BEE-spoke-data/govdocs1-by-extension huggingface dataset:
# Presentation: 154870

## ActiveRoot

- Andrew Haas
- University of Washington
- D0

- Fermilab Root Conference

## Introduction

- ActiveRoot is a simple Windows program that encapsulates Root
- Provides a GUI for common histogramming tasks
- Still supports the CINT command line / macros through a dialog box
- Supports integration into other Windows documents through ActiveX

- Fermilab Root Conference

## Goals

- Easy for the Root beginner to install and use
- Automated install / de-install
- Good documentation
- Behave like all other Windows apps
- Printing, file dialogs, start menu, recent documents, cute icons, etc.
- Use the Registry...
- Would you like to save your changes?
- Useful enough for the Root expert
- ActiveX power!

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## The GUI

- Simplifies:
- Making, opening, and saving canvases
- Loading trees or text files
- Creating histograms
- Printing, with print preview (no more PS files!)
- Improves the CINT command line (a little)
- Demonstration...

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## ActiveX

- Allows Root canvases to be placed in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
- Canvas is stored “inside” the larger document automatically
- Makes it possible to create snazzy looking papers / presentations!
- ActiveX Demo...

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## The Larger Lesson...

- Really easy to integrate the MFC and Root once you learn a few tricks:
- Separate Root classes from other incompatible classes
- Use a Proxy class
- Always use pre-declared headers
- Harness the advantages of the Windows platform!

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## The Future

- Increase the histogramming power
- More advanced cuts
- More options
- Custom algorithms
- But, keep it small and manageable!

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## Ending Remarks

- ActiveRoot is:
- A primitive stand-alone Windows GUI
- A tool that connects Root with standard Windows functionality
- Independent from, but completely compatible with, Root
- An example of how to use Root in a new or existing Windows program

- http://glast.phys.washington.edu/~haas/winroot/index.html

- Fermilab Root Conference
# Presentation: 808990

## The Clinical Evaluation of QT Interval Prolongation and Proarrhythmic Potential for Non-Antiarrhythmic Drugs

**ICH Public Meeting**
**January 21, 2003**
**5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1066**

***The Clinical Evaluation of QT Interval Prolongation and Proarrhythmic Potential for Non-Antiarrhythmic Drugs***

**Justina A. Molzon, M.S. Pharm., J.D.**
**Associate Director for International Programs**
**Center for Drug Evaluation and Research/USFDA**
**CDER ICH Steering Committee Representative**

## ICH S7B

- Safety Pharmacology Studies for Assessing the Potential for Delayed Ventricular Repolarization (QT Interval Prolongation) By Human Pharmaceuticals
- Released for consultation under *Step 2* of the ICH process in February 2002.
*Consultation (Step 3):*FDA: Published in the Federal Register on June 14, 2002, vol. 67, n.115, Friday, p. 40950-40951

## Clinical Evaluation of QT Interval ProlongationBackground  

- Document drafted by Canada’s Therapeutic Products Directorate
- CDER working on a similar document
- Recognized value of a joint effort
- Value of a harmonized ICH document
- However recognized the need for expertise outside the ICH process

## ICH Streamlined ProcedureProposed

- Jump starts ICH process by using a draft or final document in one of the ICH regions (including observers) that would provide a strong foundation for the development of the ICH guideline
- Ensures the inclusion of the necessary experts outside the ICH process

## Workshop Designed to Discuss Document January 13-14, 2003 

- Preliminary Concept Paper
- Posted on DIA, ICH, TPD, CDER,  website November 20, 2002
- Invited experts outside the ICH process for scientific discussion
- NASPE (North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology)
- ICH Working Group present for the discussion

## New Paradigm

- Different approach for all of us
- Outside norm for guideline development, ICH, CDER, TPD
- Different venue and process for DIA
- Academic setting to promote academic discussions
- More than twice the normal number of panelists for a program
- One of the largest programs outside the annual meeting with 620 attendees

## Workshop Efforts---->ICH

- Transcript to capture discussion
- Resulting recommendations and conclusions will be incorporated into the document for ICH consideration
- ICH QT prolongation Working Group to continue working on document at Tokyo meetings, February 3-6, 2002
- RESULT=Harmonized approach
# Presentation: 102178

## Using Ensembles to Anticipate Significant Weather Events.

- Richard Grumm
*NOAA/NWS State College, PA*
*2008 NWA Annual Meeting – Louisville KY*
*Contributions by*
*Xu Xuan Jia*
*Shenyang Central Meteorological Observatory, 110016*

## Overview

- Value of Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPS)
- Three unique events
- For patterns and probabilities
- Probabilities
- Key fields such as QPF
- Patterns as viewed by anomalies

## Korean Peninsula Heavy rainfall

***We will examine a major Flood event***
*Significant impact on North Korea*
*Devastated crops in mid-August 2007*
**Ideal to see what happened**
*Examine aspects of a major flood**** where did it rain *
*Analysis and forecast issues can be addressed***
*What did the pattern look like and was it forecast as such?*
**Ideal application of ensembles**
*Precipitation amounts (Probabilities) and timing*
*Meteorological setting*
*Intensity of key features associated with heavy rainfall.*
*Key features associated with heavy rains events*
**Put features in a context******** Climate anomalies of key**

## Estimate Rainfall valid 0000 UTC 10-14 August 2007

## Time of the big rainfallCPC CMORPH data

## 7 August 2007 GEFS Plume for Central N. Korea....

## 8 August 2007 GEFS Plume for Central N. Korea....

## Classic Heavy Rain Patternpersisting for 2 days!

## PROB 100mm 48 hrs

## 9 August shorter forecasts more rainfall

## Strong Low-level winds

## 48-hour heavy rainfall

## Korean Peninsula Heavy rainfall

***GEFS showed a strong signal***
**Very heavy rainfall in the correct general region**
**Amounts models did not show 5-10 years ago**
**High probabilities of significant rainfall amounts.**

