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March 31, 1995



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Earth scientists talk TOUGH

By Mike Wooldridge, [email protected]

About 100 earth scientists from around the world came to LBL last week to talk TOUGH. The Earth Sciences Division held a three-day workshop devoted to a popular fluid simulation program developed at the Lab--Transport of Unsaturated Groundwater and Heat, or TOUGH.

ESD's Karsten Pruess, the conference organizer, created the first version of TOUGH in the early 1980s for tracking the flow of water and vapor in geothermal reservoirs. Since then, the program has been modified for many other earth science specialties. Versions of TOUGH now model the movement of water, oil, solvents, toxic waste, heat--practically anything that flows underground and is of interest to scientists and engineers.

The conference was a chance for earth science researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to share their experiences. "It's all about dialogue," Pruess says. "The underlying physics of fluid flow in porous media is basically the same across different applications. A fluid doesn't care whether it's part of an environmental investigation or part of a geothermal study."

One advantage of programs such as TOUGH is that researchers can conveniently and inexpensively study the "what ifs" of a project. Scientists working on nuclear waste clean-up, for instance, can model a toxic site and try out different strategies for cleaning it up, all on a computer.

TOUGH simulation can also be key in site assessment. The software has been particularly useful at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where DOE plans to construct a major facility for nuclear waste storage. "Even with all the bore holes drilled and samples taken, much of Yucca Mountain still isn't directly accessible to scientists, and never will be," says Pruess. "Numerical simulation plays a very large role in understanding the site."

In addition to the software's role in nuclear waste isolation and environmental clean-up, the conference also looked at TOUGH simulation in oil exploration, mining engineering, and geothermal engineering.


CAPTION -- LBL earth scientist Stefan Finsterle talks with Lawrence Livermore's Kenrick Lee about TOUGH, a fluid flow simulation program that was the focus of an earth sciences conference last week.
Photo by Mike Wooldridge


Proposals sought for FY 1996 Lab-directed R&D program

Director Charles Shank has issued the Call for Proposals for the FY 1996 Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program (LDRD). This program provides support for projects in forefront areas of science that can enrich Laboratory R&D capabilities and achievements.

For FY 1996, an emphasis will be given to supporting new R&D initiatives which position the Laboratory for leadership in its research mission. The Director encourages multi-investigator initiatives which advance areas of excellence and problems of scale appropriate to a national laboratory. Special attention will also be given to initiatives that span divisional boundaries.

A call for proposals has been distributed to division directors and administrators. Principal investigators must submit proposals to division directors by Friday, May 12. After conducting an internal review and evaluation, division directors will forward the proposals to the Director's Office by June 9. Incomplete proposals will be returned to divisions, which will have an opportunity to revise and resubmit them by June 23.

Division directors will then present the proposals from their divisions to review committees composed of the director, deputy directors, associate laboratory director, and other division directors. The director will make the final decisions on which projects will be funded.

Support for the program comes from Laboratory overhead. Approximately $6.3 million in operating expenses is planned for FY 1996. The level of capital equipment funding, which is a separate allocation, is planned to be about $500,000. If capital equipment is requested, it must be an integral part of the submitted proposals as indicated in the guidance. Funded projects will be announced by September.

The call for proposals and forms are also available on Appleshare, DIR zone, OPD server, LDRD file.


Diversity: On campus, in the workplace

By Diane LaMacchia, [email protected]

In a survey of UC Berkeley freshman several years ago, white and African-American students agreed that there should be more diversity on campus. However, they disagreed about the meaning of diversity.

"Students mean different things by the term diversity," says Troy Duster, a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley.

At a special lecture at LBL on March 21, Duster discussed "Three Stages: Climatic Differences Between Campus and Work Force Diversity." Sponsored by LBL's Workforce Diversity Office, his lecture generated a lively question-and-answer session.

"The topic is very heated at the moment," Duster said, referring to the current revisiting of affirmative action policies in the U.S. Congress and the media. "It's contentious and difficult, and there's a lot of ignorance on the topic. What we need is a lot more humility."

Duster did not address affirmative action per se, but concentrated on the stages of diversity he has observed on campus--and their possible parallels in the workplace--in the context of the social and demographic changes that have swept American cities in the last 30 years.

"Diversity is not just a political agenda," said Duster. "It's a demographic reality in our cities."

Statistics from major cities tell the story of what Duster calls "the great racial transformation of American cities." White populations are declining, as is white enrollment in public schools. In Los Angeles, for example, the city's population was 78 percent white in 1970; by 1990, whites numbered only 37 percent.

Thanks to equal opportunity, affirmative action, and diversity programs, campuses such as UC Berkeley have been transformed in the same 30-year period to reflect much greater diversity.

