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10:00 AM - Frictional Sliding Modes Along an Interface Between Identical Elastic Plates
10:30 AM - Towards Sustainable Manufacturing: A Machining Perspective
11:00 AM - The Analysis and Advanced Extensions of Canonical Correlation Analysis

12:10 PM - Nanomagnetism: What is It? Why Should You Care?

10:30 AM - Metrology for Vaccines

8:30 AM - Promoting Education about Standardization in North America
11:00 AM - Damage of DNA and Microscopic Imaging

5/4 -- MONDAY

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5/5 -- TUESDAY

10:00 AM - CERAMICS DIVISION SEMINAR: Frictional Sliding Modes Along an Interface Between Identical Elastic Plates
Frictional sliding along an interface between two identical isotropic elastic plates under impact shear loading is investigated numerically. The plates are held together by a compressive stress and one plate is subject to edge impact near the interface. Plane stress finite element calculations are carried out, with the interface characterized by a rate and state dependent frictional law. A variety of sliding modes are obtained in the calculations depending on the impact velocity, the initial compressive stress and the values of interface variables. For low values of the initial compressive stress and impact velocity, sliding occurs in a crack-like mode. For higher values of the initial compressive stress and/or impact velocity, sliding takes place in a pulse-like mode. One pulse-like mode involves well-separated pulses with the pulse amplitude increasing with propagation distance. Another pulse-like mode involves a pulse train of essentially constant amplitude. Multiple slip pulses are also observed in molecular dynamic simulations that are carried out without the use of a particular friction law. The existence of the slip pulses seem to be generic and can occur at length scales ranging from the geological to nanometer length scales. The study of different sliding modes deserves attention particularly at the nanometer scale where the frictional behavior of surfaces plays an important role in the performance of nanometer size devices.
Demirkan Coker , Oklahoma State University.
Materials Building, Rm. A250. (NIST Contact: Robert Cook, 301-975-3207, robert.cook@nist.gov)

10:30 AM - SIMA SEMINAR: Towards Sustainable Manufacturing: A Machining Perspective
A.K. Balaji , Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,University of Utah.
Metrology Bldg, Rm. B105. (NIST Contact: Sudarsan Rachuri, 301-975-4264, sudarsan@nist.gov)

11:00 AM - STATISTICAL ENGINEERING DIVISION SEMINAR: The Analysis and Advanced Extensions of Canonical Correlation Analysis
Drug discovery is the process of identifying compounds which have potentially meaningful biological activity. A problem that arises is that the number of compounds to search over can be quite large, sometimes numbering in the millions, making experimental testing intractable. For this reason computational methods are employed to filter out those compounds which do not exhibit strong biological activity. This filtering step, also called virtual screening reduces the search space, allowing for the remaining compounds to be experimentally tested. In the first part of this talk I will provide an approach to the problem of virtual screening based on Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) and several extensions which use kernel and spectral learning ideas. Specifically these methods will be applied to the protein-ligand matching problem. I will then provide some theoretical results analyzing the behavior of CCA in the High Dimension Low Sample Size (HDLSS) setting. In the final part of this talk the strong performance of these approaches will be demonstrated on real world data and I will propose some topics for future research.
Daniel Samarov , Ph.D. Student,Department of Statistics and Operations Research,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Building 221, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: Charles Hagwood, 301-975-2846, hagwood@nist.gov)


5/6 -- WEDNESDAY

12:10 PM - FRONTIERS IN SCIENCE SEMINAR, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LABORATORY: Nanomagnetism: What is It? Why Should You Care?
As has been found for many other properties, the magnetic character of materials possessing some material dimension in the nanometer regime can be quite different from that commonly associated with conventional macro-scaled materials. New magnetic phenomena, unusual property combinations, and both enhanced and diminished magnetic property values are just some of the changes observed. As a consequence, these materials are being investigated for their potential as the next generation soft ferromagnets in addition to their future as pioneered hard ferromagnets with vastly improved energy products. Why that is the case and why you should care will be presented here. In addition, the unique domain kinetics, the "Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR)" effects, and the "Enhanced Magnetocaloric Effects" of this class of materials will also be described. These nanostructured materials are one of the reasons for the excitement surrounding the "Nanotechnology Revolution" that has presently captured the imagnination of the world.
Robert Shull , Group Leader, Magnetic Materials Group.
Physics Building, Rm. B145. (NIST Contact: William Egelhoff, Jr., 301-975-2542, william.egelhoff@nist.gov)