## China Snow and Cold

- January 2008 began very warm
- Forecasts tended to unseasonably cold while it was still very warm
- Cold came as forecasts
*Came with some snow far too south*
*Massive anticyclone*
*12 January 2008* reports of snow began
- Focus here on GEFS forecasts of the onset of the cold

## Cold Month of January

## GEFS Forecasts Anticyclone cold air and moisture

## Evolution of 

**Evolution of **
**observed fields **
**and Select GEFS **
**Plume diagrams **
**showing the onset **
**of the persistent cold**

## Ohio Valley Floods

- Heavy rainfall March 2008
- Lead to massive flooding Illinois to Ohio and most of the Ohio Valley
- Well forecast by the NCEP GEFS and SREF

## Rainfall with the event0.25x0.25 and 4km Stage-IV rainfall data

## GEFS forecasts of pattern6-days out

## Ensemble Probability of 3 inches

## Shorter Range QPF

## Even shorter Range

## The Pattern as forecast

## Low-level wind pattern

## Ohio Valley Floods

- Heavy rainfall March 2008
- Was well forecast by the NCEP GEFS
- Good lead time
- Good forecasts of the
- Patterns and probabilities

## Review

- Value of Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPS)
- For patterns and probabilities
*Probabilities **** Key fields such as QPF*
*Patterns as viewed by anomalies*
- Are these unique examples?
- Ensembles are in stage like NWP was in the 1960-70s
- They will improve and grow in importance and value over the next 10-15 years.
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## Federal Liaisons’ Perspectives

- Mark Bohannon
- Chief Counsel
- Technology Administration
- U.S. Department of Commerce

## Input to TAC

- Federal Liaisons met on November 18
- meeting focused on addressing questions raised in October:
- applicability of standard
- tiering
- interoperability

## Applicability of Standard

- Government policy:  standard will apply to all uses by the government of cryptography for confidentiality purposes (a policy issue outside of TAC’s responsibilities)
- For the purposes of the TAC’s work, the government seeks input from the TAC how best to accomplish this technically
- Likely to have 2 year review period

## Tiering

- Liaisons agreed that it would be inappropriate to include a tier in the standard that was not approved for government use
- Discussion focused on need for at least two tiers:
- a high-level tier, in which key recovery is always on, and cannot be “turned-off”
- a regular-level tier, in which the product has a “key recovery enablement” switch under control of a third party (e.g., system administrator), which would be “switched on” as the “out-of-the-box” default
- the product’s switch can be capable of being turned off by non-government users for non-government uses

## Interoperability

- Liaisons sympathetic to interoperability concerns;
- However, given TAC’s timeframe, and early stage of key recovery technology, interoperability protocols (e.g., between a key recovery requester and KRA) need not be requirements of the initial TAC recommendations
- Liaisons would welcome TAC recommendations for follow-on work in this area (by TAC or others)

## Time Criticality

- In December 1996, the Under Secretary asked for TAC’s recommendations in one year
- Deputy-level focus on TAC
- Agency procurements planned/pending
- Need for February ‘98 deliverable (consensus or vote)
# Presentation: 703543

## NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

*** ******SERVICE CENTER***
***EEO & DIVERSITY ORGANIZATIONAL CHART***

**OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR**
- KAREN BOARDMAN, EEO OFFICER    (505) 845-6050

_**Special Emphasis Diversity Advisory Committee**_
-   DIRECTOR, NNSA SERVICE CENTER
-   SENIOR DIVERSITY CHAMPION MEMBER
-   EEO & DIVERSITY OFFICE
-   SPECIAL EMPHASIS PROGRAM MANAGERS
-   HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT MEMBER
-   SANDIA SITE OFFICE MANAGER
-   HQ OFFICE OF SECURE TRANSPORTATION MEMBER*
-   HQ OFFICE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING & ANALYSIS
-   MEMBER*
-   *LOCATED AT THE SERVICE CENTER

**NNSA SC**
**EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY & DIVERSITY OFFICE **
- YOLANDA GIRON, EEO AND DIVERSITY PROGRAM MANAGER         (505) 845-4243
- DEBRA ALLISON, EEO AND DIVERSITY SPECIALIST	            (505) 845-6021
- KAREN HARGER, EEO/DIVERSITY SPECIALIST	            (505) 845-6668
- DENISE RAMOS, EEO/DIVERSITY SPECIALIST                                     (505) 845-5920
- MAE HARRIS, EEO/DIVERSITY ASSISTANT                                           (505) 845-5517
- SUZANNE SANDOVAL, STUDENT INTERN		            (505) 845-6385

***NNSA SC SPECIAL EMPHASIS***
_***PROGRAM MANAGERS***_
-   SHEILA REDNOSE, AIP           (505) 845-5984
-   ANDREA KANIHO, APAP         (505) 845-5868
-   MICHELLE MALLORY, BEP     (505) 845-4751
-   MIKE PEREZ, CPWD                (505) 845-5504
-   SHIRLEY PETERSON, FWP     (505) 845-6393
-   JANELLE ARMIJO-SANCHEZ, HEP
- 	                    (505) 845-4008
-   ELIZABETH DONNELLY, OW  (505) 845-4740
-   PAT CREAM, GLP                    (505) 845-4702

**  **_***SITE OFFICE-SPECIAL***_
***  ***_***EMPHASIS PROGRAM MGRS***_
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-   JODY PUGH, LASO               (505) 667-6281
-   TIM HENDERSON, NSO        (702) 295-1988
-   CAROL SHELTON, NSO        (702) 295-0286
-   MONTRELL HARRIS, PSO    (806) 477-4257
-   ISMAEL VALENZUELA, SSO (505) 845-5308

