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Space and Cosmic Ray Physics Seminar

No Seminar - Spring AGU

For more info: Call Mihir Desai at (301) 405-6211 or go to the following website http://space.umd.edu/seminars/Spring_2003_Seminar.htm

 

Director's Colloquium

Who: Monty Roberts, international speaker and author of three best selling books. Roberts will speak based-based leadership as addressed in his book "Horse Sense for People." Roberts is quoted as saying, "For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to each other - still threaten, force and intimidate. I'm convinced that my discoveries with horses have value in the workplace, in the educational and penal systems, in raising children."

When/Where: Tues., April 8 in the bldg 3 Goett Auditorium at 10 a.m.

For further information, visit: http://workforce.gsfc.nasa.gov/b2k.html

 

Systems Engineering Seminar

What: Harry Shaw, Chief Technologist, Parts, Packaging and Assembly Technologies Office, Code 562 will present on topic entitled, "What Systems Engineers Need to Know About EEE Parts." This presentation will provide an overview of Parts Engineering at GSFC. Systems Engineering Seminars are open to all U.S. Citizens

When/Where: Tuesday, April 8 in the Goett auditorium at 1:00 p.m.

For more info, please contact: Tom Bagg at 301-867-0063 or visit: http://www.qssmeds.com/~tbagg/SE_Seminar/

The seminar will be webcast live to the NASA domain at: http://128.183.174.165/building3live.asx

 

Information Science and Technology Colloquium

What: Dr. David Fogel, Chief Executive Officer of Natural Selection, Inc. in La Jolla, California. Dr. Fogel will discuss "Evolutionary Computation: Darwinian Thinking Solves Real-World Problems." This lecture will offer the motivation for using evolution as basis for optimizing solutions, as well as examples of its successful application to problems in signal modeling, medicine and entertainment. In particular, the evolutionary program "Blondie24," which taught itself how to play checkers and learned to compete at the level of human experts will be demonstrated.

When/Where: Wed, April 9 in bldg. 3 Goett auditorium at 3:30 p.m.

For more info, see: http://isandtcolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

 

Second Earth System Modeling Framework Community Meeting

What: The Second Earth System Modeling Framework (ESMF) Community Meeting will be held at Princeton University on May 15, 2003. The ESMF project is developing a standards-based software framework to improve interoperability in state-of-the-art high-performance weather and climate models. The first release of this system will be presented at the meeting and comments and feedback solicited from the community.

The ESMF team welcomes broad participation from members of the high-performance computing and Earth science communities

When/Where: May 15, 2003, Princeton University, New Jersey

For more Information on the meeting and open registration details: http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/esmf

Background material on the ESMF project can be found at: http://www.esmf.ucar.edu

 

Upcoming Training

Individual Development Planning Training for employees will be held on April 10, 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Building 1, E100 B

Individual Development Planning Training for supervisors will be held on April 30, 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Building 1, E100E

Brown Bag: The Power of Working Together will be held on April 22, 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.in Building 1, B6.

For more information contact Tracey White 6-7823, or e mail tcwhite@pop100.gsfc.nasa.gov

In the IDP Workshop for Supervisors and the IDP Workshop for Employees, many questions have come up around the IDP process. Under OHR's career development page, there is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that have come from both supervisors and employees. These questions have been answered by OHR staff and legal counsel. Please take time to review these FAQs at http://ohr.gsfc.nasa.gov/DevGuide/idp.htm. Questions? Please contact Tracey White.

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