According to Duster, there are three recognizable stages of diversity. In the first stage--which prevailed in the 1950s and into the 1960s--one group predominates, and the situation is "monolingual, monocultural," and characterized by "unexamined privilege." During this stage, minorities--women in some cases, African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color--have two choices. They can try to assimilate, or challenge the status quo and be marginalized as "political."

But as the numbers of minority students increase, there is a possibility of mobilization and transformation of the campus in terms of curriculum and faculty, Duster said. This leads to the second stage of diversity, in which access is no longer the problem, but the "terms of engagement" are.

"Everything gets challenged and questioned," Duster said. "Now no one feels they `own' the campus. People are contesting resources and there is an unhappy image of racial/ethnic conflict."

Stage two was dominant on campus when Duster and his colleagues conducted the freshman survey at UC Berkeley. They found that the white students tended to be concerned about lack of personal social interaction among students of different ethnic backgrounds. African-American students wanted a shift in admissions policies to increase minority representation and curricular changes to reflect their experience.

"They were talking past each other," Duster said. "One is talking about personal connection, the other about institutional transformation."

In stage three, which sometimes occurs now on campus but is not yet the norm, differences are affirmed. People move back and forth into the public sphere from their differences, which "enhance and enrich the center," Duster said. "Rather than conflict--an either/or situation--one can see diversity as a situation in which individuals and groups are mutually benefited by absorbing mutual perspectives."

The three stages of diversity--which can occur simultaneously in various degrees--may not look exactly the same in the workplace, which is often more stratified than the university and where people may feel less comfortable in bringing out their differences. In the workplace, Duster said, people are not thinking about getting enriched; they are mainly concerned with pay and keeping their jobs.

"The first responsibility goes to management to try to create a work environment into which participants can bring their differences," Duster said.

He suggests that new styles of working relationships and flattened hierarchies that bring people into decision-making--regardless of their place in the hierarchy--can take advantage of the different perspectives that people bring to the job.

"Their diversity of experience may enhance the capacity of the work scene to be more efficient," he said.


In Memoriam -- Virginia Shirley

Virginia Schultz Shirley, wife of former LBL Director Dave Shirley and a member of the Nuclear Science Division's Isotopes Project, died at home in State College, Penn., on Monday, March 27, following a long battle with cancer. She was 61. She is survived by her husband and five children, David, Diane, Michael, Eric, and Gail, and by seven grandchildren.

Virginia will be remembered by many at this Laboratory for her warm personality and gracious charm, as well as for her significant accomplishments as an editor of nuclear science reference books.

A native of Pittsburgh and alumna of the prestigious Winchester-Thurston School there, she received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1955. She earned her master's degree in nuclear chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1957. It was while attending graduate school at Cal that she met Dave. They were married in 1956.

After attaining her master's degree, Virginia briefly joined the LBL staff to participate in nuclear spectroscopy research and to collaborate on the fifth edition of the Table of Isotopes. She then taught chemistry at Mills College and at UCB before returning to LBL in 1961 to work on the sixth and co-edit the seventh editions of the Table of Isotopes. Concurrently, she authored four editions of the Table of Nuclear Moments.

Since 1978, Virginia has participated in the evaluation work of the U.S. Nuclear Data Network. She was the editor of the Table of Radioactive Isotopes, which was first published in 1986, and was the first comprehensive and critical evaluation of the nuclear and atomic properties of radioisotopes to be tailored to the needs of scientists in fields outside of nuclear chemistry and physics.

In 1992 Virginia returned to her native state with Dave, who had accepted a position as the senior vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School at Penn State University. However, she continued to work with the Isotopes Project and was editor of the eighth edition of the Table of Isotopes, which is scheduled for publication later this year.

Virginia was an excellent photographer and had a life-long love of choral music. At Berkeley she served as a board member and president of the Young People's Symphony Orchestra. At Penn State she served on the board of the State College Choral Society.

The funeral is planned for Saturday, April 1, in State College. The family requests that contributions be sent in Virginia's name to the Pennsylvania State University fund for graduate education. Checks should be made out to Penn State University and mailed to the Development Office, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802.


Shoemakers name comet for Seaborg

Comet-hunting spouses Caroline and Eugene Shoemaker of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fame (the comet that plunged into Jupiter last summer) have named an asteroid in honor of Nobel laureate and LBL Associate Director-at-Large Glenn T. Seaborg. Discovered in 1983 by the Shoemakers, and formerly known as Minor Planet 4856, Seaborg is a main-belt asteroid, between 20 and 30 kilometers in diameter. It is not visible to the naked eye, but can be viewed with a telescope that has an aperture of half a meter. The naming of the asteroid has been approved by the nomenclature commission of the International Astronomical Union. Seaborg said he was "tickled" to learn of the honor.


