AVS - The
Science and Technology Society
P. O. Box 5734 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-5734
Vol. 19, No. 1 December 1999
Announcement of Dinner Meeting
Everyone is welcome to attend. To reserve a place, please contact Vickie Barnes at 576-6816 or by e-mail (barnesve@ornl.gov) (preferred) by Wednesday, January 12, 2000 (Please pay attention to this;
Rothschild's wants an accurate guest count four business days in advance.)
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Location: Rothschild's Catering
8807 Kingston Pike between Cedar Bluff and Gallagher View in the Ten Mile Center.
Knoxville
Time: 6:30 PM Social - wine and hors d'oeurves provided
7:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Speaker
Menu: House salad with choice of dressing
Choice of entree:
New York strip steak and mushrooms
Broiled fish with citrus butter
Chicken Cordon Bleu
Potato, medley of vegetables
Coffee and dessert
Cost: $5 students
$10 for AVS members and guests, and general public
Speaker: Dr. Lee Riedinger
Currently Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee
Will assume the position of ORNL Deputy Director for Science and Technology on April 1, 2000. More information on Dr. Lee Riedinger
Speaker Topic: The UT-Battelle plan for ORNL More information on this topic
Other planned dinner meetings:
Thursday February 17, 2000
Speaker: Martin Bauer from IPIX of Oak Ridge More information on Martin Bauer
Wednesday March 22, 2000
Speaker: J. R. Beene from Radioactive Ion Beam facility, ORNL
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Dave Beach
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008, MS 6197
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6197
(865) 574 5024
beachdb@ornl.gov
Steve Overbury
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008, MS 6201
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6201
(865) 574 5040
overburysh@ornl.gov
1999-2000 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
PRESIDENT: Steve Overbury 865-574-5040
VICE PRESIDENT: John Wendelken 865-574-6290
PAST PRESIDENT: David Beach 865-574-5024
SECRETARY: David Mullins 865-574-2796
TREASURER: David Mullins 865-574-2796
EXECUTIVE BOARD:
Art Baddorf 865-574-5241
Walt Gardner 865-574-1121
David Zehner 865-574-6291
George Solomon 865-481-3342
New officers:
A slate of new officers was proposed in June 1999, and was followed by an electronic call for nominations to the entire AVS membership of the Tennessee Valley Chapter area. Since no additional nominations were received, the new officers were elected by acclamation.
Date revised - 12/22/99 (dl)
Please email comments to the Tennessee Valley Chapter Webmaster: Seth Overbury -
megawatts@aol.com.
http://www.avs.org/tvc/newsletters/dec99.html
Lee L. Riedinger is the head of the Department of Physics and
Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and has been on the faculty of since 1971, a full professor since 1978. He worked also as a part-time member of the Physics Division at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory for 15 years until 1993. He served from 1988 to 1991 as the
director of the Science Alliance Center of Excellence, a program devoted to building joint research between UT and ORNL. He worked from 1991 to 1995 as the UT Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, which was then the chief research officer for the University. From 1993 to 1996 he was the first chair of the Tennessee Science and Technology Advisory Council, which advises the Governor and the Legislature on technical priorities for the state. From 1994 to 1996 he served on the steering committee for the Tennessee Information Infrastructure, a federally funded effort to plan the networking infrastructure for the state. In 1995 he was the president of the annual WATTec science and technology conference in Knoxville, and in the same year the chair of the Technology Committee of the Oak Ridge Summit on Science and Technology, initiated and led by Congressman Zack Wamp from Tennessee. From 1990 to 1994 he was on the board of directors
of the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce.
His field is experimental nuclear physics, emphasizing properties
of high-spin states in deformed nuclei; he has been an author of 170
refereed publications, given 55 invited talks at conferences and
workshops, and been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
(APS). His research has been funded by the Department of Energy since
1976. He currently serves on the Argonne Atlas and Los Alamos LANSCE
Program Advisory Committees, and on the Gammasphere Users Executive
Committee. Various sabbatical leaves have been spent at the Niels Bohr
Institute in Denmark. He served as the elected chair of the Division of
Nuclear Physics of the APS in 1996, and continues to chair the divisional
Committee on the Funding of Nuclear Physics. This committee is active
each year in following the federal budgets for nuclear physics and
lobbying for increased funding for the field. In 1983-84, he served as
science advisor to Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, who was then the
majority leader of the U.S. Senate.
Riedinger served from 1992 to 1998 as the University of Tennessee
member of the SURA (Southeastern Universities Research Association) board
and a member of its Executive Committee. He served as the UT councilor
for the Oak Ridge Associated Universities from 1992 to 1995. He was a
member of the DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee from 1990 to
1993, and again in 1996. He chaired the Gordon Research Conference on
Nuclear Chemistry in 1985.
Throughout 1999 he worked on the UT-Battelle proposal to manage
the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The October 20, 1999 announcement of
this contract award will result in his assumption of the position of ORNL
Deputy Director for Science and Technology on April 1, 2000.
On October 20 DOE Secretary Richardson announced his decision to award the
ORNL management contract to the University of Tennessee teamed with
Battelle. Lockheed Martin has managed the laboratory for 15 years, and
will be turning over the reins on April 1, 2000. A new not-for-profit
company, known as UT-Battelle, has been established for the sole purpose
of managing and operating ORNL. Formed as a 50-50 limited liability
partnership between the two corporations, UT-Battelle will be the legal
entity responsible for the laboratory. Both UT and Battelle are committed
to enhancing ORNL's role in scientific research, community outreach, and
serving the needs of DOE. As the single largest user of ORNL facilities,
the University of Tennessee views the laboratory's success as essential to
the vitality of its research programs and the welfare of science in the
southeast and the nation. Battelle brings extensive experience in the
operation of laboratories and in the development of technologies for
transfer to the private sector. The talk will focus on the nature of the
new team, the broad plans for the future, and the UT-Battelle goal to
expand the science and technology excellence of ORNL.
Martin Bauer will present the technology, the imagery, and the future
developments of Interactive Pictures (IPIX) Corporation. The presentation
will include a discussion and demonstration of the core technology,
examples of the many used to which it is being put, as well as a viewing of
advanced developments in immersive video technology.
IPIX, the world leader in interactive imaging for the Internet, allows
viewers to Step Inside the Picture™ with IPIX™ images. IPIX™ patented
technology reinvents the way people create and view images, "teleporting"
and immersing them in a multi-dimensional, 360° X 360° environment. IPIX™
images capture the world as we see it, providing a complete field of
view-from earth to sky, from floor to ceiling, from horizon to horizon - in
a file which can be navigated by simply moving your mouse inside the
photograph.
IPIX™ photography is the most dynamic photographic technology in today's
market, and with the coming of digital television, Interactive Pictures is
poised to evolve the technology into steerable video and the consumer
photography market.
Examples of IPIX technology can be seen on the web at www.ipix.com. Follow
links from that site to other world-wide locations. IPIX has also teamed up
with a billboard company to strategically place cameras around Knoxville
highways. This particular application is under construction but if you surf
on over to www.wate.com and click on "Cam that Traffic Jam" you can take
an initial peek at the latest in traffic reporting.
The Company maintains corporate headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and
San Jose, California, with offices worldwide. The company was founded in
1986 to commercialize telepresence technology for remote robotic systems
developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.