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No Scheduled Events

9:00 AM - Annual OWASP Application Security Conference

3:00 PM - Sparse Low-Rank Approximations of Sparse Matrices

10:00 AM - The Combined Federal Campaign Kick-Off

10:00 AM - RFID: What it's all about?
10:30 AM - Adventures in the Promised Land: Cassini in Orbit Around Saturn
12:00 PM - Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) at NIST: How Are We Doing?

10/10 -- MONDAY

No Scheduled Events

10/11 -- TUESDAY

9:00 AM - SOFTWARE DIAGNOSTICS AND CONFORMANCE TESTING DIVISION SEMINAR: Annual OWASP Application Security Conference
OWASP's AppSec conferences are dedicated to real-world application security issues and solutions. You'll learn all aspects of application security, including people, process, and technology perspectives. Some topics are DHS plans for Software Assurance, Status of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Project, A Business Case for Software Assurance, Attacking Web Services, .NET Security, Software Assurance Metrics, A Survey of Application Security Tools, The new OWASP Guide v2, The OWASP .NET Project, Defending a High Profile Political Web Site, How to Select an Application Security Assessment Vendor
Joe Jarzombek , Dir. of Software Assurance, Dept. of Homeland Security. Rick Kuhn , NIST. Other speakers are Ron Ross-NIST, Jack Danahy-Ounce Labs, Mike Kass-NIST, Diniz Cruz-OWASP, Arian Evans-FishNet Security, and Dave Wichers-Aspect Security.
Administration Bldg, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Elizabeth Fong, 301-975-3250, efong.@nist.gov) http://www.owasp.org/conferences/appsec2005dc.html


10/12 -- WEDNESDAY

3:00 PM - MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES DIVISION SEMINAR: Sparse Low-Rank Approximations of Sparse Matrices
G.W. (Pete) Stewart , ITL/Univ. of Maryland.
NIST North (820) Bldg, Rm. 145. (NIST Contact: Peter Ketcham, 301-975-5456, peter.ketcham@nist.gov) http://math.nist.gov/mcsd/Seminars/2005/2005-10-12-stewart.html


10/13 -- THURSDAY

10:00 AM - THE COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF: The Combined Federal Campaign Kick-Off
The 2005 NIST-wide Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Kick-Off will be held in the Red Auditorium on October 13, 2005, from 10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Kathleen Matthews, Channel 7 News Anchor, will be our Keynote Speaker. Hratch Semerjian will offer welcoming remarks at 10:00 a.m. in the Red Auditorium. A few charities will tell their stories. There will be prize drawings throughout the day. From 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Employee Lounge, our NIST Childcare Center will sing songs, and we will have Karaoke with Scientific Songs. We also will have a full range of regular songs for your Karaoke enjoyment! Prepare a song from your division or OU, and come join the fun! Meet the various charities at our charity fair. Win prizes by donating to the CFC! Prizes also given for Karaoke. Enjoy delicious complimentary food from our vendors. This day is about giving to help those in need. To be eligible for the prize drawings on our Kick-Off Day, please complete your pledge card in advance and give it to your key worker by Tuesday, October 11. All completed pledge cards will be delivered to the CFC Captain's meeting at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 12. Every completed pledge card received at that time will be entered into the prize drawing for the Kick-Off. Some examples of prizes to be given away at the CFC Kick-Off are: (1) Marriot Hotels-1 weekend getaway package (2) Whitetail Mountain Resort-1 ski/snowboarding package (3) Bank of America (Quince Orchard)-$100 gift certificate to Nordstrom's (4) Club Golf Fitness Center-3 free golf lessons with a pro (5) …and many more.
Kathleen Matthews , Channel 7 New Anchor, Keynote Speaker.
Administration Building, Red Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Sharon Mingo, 301-975-3570, mingo@nist.gov)


10/14 -- FRIDAY

10:00 AM - ADVANCED NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES DIVISION SEMINAR: RFID: What it's all about?
It seems like everyone's talking about RFID. What's it all about? In this presentation, the background of the current "buzz" on RFID technology is given and examples of RFID sensor systems are shown. Also, the basic operation of the technology is explained and standardization efforts are summarized.
Leonard Miller , Advanced Network Technologies Division, NIST, leonard.miller@nist.gov.
Administration Bldg, Lecture Rm. A. (NIST Contact: Leonard Miller, 301-975-8018, leonard.miller@nist.gov)

