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The U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) is pleased to
announce a new competition for its Cooperative Grants Program. This program
allows joint teams of U.S. and former Soviet Union (FSU) scientists and
engineers to apply for one- to two-year support for cooperation in any area
of civilian research and development in the natural sciences, mathematics,
engineering, and biomedical and behavioral sciences. Proposals may be
submitted to the Cooperative Grants Program on a rolling basis. Applicants
may submit proposals to CRDF at any time beginning October 1, 2002.

* Each proposal must be jointly submitted by one U.S.
Co-Investigator and one FSU Co-Investigator.

* The U.S. Co-Investigator must be a U.S. citizen or permanent
resident. The FSU Co-Investigator must be a citizen of, and permanently
reside in, one of the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine
or Uzbekistan.

* The average anticipated grant size is $40,000.00 USD per
year over a one- to two-year period.

* At least 80% of the funds awarded to each project will be
used for project-related expenses of the FSU team. No more than 20% of the
funds awarded may be used for U.S. team expenses.

* Each proposal must be submitted electronically through the
CRDF website.

* Applicants may submit proposals to CRDF at any time
beginning October 1, 2002. Please note that there is a limit of one
proposal submission per applicant in a 12-month period.

* All proposals will undergo scientific evaluation by
CRDF-appointed review panels and external experts. CRDF requires
approximately six months to review CGP proposals and to announce the results
of the competition.

For a full program announcement and application forms, please consult the
CRDF website: www.crdf.org <http://www.crdf.org>

Contact Information
U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)
For the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
1800 North Kent St., Suite 1106
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Tele: 703-526-9720
Fax: 703-526-9721
E-mail: cgp@crdf.org

2002 International Liquid Crystal Conference Abstracts

I am pleased to announce that the abstracts of the 2002 International
Liquid Crystal Conference, held in Edinburgh, Scotland this past July, are
available online to IPP Member companies. Just go to the IPP Members Only
Web Site:

<http://www.lci.kent.edu/ipp/index.html>,

The contents of these ILCC 2002 web pages were originally distributed on CD
to conference attendees. Abstracts for the poster sessions were not
included on the web site but are available by request.

If you find an abstract that interests you, and you'd like to obtain a copy
of the paper, please contact me, and a copy will be mailed to you.

As always, we welcome your suggestions and comments about this or any other
IPP service.

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From the web site:

History of ILCC Conferences

The International Liquid Crystal Conference, of which 2002 in Edinburgh is
the 19th, began in 1965 at Kent State University, Ohio under the
chairmanship of the late Glenn H Brown to whom we owe so much for the
advancement of the subject since these early days. Because of his great
influence in the field, the conferences of 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1996 were
also held in Kent, Ohio, and the meetings have become regular biennial
events alternating generally speaking between Europe and the rest of the
world. Including those in Kent, Ohio, the full list of venues and dates for
the meeting is given below.

From the 90 or so delegates attending the 1965 meeting, attendances have
reached around 900, and these conferences represent the main international
forum for the presentation and discussion of new research results in the
multifaceted subject of
liquid crystals.

Previous ILCC Conferences:

1965 Kent, Ohio 1986 Berkeley
1968 Kent, Ohio 1988 Freiburg
1970 Berlin 1990 Vancouver
1972 Kent, Ohio 1992 Pisa
1974 Stockholm 1994 Budapest
1976 Kent, Ohio 1996 Kent, Ohio
1978 Bordeaux 1998 Strasbourg
1980 Kyoto 2000 Sendai
1982 Bangalore 2002 Edinburgh
1984 York

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany not only supplies liquid crystal materials, it also produces some very informative literature.

In particular, a number of years ago Merck KGaA released a series of articles on how it performed measurements for many of the material
parameters listed in its "Liquid Crystal Newsletter." Entitled "Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals -- Description of the Measurement Methods,"
the first ten articles in this series cover a wide variety of topics:

I. Optical Phase Identification
II. Determination of Transition Temperatures
III. Dielectric Permittivities
IV. Optical Anisotropy
V. Transitions Observed by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
VI. Elastic Constants
VII. Viscosities of Nematic Liquid Crystal Materials
VIII. Voltage Holding Ratio
IX. Rotational Viscosity of Nematic Liquid Crystal Materials
X. Residual DC

Each article is a concise "primer" for its topic; well suited as an introduction or quick refresher.

