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Event List Archive

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This archive is updated approximately every week and includes the short announcements sent out through the STN event list about S&T related events.

If you have attended one of the below events and wish to make a short report on what transpired, please send your report to stn@columbia.edu and it will be included in the Event Notes & Comments Archive online.

These events are not organized chronologically, by topic, or in any other order:

Volunteers are needed for the PDC 2000 conference
sponsored by CPSR. Interested students should contact
Dean at the e-mail address listed below with all of
their contact info and also let him know if they are
interested in providing housing for one of the foreign
volunteers. Also, volunteers must register for the
conference by following the instructions listed below.
Volunteers get to attend the conference and banquet
for free (normally $85).
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:42:40 -0400
To: PDC Volunteers:;
From: Dean Nieusma <nieusma@rpi.edu>
Subject: registration procedure
CC: tcherkasky@sapient.com
PDC Volunteers,
If you have not already registered, please follow
these directions:
1) Download the registration from from the website
<www.cpsr.org/conferences/pdc2000>.
2) Fill out your personal information as usual.
3) For "payment computation" put a zero for
"conference fee". As a
volunteer, you are entitled to a "scholarship" equal
to the normal US$85
student conference fee. You must pay for CPSR
membership, the tutorial,
extra proceedings, or extra banquet tickets should
you require any of these.
4) For "check all that apply", check the box "I have
requested a
scholarship" and write in "STUDENT VOLUNTEER" next
to it.
5) Send the form in on or before 20 Oct 2000.
I will provide the person responsible for
registration a complete list of
your names. If you have any problems, contact me
first.

Mon Oct. 23
Alexander Pfaff (Columbia) "The Dynamics of Deforestation: Evidence from Costa Rica" related paper note: This is a closely related version
of the paper to be presented at the seminar. Monday 4:30--6:00 PM
Collery Seminar Room 1027 IAB
Mon, Oct. 23
8:00 P.M. "A Science of Politics: The American
History of Scientific Policy and Policy-making." Lisa Anderson, dean, SIPA, with Ira Katznelson, CU. Schoff Lectures
2000, University Seminars. 854-2389. Kellogg Ctr, IAB.Tues., Oct. 24

9:00 A.M. Conference: "U.S. Energy Policy Issues
Facing the Next Administration." SIPA and the Ctr for Energy, Marine Transportation & Public Policy. For further information, call: 854-0602. Kellogg Conference Ctr, 15th fl, IAB
Friday, Oct. 27

12:30 P.M. "Toxic Beauty: Regenerating the
Industrial Landscape." Julie Bargmann, UVA, with John Beardsley, Graduate School of Design, Harvard U. 'Earth to Architects!' Temple Hoyne Buell Ctr, Architecture. 854-8165. 114 Avery.
Mon, Oct. 30

2:00 P.M. "Why Understanding Cultural as Well as
Genetic Evolution Offers an Important Key to Our Future." Paul Ehrlich, world-renowned evolutionary biologists and
Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford U. Ehrlich will be available for book signing after the talk. Columbia
Earth Institute and CERC. 854-8179. 555 Lerner. 8:00 P.M. "A Marketplace of Ideas: Social Science and
Public Policy Beyond Government." Lisa Anderson, dean, SIPA, with Peter Bearman, CU. 'Schoff Lectures 2000,'University Seminars. 854-2389. Kellogg Ctr, IAB
Oct. 30

Joshua Graff Zivin (Columbia), "Other People's Money: A Modigliani-Miller Theory of 'Responsible' Corporate Behavior" Monday 4:30--6:00 PM Collery Seminar Room
1027 IAB

Columbia Institute of Tele-Information Upcoming Events:
http://www.citi.columbia.edu/
November 3, 2000, New York
CONFERENCE: Setting the Telecommunications Policy Agenda
For further information or to pre-register for the Conference, please
contact C.I.T.I. at (212) 854-4222
Registration fee: Corporate- $75; Academic/Government/Non-Profit- $25
November 10, 2000, New York
CONFERENCE: TV Over the Internet: Implications for Infrastructure, Content,
Policy and Strategy
For further information or to pre-register for the November 10 session in
New York, please contact C.I.T.I. at (212) 854-4222