_***NNSA SC-EEO COUNSELORS***_
- YOLANDA BOLIVAR, OFS   (505) 845-5117
- GEORGE GOULD, OFS       (505) 845-4681
- PECOLIA SHARTS-MEADOWS, OFFM
- 	                 (505) 845-4128
- RICK SOTO, OST                 (505) 845-4470
- KATHY SUMBRY-WILKINS, OFS
-     	                 (505) 845-6608
- EDNA WHITE, OTS              (505) 845-4074

** **_***SITE OFFICE***_*** ***_***EEO COUNSELORS***_
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-   VACANT, LASO
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-   KEITH WARWICK, LSO          	(925) 423-5884
-   BILL WILBORN, NSO           	(702) 295-3188
-   ELISHA DEMERSON, PXSO  	(806) 477-3144
-   DAVID M. RAST, SSO  **           ****	**(505) 845-5349
**             **
** ****AGENT OPERATIONS**
-   VACANT, ALBUQUERQUE
-   BRUCE COCHRAN, FAF EC     	(865) 574-3297
-   JOHN CARR, FAF CC               	(806) 477-3022
-   WILFRED ISADORE, FAF EC  	(865) 574-3297
-   JAMES RILEY, FT CHAFFEE, AR
- 	                            	(479) (70) 5300, Ext. 5369
-   MICHAEL GILLESPIE, FT CHAFFEE, AR
- 	                            	(479) 709-5300, Ext. 5355

- 10/21/05
# Presentation: 913084

## SPACECRAFT ACCIDENTS:EXAMINING THE PAST, IMPROVING THE FUTURE Overview

- Bryan Palaszewski
- working with the
- Digital Learning Network
- NASA Glenn Research Center

## Introduction

- Why discuss this subject?
- Past failures
- Learning from those failures
- Observations

## Why Discuss This Subject?

- Many failures have occurred in large space projects, as well as all very complex projects
- Learning from our mistakes makes us smarter and more efficient, wasting less time and money, as well as possibly saving human lives.

## Past Failures (1/4)

- Early experiments (1920-1940’s)
- Early big robotic rockets (1950’s and 1960’s)
- Early human flights (1967, 1971)
- Soyuz 1 (1 lost in flight, 1967)
- Apollo 1 (3 lost in a ground test, 1967)

## Past Failures (2/4)

- Early human flights (continued)
- Soyuz 11 (3 lost during reentry, 1971)
- More-recent human flights
- STS-51L, Challenger (7 persons lost, 1986)
- STS-107, Columbia (7 persons lost, 2003)

## Past Failures (3/4)

- Many robotic missions have had accidents or failures
- Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-1, ground control enabled recovery, 1983)
- INTELSAT-VI communication satellite (Space Shuttle Endeavour used for recovery, 1992)

## Past Failures (4/4)

- Many robotic missions have had accidents or failures (continued)
- Mars Observer (lost, 1993)
- Mars Climate Orbiter (lost, 1999)
- Mars Polar Lander (crashed, 1999)
- With each accident, an investigation is conducted to find the reason(s) for the failure.
- Often there is a chain of incidents rather than just one cause.

## Learning From Those Failures (1/2)

- If a failure occurs, a major investigation committee is typically formed to find the cause.
- Causes are identified (as with a detective) and solutions are suggested.

## Learning From Those Failures (2/2)

- Sharing information is critical to success.
- Databases are created to teach those who follow what went wrong and how to prevent similar accidents in the future.
- Investigation committee reports are part of the information gathering and sharing.

## Observations

- Communication is key to all successes.
- Teams must understand one another to succeed.
- Sharing information is critical to success.
- “Teaching by doing” is important.
- Hands-on work is very important.

## With advanced propulsion, one must always look to the past and look to the future.
# Presentation: 021600

## Logistics

*Paul Hwang  301/286-6968*
*Paul.h.hwang@.nasa.gov*
*Goddard Space Flight Center*

*4**th** International GPM Planning Meeting**    **[15-17 June 2004; Marriott Hotel, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA]*

## Logistics

***Registration Desk: Kortney Stevens ****(Logistics)*
***Support Team:***
*Paul Hwang: Over all*
*Clyde Woodall: Over all & Collect Presentation Materials*
*Chris Morris: Logistics*
*Joel Acree : Computer Specialist*
***Presentation Materials***
*Please provide your presentation to Paul Hwang or Clyde Woodall using digital memory stick half day prior to your “*_*half-day*_*”. If can not find us, registration desk can help you.*
***In-Coming Message***
*301-441-3700 (Marriott Hotel) please ask for  NASA GPM Registration Desk*
*Message will posted near the registration desk*
***Out-Going Message***
*Use pay phone*

## Lunch – Annapolis Ballroom
Buffet lunch for June 15, 16, and 17 according to the time on agenda
Ice Breaker - Annapolis Ballroom 
June 15, 18:30 – 20:00
Cash Bar & Hors D’Oeurves
Banquet – Salons C & D 
June 16, 18:30 – 20:30
Cash Bar & Plated Dinner (Petit Filet Mignon & Shrimp)
Hospitality Room – Potomac Room
One telephone line for modem link
Business Center has Fax, Copier and Computer for internet link, etc.
Wireless internet access available in lobby for $10  
Registration Fee Receipt
Registration Desk, Kortney Stevens
Turn off Cell Phones & Pagers as a courtesy to the speaker

*Buffet lunch for June 15, 16, and 17 according to the time on agenda*
***Ice Breaker - Annapolis Ballroom ***
*June 15, 18:30 – 20:00*
*Cash Bar & Hors D’Oeurves*
***Banquet – Salons C & D ***
*June 16, 18:30 – 20:30*
*Cash Bar & Plated Dinner (Petit Filet Mignon & Shrimp)*
***Hospitality Room – Potomac Room***
*One telephone line for modem link*
*Business Center has Fax, Copier and Computer for internet link, etc.*
*Wireless internet access available in lobby for $10  *
***Registration Fee Receipt***
*Registration Desk, Kortney Stevens*
***Turn off Cell Phones & Pagers as a courtesy to the speaker***