If you would like to read abstracts of these articles, you can go to the IPP Members Only Web Site <www.lci.kent.edu/ipp/home.html> and follow the
link to "Selected Abstracts - Other Publications." (This is a new link on the IPP Members Only Web Site and should be active by the end of Tuesday,
30 July 2002.)

If you're interested in the complete set of papers, you should contact Merck KgaA on the Web at <http://pb.merck.de/servlet/PB/menu/1013330/index.html> or directly via
e-mail at <liquid.crystals@merck.de>.

As always, we welcome your suggestions and comments about this or any other IPP service.

Free software program: Chromaticity.exe
One of the graduate students at the LCI came across a very useful free program that should help anyone understand CIE* chromaticity charts. The
program, chromaticity.exe, was written by Earl F. Glynn II, a scientific programmer at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri. From the Chromaticity web page, Mr. Glynn writes: "The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how to display a 1931 CIE chromaticity chart, as well as the transformations introduced in 1960 and 1976. In addition, the charts can be displayed using either the 1931 2-degree standard observer, or the 1964 10-degree standard observer, and attempts to explain the difference between standard observers." An excellent tutorial, the program also plots the color gamuts for various color systems including Dell, NTSC, and long and short persistence. The zip file is small, 336KB, and can be downloaded from: http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Graphics/Colors/Chromaticity.htm

*In case you've ever wondered, and even if you haven't, CIE stands for the International Commission on Illumination - abbreviated as CIE from its
French title, Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage. In addition to chromaticity.exe, Mr. Glynn has a wealth of other pages and programs devoted to many topics. Of particular interest to LCD related companies are: Visible Light Spectrum and Hydrogen Emission/Absorption Spectra, http://www.efg2.com/Lab/ScienceAndEngineering/Spectra.htm

"The purpose of this program is to display RGB colors as a function of wavelength for visible light (380 to 780 nm). A secondary purpose of this program is to display the emission and absorption spectra of hydrogen. The upper and lower wavelength limits for the spectrum can be interactively specified, and interval marks can be displayed if desired. A spectrum can be printed or saved to a 24-bit color BMP file." and The Maxwell Triangle http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Graphics/Colors/MaxwellTriangle.htm

"The Maxwell triangle shows a set of three additive primary colors and the complete gamut of colors obtainable by mixing two or three of them
together. This triangle is named after the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), who employed it in his basic work on color [Agoston87,
p. 48]." I hope you find Mr. Glynn's web site as interesting as I did.

SID 2002 Meeting

It's time once again for SID. Many of the LCI research groups will be attending SID 2002 in Boston. If you or someone at your company is unable to attend, but would like to get more details on a particular presentation or from a particluar company's booth at the exposition, please let me know. It's likely that someone from
the LCI will be attending the very session you're interested in. Please send me your requests by noon (Eastern Time) on Friday 17 May.
Jon Ruth, Ph.D., e-mail: ipp@lci.kent.edu
Office: 330/672-1555

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Industrial Partnership Program member companies. If you've had new folks join your company recently, they may want to subscribe.

Individuals can subscribe by sending a message to listserv@listserv.kent.edu from their own e-mail accounts. The body
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As always, we welcome your suggestions and comments about this or any other IPP service.

The March 2002 ALCOM Update newsletter is now on the web at: http://www.lci.kent.edu/newsletters.html. Paper copies will be mailed today, addressed to your company's IPP contact.

Seminar announcement - 2/15/02

On Wednesday, 20 February 2002, Dr. Antal Jakli, of the Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio will speak on "Electroactive
Liquid Crystals: Reality and Potentials." The seminar will begin at 3:30 PM and will be held in the Samsung Auditorium at the Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

This seminar will be video taped. If you cannot attend the seminar and would like to view the tape, please let me know. As always, we welcome your suggestions and comments about this or any other IPP service.