Registration fee: Corporate- $300; Academic/Government/Non-Profit- $50

Below are some S&T Events coming up soon. Some of them might be a little
technical and some more inter-disciplinary than others:
I. COLUMBIA-WIDE
Thurs., Oct. 12
4:30 P.M. "Using Chemically-Defined Lipid and Protein
Systems to Understand the Fusion of Biological Membranes and the
Compartmental Organization of the Cytoplasm." James Rothman, MSKCC.
Chemistry dept. 854-2202. 209 Havemeyer.
Fri., Oct. 13
2:10 P.M. "Granular Media." Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern U. Physics Dept
and the Ctr for Nonlinear Earth Systems, Columbia Earth Institute. 854-3366.
428 Pupin.
3:10 P.M. "International Space Station Experiments with Dusty Plasma." John
A. Goree, U of Iowa. Plasma Physics Colloquium, Applied Physics & Applied
Math. 854-4457. 214 Mudd.
Mon., Oct. 16
11:00 A.M. "Robots in Human Environments and Haptic Interaction." Oussama
Khatib, Stanford U. Computer Science. 939-7180. Interschool Lab, 7th fl,
CEPSR.
Thurs., Oct. 19 4:30 P.M. "Electron Tunneling in Biological Energy
Conversion and Redox Catalysis." Leslie Dutton, Penn. Chemistry dept.
854-2202. 209 Havemeyer.
_______________________________________
II. EARTH INSTITUTE EVENTS
The Perfect Weather Forecast... Can Computer Models Beat the Best
Meteorologists?
Joe Bastardi - Accu-Weather, Inc. Thursday - October 26 at 7:30 pm
Location - New York Academy of Sciences 2 East 63rd Street NY, NY 10021
For more information contact: Henry Moss, NYAS - (212) 838-0230 X410
Tuesday and Wednesday, October 24-25
Conference: ECommerce and the Environment Brad Allenby, AT&T; David Rejeski,
White House Council on Environmental Quality; and Section Chair Nevin Cohen
Contact - Susan Summerville (212) 838-0230 X-324 for program details and
registration information. There is a fee for this meeting.
_______________________________________
III. COMPUTER SCIENCE
Unless otherwise noted lectures take place from 11:00
a.m. - 12:15 p.m. in the Interschool Lab, 7th floor, Schapiro CEPSR
Building. The Columbia Lectures in Computer Science series is organized by
William Grundy and Joe Traub. For more information, contact Kelly Donnelly
(kelly@cs.columbia.edu, 212-939-7180).
Mon October 16
Oussama Khatib Department of Computer Science, Stanford
University "Robots in Human Environments and Haptic Interaction"
Mon Oct 30
Pat Hanrahan Department of Computer Science, Stanford University "Digital
Lights, Cameras and Materials"
Mon Nov 13
Gene Myers Celera Genomics "Whole
Genome Assemblies of the Drosophila and Human Genomes"
Mon Nov 20
Andries van Dam Department of Computer Science, Brown University "Immersive
Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report"
Mon Dec 4
Jim Kurose Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts "QoS
for the Services-oriented Internet" Mon
Jan 22
David Garlan School of Computer
Science, Carnegie Mellon University "Next Generation Software Architectures:
Recent Research and Future Directions" Mon
Feb 5
David Gelernter Department
of Computer Science, Yale University "Managing information using timeshafts
and lifestreams"
Thanks to Rachel Heller for providing this information. More events soon.
Sincerely,
Konrad Lawson

Microsoft Presentation

Time: October 17, 2000, 1:30 PM to 2:45 PM
Place: 208 Business/Law
About:
Corporate Strategy Discussion,
PocketPC Strategy and Demo.
Sponsored by IBTG.
Contact: Sonila Jacob, saj44

FIRST MEETING FOR STN NEXT WEEK
Our first organizational meeting will be next week:
OCTOBER 17th 7:30-9 PM
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUILDING 501A

Sponsored by the NY Federal Reserve Bank.
Demystifying the Digital Divide: Technology Workforce Development in
Low-Income Communities
November 9, 2000
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
Conference Center
Agenda: http://www.ny.frb.org/bankinfo/commune/inside.pdf
Registration Form: http://app.ny.frb.org/ORCA/orcaform.cfm

Last Updated: October 19, 2000
Email: stn@columbia.edu