5/7 -- THURSDAY

10:30 AM - BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCE DIVISION SEMINAR: Metrology for Vaccines
Vaccines are complex biological materials with enormous health benefits. Some of the most important vaccines are vaccines against Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), which is a major human pathogen. Almost all pathogenic pneumococci express a thick polysaccharide capsule which permits them to avoid ingestion by host phagocytes. Pneumococcal vaccines are designed to elicit anti-capsule antibodies that opsonize pneumococci for phagocytes. Design and manufacture of pneumococcal vaccines require standardized and complex analytical tools to measure biochemical and immunological properties of the vaccine. My laboratory has 1) improved the specificity of pneumococcal antibody ELISA, 2) invented a multiplexed bioassay for measuring opsonophagocytic capacity of pneumococcal antibodies, and 3) developed a novel method to identify different polysaccharide capsules. To facilitate standardization of these analytical tools, we have been collaborating with various agencies such as WHO, CDC, NIH, FDA, and PATH. Using these advanced analytical tools, we have been able to make fundamental discoveries in pneumococcal diversity, which impact on pneumococcal vaccine design and manufacture. NIST Contact: Jeeseong Hwang (301-975-4580, jch@nist.gov) or Michael Amos (301-975-8631, mamos@nist.gov)
Moon Nahm , Professor, Pathology Department, U of Alabama at Birmingham.
227 Bldg, Rm. A202. (NIST Contact: Jeeseong Hwang and Michael Amos, 301-975-4580 / 8631, jch@nist.gov / mamos@nist.gov)


5/8 -- FRIDAY

8:30 AM - STANDARDS SERVICES DIVISION SEMINAR: Promoting Education about Standardization in North America
Today, major changes are taking place that will likely affect standards education in the future. Standards organizations are reconfiguring themselves along new lines - organizationally as well as geographically. At the same time, many educational organizations are reaching out to create new ties among non-academic communities. The role that standards play in innovation, competitiveness and international trade is also becoming more readily acknowledged. Given the changing environment this workshop looks to build on the foundation of the work being done by ICES, the ANSI Committee on Education and the 2008 NIST workshop on education about standardization. Participants will learn about existing course offerings and lessons learned from both academic and industry representatives and will discuss different pedagogical alternatives and future strategies for developing, delivering and promoting standards education curricula in North America.
Don Purcell , Chairman, Center for Global Standards Analysis. John Bagby , Penn State University. Other speakers will be Jim Oshelfsky, ASTM International and D. Linda Garcia, Georgetown University
Administration Bldg, Employees Lounge. (NIST Contact: Erik Puskar, 301-975-8619, erik.puskar@nist.gov) http://www.nist.gov/director/sco/index.cfm?Promoting-Education-About-Standardization.cfm

11:00 AM - JOINT BIOPHYSICS GROUP, OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY DIV/ CARB SEMINAR: Damage of DNA and Microscopic Imaging
Time resolved vibrational spectroscopy on the femtosecond timescale allows the access to new information on molecular intermediates and molecular structures not accessible to other techniques. The first part of the talk will present applications of femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering as a new microscopic imaging technique allowing to obtain complete Raman spectra with micrometer resolution. The second part will focus on recent investigations on the formation of the most common ultraviolet radiation damage of DNA. We show via experiments on different Thymine model compounds that the formation of the CPD photolesion is ultrafast and occurs within 1 ps. The high speed of damage formation indicates that the efficiency of damage formation is controlled by the structural arrangement of the DNA bases at the moment of photon absorption.
Prof. Wolfgang Zinth , Chair, Biomolecular Optics, Dept of Physics, Ludwig-Maximillians Univ, Munich, Germany.
Administration Building, Lunch Club Room. (NIST Contact: Ted Heilweil, 301-975-2370, edwin.heilweil@nist.gov)


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5/11/09 10:30 AM - OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY AND PROCESS MEASUREMENT DIVISIONS: ADVANCED MEASUREMENTS OF GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM INDUSTRIAL FUGITIVE SOURCES AND AREA OPEN SOURCES
Recently, many approaches has been developed and applied to address air emissions from industrial fugitive sources and area open sources. Most of these approaches apply for green house gas emission measurements for the same type of sources. These approaches may be divided into two categories: mobile platform (airborne or ground based) and stationary measurements. Whatever the mix of platforms and/or measurement techniques (optical remote sensing [ORS] or point monitors) in each of these measurement categories, the basic concept is almost always characterization of the plume dispersion downwind from the fugitive or area source and incorporating concurrent wind data for total flux calculations. In some instances, a combination of measurement techniques (and platform) may be the best solution for a specific measurement problem. Dr. Hashmonay has developed such solutions for the last 15 years and has worked on optical remote sensing for the last 21 years. He is the author of the USEPA OTM10 test method which is currently the only EPA's test method that addresses this issue of quantifying emissions from this type of sources. He is currently involved in new test method development to include new developments in this field. He will review in his presentation these approaches that include both measurement categories and both ORS and point monitors and several hybrid approches. Dr. Hashmonay will discuss the pros and cons of the mentioned approaches.
Ram Hashmonay , Director, Advanced Air Monitoring Solutions, ARCADIS, Raleigh-Durham, NC.
Bldg 221, Room B145. (NIST Contact: David Plusquellic, 301-975-3896, dplus@nist.gov)