10:30 AM - NIST COLLOQUIUM SERIES : Adventures in the Promised Land: Cassini in Orbit Around Saturn
A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a ringed, softly-hued planet. A flying-saucer shaped machine descends through a hazy atmosphere and lands on the surface of an alien moon, ten times farther from the Sun than the Earth. Fantastic though they seem, these visions are not a dream. The Cassini spacecraft and its Huygens probe have traveled invisible interplanetary roads to the place we call Saturn. Their successful entry into orbit, the mythic landing of Huygens on the cold, dark equatorial plains of Titan, and Cassini's explorations of the saturnian environment are already the stuff of legend. What they have shown us thus far, and the images they have collected, are being closely examined in the pursuit of precise scientific information on the nature of this very alien planetary system. Come along for the ride, and witness the sights and magic worked by these emissaries from Earth to the enchanting realm of Saturn.
Carolyn Porco , Science Imaging Team Leader, Cassini Mission to Saturn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO.
Administration Bldg, RED Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Kum Ham, 301-975-4203, kham@nist.gov)
Special Assistance Available

12:00 PM - NCW SEMINAR: Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) at NIST: How Are We Doing?
Cynthia Snipes , Program Manager with the NIST Civil Rights and Diversity Division.
Administration Bldg, Lecture Rm. E. (NIST Contact: Kathryn Butler, 301-975-6673, kathryn.butler@nist.gov)


ADVANCE NOTICE

10/19/05 10:30 AM - MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING LABORATORY SEMINAR: Sustainable Energy and Economic Growth: Challenges to India
India is one of the largest producers of electric power, but its per capita annual consumption is abysmally small, around 500 kWh. Most of the electric power comes from coal, followed by hydroelectric stations. Nuclear power constitutes a meager 2.5%. For Indian economy to grow higher than 7% it is essential that electric power generation and utilization also grows at the same level. It is likely that the elasticity between GDP and electric power growth may well work out to be larger than one. If India plans to realize a per capita annual consumption of 1,000 kWh—a modest amount considering the global average today is above 2,500 kWh—in ten years, what should be its options? What are the opportunities presented by nuclear power and what should be the concerns
Dr. V. S. Arunachalam , Founder of the Center for the Study of Science, Technology, and Policy, Bangalore, India.
Shops Building, Room B126. (NIST Contact: Eswaran Subarhmanian, 301-975-6083, eswaran.subarhmanian@nist.gov)

10/21/05 10:30 AM - ELECTRON AND OPTICAL PHYSICS DIVISION SEMINAR: MANIPULATING SINGLE ATOMS AND BUILDING NANOSTRUCTURES BY DESIGN
We are taught in grade school that matter is made up of things called "atoms", a word that dates back to 400 BC, when the Greek philosophers Leucippus and Democritus postulated the smallest unit of matter is an atom. Imaging and manipulating single atoms on atomic scale dimensions were enabled with the advent of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). In the imaging mode the STM is a non-interacting measurement probe sensitive to the electron density of states at the surface of a conductor. In the manipulation mode the STM probe tip is used to turn on an interaction with a single atom that can be manipulated with atomic scale precision. In this talk I will point out how measurements are made to study the motion of an atom in the manipulation process, the physical mechanisms involved in atom manipulation, and how one can build nanostructures by design thereby engineering a quantum laboratory. Several mechanisms can be identified in the atom dynamics during manipulation, including vibrational heating due to inelastic electron scattering and quantum tunneling processes.
Joseph Stroscio , NIST, Electron and Optical Physics Division.
AML 215 Bldg, Rm. C103-105. (NIST Contact: Barbara Coalmon, 301-975-3707, barbara.coalmon@nist.gov) http://physics.nist.gov/Divisions/Div841/Gp3/nanotech_seminar.html#current

10/27/05 11:00 AM - CHIEF HUMAN CAPITAL OFFICE SEMINAR: STANDARDS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (SAA) QUARTERLY MEETING
Improving Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems: NIST's Role in Helping America Vote At the October meeting, Dr. Shashi Phoha, ITL Director, will discuss NIST's contributions to improving the trust and confidence of voters in future elections. After the 2000 Presidential election, the U.S. Congress considered landmark legislation to ensure public trust in the nation's voting system. Long before, in 1975, NBS computer scientist Roy Saltman had published the first of two seminal research papers on security challenges related to computerized voting technology. In October 2002, the President of the United States signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). The law recognized NIST's research strengths in security standards for computers, human factors and laboratory accreditation that were relevant to specifying standards for the next generation of electronic voting systems.
Dr. Shashi Phoha , Director, Information Technology Laboratory.
Administration Bldg, Lecture Rm. B. (NIST Contact: Sandy Heydemann, 301-975-3032, sandra.heydemann@nist.gov)