*Logistics*
# Presentation: 851680

## Oxidation Resistant Rocket Thrusters for

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
-   Developed rapid chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) process 	that leads to reduction in processing time and higher matrix 	densities. Fabrication times reduced by a factor of seven with      	up to a ten fold reduction in the fabrication cost
-   Rapid CVI leads to directional matrix growth and to functional 	grading through the fiber preform. Lightweight C(f)/C graded 	Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) were fabricated which   	behave like Re or HfC, with density of less than 3g/cm3
-   Thrust cells tests with O2 & H2 propellants at operating    	conditions for 30 seconds showed no erosion at the throat
-  	Tested components in air at 4300F for 6 minutes. Excellent 	thermal stability was shown

***Ceramic Composites, Inc.***
***Millersville, MD***

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation **
**R****esearch**

**GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE APPLICATIONS**
-   Hypersonic vehicle propulsion components are presently 	being evaluated under the DARPA HyFly Program
-   This new family of lightweight materials will provide 	oxidation and erosion resistance for next generation 	NASA and DoD propulsion applications
-   Divert and attitude control propulsion thrusters are 	presently being tested under BMDO and AF programs

- Glenn Research Center
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- Materials
- 3-079

**Oxidation Resistant Rocket Thrusters for**
** ****High Performance Propellants**

***Functionally graded CMC thrust cell***
***during evaluation at NASA Glenn***

**INNOVATION**

- 1993 Phase II, NAS3-27272, 1/02
- NASA GRC Contact – Steve Schneider
- NASA MSFC Contact – Pete Valentine
- Company Contact – Mark Patterson

- Chemical vapor infiltration process to fabricate low-cost, functionally graded ceramic matrix composites

**COMMERCIALIZATION**
-   Patent applied for February 2000-Docket Number 1388
-   Received $140K Phase III from MSFC
-   Collaborating with commercial partners to develop 	components for liquid and solid Divert & Attitude Control 	System (DACS) and for flightweight, scramjet systems
# Presentation: 769185

## Neural Air Data Sensing and Control for Hypersonic Vehicles

**Neural Air Data Sensing and Control for Hypersonic Vehicles**
- Accurate Automation Corporation, Chattanooga, Tennessee

- Innovation

- Accomplishments

- Commercialization

- Government/Science Applications

**Points of Contact:**
- NASA LaRC, J. Larry Hunt, (757) 864-3732
- Accurate Automation, Chadwick Cox, (423) 894-4646
- 1994 SBIR Phase II; NAS1-20588

- Accurate Automation has developed a flush air data sensor comprised of a pressure-sensitive pad and a neural network module that can replace the pitot tube-based systems that provide air data on today’s aircraft.

- Developed a neural network-based flush air data sensor subsystem which provides:
- Reduced drag
- A smaller radar signature
- Increased reliability
- Improved aircraft safety
- Performed wind tunnel tests to train the system and to validate the data received

- Neural Air Data Sensor in NASA Langley’s
- Small Basic Research Tunnel

- This system can be used on all military and commercial aircraft.
- The National Transportation Safety Board has expressed interest in this technology because the system eliminates the danger posed by objects damaging or taping over a pitot tube.

- As the flush air data sensor can replace the pitot tube air data systems currently in use, the potential market is every aircraft manufacturer.  Because the system is flush with the body of the aircraft, maintenance costs are reduced because there is no tube that can be damaged by ground personnel.
- Accurate Automation has applied for a patent on this technology.
- Accurate Automation is in negotiation with a major aerospace firm for production of this product.
# Presentation: 352696

## Infrared Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter (AOTF)Aurora Associates, Inc.Santa Clara, CA

**ACCOMPLISHMENTS**
- First demonstration of low power (<1 watt) IR AOTF operated at cryogenic temperatures.
- Demonstration of broadband IR (BBIR) AOTF over multiple-octave tuning range.
- Developed new AOTF configurations applicable to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) in fiberoptic communication network.
**COMMERCIALIZATION**
- Developed a series of AOTF-based products for spectrometry applications:  Broadband Infrared (BBIR) Tunable Camera Filter (TCF), Portable NIR Spectrometer, and Portable Optical Spectra Analyzer (POSA)
- Awarded a $750K R&D contract from the U.S. Army Research Office to extend the AOTF technology to telecommunication applications

**S****mall**
**B****usiness**
**I****nnovation**
**R****esearch**

- 1993 Phase II, SS5-031; 10/5/99

**GOVERNMENT SCIENCE/APPLICATIONS**
- The rugged broadband infrared AOTF will be applicable to a spectral imager on a Discovery or post-Mars 2001 orbiter.
- The low power cryogenic AOTF extends operation to 5m PH3 window for planet observation.
- The patentable results of the new AOTF configuration are applicable to wavelength division multiplexing cross-connects in telecommunication networks.

**Goddard Space Flight Center**

**INNOVATION**
- Broadband low power infrared AOTF operated at cryogenic temperatures provides a practical, rugged spectral agile camera over wide range in the infrared (1 to 5 microns).

- Points of Contact:
- 	-  NASA - John Allen; 301-286-5896
- 	-  Aurora Associates - I. C. Chang; 408-748-2960

*Acoustically Resonant AOTF Operated at *
*Cryogenic Temperatures*
# Presentation: 115239

##      GRB Optical

**     ****GRB Optical**
**Followup with KAIT**

- Weidong Li

- Alex Filippenko
- Ryan Chornock
- Saurabh Jha
- Ryan Foley
- Josh Bloom
- Nat Butler
- Daniel Perley

**with**

## KAIT

- 30-inch fully robotic
-        Automatic scheduler
-        Automatic weathercheck
-        Automatic image processing

- Lick Obs. SN Search
-       (LOSS):  z < 0.05

- Located at Lick Obs.
- Mt. Hamilton (4200’)

- 592 SNe (past 9 years)

##  A good combination of size and speed

-  A good combination of size and speed
-  Promptly respond to GRB alerts
-  Interrupt KAIT
-  Take a pre-arranged sequence of images
-  Use V, I, Clear filters
-  Real-time image processing, afterglow ID

- KAIT GRB Program

**- Li et al 2003a**

## Real-time afterglow ID

- GRB 060210

- DSS II red

- KAIT

- (after 20060210)

## Info

- Limiting mag

- Minor planets?

