Evening star., 1954-02-07
Science Calendar for Week

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Science and technical society
meetings haze been announced
for this ,Deek By the Joint
Committee on Press Relations
OF the District Council OF
Engineering and Architectural
Societies and the Washington
Academy of Sciences. All meet
ingS listed are open to the
public unless othertDiSe stated.
Tomorrow.
American Society for Metals
6:15 pm. dinner, 8 pm. meeting,
Caruso's restaurant, 427 Elev-
enth street NV. THE Forma-
ton Of Ferrite from Austenite in
Hypoeutecloid Steels" by Robert
F, Mehl, professor. Carnegie In
Stitute of Technology.
Tuesday.
American Institute of Indus
trial Engineers-8 pm. meeting.
room lola, Engineers Club Of
Washington, willard Hotel.
1.-THE Industrial Engineers Re-
sponsibility to Management in
the Use of Statistical Methods"
by DR.. w. Edwards Deming, New
York University.
American Society of Civil En-
gineers-6 pm. Cocktails. 1880
dinner, National Press Building.
Fourteenth and F streets NV.
Problems of Foreign Economic
Policy" by Raymond Vernon.
State Department. Other speak
ers will be Samuel Spencer.
president of the Board Of Com
missioners for the District Of
Columbia; Dean Daniel v. Ter
rell, president and w. N. Carey.
executive secretary, American
Society of Civil Engineers.
American Society Of Safety
Engineers-6:30 meeting. Naval
Gun Factory. THE ASSE. It's
Chapters, Programs and Prob
lens" by E. B. Landry and Will
lis Mcleod.
Explorers Club-6 pm. cock
tails and dinner. Shoreham
Hotel. Discussion Of q scientific
trip to Greenland. by William E.
Davies. geologist, and William S.
Bennington, botanist.
Wednesday.
American Society Of Heating
and Ventilating Engineers -
Social hour 6 pm. dinner Z pm.
and 8 pm. meeting. Sheraton
Park Hotel. THE Role of Elec-
tronics in Air Conditioning" by
z. A. Marsh. Minneapolis
Honeywell Regulator Co., Min
neapoliS. MINI.
The Geological Society OF
Washington-S pm. meeting,
assembly hall of the Cosmos
Club. Florida and Massachusetts,
avenues NV. The Catoctin
Formation in the Shenandoah
National Park. Virginia" by j. c.
Reed, jr. Classification, De-
lineation and Measurement Of
Nonparallel Folds" by j. B.
Mertie. jr. and Progress in Air
borne Radioactivity Surveying"
by F. w. Stead. r. M. Moxham
and F. j. Davis.
Society Of Military Engineers.
Fort Belvoir Post-noon lunch
con. ways of Minimizing the
Effects of Chemical, Biological
and Pathological Warfare" by
Harvey Miller, Of the Engineer
Rese arch and Development
Laboratories. Fort Belvoir.
Thursday.
Engineers Club Of Washington !,
Monthly luncheon meeting at !
noon. Willard Hotel. THE Eco |
nomics of Transportation" by
DR.. Louis K. Sillcox, president of
the American Society of Me-
chanical Engineers.
American Society of Mechan-
ical Engineers - 6:15 dinner,
Hammel's. 416 Tenth street
NV; 8 pm. meeting, Potomac
Electric Power Co. auditorium.
Tenth and E streets NV. Pros
perity and Power" by L. K. Sill
cox. president, American Society
Of Mechanical Engineers.
American Institute of Archi-
tects-6:30 pm. meeting, St.
Johns parish hall. 819 Sixteenth
street NV. Brig. Gen. Louis w.
Prentiss, Engineer Commissioner,
will speak.
American Chemical Society -
6:15 pm. meeting, auditorium,
National Museum. Joint meet
ing with the Washington Junior
Academy Of Sciences. Sterling
B. Hendricks, Department Of Ag-
riculture. Beltsville. Md, will
speak on Control Of Growth by
Light"
The Naval Research Labora-
tory - All-day symposium on
Current Trends in Semiconduc-
tor Research" at the Laboratory.
The topics and speakers: Cur
rent Status Of Transistor De-
velopment and Reliability" by
E. w. Herold, Radio Corpora
ton Of America; Fundamental
Properties Of Semiconducting
Materials" by Esther M. Con-
well. Sylvania; Noise in Semi
conductors, Rectif1ers and Tran
sisters" by Richard L. Petritz,
Naval Ordnance Laboratory;
Recent Advances in Semicon-
ducting Materials" by r. G.
Breckenridge, Office of Naval
Research; "Semiconductor De-
vice Applications" by C. L.
Rouault, General Electric Co.;
"Transistor Switching Circuits"
by A. w. Carlson. Air Force
Cambridge Center; present and
Future Of Semiconductor Re-
search" by William Shockley,
Bell Telephone Laboratories:
"Multielectrode Tran sist o rs"