CAPTION -- Checking it out -- Mack Kennedy of the Earth Sciences Division explains the functions of the Center for Isotopic Chemistry to earth scientists Dor Ji, Liang Tingli, and Dong Dui Lang Jie of Tibet. The delegation, which also included Deng Lun You, visited LBL on Wednesday, March 22, as part of a geothermal resources study tour of Italy and the United States, sponsored by the United Nations Training & Fellowships Section. Pruett Industries of Bakersfield and Unocal also hosted the delegation with visits to geothermal fields in Nevada and California.
Photo by Paul Hames


IDS Couriers offers 24-hour service

IDS Couriers is LBL's contract courier service. It operates 24 hours a day and can deliver and pick up documents and parcels on-site and anywhere in the Bay Area for a nominal fee. For more information and to request service, call 548-3263 and give pick-up/delivery locations, time requirements, and an LBL account number.


N e w s W i r e

UC PICKS NEW LAB ADMINISTRATOR:

Carl Henning, 56, will join the University of California in mid-April to head its Laboratory Administration Office. He will replace Robert Kuckuck, who returned to Lawrence Livermore Lab as deputy director of operations last November. Henning, a former senior manager at Livermore currently on special assignment to the Department of Energy, will lead a staff of about 30. Working jointly with DOE, the Laboratory Administration Office administers the University's contract for the management of LBL, LLNL, and Los Alamos National Lab.

A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE:

Abraham Lincoln's commissioner of patents once recommended that he close the commission in a few years because the rate of discovery was so great that everything would be discovered by then. In the March 17 issue of Science, a number of leading scientists were asked to predict the future for their respective disciplines. The scientists were asked to be "adventurous but sound" in their prognostications. Included were several that pertain to research areas currently being explored at LBL.

In the life sciences area, Cambridge geneticist Peter Goodfellow predicted that "by the end of the decade, all the genes contributing to genetically complex diseases of humans will be known." He says population screening will identify individuals at risk for diabetes, schizophrenia, obesity, etc., and that the disease will be avoided or treated. However, he said, "balancing the rights of individuals against the needs of society is going to be difficult." The attainment of rational drug design based on protein structural information was foreseen by several contributors, but Helen Ranney, a chemist with the Alliance Pharmaceutical Corporation in San Diego, disagreed. "Rational drug design will be possible in the near term for only a few disorders. The intricacies, interdependencies and redundancies of human physiology will continue to defy simple pharmaceutical solutions to most diseases."

In high energy physics, SLAC Director Burt Richter laments the Standard Model's assignment of fractional electric charges to quarks. "To the theorists there is no problem, but it has always seemed strange that a universe whose observable constituents are all integrally charged really has some fractionally charged components deep down." He predicts that within the next decade, experiments at electron-positron colliders will reveal that in the 3-D world, quarks "are all really integrally charged after all and matter is built from things that are observable."

Based on the discovery of a new class of materials that are superconducting at the temperature of liquid air, several scientists predicted the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor with tremendous benefits for the medicine, telecommunications and electric power systems. Princeton physicist P.W. Anderson predicted, however, that "the real major use of (room temperature) superconductors will turn out to be something we haven't yet thought of." Anderson also says that "Anyone who expects any human-like intelligence from a machine in the next 50 years is doomed to disappointment."

William Brinkman of AT&T Bell Laboratories predicts a revolution for telecommunications in which "transmission of a terabit per second over a single fiber will be accomplished before the end of this century." Seismologist Don Anderson of Cal Tech says that within 10 years "we should have 3-D maps of the structure of the Earth's interior, from surface to center, with a resolution of a few hundred kilometers, including anisotropy and anelasticity." And Phil Abelson of AAAS foresees a future in which "research policy will be increasingly in the hands of politicians and, hence, subject to change in a few weeks when some crisis suddenly erupts."


Earth Month at LBL

Schedule of Events, April 1995

Sutta Company Tour (LBL's recycler)

Lecture: "Least Toxic Pest Control"

Earth Day Poster Contest

Litter Pickup

Lecture: "Bat Conservation"

Environmental Spirit Conference

Community Garden Groundbreaking

LBL Eco-Fair

Lecture: "Public Art: A Pathway to our Natural Heritage"

Lecture: Regional Water Quality Control Board

Contact Community Relations at 486-5122 for further information.