- Photometry ZP (USNO B1)

- New objects

## KAIT GRB obs during Swift

- 050412         3256        66s     >17.5
- 050416         3270        40s     >16.5
- 050607         3533        49s     >18.4
- 050727         3689      113s     >18.2
- 050813         3794        39s     >18.6
- 050908         3945                                  20.1 (t=1.0 h)
- 050915         3985      290s     >18.2
- 051109         4240                                  18.8 (t=1.2-1.8 h)
- 051111A       4254        44s                     13.4
- 060110         4499        78s                     17.9
- 060206         4690                                  18.0 (t=3.9 h)
- 060210         4725        63s                     18.1
- 060428         5027      192s                    19.6
- 060805         5400      119s     >17.7
- 060906         5532      106s                    18.9
- 060923         5584        18s     >16.9
- 061126       unpub.       76s                    16.0

**GRB                   GCN        t(resp)   non-det     det **

## GRB 021211

- HETE II burst
- Duration 2.5s
- Z=1.006

- Li et al. 2003b

- t=105s

- t=171s

- t=259s

- t=9600s

- SN 2002he

## Reverse shock

- Forward shock

## GRB 051111A

- Swift burst with duration of 30s
- Z = 1.55

- Butler et al. 2006

## Slide 10

## GRB 060210

- Swift burst with a duration of 255s
- Z = 3.91

**R**

**I**

- Li et al. 2007 in prep

## BAT

- XRT

- KAIT+SLOTIS

## Lessons learned from KAIT

- Densely sampled light curves: good!

- Early color information: good!

- Prompt phase observation: good!

- Be friend with nature
# Presentation: 201474

## North Atlantic Oscillation:the non-linear aspect andits long-range prediction 

- Wilbur Y. Chen
- Climate Prediction Center
- NCEP/NWS/NOAA

## * Precursors?  Where? 

- * Precursors?  Where?
- * Non-linear nature of precursors & NAVs
- * Circulation Regime matching approach
-    (a framework for long-range prediction?)
- * Varying predictability within NAV
-    (while invariant for NAO)
- * Prediction skill scores

##  NAO 

**Index**

**Correlation**
**      ****with**
** ****NAO Index**

## NAO

**NAO**
**Index**
**leads**

- 1

**Season**
**Seasons**
**Seasons**
**Seasons **

**Season**
**Seasons**
**Seasons**
**4   Seasons**

**NAO**
**Index**
**lags**

## One-year lead

-     precursor

-    results in
-       NAO

- SON -> DJF

- JJA -> DJF

- MAM -> DJF

## Slide 6

## Slide 7

## Slide 8

##   Most 

-   **Most **
**  ****likely**
**clusters**

**# 1**

**# 2**

**# 3**

**# 4**

**Composites**
**       ****1-yr**
**       ****later**

## DJF 91                           DJF 92

-  **Given **
**DJF 91**

**Verification**
**       ****for **
**   ****DJF 92**

**Forecast**
**     ****for**
** ****DJF 92**

**AC = 0.83**

-    **Cluster**
**       ****of**
**Analogues**
**  ****in DJFs**

**leads**

- DJF 91                           DJF 92

## Slide 11
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## World Wide Lab

- The 20th century was the golden age of the laboratory. Answers to the great research questions were sought within cloistered chambers, where small groups of specialized experts scaled down (or up) phenomena in blissful isolation... Knowledge emerged from a confined center of rational enlightenment, then slowly diffused out to the rest of society... Science was what was made inside the walls where white coats were at work.
- Today, all this is changing. Indeed, it would be an understatement to say that soon nothing, absolutely nothing, will be left of this top-down model of scientific influence.
*Bruno Latour,* *Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Wired, June 2003*

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## = 82 requests per hour

- Convocation 2004

- Convocation 2002

- 2,200,000 toolkit transactions, Sept 2005
- = 82 requests per hour
- Every employee, every hour, every day

- Convocation 2005

## Slide 9

**Notes:**
2.2 million transactions in September 2005 (double that of Sept 2004)

## Mark Recovery Entry

**This form can be used to submit recovery information for survey marks to the National Geodetic Survey. If the data sheet for this mark shows a recovery within the past 12 months and the status has not changed, please do not report it.**

**Enter PID: ****Select condition of mark:**GoodNot recovered, not foundPoor, disturbed, mutilated, requires maintenance

***SOMEDAY?***
***Add Photos!***

## Leadership Summit: Needs

- more outreach skills (web, publications)
- data mgmt, software maintenance
- “Inducements” to encourage specifications development.

## Leadership Summit: Next steps:

- Organize, polish existing inventory
- Identify, prioritize new tools & specs
- Enhance R&D efforts

## Guidelines Breakouts

- Thursday Breakout

- Tuesday Breakout

## Guidelines: Who?

- guidelines team raise your hand!

