Researchers from Poland, Russia, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada, Peru, Mexico and the United States will gather in Ithaca on Oct. 7 and 8 at Cornell University to discuss the problem and how to fight it. A newer, stronger strain of the potato late blight fungus, Phytophthora infestans, now has been found on every continent except Antarctica and Australia. The indigenous strain of the fungus has been controlled with fungicides, but it appears that exotic strains are more resistant. If left unchecked, the exotic strains could recombine with indigenous strains and wreak worldwide, agricultural havoc, experts say. The future of aircraft, satellite technology and space missions all will be discussed down on Earth when prominent figures in the aerospace industry and government convene at Cornell University on Saturday, Oct. 12, for the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering's symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Cornell's Graduate School of Aeronautical Engineering.
Talks are free and open to the public, but a registration fee is required for lunch and dinner.
Most people think nothing of it when their desktop ink jet printer spews out page after page of documents, or how the characters are formed, letter after letter, line after line. The hum of the cartridge moving across the page is their only concern. Why, people might even be amazed - both by the temperatures involved and that they even could be measured. A chemistry symposium in honor of the 75th birthday of Harold Scheraga, Cornell University professor of chemistry emeritus, will be held Saturday, Oct. 19, in Baker Laboratory on the Cornell campus. Such a discovery cannot be understood in terms of classical physics.