Service awards

Congratulations to the following employees who celebrated anniversaries of service with the Laboratory during the first quarter of 1995:

5 years of service

Sharon A. Barrett Administration
Steven J. Blechman Administration
Tanya A. Button Energy & Environment
Robert J. Connelly EH&S
Philip N. Cooper Life Sciences
Maria A. Davi EH&S
Mark T. Dedlow ICSD
Marca M. Doeff Materials Sciences
Kevin Einsweiler Physics
Marc S. Fitzgerald EH&S
Brent T. Griffith Energy & Environment
Victor H. Haskett Facilities
Preston J. Holland Earth Sciences
Wan-Shick Hong Physics
Charles S. Horton Administration
Cameron L. Huff EH&S
Welcome R. A. Huff Chemical Sciences
Robert W. Kenney Physics
Jason C. King Chemical Science
Sharon A. Krauss Life Sciences
Carolyn A. Larabelle Life Sciences
Gloria M. Lawler ICSD
Anthony D. Luiz, Jr. Administration
Estellene M. Merritt Life Sciences
Manuel N. Pereira Engineering
Jacques A. Pryor Administration
Osman Sezgen Energy & Environment
Marjorie D. Shapiro Physics
Steven J. Sugar EH&S
John E. Tully Facilities
Judy G. Verstuyft Life Sciences
Keith R. Wald Materials Sciences
Qing Wang Materials Sciences
Dieter E. Wilk Materials Sciences
Anna M. Wright Administration
Maxwell Yao EH&S

10 years of service

Jaime B. Abenojar Facilities
Michael A. Chartock Directorate
Douglas G. Crawford Energy & Environment
Halmut E. Feustel Energy & Environment
Tennessee Gock-Yuan EH&S
Carl H. Haber Physics
Zuzanna Liliental-Weber Materials Sciences
Bernhard A. Ludewigt Life Sciences
Gayle D. Milligan ICSD
Vern E. Paxson ICSD
Hans G. Ritter Nuclear Science
David W. Robertson ICSD
Michael J. Siminovitch Energy & Environment
Jonathan D. Spear Energy & Environment
Ron E. Tackaberry Materials Sciences
Leroy Thomas Administration
Susan Torrano Structural Biology
Gary S. Wagman Physics
Susan L. Waters Materials Sciences
Russell W. Wright ICSD

15 years of service

Bruce R. Bagnoli Facilities
Richard S. Digennaro Engineering
Paul J. Hames ICSD
Stephen R. Holbrook Structural Biology
Jacquelyn J. Iler Life Sciences
Steven J. Klingler Engineering
Raymond J. Monaco Facilities
Larry R. Myer Earth Sciences
Victor Orange Facilities
Thomas L. Owens Earth Sciences
Gloria L. Petit Engineering
Thomas A. Reese, Jr. Facilities
Peter L. Ruegg Materials Sciences
J. Steven Slusher Facilities
Lynn Stenvold Energy & Environment
Robert G. Stokstad Nuclear Science

20 years of service

Eleanor Blakely Life Sciences
Michael S. Chanowitz Physics
Edward P. Kahn Energy & Environment
Gary T. Leong Administration
Nancy Montoya EH&S
Lisa Snow EH&S

25 years of service

James J. Ayers Engineering
Michael P. Fahmie Engineering
David Lozano AFRD
Deane W. Merrill ICSD
Lazarus E. Pete Administration

30 years of service

Patricia A. Bronnenberg Earth Sciences
Valerie K. Heatlie Physics
Harvard H. Holmes ICSD
Patricia Powers-Risius Life Sciences
Roland B. Yourd Engineering

35 years of service

Norman M. Edelstein Chemical Sciences
John H. Pickrell Facilities
Donald J. Rondeau Engineering
Robert W. Springsteen Life Sciences


April EH&S course schedule

Date	Course	Time	Place

4/5 & 7 Radiation Protection -- Radiological Worker I 8 a.m.- noon 66-316 4/11 First Aid 8 a.m.- noon 48-109 4/11 Forklift Recertification 10-11 a.m. 51-205 4/12 Chemical Hygiene Safety Training 8:30 a.m.- noon 66-316 4/13 Fire Extinguisher Use 10-11:30 a.m. 48-109 4/13 Forklift Truck Safety 9:30-11 a.m. 51-205 4/18 Introduction To 9-11:30 a.m. 66-Aud. EH&S at LBL 4/18 Laser Safety 9:30 a.m.- noon 90-2063 4/18 Lockout/Tagout 9-11:30 a.m. 48-109 Training 4/19 Adult CPR 9 a.m.- noon 48-109 4/19 Recertification Crane Hoist (Level 1) Operator Training 8 a.m.- noon 70A-3377 4/25 Back Injury Prevention 9:30-11:30 a.m. 51-201 4/26 & 28EH&S Roles & 8:30 a.m.- noon 90-2063 Responsibilities for Supervisors

Pre-registration is required for all courses except EHS 10. Call the Emergency Preparedness Office at X6554 to register for: CPR, First Aid, Fire Extinguisher Use, Earthquake Safety, and Building Emergency Team Training. Call X6612 or send a fax with your name, extension and employee number to X7209 to pre-register for all other courses.