## Andy Grove: Communication Overcomes Computing

- The famework is changing now. The Internet is redefining software. The Internet is redefining the role of computing and communication and their interaction with each other. I still don’t understand the framework. I don’t think any of us really do. But some aspects of it are pretty clear. It’s proven not to be computing based but communications based. In it computing is going to be subordinated to the communications task.
*“**Decisions Don’t Wait”, Harvard Management Update*.
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## Needs

***Problem-oriented/connecting supply and demand for information/on-going interaction***
***Enabling technologies ***
***Evaluation versus Lessons Learned***
***Assessments***
***Operational decisions***
***Social science/economics/humanities (The stuff versus the people – defining the problem)***
***Business practices/sustained partnerships/innovation***

## Current Knowledge

***Uncertainty*** – many other dimensions
***Types of research*** will depend on problem being addressed and use:  setting priorities in science agencies?
***Multiple approaches/multiple “products”*** – known versus unknown degrees of freedom

## Communications:  Realities of Developing Partnerships

***Requires a large investment*** of time and effort; development of trust
***Commitment to sustained communication*** and follow-up to meet user expectations
***Websites; newsletters; briefings; engagement; education; access and query-based tools; translators; regular workshops***
***Transition to operational distribution of climate products allows researchers to move on*** to working on next project/partnership

## Capacity

***Expansion ***decision-support engagement
- RISA/Assessments/Other
- Early adapters – ***new entrepreneurs***
- Appropriateness of CCSP activities:  ***public need/value*** (societal benefit versus individual benefit versus aggregated individual benefit)
- CCSP - ***NIDIS***
***Federally funded to Federally seeded***:  resources/sustaining activities; investing in solutions – return on that investment

## Slide 5
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## CMU at TDT 2004 —          Novelty Detection

**Jian Zhang and Yiming Yang**
**Carnegie Mellon University**

## Outline

- Novelty Detection Approaches
- VSM + Clustering Techniques
- Learning with multiple features
- Support Vector Machines
- Non-parametric Bayesian method
- TDT 2004 Evaluation Results

## VSM + Clustering Techniques

- Vector Space Model (traditional IR technique)
- Documents are represented as vectors
- TFIDF term weighting is used, and similarity measure is chosen (e.g. cosine)
- Clustering
- Lookahead window: GAC clustering
- Slight improvement (appr. 3%)
- Past window: incremental clustering
- No improvement

- Reference: CMU TDT 2002/2003 report

**Notes:**
This approach has been the most successful techniques in the past two years. 
Vector space model is traditional techniques in IR, and has been the most successful
Clustering (lookahead/look back)

## Supervised learning with informative features

- Convert novelty detection to a supervised learning task
- Positive/Negative data: novel/non-novel stories
- Build the model
- Choose a learning algorithm (Logistic regression, SVM, etc.)
- Try to select good features (features we tried: cosine score, cluster size, time stamp)
- Gives better story-weighted results in the past evaluations

- Reference: CMU TDT 2002/2003 report

## Support Region Estimation with SVM

- Treat the problem as “density estimation”
- Use one-class Support Vector Machines
- One of the best performing supervised learning algorithms
- Suitable high dimensional, sparse data
- Has been successfully applied to novelty detection in hand-written digits
- Performance in novelty detection task
- Worse than “VSM + clustering”
- Unsupervised kernel selection is hard

- [Reference]

## Non-parametric Bayesian method (Dirichlet Process Mixture Model)

- Density estimation method in statistics
- Converges to empirical distribution asymptotically
- Recently has been applied in machine learning/bio-informatics community
- Advantages:
- Handle increasing number of clusters
- Probabilistic interpretation
- Performance:
- Comparable to “VSM+clustering”
- More expensive

- [Reference]

## TDT 2004 NED Task

- Dataset
- Large size: around 280k documents
- Time period: Apr. 2003 – Sep. 2003 (6 months)
- Submitted Method:
- VSM + GACINCR clustering
- System parameter tuning:
- Use TDT3 corpus

## TDT 2004 NED Results

**New Event Detection Cost**

## TDT 2004 NED DET-Curve

## References

*CMU TDT 2001/2002/2003 report*.
- Yiming Yang, Tom Pierce and Jaime Carbonell. *A Study on Retrospective and Online Event Detection. *SIGIR 1998.
- Yiming Yang, Jian Zhang, Jaime Carbonell and Chun Jin. *Topic-conditioned Novelty Detection*. SIGKDD 2003.
- Jian Zhang, Yiming Yang and Jaime Carbonell. *New Event Detection with Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machines and Kernel Regression*. CMU Tech. Report CMU-CS-04-118 (CMU-LTI-04-180).
- Jian Zhang, Zoubin Ghahramani and Yiming Yang. *A Probabilistic Model for Online Document Clustering with Applications to Novelty Detection*. NIPS 2004.
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## NOAA Safety and Environmental Compliance Office

**NOAA Safety and Environmental Compliance Office**

- Vacant

- Andy Poppen
- 816-426-7814

- Mark George
- 303-497-3064

- Minh Trinh
- 206-526-6647

- Team Lead, Env. & Energy Division
- Will Freeman
- 301-713-2870

- Chief, Safety & Occ. Health Division
-  Tom Altvater
- 301-713-2870

- Director
- CAPT James Verlaque
- 301-713-2870

- Ben Bond
- 301-713-2870

- Joe Duran
- 206-526-6049

- Rhonda Carpenter
- 303-497-3912

- Ron Mattox
- 816-426-7810

- Craig Gillis
- 301-713-2870

- GIS Coordinator
- Tom Simon  **(C)**
- 206-526-6295

- Budget
- Jon Randle
- 301-713-2870

- Secretary
- Gail Gebert
- 301-713-2870

- Management Analyst
-  Janet Williams
- 301-713-2870

- Safety & Occ. Health Specialists

- Environmental & Energy Engineers

- Sr. Tech. Advisor, Env. & Energy Division
- Bernie Denno
- 301-713-2870

- Sr. Tech. Advisor, Safety & Occ. Health Division
- Bruce Zaczynski
- 301-713-2870

**Field**** **

**Headquarters**

**     ****August 27, 2008**** **

- Jim Malchow
- 206-526-4912
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## Opportunities for Interoperability

- Anytime we have communication or storage.
- Observation requests by the students.
- Archiving data.
- Querying data.
- Providing services (object identification, etc.)
- Goal: A schema integrating micro-schemas for all the above.

## Observation Requests

- Coordinates
- exposure time
- dark frame
- corrected (yes or no)
- flat field corrected (yes or no)
- required filters
- Etc.
-     An XML stream specifying the above can be generated by the software the students use to make their requests.

