSCOPY.
U.S. DOE - Oak Ridge Operations - EMSP Workshop, Garden Plaza, Oak Ridge, TN, 9/22.

PHELAN, JR., F. : NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF PERMEABILITY USING A LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD AND OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY.
ICAC '99, Bristol, England, 9/23.

NAKATANI, A. : INELASTIC NEUTRON SCATTERING FROM FILLED ELASTOMERS.
American Chemical Society Rubber Division Meeting, Orlando, FL, 9/23.

JACH, T. : X-RAY STANDING WAVES IN QUASICRYSTALS: A PERIODIC TECHNIQUE TO INVESTIGATE AN APERIODIC MEDIUM.
Prof. Jorg Zegenhagen, Max-Planck Institute, Max-Planck-Institute fur Festkorperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, 9/24.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MISSING MATERIALS
Please help us locate a box of important samples consisting of small, oblong pieces of Ni-Cr binary alloys specially prepared for X-ray fluorescence research performed by S.D. Rasberry and K.F.J. Heinrich in the mid-1970's. The pieces are contained in a clear plastic "tackle box" approximately 11" x 7" x 2" in size labeled "Box #3 Ni-Cr". These samples were the property of Dr. P.A. Pella before his retirement and may have been loaned to someone. If you know the location or disposition of the samples, please contact J.R. Sieber, X3920 or A.F. Marlow, X3924.
NIST Contact: John Sieber, 301-975-3924, john.sieber@nist.gov

YEAR 2000 NIST/NRC POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIPS PROGRAM BOOKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Attention NIST Postdoctoral Advisors, please check with your division or laboratory office for copies of the 2000 Postdoctoral Book.
NIST Contact: Janice Campbell, 301-975-3076, janice.campbell@nist.gov

ANNOUNCEMENT OF AVAILABILITY OF UPGRADED IBM SP2
The IBM SP2, named danube, has now been upgraded to 80 CPUs spread over 48 nodes. There are now sixty-four 200 Mhz processors, six 120 MHz CPUs, and ten 66 MHz CPUs. Each of the 80 CPUs is configured with a minimum of 512MB of memory. Further details on the machine can be found at: http://www-i.nist.gov/itl/div895/895.02/danube/index.html For an account, send email to acctnew@nist.gov. For answers to questions, please contact the consultants. They can be reached in multiple ways: Email : consult@nist.gov Phone : (301) 975-2968 Desk : 1:00 - 4:00 pm ET, Bldg 225, Rm A148, Gaithersburg For further information contact Judith Devaney, 301-975-2882, judith.devaney@nist.gov
NIST Contact: Judith Devaney, 301-975-2882, judith.devaney@nist.gov

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMMUNITY RESEARCH FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (FP5) - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The FP5 sets out the priorities for the European Union's research, technological development and demonstration (RTD) activities for the period 1998-2002. A call for proposals was published in the Official Journal of the European Communities on July 15, 1999. The call for proposals is restricted to the RTD subjects listed in the Journal and the deadline is December 15, 1999. Evaluation and selection criteria relevant to this call as well as information on rules and on how to prepare and submit proposals are given in this website: http://www.cordis.lu/fp5
NIST Contact: Magdalena Navarro, 301-975-2130, mnavarro@nist.gov

CENTRAL COMPUTING FACILITY UPGRADE -- ANNOUNCEMENT OF AVAILABILITY OF SECOND NEW 32 CPU SGI ORIGIN 2000
A second new 32 CPU SGI Origin 2000, named tay, is now available for production runs. This machine is configured with thirty-two 300 MHZ R12000 Processors, 32 GB of memory, and 193 GB of disk space. It is set up with software that guarantees the resources of the queue, without competition, for the life of a job. This machine is in addition to the NIST Central Computing Facility's two 32 CPU Origin 2000s, Neva and Amur, and the 8 CPU Origin 2000, Arno. With the addition of tay the Central Facility now has 104 Origin CPUs available. Further details on the machine can be found at: http://www-i.nist.gov/itl/div895/895.02/origin2000/tay.html For an account, send email to acctnew@nist.gov. For answers to questions, please contact the consultants. They can be reached in multiple ways: Email : consult@nist.gov Phone : (301) 975-2968 Desk : 1:00 - 4:00 pm ET, Bldg 225, Rm A148, Gaithersburg
NIST Contact: Judith Devaney, 301-975-2882, judith.devaney@nist.gov

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NIST WEB SITE ANNOUNCEMENTS

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTDOCTORATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES WEB SITE
To view National Research Council postdoctorate research opportunities at NIST, please use the following Web site:
NIST Contact: Jack Hsia, 301-975-3067, jack.hsia@nist.gov

NIST POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM
To view information concerning postdoctoral research eligibility requirements, research locations, duration, benefits, and deadline information for applicants, please use the following Web site:
NIST Contact: Janice Campbell, 301-975-3076, janice.campbell@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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