LBL Golf Club

The March tournament at Sunol was rained out, but has been rescheduled for May 27 at 8 a.m. The next tournament will be on Saturday, April 15, at Rancho Solano in Fairfield, with the first tee time at 11 a.m. The LBL Golf Club is open to all LBL employees, retirees and their families. For more information about membership or upcoming tournaments, contact Richard Cobb at X4018.


Lab life

David Faulkner, a researcher in E&E's Indoor Environment Program, and his wife Ilma celebrated the birth of son Adler Irving Faulkner on Friday, March 3. Adler, who weighed in at 6 lbs. 10 oz. and was 20-1/2 inches long, joins sister Alena. Mother and son are at home and doing fine.


Calendar of Events -- April 3 to 14

Calendar items may be sent via e-mail to [email protected], Fax to X6641, or Lab mail to Bldg. 65B. The deadline is 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

3 m o n d a y

NUCLEAR SCIENCE DIVISION SEMINAR

"Electron-Positron Scattering - A Theoretical Perspective" will be discussed by Jim Vary of ISU at 2 p.m. in Bldg. 70A-3377.

THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

"Heavy Quarks and Higher Orders: The Higgs Decay" will be discussed by Axel Kwiatkowski of LBL at 2:30 p.m. in 50A-3107.

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM

"Discovery of the Top Quark" will be presented by William Carithers of LBL at 4:30 p.m. in 1 LeConte; tea at 4 p.m. in 375 LeConte.

4 t u e s d a y

PHYSICS DIVISION RESEARCH PROGRESS MEETING

"Electroweak Results from CDF" will be discussed by Young-Kee Kim of LBL at 4 p.m. in Bldg. 50A-5132.; refreshments at 3:40 p.m.

5 w e d n e s d a y

EH&S CLASS

Radiation Protection - Radiological Worker I (EHS 430), concludes on Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, Bldg. 66-316. Call X6612 to register.

6 t h u r s d a y

SURFACE/CATALYSIS SCIENCE SEMINAR

"Spin Polarized Photoemission and Magnetic Quantum Well States" will be discussed by N.V. Smith of LBL at 1:30 p.m. in the Bldg. 66 Auditorium.

ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

"Soft Gamma Ray Repeaters Unveiled" will be presented by Shri Kulkarni of CIT, at 3:30 p.m. in 2 LeConte; tea at 3 p.m. in 661 Campbell.

MATERIALS SCIENCE SEMINAR

"Processing of Nanocrystalline Ceramics" will be discussed by Merrilea Mayo of Penn State, 4 p.m. in 105 Northgate.

7 f r i d a y

EH&S CLASS

Radiation Protection - Radiological Worker I (EHS 430), continued from Wednesday, 8 a.m.-noon, Bldg. 66-316. Call X6612 to register.

CENTER FOR BEAM PHYSICS SEMINAR

"Moment Invariants for Linear and Nonlinear Hamiltonian Systems" will be presented by Alex Dragt of the University of Maryland, at 10:30 a.m. in the Bldg. 71 conference room.

UPTE-LBL LOCAL 184 ELECTION

Election of officers and state representative will be held from noon-1 p.m. in the cafeteria conference room.

BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR

"Mechanical modelling of the human cornea" will be discussed by Peter Pinsky of the Stanford Civil Engineering Department, from 1-2 p.m. in 3110 Etcheverry; refreshments at 1 p.m.

NUCLEAR SCIENCE DIVISION SEMINAR

"Collisions Between 35Ar and 58Ni, from 32 to 95 AMeV" will be presented by Bernard Boderie of Orsay, France, at 2 p.m. in Bldg. 70A-3377.

10 m o n d a y

CHEMICAL DYNAMICS SEMINAR

"Chemical Reaction of Electron Transfer in a Strong Time-Dependent Electric Field" will be presented by Yuri Dakhnovskii of Carnegie-Mellon University, at 11 a.m. in 425 Latimer Hall.

THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

"Probing New Physics in the Charm Sector" will be presented by Joanne Hewett of SLAC, at 2:30 p.m. in Bldg. 50A-3107.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM BERKELEY LECTURES

"Manipulation of Solid Surface Interactions by Polymers and Amphiphiles" will be presented by Matthew V. Tirrell of the University of Minnesota, at 4 p.m. in Pitzer Auditorium, Latimer Hall; refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM

"Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations" will be presented by Hywel White of Los Alamos National Laboratory, at 4:30 p.m. in 1 LeConte; tea at 4 p.m. in 375 LeConte.

11 t u e s d a y

EH&S CLASS

First Aid (EHS 116), 8 a.m.-noon, Bldg. 48-109. Call X6554 to register.

DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR ENGINEERING SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM

"Underground Supercriticality from Plutonium and Other Fissile Material" will be discussed by Charles D. Bowman of Los Alamos National Laboratory, at 10 a.m. in 3111 Etcheverry Hall; refreshments at 9:45 a.m.

