BIG Black and Gold Dinner

In light of the recent, loss of Shuttle Columbia and its crew the Goddard Blacks in Government dinner for this evening has been postponed. The rescheduled date for this event will be announced.

Space and Cosmic Ray Physics Seminar

Who: J. W. Gjerloev, Code 696 will present on the topic, "On Relating Auroral Emissions and Ionospheric Electrodynamics." This seminar will discuss a recent study, which found that the electrodynamics during the substorm growth phase can be organized by the position of the future optical onset location. This indicates that during the growth phase the magnetosphere is organizing itself for an onset at an already determined MLT as seen at ionospheric altitudes.

When/Where: Mon., Feb 10 at the University of Maryland at the Computer and Space Sciences bldg in rm 2400 at 4:30 p.m. Tea and cookies from 4 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

For information call Mihir Desai at (301) 405-6211 or go to the following website http://space.umd.edu/seminars/Spring_2003_Seminar.html

For free parking please park in lot DD or anywhere on levels 1-2 in lot B (the big parking garage) after 4 p.m. Make sure that you park in a spot WITHOUT a parking meter.

Director's Colloquium

Who: Mr. Walker Lee Evey former Program Manager of the Pentagon Renovation Program will discuss the topic "Overcoming Daunting Odds - Rebuilding the Pentagon After September 11." Mr. Evey will address both the human side of the toil and travail involved in the recovery efforts, while offering insight into the management and leadership aspects of this dramatically successful effort.

When/Where: Wed., Feb 12 from 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. in the bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium. Afternoon conversation, in World Cafe format, continues from 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in bldg. 1, Room E100D.

For more info, visit: http://workforce.gsfc.nasa.gov/b2k.html

Information, Science and Technology

Who: Dr. Phil Bording will present, Application Specific Parallel Computing Versus Microprocessors and a Big Switch. In this presentation, Dr. Bording will discuss the current state of parallel computing and propose an alternative in architecture for several classes of algorithms. These application specific machines benefit from detail knowledge of the algorithms and provide high levels of achievable performance. He will examine the algorithms of FFT's, sorting, and partial differential equations. Finally, I will consider wave equation algorithms will for realistic pentaflop scale parallel architectures. A pentaflop is a 10^15 floating point operations per second.

When/Where: Wed., Feb 12 at 3:30pm in the bldg. 3 Goett Auditorium followed by a Q&A session. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. courtesy of GEWA.

For more info, visit: http://ISandTColloq.gsfc.nasa.gov

Upcoming Training

The view all of the upcoming training courses, visit: http://ohr.gsfc.nasa.gov/DevGuide/Calendar/home.htm

"The Curious Savage" -- MAD's Winter Show

This delightful, quirky comedy opens at the GSFC Rec Center on Valentine's Day (February 14); other performances are on February 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, and March 1. The evening also includes hot/cold hors d'oeuvres, beer/wine/non-alcoholic beverages, and a Pre-Show Cabaret. Please check out MAD's website for full details: http://nonesuch.gsfc.nasa.gov/mad.