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                      Oak Ridge National Laboratory
                        Weekly Technical Calendar

September 14-18, 1992                              Volume 35, Number 38
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                         Monday, September 14

"Materials Science in the Electron Microscope"
   Frances M. Ross, National Center for Electron Microscopy,
   Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
      Solid State Division Seminar
         10:00 a.m., ORNL Building 3025, Auditorium

"That Pesky Retrovirus: Chemotherapy of AIDS"
   David Baker, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
      American Chemical Society,
      East Tennessee Section Meeting
         UT Student Center, Executive Dining Room.
            6:30 p.m., dinner
            7:30 p.m., program
                 For reservations contact Donna Bodenheimer, 615/974-2375,
                 or Sharon Lantz, 615/574-4882.  (Bring parking tickets from
                 the University Center Parking Garage to the meeting for
                 validation). The meeting is open to all interested persons.

"Uranium Biosorption Technology for Environmental Cleanup and Restoration"
   Brenda Faison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
      American Nuclear Society,
      Oak Ridge-Knoxville Section Meeting
         Calhoun's on the River, 400 Neyland Drive, Knoxville, TN
            6:00 p.m.,  social period and dinner
            8:00 p.m.,  program
                 For reservations contact Judy Fissel, 615/694-7302.


                       Tuesday, September 15

"Demonstration of xcmorder"
   Deryl Steinert and Connie Begovich, C&TD Division Staff
      Computing and Telecommunications Division Lunchtime Seminar
         1:00 p.m., ORNL Building 4500-N, Weinberg Auditorium

"New Strategies and New Blocking Groups for Oligonucleotide Synthesis"
   Wolfgang Pfleiderer, Universitat Konstanz, Germany
      Biology Division Seminar
         3:00 p.m., Biology Division Building 9207 (Y-12 Plant), Tower I
                    Conference Room

"The Glass Ceiling--Where Did It Come From and How Do We Break It?"
   Jim Barnes and Gail Sewell,
   Martin Marietta Energy Systems Office of Equal Employment Opportunity
      Society of Women Engineers
      Smoky Mountain Section Meeting
         5:30 p.m., Bechtel National Inc., Room 307-308B,
                    151 Lafayette Drive, Oak Ridge, TN


                      Wednesday, September 16

"Robots, Continuous Spaces, and Machine Semantics"
   Ernest Kent, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington, DC
      Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division Seminar
         10:00 a.m., ORNL Building 6010, Conference Room

"Microsoft Excel 4.0 and Word 5.0 for the Macintosh"
   Lois Peterson, Microsoft Corporation, Knoxville
      Computing and Telecommunications Division Seminar
         9:00 a.m., ORNL Building 4500-N, Weinberg Auditorium

"Chemical Receptor Models and Their Application to Regional and
 Large-Scale Airborne-Particulate-Matter Pollution Problems"
   Mengdawn Cheng, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
      Energy Division Seminar
         9:30, ORNL Building 4500-N, Conference Room H-15

"The Super Collider"
   Roy F. Schwitters, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory, Dallas TX
      Oak Ridge Detector Center Seminar
         1:30 p.m., ORNL Building 4500-N, Central Auditorium


                      Thursday, September 17

"Aluminum and Aluminide Infiltrated Metal-Matrix Composites for
 Commercial Applications"
   Merton C. Flemings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
      Metals and Ceramics Division Seminar
         10:00 a.m., ORNL Building 4500-S, Room A-177

"Neutron Scattering Studies of the Magnetic Excitations of Itinerant-Electron
 Antiferromagnets: The Case of gamma-Mn Alloys"
   Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Division Staff
      Solid State Division Seminar
         10:00 a.m., ORNL Building 3025, Auditorium

"Introduction to One-Step Iterative Methods"
   June M. Donato, Division Staff
      Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division, Mathematical
      Sciences Section, Seminar
         2:00 p.m., ORNL Building 6010, Conference Room

"Demonstration and Discussion of the Oak Ridge Educational Network (OREN)"
   Bob Evridge, Cedar Bluff Middle School, Knoxville
      Tennessee Educators with Apple Computer Hardware Special
      Interest Group (TEACHSIG) Meeting
         6:30 p.m., Webb School of Knoxville, Sanford Building,
                    Computer Suite.  For more information, call John Roberts
                    (615/694-0277) or Wolfgang Naegeli (615/574-6143).
                    OREN is an educational wide area network originating in
                    Oak Ridge that provides local educators and students free
                    access to the National Educational Cray computer, as well
                    as electronic mail and file transfers via the NSF Internet.

"Vision for Our Future"
   Gene Joyce, Tennessee Technology Foundation (retired),
      Oak Ridge Venture Exchange Forum
         (the former) Tennessee Innovation Center, 701 Scarboro Drive,
         Oak Ridge, TN
         5:30 p.m., Mini Business Exposition
         7:00 p.m., program
              For reservations contact Celia Williams, 615/694-6772.

"Rio: Information Exchanges and Gaps"
   Mike Farrell, Center for Global and Environmental Studies, ORNL
      American Society for Information Science
      East Tennessee Chapter Meeting
         Sagebrush Restaurant, 390 Illinois Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN
            6:30 p.m., dinner
            7:30 p.m., program
                 For reservations contact Ann Sinkankas, 615/974-2156 or 
                 615/691-0493, by noon, Tuesday, September 15.

"Some Examples of Successes in Materials Processing:
 Implications for the Future"
   Merton C. Flemings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
      American Society for Materials International 
      Oak Ridge Chapter Meeting
         Rothchild's Catering, Ten Mile Center, Knoxville, TN
            5:30 p.m., social period
            6:30 p.m., dinner
            7:30 p.m., program
                 For reservation, contact Ed Kenik, 615/574-5066,
                 by September 14.


                         Friday, September 18

ORNL SHOWCASE LECTURE

"Research and Development Behind Chloro-Fluorocarbon Replacements:
 Developing Technology To Protect the Global Environment"
   Phillip D. Fairchild, ORNL Energy Division
      ORNL Building 4500-N, Central Auditorium.
         8:30 a.m., refreshments
         9:00 a.m., program


                        Saturday, September 19

"Infringement of Patents"
   Bob Pitts, Pitts and Brittian, Knoxville
      Tennessee Inventors Association Meeting
         10:00 a.m., (the former) Tennessee Innovation Center,
                     701 Scarboro Drive, Oak Ridge, TN

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NUTRITION NOTE -- The following tip for healthy eating was provided by
Martin Marietta Energy Systems Health Services.

Here are the numbers of calories burned per minute for some common
activities. (The first figure is for a 110-pound person and second
is for a 150-pound person doing the same activity.)

     Activity                     110-pound    150-pound
     --------                     ---------    ---------
running at a six-minute-mile rate    12.6        17.2
jumping rope                          9.8        13.4
cross-county skiing                   7.0         9.7
playing racquetball                   8.9        12.0
playing basketball                    6.9         9.4
playing tennis                        5.4         7.4
aerobic dancing                       5.1         7.0
ballroom dancing                      2.5         3.4

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Meetings held on-site at ORNL listed are open to qualified representatives
of academia and industry. To make arrangements to attend, call 615/574-4160.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed on behalf of the United States
Department of Energy by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.

Pellissippi State Technical Community College is located along Hardin Valley
Rd. just off the Pellissippi Pkwy. (Rt. 162) between Knoxville and Oak Ridge.
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