EH&S CLASS

Forklift Recertification (EHS 226), 10-11 a.m., Bldg. 51-205. Call X6612 to register.

LIFE SCIENCES DIVISION SEMINAR

"Heat Shock Transcription Factor: How a Trimeric Protein Binds to DNA" will be presented by Hillary Nelson of UCB, at 4 p.m. in the Bldg. 66 Auditorium.

12 w e d n e s d a y

EH&S CLASS

Chemical Hygiene Safety Training (EHS 348), 8:30 a.m.-noon, Bldg. 66-316. Call X6612 to register.

TOASTMASTERS

Build confidence and learn to effectively organize and present your ideas in a friendly, supportive atmosphere, 12:10-1 p.m., Bldg. 2-100.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM BERKELEY LECTURES

"Engineering Soft Materials" will be presented by Matthew V. Tirrell of the University of Minnesota, at 4 p.m. in the Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center; refreshments at 3:30 p.m.

13 t h u r s d a y

EH&S CLASS

Forklift Truck Safety (EHS 225), 9:30-11 a.m., Bldg. 51-205. Call X6612 to register.

EH&S CLASS

Fire Extinguisher Use (EHS 530), 10-11:30 a.m., Bldg. 48-109. Call X6554 to register.

SURFACE/CATALYSIS SCIENCE SEMINARS

"The Mechanism of Alkane Cracking Using Zeolites" will be presented by D. Santilli of Chevron Research (Richmond, CA), at 1:30 p.m. in Bldg. 66 Auditorium.

MATERIALS SCIENCE SEMINAR

"Role of Dislocations in High Mobility SiGe/Si Heterostructures" will be presented by Patricia Mooney, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, at 4 p.m., 105 Northgate.

DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM

"Ultradeep HST Imaging of Faint Radio and Field Galaxies" will be presented by Roger Windhorst of ASU, at 3:30 p.m. in 2 LeConte; tea at 3 p.m., 661 Campbell Hall.

14 f r i d a y

OPEN CALENDAR


Currents online edition

The full text of each edition of Currents is published electronically on the World Wide Web at the following URL: http://www.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Currents.html. To set up your computer to access the World Wide Web, call the Mac and PC Support Group at X6858.


Dining Center Menu for April 3 to 7

monday

Sadie's Early Bird: Fresh banana pancakes w/coffee $2.05

Soup of the Day: Hearty vegetable reg. $1.35 lg. $1.95

Bistro Fare: Roast turkey w/potatoes, gravy & green beans $3.95

Passports: South of the Border a la carte

Sadie's Grill: Guacamole burger w/spicy fries $3.60

tuesday

Sadie's Early Bird: Corned beef hash & eggs $2.60

Soup of the Day: Vegetarian split pea reg. $1.35 lg. $1.95

Bistro Fare: Cool shrimp Louie tossed to order(TM) $3.95

Passports: South of the Border a la carte

Sadie's Grill: Fishwich w/fries $3.25

wednesday

Sadie's Early Bird: Biscuits & gravy w/eggs $2.60

Soup of the Day: Cream of broccoli reg. $1.35 lg. $1.95

Bistro Fare: Savory beef stew served in a Boule $3.95

Passports: South of the Border a la carte

Sadie's Grill: Jumbo chili dog & fries $2.95

thursday

Sadie's Early Bird: Blueberry pancakes w/coffee $2.05

Soup of the Day: Manhattan clam chowder reg. $1.35 lg. $1.95

Bistro Fare: Teriyaki chicken w/vegetable fried rice & sugar peas $3.95

Passports: South of the Border

Sadie's Grill: Turkey melt & fries $3.25

friday

Sadie's Early Bird: Ham scramble $2.60

Soup of the Day: Turkey noodle reg. $1.35 lg. $1.95

Bistro Fare: Pasta Piatti $3.95

Passports: No South of the Border today

Sadie's Grill: Steak burger & fries or onion rings $3.75

(TM) Denotes recipe lower in fat calories & cholesterol

*Manager's Special: All this week, buy a deli sandwich and get a free bag of chips


F l e a M a r k e t

Flea Market ads may be sent via e-mail to [email protected], Fax to X6641, or Lab mail to Bldg. 65B. The deadline is 5 p.m. Friday.