10/31/05 9:00 AM - COMPUTER SECURITY DIVISION SEMINAR: Cryptographic Hash Workshop
Recently a team of researchers reported that the NIST-issued SHA-1 Hash Standard offers significantly less collision resistance than could be expected from a cryptographic hash function of its output size. NIST is hosting a workshop to solicit public input in how best to respond to the current state of research in this area. The workshop has the following goals: (1) Assess the status of the current NIST-approved hash functions, i.e., the SHA-256 and SHA-512 families in addition to SHA-1; (2) Discuss short term actions to mitigate the potential problems with the various applications of the approved hash functions; (3) Discuss the conditions that would warrant an early transition away from any of the approved hash functions; (4) Discuss the potential replacement options for any of the approved hash functions; (5) Clarify the properties of unkeyed cryptographic hash functions required for different applications. ****$125.00 ($50.00 student fee)***
Xiaoyun Wang , Tsinghua University: "CRYPTANALYSIS OF SHA-1 HASH FUNCTION". Bart Preneel , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven:, "DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR HASH FUNCTIONS REVISITED".
Administration Building, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: Sara Caswell, 301-975-4634, sara@nist.gov) http://www.nist.gov/hash-function
Special Assistance Available

11/7/05 7:15 AM - ,AIP AND NIST CONFERENCE SEMINAR: Advancing Infrastructure for Innovation
SPONSORS: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and American Institute of Physics AUDIENCE: Scientific Community, Industry, Government & Academic Leaders, & Researchers FORMAT: Lecture with a laboratory tours. DESCRIPTION: To highlight NIST research activities and nanotechnology activities in the government. Learn how advanced measurements & standards drive R&D in public safety, biosystems & health. Explore how the government is stimulating nanotechnology for industry & how you can benefit. Tour the vast NIST Laboratories REGISTRATION CONTACT: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Corporate Associates Program, phone: 301/209-3034, fax: 301/209-0839, email: assoc@aip.org TECHNICAL CONTACT: David Seiler, NIST, phone: 301/975-2074, fax: 301/975-6021, email: David Seiler CONFERENCE HOMEPAGE: http://www.aip.org/ipf----- NIST ATTENDEES ON-LINE REGISTRATION:
. . , Sponsored by the American Institute of Physics & NIST.
Administration Building, Green Auditorium. (NIST Contact: David Seiler, 301-975-2074, david.seiler@nist.gov) https://rproxy.nist.gov/CRS/conf_ext.cfm?conf_id=1500

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MEETINGS ELSEWHERE


10/10 -- MONDAY

No Scheduled Events

10/11 -- TUESDAY

11:00 AM - IMPLICATIONS OF FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS PATHWAY FOR DEVELOPING NOVEL ANTI-MALARIAL THERAPY
Avadhesha Surolia , Professor of Biophysics & Chairman.
Bldg, Rm. .
CARB 9600 Gudelsky Dr. Rockville, MD 20850. (NIST Contact: Melissa` Sisco, 301-975-5120, melissa.sisco@nist.gov)



10/12 -- WEDNESDAY

No Scheduled Events

10/13 -- THURSDAY

No Scheduled Events

10/14 -- FRIDAY

No Scheduled Events

ADVANCE NOTICE

No Scheduled Events

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TALKS BY NIST PERSONNEL

LAFFERTY, W. : EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CONTINUUM ABSORPTION BY ATMOSPHERIC GASES.
The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) 51st International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS), Quebec, Canada, 10/10.

LI, Y. : IN SEARCH OF THE KEY TO THE LOCK: CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION ISSUES AND REQUIREMENTS IN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING.
2005 IEEE 1588 Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 10/10.

STRANICK, S. : SUPER RESOLUTION MICROSCOPIES FOR CHEMICAL AND MATERIAL ANALYSIS ON REAL WORLD SAMPLES.
The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, Quebec City, Canada, 10/11.

ROBEY, S. : ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND THE EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL MODIFICATION IN PROTOTYPICAL "MOLECULAR WIRE" SYSTEMS.
University of Delaware, Department of Chemistry, Delaware, Maryland, 10/12.

HEILWEIL, E. : TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY, IMAGING AND APPLICATIONS.
Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, Quebec Conference Center, Delta Quebec, Canada, 10/12.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

SALLY RIDE SCIENCE TOY CHALLENGE
Toys and games are a great way to learn about science, engineering and the design process. The NIST chapter of Sigma Xi invites the NIST community to participate in the 2006 National Toy Design Challenge. Teams composed of 5th - 8th graders are being formed from now until December 12, 2005. For more information, please see the Sally Ride Science Toy Challenge Web Site.
NIST Contact: Magdalena Navarro, 301-975-2130, magdalena.navarro@nist.gov

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NIST WEB SITE ANNOUNCEMENTS

No Web Site announcements this week.

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For more information, contact Ms. Sharon Mingo, Editor, Stop 2500, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD 20899-2500; Telephone: 301-975-TCAL (3570); Fax: 301-926-4431; or Email: tcal@nist.gov.

All lectures and meetings are open unless otherwise stated.

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