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No Scheduled Events

10:30 AM - Can Light Trap Atoms in the Dark?

9:30 AM - Eighth Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements (CIRMS)
10:45 AM - First Principles Calculations of the Dynamic Structure Factor Measured by Neutron Scattering
1:30 PM - Effective Error Estimates for Quasi-Monte-Carlo Computations
1:30 PM - Aspects of Copper Electroplating for On-Chip Interconnections

9:00 AM - Harnessing Materials Informatics for Combinatorial Engineering
11:00 AM - The Dynamic Scaling Approach to Glass Formation

10:30 AM - Elastic Constants of Cubic Alloy Single Crystals

10/11 -- MONDAY

No Scheduled Events

10/12 -- TUESDAY

10:30 AM - ATOMIC PHYSICS DIVISION SEMINAR: Can Light Trap Atoms in the Dark?
Nir Davidson , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Bldg 221, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: William Phillips, 301-975-6554, william.phillips@nist.gov)


10/13 -- WEDNESDAY

9:30 AM - IONIZING RADIATION DIVISION SEMINAR: Eighth Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements (CIRMS)
The Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS) is a unique, volunteer-managed U.S. council, enjoying the participation of representatives from academic, professional, and industrial associations and organizations, governmental departments and agencies, and from interested individuals. The CIRMS annual meeting serves as a forum for discussion of measurements and standards needs. Participants will discuss national needs in the areas of medical applications, occupational radiation protection, public and environmental radiation protection, and radiation effects on materials for space applications.
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Administration Building, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Bert Coursey, 301-975-5584, bert.coursey@nist.gov)

10:45 AM - NIST CENTER FOR NEUTRON RESEARCH SEMINAR: First Principles Calculations of the Dynamic Structure Factor Measured by Neutron Scattering
Taner Yildirim , Physicist, NIST Center for Neutron Research.
Bldg 235, Reactor, Rm.E100. (NIST Contact: Charles Glinka, 301-975-6242, cglinka@nist.gov)

1:30 PM - MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES DIVISION SEMINAR: Effective Error Estimates for Quasi-Monte-Carlo Computations
Tony Warnock , Los Alamos National Labs.
Bldg 820, Rm. 145. (NIST Contact: Fern Hunt, 301-975-3887, fern.hunt@nist.gov)

1:30 PM - METALLURGY DIVISION SEMINAR: Aspects of Copper Electroplating for On-Chip Interconnections
Panos Andricacos , Manager, Plating Technology and Materials, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY.
Materials Building, Rm. B307. (NIST Contact: Thomas Moffat, 301-975-2143, thomas.moffat@nist.gov)


10/14 -- THURSDAY

9:00 AM - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY OFFICE SEMINAR: Harnessing Materials Informatics for Combinatorial Engineering
Combinatorial Materials Development is an experimental approach to rapidly identify or optimize new material compositions. A data management strategy must be successfully integrated with combinatorial methods to fully leverage the benefits of combinatorial approaches for new materials discovery. To manage the current explosion of data, a proactive strategy is required. An effective data management strategy requires focusing on issues such as designing new processing approaches for materials, integration of experimental design, archiving, and data mining. There will be two talks centered around a General Electric-Rensselaer research partnership, followed by a discussion of this exciting field blending information technology and materials science.
Dr. James Cawse, General Electric Corporate R&D , "Sampling Combinatorial Space". Dr. Krishna Rajan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , "Integrating Materials Informatics".
Administration Building, Lecture Room A. (NIST Contact: Linde Harr, 301-975-2901, gerlinde.harr@nist.gov)

11:00 AM - POLYMERS DIVISION SEMINAR: The Dynamic Scaling Approach to Glass Formation
Ralph Colby , Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Penn. State Univ., University Park, PA.
Bldg. 224, Rm. B245. (NIST Contact: Charles Han, 301-975-6772, charles.han@nist.gov)


10/15 -- FRIDAY

10:30 AM - NIST CENTER FOR NEUTRON RESEARCH SEMINAR: Elastic Constants of Cubic Alloy Single Crystals
Craig Hartley , U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD.
Bldg 235, Rm. E100. (NIST Contact: Hank Prask, 301-975-6226, henry.prask@nist.gov)