AUTOS/SUPPLIES

'68 VOLVO 142, approx. 230K mi., runs well, numerous new(ish) parts, needs paint job & misc. work, 1 owner for last 9.5 years, service records to early '80s. $800/b.o. Alan, 559-9567

'78 DATSUN 280Z, 2+2, gd running cond., 1 owner, new radio, a/c, very restorable, $2900. Joe, 376-7722

'81 DATSUN 210, 5-dr hatchbk, 5-spd, over 100K mi., avail. 4/13, $800. Ken Matsuta, X4145

'81 VW Vanagon Westfalia camper, exc. mech. cond. (new engine, trans.), body in gd cond., 2 owners (1 since '83), $4800/b.o. 653-8498

'85 PORSCHE 944, red w/blk int., sun roof, low mi., $5900. Russ, 339-9812

'85 TOYOTA Camry, 4-dr sedan, a/t, about 90K mi., needs repair, avail. 4/13, $1K. Ken Matsuta, X4145

'90 HONDA Prelude SI, 5-spd, a/c, sunroof, white, exc. cond., 90K mi., $7600/b.o. Lynn, 745-8326

AMPLIFIER for car stereo, 50W, $25. 526-0552

WANTED

MOVIE PROJECTOR, 8mm, any make, model, age or cond. Ann, X6985, 845-2052

ODD JOBS, I remodel bathrooms, kitchens & other rooms, I work w/tiles, marbles, cabinets etc., reliable, price is negot. Ramon, 278-7967

POOL table, 8' or 9', 3-pc. slate. John, 637-1811

UNUSED BASEMENT or other space to set up darkrm, in exchange for rent or possible share arrangement. Ann, X6985, 845-2052

MISCELLANEOUS

BUNKBED, red metal, double on bottom/single on top, $100/b.o. Donna, X5527

CASSETTE DUBBING DECK, JVC, w/Dolby BC, HX Pro, almost new, $120. 526-0552

CLARINET, Buffet, gd for advanced student, $800 firm. Ann, X6985, 845-2052

COMPUTER, 386 SX-25 w/math co. & 8MB RAM, modem, 2 floppy drives, VGA monitor, software, $500/b.o. Paul, X6985, 841-1241 (eve.)

GARAGE & BAKE SALE, Sat., 4/8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 1519 Ada St., Berkeley (between Hopkins & Rose, nr Monterey Market), benefits the Berkeley-Borneo Big Home Project, we will also accept your donations incl. baked goods, will pick up. Joe Lamb, 649-8460

PHOTOSHOP 3.0.1, Mac, unopened, $500. Jim, X4661

PIANO, Upright, $350/b.o. 724-4635

REFRIGERATOR/FREEZER, Montgomery Ward, 16.5 cu. ft., 29"w x 64.5"h X 27-5/8"d, in Alameda, you haul. $175 Mary, X5771, 522-3239

SCANNER, Radio Shack Pro-34 UHF/VHF, programmable, w/charger, $100. Fred Ottens, X6068, 526-3259

WEDDING BAND, 5-stone, 1 ct. tw., 14k yellow gold & diamond, stones set in 14k white gold, diamonds clear & white, $1500. 832-3522

WEDDING SET, gold, 1/5 carat, 20 pt. diamond engagement ring w/2 rubies, matching/interlocking wedding ring w/1 diamond, $650. 724-7141

WINDSURFER, 12', O'Brien transition board, mast track, footstraps, fully retractable dagger board, new Fanatic mast, new Ziener seat harness, new F2 5.1 m2 pwr control sail, 6.0m2 sail + extra mast, gd beginner board, $200/b.o. Jim Dougherty, X5096

HOUSING

ALBANY, lg. 2-bdrm, 1-bth apt , backyd, garage, hardwd flrs, 10 min. from LBL/UCB shuttle, on 43 bus line, nr library & middle school, $850/mo. Mark, 525-3314

ALBANY, 2-bdrm, 2-bth condo, dishwasher, washer/dryer, frpl, w-w carpet, pool, sauna, gym, indoor garage parking (2), nr trans., avail. 5/1, $1K/mo. 527-2688

ALBANY, furn. rm in pvt home, sep. ent., pvt bth, kitchen privs., share washer/dryer, nr trans. & shops, quiet non-smoker, avail. 6/8, $450/mo. incl. utils. 526-2355

ALBANY, 1-bdrm apt in 4-plex, refrig., stove, oven, carpet & hardwd flr in bdrm, 1-car locked garage w/storage rm, no pets, yr lease, 2 blks from El Cerrito Plaza/BART, $625+$800 dep. Tom/Judy, 527-8766

ALBANY VILLAGE (UC Family), sublet, avail. 5/10 - 6/21, #52 bus runs from Village to UCB every 15 min. & connects w/LBL shuttle, $600 for 6 wks or $100/wk (negot.). Lynn Scholl, X4364, 525-3071

BERKELEY, Henry St. nr Berryman St., furn. 3-bdrm, 2-bth house, carport, balcony, washer/dryer, dishwasher, nr shops & bus, $1500/mo. 845-8086

BERKELEY, nr Rose Garden, Summer St./Spruce St., nr UCB, park & buses, rm in pvt. home, own bth, semi-pvt entrance, deck, view, laundry fac., limited cooking, refs. req., $450/mo. 548-2988

BERKELEY, sm. studio apt , skylight, sunny kitchen, wood floors, tiny back garden area, nr gourmet ghetto, 15 min. walk to UCB/LBL shuttle, can be furn., avail. 4/15, $525/mo. 540-0385

BERKELEY, Addison St. nr Calif., 2-bdrm apt, 2nd flr in modern sixplex, $820/mo. 526-4147 (before 7 p.m.)