## Metadata for the Archive

- Keep the Observation Request.
- Additional metadata tags related to the observation.
- Properties of the telescope; properties of the exposure.
- Tags related to low level manipulation by the students.
- Superimposition, etc.

## Querying the Archive

- An inferencing engine on the back end.
- The goal is to support content based queries.
- We’ll be happy to prove the concept.
- Step 1: Construct a small ontology of query types.
- Step 2: Determine the inference rules needed to support the desired queries.

## Services

- Dynamically identifying and composing services is one of the big deals of the semantic web.
- In our case, many services will be provided by Dr. Keating’s students: motion detection; Bayesian techniques; etc.
- We can all also pull in services from other sources.
- Collaboration with Ian Gatley to explore the proper abstraction for a generalized service description logic for science education.

## The Scheduler

- Semi-automated
- Knows when to request human assistance.
- Human can step in at any time.
- Pulls in data from diverse sources.
- Weather forecaster; real time weather server; TOMS airborne particulate concentration; etc.
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## Japan Tsunami Warning and  Mitigation System Preparedness

## TSUNAMI Early Warning Overview

**Tsunami**

**Tsunami Warning Center**

**International/Regional Framework**

**National Warning System**

**Public Awareness & Preparedness**

**National Government**

**Local Government**

**People**

**Mass Media**

**Where is Evacuation Route?**

- What is Tsunami?

**Community Based Disaster Reduction**

**TSUNAMI Early Warning Overview**

## 26 Dec. 2004 Tsunami Disaster in Indian Ocean

- Hikkaduwa, Gall Province, Sri Lanka

**If we know about Tsunami, people can evacuate safely**** ****!**

**26 Dec. 2004 Tsunami Disaster in Indian Ocean**

**Notes:**
Regarding the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami, I have visited Sri Lanka from 30 December to 5 January. 

If there were prefer risk communications of tsunami, the total number of victims could be reduced significantly. 

## Preparedness 

## TARGET

**NO CASUALTY**

**TARGET**

## Evacuation from TSUNAMI 

**RACE ****Against**** **

**TIME**** **

## Tsunami Evacuation Plan  

## Tsunami Evacuation Plan  

**Tsunami Evacuation Plan**

**Inundation Area**

**Tsunami Arrival Time**** **

**Town Watching**

**Evacuation Map**

**Evacuation Drill**

**Local Gov.**

**Community**

**Shelter & Evacuation Route**

## Workshop & Town Watching

**Workshop & ****Town Watching**

**Government**

**Community**

## Workshop & Town Watching

**Workshop & Town Watching**

**1****st**** Workshop**

**2****nd**** Workshop**

- Town Watching

**3****rd**** Workshop**

**Study about Tsunami**

**Find out the Dangerous Points in the Community **

**Make the Evacuation Map**

**Find out the Future Tasks**

## 1st Workshop

**- What is Tsunami?**

**- How long will it take after the Earthquake?**

**- Where is inundation area?**

## Slide 12

## Town Watching

**Let’s find out the Dangerous & Safe Points in the Community**

## Slide 14

## Slide 15

## Slide 16

## Slide 17

## 2nd Workshop

**Let’s make a map.**

**- Which road is good as the evacuation route?**

**- Where we should evacuate?**

## Slide 19

**Notes:**
Trainees hand-sketched both geographic features (river flows, roads, land uses, etc.) and evacuation information (two-story buildings for shelter during floods, evacuation routes, etc.).

## 3rd Workshop

**- We should improve the evacuate route for children and elderly people.**

**- We should put the sign for the shelter.**

## Slide 21

## Slide 22

## Evacuation Map Sample

## Evacuation Plan 

**For**
**Each Area**

## EvacuationDRILL

** ****PLAN**

**Evacuation****DRILL**

## Evacuation Drill

**Evacuation Drill**

- Check an  evacuation route

- A drill for revival

## Infrastructure

## 1896 Sanriku Tsunami

- 1933 Sanriku Tsunami

## Recorded Tsunami Height

- Tsunami Height

## Aonae, Okushiri

-  Upstairs
- (evacuation area)

- Upstairs

- Ground level

## Tsunami Water

- Gate

## Bank protect from tsunami was constructed in 1857.

- Two giant tsunamis attacked this area in 1854.

## Thank You
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## IFPS “Best Practice”WFO Monterey

**The Basic Idea:**  We’ve had a long-standing practice of collecting daily Tmax and Tmin data from many sites across our CWA – about 70 locations.
- 	Use “serp” tool to enter these values into Tmax and Tmin forecast grids for present day – thus creating analysis (verification) grids.  (Typically done about 6 pm LT by public service unit.)
- 	Yields 3 useful products:
- 		(1)	Tmax/Tmin forecast error at each observation location.
- 	 	(2)	Detailed Tmax/Tmin analysis fields for potential use 			in generating next day’s forecast grids.
- 		(3)	Graphical display of Tmax/Tmin error fields.

## An example for Tmax: start with the final forecast grid for today...

## Use the “Serp” tool to adjust values based on today’s observed highs (here using a subset of 52 locations well-dispersed across our CWA)...

- Note: once observed highs
- are entered, values at ends
- of slider bars give errors at
- each forecast point.

## Yields “observed” high temperature grid for present day...

## Before entering the observed highs into the Tmax forecast grid for today, however, save it in the slot for yesterday’s Tmax forecast grid.Then, use the “change_over_time” tool to find the error grid.

## Error Grid (in WrkTemp)...
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## FY08 Tactical Plans forLSC/CNCS/Computer Security

- Mark Leininger
- 11/7/07

## FY08 Tactical Plans for Computer Security

- Relevant Strategic Plan(s):
**“****FY08 Strategic Plan for Computer Security”**
- Docdb Document #2250
- Tactical Plan Goals
- Provide a computer security strategy sufficient to protect lab data and systems without impeding the lab’s mission.