ADVANCE NOTICE

10/26/99 1:00 PM - OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, NIST SEMINAR: Deputy Director's Quarterly Town Meeting
Two Town Meetings will be held - in Gaithersburg on October 26 and in Boulder on October 27 - as an open forum for communications between senior management and NIST staff. Karen Brown will open the Town Meetings. Planned topics include an update of the Employee Survey and Baldrige process, Performance Management, Continuous Learning and the Leadership and Management Development program. A Question and Answer session will follow.
Karen Brown , Deputy Director.
Administration Bldg, Red Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Leslie Collica, 301-975-2660, leslie.collica@nist.gov)

11/3/99 8:00 AM - HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS AND SERVICES DIVISION SEMINAR: WDM-SA'99 (Wavelength Division Multiplexing-Systems and Applications)
NIST's Information Technology Laboratory and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) invite you to attend this timely and first workshop to discuss current and future standards, interoperability, and technology for dense-wavelength division multiplexing. The focus of the workshop will be on systems and new applications such as IP over WDM, distributed super-computing, as well as standards, interoperability tests and measurements.
Rodney Alferness , CTO of Optical Networking Group, Lucent Technologies. Joe Berthold , VP of CIENA Corporation. 20 More Distinguished Invited Speakers
Administration Bldg, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Eung-Gi Paek, 301-975-2195, paek@nist.gov) www.nist.gov/wdm99

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MEETINGS ELSEWHERE


10/11 -- MONDAY

No Scheduled Events

10/12 -- TUESDAY

No Scheduled Events

10/13 -- WEDNESDAY

4:30 PM - TBA
H. DeClecq , Dept. of Chemistry, Howard Univ., Washington, DC.
Reiss 262, GU, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: Prof. Roepe, 202-687-7300, -)

11:00 AM - PROBING THE 3-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF RHODOPSIN WITH SITE-DIRECTED CROSS-LINKING
Dan Oprian , Biochemistry Department, Brandeis University.
CARB Seminar Room (101). (NIST Contact: Arlin Stoltzfus, 301-738-6208, arlin@carb.nist.gov)



10/14 -- THURSDAY

4:30 PM - TBA
T. Guo , Dept. of Chemistry, GU.
Bldg, Rm. .
Reiss 262, GU, Washington, DC. (NIST Contact: Prof. Kertesz, 202-687-5761, -)

4:00 PM - ENGINEERING ENTROPY: BUILDING ORDER WITH DISORDER
S. Fraden , Dept. of Physics, Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA.
Rm. 1325, Chemistry Bldg., UMD, College Park, MD. (NIST Contact: J. Weeks, 301-405-4802, jdw@ipst.und.edu)



10/15 -- FRIDAY

No Scheduled Events

ADVANCE NOTICE

No Scheduled Events

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TALKS BY NIST PERSONNEL

DIZDAROGLU, M. : "OXIDATIVE DNA DAMAGE AND ITS POTENTIAL USE FOR OXIDATIVE STRESS MONITORING".
"NATO Advanced Study Institute, Antalya, Turkey, 9/25.

LEVIN, B. : DEVELOPMENT OF A HETEROPLASMIC MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SRM FOR DETECTION OF HETEROPLASMY AND LOW FREQUENCY.
10th International Symposium on Human Identification, Orlando, Florida, 9/30.

LEVIN, B. : HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA HETEROPLASMIC VARIATION AMONG THIRTEEN MATERNALLY-RELATED FAMILY MEMBERS.
10th International Symposium on Human Identification, Orlando, Florida, 10/1.

DIZDAROGLU, M. : "PRINCIPLES OF THE GC/MS TECHNIQUE" AND "THE APPLICATION OF THE GC/MS TECHNIQUE TO THE MEASUREMENT OF DNA DAMAGE AND REPAIR.".
Gazi University, Department of Pharmacology, Ankara, Turkey, 10/4.

BARKER, P. : HER2/NEU DIAGNOSTICS - MOLECULAR CYTOGENETICS STANDARDS FOR GENE AMPLIFICATION.
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 10/7.

BLEVINS, L. : OBTAINING AND INTERPRETING NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH MODULATION ABSORPTION SIGNALS FROM HOT FIRE GASES: PRACTIAL ISSUES.
Combustion Institute, Eastern States Section, Fall Technical Meeting on Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion, Raleigh, North Carolina, 10/11.

PITTS, W. : AN INVESTIGATION OF EXTINGUISHMENT BY THERMAL AGENTS USING DETAILED CHEMICAL KINETIC MODELING OF OPPOSED FLOW DIFFUSION FLAMES.
Combustion Institute, Eastern States Section, Fall Technical Meeting on Chemical and Physical Processes in Combustion, Raleigh, North Carolina, 10/11.