5/12/09 10:30 AM - NIST BIOIMAGING SEMINAR (SPONSORED BY IONIZING RADIATION DIV.): Credulous Idolatry:The Use and Abuse of SUV in PET Scanning
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging has become a major tool for diagnosis and tumor monitoring. The growth of PET imaging has spawned new product lines such as PET-CT units and PET isotope distribution services which are located around the world. A host of novel PET agents are being developed that should add specificity to the current glucose-based PET agent. However, if PET is to become truly quantitative, as required by the FDA, better methods of measuring uptake must be developed. The "SUV" as currently obtained varies according to manufacturer and even within software releases from the same manufacturer. Moreover, new "resolution recovery methods" favor image "beautification" over image"quantitation" further degrading SUV reproducibility. This talk will highlight the potentials and problems surrounding quantitative PET.
Peter Choyke , Chief, Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
Radiation Physics (245) Bldg, Rm. C301. (NIST Contact: Brian Zimmerman, 301-975-4338, bez@nist.gov)

5/15/09 10:30 AM - NIST COLLOQUIUM SERIES: Programming the Universe
What is the universe made of? The conventional view states that it is made up of matter and energy, of fields and elementary particles. But there is a more fundamental view: universe is made up of information, and at the bottom, it is made up of bits. Drawing from recently developed theories of quantum computation, we show how information and information processing form and shape the universe, from its smallest to its largest scales.
Seth Lloyd , Director, Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Administration Building, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Kum Ham, 301-975-4203, kham@nist.gov)
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5/20/09 1:30 PM - WORLD METROLOGY DAY: NIST Celebration - May 20th: Metrology Underpinning Economic Development
Join us for NIST's 3rd annual celebration of World Metrology Day. This year's theme is Metrology Underpinning Economic Development and will give us some insight into how our global economy is impacted by measurement. Topics: U.S. Metric Transition: Maximizing Opportunities and Reducing Barriers to Increase SI Use, Elizabeth J. Gentry (NIST) When is a Pound of Fish Only Fourteen Ounces?, Lisa Weddig (National Fisheries Institute) Reception and Poster Session to follow. NIST laboratories will have posters on display related to this year's theme in the Hall of States after the speaker session is finished.
Elizabeth Gentry , NIST Weights and Measures Division, Metric Program, Gaithersburg, MD. Lisa Weddig , Director, Regulatory and Technical Affairs, National Fisheries Institute, McLean, VA. 3rd Speaker, TBD
Administration Bldg, Red Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Belinda Collins, 301-975-4500, belinda.collins@nist.gov)

5/26/09 10:30 AM - CNST NANOFABRICATION RESEARCH GROUP SEMINAR: Vertical Molecular Transistors
We demonstrate a universal method in which a new type of nanometer-sized, ambipolar, vertical molecular transistor is fabricated in parallel fashion. This Central-Gate Molecular Vertical Transistor (C-Gate MolVeT) is fabricated by a combination of conventional micro-lithography techniques and self-assembly methods. Here we will show several examples which utilize this device to investigate transport phenomena on the molecular scale.
Shachar Richter , School of Chemistry and University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,Tel Aviv University,.
Bldg. 217, Rm H107. (NIST Contact: Nikolai Zhitenev, 301-975-6039, nikolai.zhitenev@nist.gov)

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MEETINGS ELSEWHERE


5/4 -- MONDAY

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5/5 -- TUESDAY

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5/6 -- WEDNESDAY

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5/7 -- THURSDAY

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5/8 -- FRIDAY

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TALKS BY NIST PERSONNEL

NEWBURY, D. : CHARACTERIZING HETEROGENEOUS PARTICLES WITH SEM/SDD-EDS MAPPING AND NIST LISPIX.
SCANNING-2009 Conference sponsored by SPIE, Monterey, CA, 5/4.