A complete listing of the 2002 Spring semester presentations for:

** Kent State U. **
Liquid Crystal Institute Seminars

** Case Western Reserve U. **
Physics Colloquium Series, Condensed Matter Seminars,
Dept. of Macromolecular Science and Engineering)

** U. of Akron **
College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering
Lectures and Seminars

can be found at:

http://www.lci.kent.edu/ipp/archives.html#springseminars

Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute Seminars
Spring 2002
http://www.lci.kent.edu/seminars.html

Unless indicated otherwise, all seminars are held on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in the Samsung Auditorium (Room 101)
of the Liquid Crystal Institute/Materials Science Building. For more information on these seminars, contact the Seminar
Chair, Dr. Mary E. Neubert.

February 6
Professor Isabel Carvalho
Department of Physics, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Optical Fibers: Properties and Applications"

February 20
Dr. Antal Jakli
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
"Electroactive Liquid Crystals: Reality and Potentials"

February 27
Dr. Ranganathen Shashidhar
Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering,
Naval Research Laboratory
"Acoustic Properties of Liquid Crystals and Underwater Imaging"

March 13
Prof. Kenneth D. Singer, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University
"Molecular Semiconductors"

March 20
Prof. Alex K-Y. Jen, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Washington
"Nanoscale Tailoring of Polymers and Dendrimers for Optoelectronic and Photonic Applications"

April 24
Dr. Vicki L. Colvin, Department of Chemistry, Rice University
"To Be Announced"

May 1
Dr. Alex J. Seed, Department of Chemistry, Kent State University
"Synthesis and physical properties of new mesogenic five-membered heterocycles"

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Case Western Reserve University Physics Colloquium Series
Spring 2002

http://www.phys.cwru.edu/events/colloq.php

Usually meeting Thursday at 4:15 p.m. in the Rockefeller
301. Unusual times or locations are noted.

Coordinator: Kathleen Kash, Department of Physics.

January 31

Lawrence Krauss
Case Western Reserve University
"The good The Bad and the Ugly; Particle Astrophysics
in the 21st Century"

February 7

Mike Martens
Fermilab
"Luminosity in the Fermilab Tevatron"

February 21

Jay Kikkawa
University of Pennsylvania
"Getting a Handle on Spintronics with Optical Spin
Electrodes"

February 28

Randall D. Kamien
University of Pennsylvania
"What's Kelvin's Problem?"

March 7

Nemanja Kaloper
Stanford University
"New Physics and Cosmology from Extra Dimensions"

April 4

Re'em Sari
Cal Tech
"Phenomenology of Gamma Ray Bursts"

April 18

Ashoke Sen
"To Be Announced"

April 25

Frank Wilczek
"To Be Announced"

May 2

Clapp 108
Andreas Albrecht
"To Be Announced"

May 9

Rob Tycko
"To Be Announced"

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Case Western Reserve University, Condensed Matter Seminars
Spring 2002

http://www.phys.cwru.edu/events/cms.php

Usually meeting Monday: 12:30pm - 1:30pm in the Miller
Room, Rockefeller 221.

Unusual times or locations are noted.

Coordinator: Walter Lambrecht, Department of Physics

January 25, 12:30 PM

Rdiger Wortmann
Universit„t Kaiserslautern, Germany
"Molecular Chromophores for Photonic Applications:
Design and Characterization"

January 28

Sumathi Rao
Pennsylvania State University
"Transport in Quantum Wires"

February 4

Steven Erwin
Naval Research Laboratory
"Density-Functional Theory of Magnetic Semiconductors"

February 11

S. D. Mahanti
Michigan State University
"Spin Waves and Non-Stoner Excitations in Manganites"

February 18

Eckhard Jankowsky
Dept. of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, CWRU
"Mechanism of a molecular motor that works on RNA:
zooming in on single molecules"

February 25

Mercouri Kanatzidis
Michigan State University
"Discovering New Thermoelectric Materials"

March 25

Members
CWRU Physics Department
"Reports from the APS March Meeting"

April 1

Re'em Sari, Michelson Postdoctoral Lecturer
California Institute of Technology
"Phenomenology of Gamma Ray Bursts."

April 8

Leonard Brillson
The Ohio State University
"Electronic States and Polytype Transformations
at SiC Interfaces"

April 15

George Malliaras
Cornell University
"Charge Injection in Organic Semiconductors"

April 22

Anne Chaka
National Institute of Standards and Technology
"The Effect of the Environment on a-M2O3 (0001)
Surface Structures"

April 29

William Zimmermann
University of Minnesota
"To Be Announced"

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Case Western Reserve University, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering
SPRING 2002

http://www.scl.cwru.edu/cse/emac/Events/Spring2002.html

Please Note: All M.S.E. Graduate Student Seminars and the
M.S.E. Colloquia are held on-campus (CWRU) in the Clapp
Auditorium, Room 108, at 3:30 PM. Otherwise, location and
time are noted.