TSANG, W. : EQUIVALENCY OF THE RANKINGS OF INHIBITOR EFFECTIVENESS FOR COMBUSTION OF HYDROCARBON FUELS.
Eastern State Section Combustion Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 10/11.

TSANG, W. : CONTROLLING THE SELF-IGNITION BEHAVIOR OF SILANE.
Eastern State Section Combustion Institute, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 10/12.

GUPTA, R. : MATERIAL AND DETECTOR CHARACTERIZATION FOR DUV AN VUV LITHOGRAPHY.
Second International UV Laser Symposium for 157 NM, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 10/13.

WIDMANN, J. coauthors: S. Charagunla, and C. Presser : BENCHMARK DATABASE FOR INPUT AND VALIDATION OF MULTIPHASE COMBUSTION MODELS.
Twenty-Eighth International Symposium on Combustion, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, 10/13.

HAGWOOD, R. : THE OMA TRANSFER FUNCTION WITH BROWNIAN MOTION.
18th Annual American Association for Aerosol Research Conference, Tacoma, Washington, 10/13.

SHAW, P. : THE NEW UV RADIOMETRY FACILITY AT SURF.
Stanford Univ., CA, 10/13.

PARRIS, R. : DESIGN, PRODUCTION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF REFERENCE MATERIALS, PROJECTS OF NIST.
ILMAC 99, Basel, Switzerland, 10/14.

WONG-NG, W. (Co-Authors: L. P.Cook A.Kearsly ) Roosen, A. : ROLE OF MELTING EQUILIBRIA IN THE PROCESSING OF THE HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS IN THE (BI,PB)-SR-CA-CU-O SYSTEM.
The 9th US-Japan Workshop on High-Tc Superconductors, Yamanashi, Japan, 10/14.

STONE, W. : METROLOGY PRECURSORS FOR AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION.
University of Minnesota, Dept. of Civil Engineering Seminar, Minneapolis ST PL,MN USA, 10/15.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MOST WANTED: MISSING LIBRARY BOOKS
PLACE: NIST LIBRARY, OFFICE OF INFORMATION SERVICES, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING REWARD: NO QUESTIONS ASKED AND NO PENALTIES!! PLEASE RETURN BOOKS IN PERSON TO THE MAIN LIBRARY BOOK DROP AT THE CIRCULATION DESK, OR MAIL THEM IN A MESSENGER ENVELOPE TO "CIRC DESK/MS 2500" OR "LINDA WHEELER/MS 2500" (ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, ROOM E119). DATE: OCTOBER 14 - OCTOBER 15, 1999 The Office of Information Services Library is missing over 3,194 books. In an effort to make more materials available to our researchers, we are asking anyone who may have any of these books to please return them ASAP. Thanks for your help! To see our missing books list, please click on the above title or: http://nvl-i.nist.gov/nist/guides/missing.htm
NIST Contact: Linda Wheeler, 301-975-2811, linda.wheeler@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

SCIFINDER - AN EASY DESKTOP TOOL
SciFinder is an easy-to-use desktop tool that allows one to access Chemical Abstracts, the world's largest source of scientific information (20 million substances, 14 million articles). SciFinder could be available at NIST if a sufficient number of users (20) were to come together with the requisite amount of funds (approximately $3000 per user). If you are interested in pursuing this matter, contact either Robert Goldberg (robert.goldberg@nist.gov or ext. 2584), Donna Klinedinst (donna.klinedinst@nist.gov or ext. 3927), or Don Burgess (donald.burgess@nist.gov or ext. 2614).
NIST Contact: Robert Goldberg, 301-975-2584, robert.goldberg@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

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NIST WEB SITE ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

NIST LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
The Leadership and Management Development (LMD) web site has a new look and is packed with valuable information. This web site is your one-stop information site for leadership and management resources available at your fingertips. Peruse the overviews of interesting links and then visit the web sites containing useful leadership and management case studies, articles, and other valuable resources. View the agenda of upcoming speakers and workshops and mark your calendars accordingly. Review the collection of leadership and management resources available from the NIST library. The LMD web site includes annotated bibliographies of the available resources including audiotapes. If you see something you like, you can request it on-line and it will be delivered to your office/Mailstop. The Communications and Awareness Team of the Leadership and Management Development effort is pleased to offer this resourceful web site to everyone at NIST.
NIST Contact: Jack Snell, 301-975-6850, jack.snell@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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