JOHNSON, C. : NEW BUILD.
NASA Ocean Color Research Team/Biodiversity Team Meeting, The Western New York At Time Square Hotel New York, New York, 5/5.

NEWBURY, D. : SOLVING THE MICRO-TO-MACRO SPATIAL SCALE PROBLEM WITH MILLIPROBE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE/X-RAY SPECTRUM IMAGING.
SCANNING 2009 Conf. sponsored by SPIE, Monterey, CA, 5/5.

JACH, T. : HIGH RESOLUTION X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY.
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 5/5.

NIKOOBAKHT, B. : STRAIN DRIVEN GROWTH OF ZINC OXIDE NANOWIRES ON SAPPHIRE: CONTROLLING HORIZONTAL VS. STANDING GROWTH.
Nanotech Conference and Expo 2009, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX, 5/5.

JONES, R. : EFFECTS OF PROCESSING CONDITIONS ON NANOSTRUCTURE ORIENTATION IN BLOCK COPOLYMER FILMS.
International Conference on Neutron Scattering, Knoxville, TN, 5/5.

KLOUDA, G. : AEROSOL COLLECTION EFFICIENCY OF A GRADED METAL-FIBER FILTER AT HIGH AIRFLOW VELOCITY.
American Filtration & Separations Society 2009 Annual Conference & Exposition, Bloomington, MN, 5/5.

SZAKAL, C. : APPROACHES FOR ENHANCED SELECTIVITY AND SENSITIVITY IN BIOIMAGING.
SPIE Scanning Microscopy 2009, Monterey, CA, 5/5.

NEWBURY, D. : WORKSHOP: A GUIDE TO MODELING ELECTRON-EXCITED X-RAY SPECTRA WITH NIST DTSA-II.
SCANNING-2009 sponsored by SPIE, Monterey,CA, 5/6.

SCOTT, K. : SAMPLE PREPARATION METHODS FOR 3D X-RAY MICROANALYSIS USING FIB SEM..
SPIE Scanning Microscopy Symposium, Portola Plaza Hotel, Monterey, California, 5/6.

CLARK, C. : BELIEVE IT OR SQUARE ROOT OF NOT: QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS AND QUANTUM COMPUTING.
Undergraduate Engineering Assembly, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 5/6.

DONAHUE, M. : PARALLELIZING A MICROMAGNETIC PROGRAM FOR USE ON MULTI-PROCESSOR SHARED MEMORY COMPUTERS.
IEEE International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG 2009), Sacramento, CA, 5/6.

RALCHENKO, Y. (Co-Authors: Y.Ralchenko , Physicist, NIST I.Draganic , Physicist, NIST) ; Reader, J., Physicist, NIST; Tan, J.N., Physicist, NIST; Pomeroy, J.M., Physicist, NIST; Brewer, S., Physicist, NIST : COLLISIONAL-RADIATIVE MODELING AND IDENTIFICATION OF EUV EBIT SPECTRA FROM HIGHLY-CHARGED HF, TA, AND AU.
3rd workshop on Physics at EBITS and Advanced Research Light Sources (PEARL), Dublin, Ireland, 5/6.

RALCHENKO, Y. (Co-Authors: I.Draganic , Physicist, Gaithersburg, MD J.Gillaspy , Physicist, Gaithersburg, MD) ; Reader, J., Physicist; Tan, J.N., Physicist; Pomeroy, J.M., Physicist; Brewer, S., Physicist : COLLISIONAL-RADIATIVE MODELING AND IDENTIFICATION OF EUV EBIT SPECTRA FROM HIGHLY-CHARGED HF, TA, AND AU.
3rd workshop on Physics at EBITS and Advanced Research Light Sources (PEARL), Dublin, Ireland, 5/6.

READER, J. (Co-Authors: J.Gillaspy , Physicist, NIST I.Draganic , Physicist, NIST) ; Ralchenko, Y., Physicist, NIST; Tan, J.N., Physicist, NIST; Pomeroy, J.M., Physicist, NIST; Brewer, S., Physicist, NIST : MEASUREMENT OF THE D LINE DOUBLET IN HIGH-Z HIGHLY-CHARGED SODIUM-LIKE IONS.
3rd workshop on Physics at EBITS and Advanced Research Light Sources (PEARL), Dublin, Ireland, 5/6.

BURNS, T. : DYNAMIC PROPERTIES FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION OF MACHINING: AN UPDATE OF RESULTS FROM THE NIST PULSE-HEATED KOLSKY BAR.
12th CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations, San Sebastian, Spain, 5/7.

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