MEETINGS AT NIST

• RETIREMENT WORKSHOP: THE REALITIES OF LIFE AFTER RETIREMENT
• NOVEL APPLICATIONS OF LASER-POLARIZED XENON.
• NIST SRDP COLLOQUIUM SERIES
• ULTRAFAST LASER STUDIES OF MOLECULAR DYNAMICS ON SURFACES: ENERGY TRANSFER AND CHEMISTRY
• HERETICAL VIEWS OF UNCERTAINTY
• THE ATOM LASER: MATTER MADE OF MATTER WAVES
• Modeling Quantum Nanostructures: Moving Toward the Atomic Limit
• Development of a Molecular Dynamics Model of Thermal Reactivity in Polymers
• Raman Spectroscopy as a Probe of Surface Chemistry

MEETINGS ELSEWHERE

• Recent Applications of Ash's Infinite Injury Priority Method (Part IV)
• Tools for Assessing Chemicals in the Environment and Designing for Biodegradability
• The Erdos-Stone Theorem
• Self-Complementary Graphs
• AIDS and Foreign Policy
• Quantum Confined Stark Effect in Piezoelectric Quantum Wells
• Riemann and the Influence of His Work on the Modern Science
• Protein G B1 Folding Kinetics by Hydrogen Exchange Under Native Conditions
• Early Animal Evolution: The Context of Time, Phylogeny, and Environmental Change
• Social Adaptation to Environmental Change

TALKS BY NIST PERSONNEL

• TEM and EELS Investigation of Amorphous Diamond Coated Field Emitters
• Optical Coherence Tomography of Composites
• Prototyping Electro-Optic Devices Using Polymer Waveguides
• Standards Are Us: NIST Role in Providing National Traceability and International Comparability of Chemical Measurements
• AFM of Nucleation and Growth in Off-Critical Polymer Blend Films
• Thermal Plasma Synthesis of Coated Soft Magnetic Nanocomposites
• Residual Stress Measurements of Perfluoro-cyclobutane Aromatic Ether Polymer Thin-Film on Silicon
• Single Mode Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy
• Measurement of Oxidized DNA Bases Using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry
• Polymer Interdiffusion Near Attractive Wall
• Effect of Structural and Magnetic Transitions in La(1-x)MxMnO3 (M = Sr, Ca) Single Crystals in Raman Scattering
• Characterization of Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) of Alkylated 3,6,9,12,15,18-hexaoxathiols on Gold (Au) and Hybrid Bilayer Membranes Derived Therefrom
• Behavior of Lead in Pb-BSCCO Superconductor Systems
• Crystal Growth of BSCCO Superconductors Using Liquidus Data
• Update on SIMS Analysis for Safeguards
• Kinetic and Viscoelastic Behaviors of Glass Forming Systems
• Raman Investigation of the Layered Manganese Perovskite La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7

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Issue number: 9748