BERKELEY, 1-bdrm apt , parking, sm. garden area, 20 min. walk to UCB/LBL shuttle, nr shops, BART, park, avail. 4/15, $535/mo. 548-9869

BERKELEY, sm. furn. studio apt, Ocean View area, nr 4th St. shops & cafes, nr bus, $485/mo. 540-0385

BERKELEY,10 min. walk to UCB, 1 house mate wanted, lg. rm w/parking in 2 bdrm apt, take over lease (May-July), option to stay, quite, non-smoker, prefer female, $251/mo. or best offer, $800 dep. Suet, X4514 (msg. after 7 p.m.)

BERKELEY, La Plaza Dr., nr Claremont Hotel, furn. rm in 5-bdrm house, share w/2 others, washer/dryer, deck, yd, $400. 655-7626 (after 2 p.m. or wkends)

BERKELEY HILLS, furn. 1-bdrm, 1-bth apt, remodeled, nr shops & trans., non-smoker, avail. June, $850+utils. 524-9039

BERKELEY HILLS , bed & bkfast. 286-7612

NO. BERKELEY, 4-bdrm, 2-bth house, hardwd flrs, remodeled bths & kitchen, nr park, swimming pool, cafe & gourmet shops. Doug, X6626, 526-4644

EL CERRITO, furn./unfurn. rm in pvt home, sep. ent., pvt bth, telephone hook-up, share living rm, dining rm, kitchen, washer/dryer, view, nr trans. & shops, non-smoker, 6 mi. from LBL/UCB, $450/mo. incl. utils. Conway, 233-7997, 527-7898

KENSINGTON, summer sublet in house, laundry, dishwasher, view, $300/mo. Chris, 559-8330

MIRA VISTA, unfurn. 1-bdrm apt, stove, refrig., $450/mo. Kathy or Jack, 235-4987

MORAGA, 3-bdrm, 2-bth house, new kitchen, a/c, frpl, laundry, decks, 2-car garage, nr school & shops, avail. 7/1, $1450/mo. Joe, 376-7722

OAKLAND, 2-bdrm top-floor flat, Adam's Point, walk to BART/Grand Ave., quiet non-smoker(s) pref., $750 incl. util.+dep. 268-0674

OAKLAND HILLS, new 1-bdrm in-law apt, balcony, 3-bridge view, nr Claremont Hotel, hardwd flrs, pvt entrance, 1-car garage, use of washer/dryer, no smoking, no pets, bicycle to LBL, $875/mo. incl. utils + sec. dep. 841-6285

RICHMOND, nr Alvarado Park/Wildcat, 2 rms (lg. & sm.) in house, laundry, 6 mi. no. of LBL, $425 lg., $275 sm., $625/both. Diane/Jim, 232-7612

WANTED: Anything from 2-bdrm apt to house for responsible, non-smoking, middle-aged couple, 8/15-1/1 (flex.). Luanne, X5853

WANTED: Furn. 2-bdrm house for family from Japan, 8/1-31. 415/331-6742

WANTED: 2-bdrm apt or house, avail. April or May, N. Oakland or Berkeley. Mae, X6230

WANTED: Furn. house/apt/lg. rm for visiting postdoc, for the last 2 wks of May. Yuval, X5466, 527-3884

VACATION

SO. LAKE TAHOE, deluxe townhouse, lakefront, all amenities, nr all play spots. Herbert, 422-8845, 455-5595

REAL ESTATE

NO BERKELEY, Bonita Ave. nr Berryman, 2-story Queen Anne, 3-bdrm., 1-1/3 bth, quiet, hardwd flrs, wood built-ins, frpl, move-in cond., $345K. Guy, X4703, 548-0120

SO. BERKELEY, Oregon St. nr Regent, 7 units incl. 3rd flr penthouse, quiet loc., 4 new kitchens, very low vacancy rate. Guy, X4703, Kathy, 548-0120

ROSSMOOR, co-op for those 55 & older, 2-bdrm 2-bth, view, clubhouse/golf/swim, $54.5K. $479/mo. covers mort. bal. ($10,000), landscape, maint. & security. 524-9473

LOST & FOUND

FOUND: Fixed blade knife, first half of March, in cafeteria. Joanne, X5357

FOR FREE

BIRD, English Budgie, female, to gd home. Lisa Snow, X6268, 841-4855


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