## FY08 Tactical Plans for Computer Security (cont’d)

- Tactical Plan Strategies
- Encourage people to use central services; This means central services have to be useful, easy to use, flexible, responsive and perfomant.
- Use automation wherever practical – eg central logging,
- Think long-range for enterprise solutions – not “labware”, use supported (commercial or open source) solutions.
- Collaborate with other labs.
- Increase efficiency and integration across the Laboratory by (at least) collaborating  with other Div/Sec’s on common projects. Collaborate among ourselves.
- Outsource or use consultants where appropriate, to fill gaps in effort or expertise.
- Maintain life cycle processes which anticipate user needs, changes in technology, growth (or decline) in demand, etc. and allow for tactical plans to be developed twelve to eighteen months ahead, with implementation six months ahead of need.

## Tactical Plan Objectives for FY08

- Encourage use of central services
- Upgrade infrastructure to accommodate visibility into the ever increasing network speeds
- Minimize impact of DOE requirements on scientific program.
- Refine security controls for new Open Science enclave.

## FY08 Resource Request and Preliminary Allocation

- Level 0 Activity:  Computer Security

|  | FY08 Tactical Plan | Activity Level 1 | FTE Request at Activity Level 1 | M&S Request at Activity Level 1 | Total FTE Allocation at Activity Level 1 | M&S Allocation at Activity Level 1 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| COMPUTER SECURITY | Computer Security | Computer Safeguards & Security | 5.03 | 733,578 | 5.03 | 713,578 |
| COMPUTER SECURITY |  | Computer Security | 0.72 | 0 | 0.72 | 0 |
| COMPUTER SECURITY |  | CS Administration | 0.32 | 0 | 0.32 | 0 |
| COMPUTER SECURITY |  | Security Life Cycle Process | 0.30 | 0 | 0.30 | 0 |
|  | COMPUTER SECURITY Total |  | 6.37 | 733,578 | 6.37 | 713,578 |

## Impact of Preliminary Allocation

- Preliminary Allocation allows meeting the stated goals and objectives.
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## Customer Service Toolkit 

***2004 ***

## What’s New in Toolkit 2004

- Start Toolkit from the Desktop – Not through Outlook!
- No More Toolkit Folders.pst!
- Eliminates problem of data transfer from FO server to workstation
- No more Copy/Paste customer files
- Incorporates Conservation Systems from CRAs into Practice Schedule

## More Toolkit 2004 Features

- Centralized StandSpec Database
- Cost Lists can be stored/accessed on server.
- Migration from ArcView to ArcGIS
- Database Structure

## “Check In and Check Out” makes 

- “Check In and Check Out” makes
- Toolkit-Server connections easier.

## What’s Stored Where?

- eFOTG
- StandSpec Data
- NCPDB
- Tabular Records from old MDB Files
- PLU - Spatial Features
- Practice Features
- Customer Info (name/address/phone)

- FO Server
- Cost Lists
- Geodata Files
- Customer Files
- Legacy Data
- Shapefiles
- MDB Files
- Plan Documents
- Contract Documents
- Soil Maps
- GPS data
- Photos

##  Go to Live Toolkit

-  Go to Live Toolkit
-  Set Preferences

## Check In/Check Out 
Customer Files

- Customer Files

## Slide 8

## Slide 9

## Slide 10

## Slide 11

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

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## COUNTRY OVERVIEW

-  *Location / Size:* **Southeast Asia / 364.281 km2**
-  *Climate:* **tropic**
-  *Overall Population:* **79.9 million** (2001)
-  *Major Cities:* **Hanoi (capital), Ho Chi Minh City, Haiphong, Da Nang, Can Tho, Nha Trang, Hue, Nam Dinh, Vung Tau**
-  *Population composition:*
-  **	****+ 75 % of population in rural areas**
**	****+ 25 % of population in urban areas**
* **Estimate population in some major cities:*
**	****+ Hanoi: ****	****	****1.764 million **
**	****+ Ho Chi Minh city: ****	****3.964 million**
**	****+ Da Nang:****	****	****0.715 million****	**

## COUNTRY OVERVIEW, cont.

**COUNTRY OVERVIEW, cont.**

**ELECTRICAL SERVICE:**
- Proportional electric utilities states or government owned:
-  Generation: 	93.82 %
-  Transmission: 	100 %
-  Distribution:	100%
-  100 % of population in metro regions served with electricity
-  76.3 % of population in rural areas served with electricity
-  82.5 % of population overall served with electricity
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## Secondary Teacher Interacting with Materials Professors Strikes Gold  MRSEC (Johns Hopkins University) DMR 0520491  

**Background: **The JHU MRSEC conducts extensive K-12 educational outreach programs aimed at promoting interest in and awareness of the importance of modern materials research.  The MRSEC’s Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program provides high school teacher the opportunity to conduct research in MRSEC and to use the MRSEC’s resources for the development of classroom modules or other materials.

-   One of the MRSEC’s RET participants, **Mr. James Ringlein** of the Lancaster (PA) Country Day School has participating in the JHU MRSEC’s RET program for six years.   Working with **Prof. Mark Robbins **of JHU, he conducted research on the microscopic origins of friction, and developed computer simulations on friction that led to three publications in physics education journals.
-    Since 2005, Mr. Ringlein has been working with **Prof. Jonah Erlebacher **of JHU, conducting research and developing educational materials on nanoporous gold leaf, a novel high-surface-area structure that has great potential for applications in fuel cell technologies.

*J. Ringlein, “Secondary Teacher Interacting with Materials Professors Strikes Gold,” MRS Bulletin ****32****, 179-180 (2007).*

- In February, 2007, Mr. Ringlein’s work and experiences were highlighted in  a feature article in the “Interfaces” section of the Materials Research Bulletin, a major scientific and science news journal published by the Materials Research Society.

*Teflon roller system used by Ringlein and Erlebacher to manipulate gold leaf floating on water.*