January 18

Macromolecular Science Colloquium /
Raymond F. Boyer Lecture Series

Professor Gerald Fuller
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
"Complex Fluid Interfaces"

February 1

M.S.E. Graduate Student Seminar

Moderator: Huiwen Tai
Beth Miller, "FT-IR Imaging of Polymer Dissolution"
Alberto Scurati, "Fundamentals of Silica Dispersion in
Polymeric Media: Engineering Strategies and Modeling"

February 15

M.S.E. Graduate Student Seminar

Moderator: Ho-Dong Kim
Seong-Woo Choi, "Synthesis of Supramolecular and Functional
Benzoxazines"
Terry Collier, "Thermoresponsive Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic
Changes in Poly N-Isopropyl Acrylamide Modified
Surfaces: LCST Effects on Cell Adherence"

February 22

M.S.E. Graduate Student Seminar

Moderator: Christiane Loewe
Yu-Hsin Lee, "Morphology of Rubber-Toughened
Polybenzoxazines Studied by AFM Force Measurements"
Thummanoon Prodpran, "Gas Transport Behavior of
Semicrystalline Syndiotactic Polystyrene"

March 1

Macromolecular Science Colloquium /
Raymond F. Boyer Lecture Series

Professor Donald Paul
Department of Chemical Engineering and Texas Materials
Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
"Polymer Nanocomposites by Melt Processing"

March 8

Macromolecular Science Colloquium /
Raymond F. Boyer Lecture Series

Professor Karen Wooley
Department of Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis
"The Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Complex
Nanostructured Materials"

March 15

Macromolecular Science Colloquium /
Raymond F. Boyer Lecture Series

Professor Michael Brenner
Division of Engineering and Applied Science,
Harvard University,
"The Mechanics of Electrospinning"

March 22

Macromolecular Science Colloquium /
Raymond F. Boyer Lecture Series

Dr. Thomas Neenan
GelTex Pharmaceuticals
"Design, Synthesis and Development of Polymeric Drugs"

April 5

M.S.E. Graduate Student Seminar

Moderator: Dallas Parker
Yuqin Li, "DSC and X-Ray Studies on the Materials under
Nanoconfined Space"
Winston Wang, "Impact of Non-Linear Dynamics on
Distributive Mixing in Polymer Processing Equipment"

April 12

M.S.E. Graduate Student Seminar

Moderator: Sergei Shenogin
John Boyle, "Factors Affecting Agglomerate Dispersion in
Polymeric Media"
Prartana Kewsuwan, "Liquid Crystalline Supramolecular Ionic
Complexes"

April 19

Macromolecular Science Colloquium /
Raymond F. Boyer Lecture Series

Professor Wolfgang Knoll
Max-Planck-Institut fr Polymerforschung
"Novel Surface Plasmon Optical Techniques for the
Quantification of Hybridization Reactions"

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University of Akron, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering
Lectures and Seminars
Spring 2002

http://www2.uakron.edu/cpspe/seminar/seminar.html

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Akron Polymer Lecture Group

February 1, 4:00PM

Goodyear Polymer Center, Auditorium, Rm. 229

Professor James E. McGrath
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech.
"Polymeric Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) Nanocomposites
for Fuel Cells"

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Eastman Chemical Company Lecture

"To Be Announced"

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ICI Polymer Science Lecture Series

"To Be Announced"

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Milkovich Lecture Series

January 28th & 29th

Goodyear Polymer Center, Auditorium, Rm. 229

Maurice S. Brookhart
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of Chemistry
University of North Carolina

January 28, 2:30 p.m.

"Olefin Polymerizaton and Copolymerization Catalyzed by
Late Transition Metal Complexes: Mechanistic and
Synthetic Studies"

January 29, 11:00 a.m.

"Mechanistic Studies of the Copolymerization of Ethylene
and CO using Ni(II) Catalysts"

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Polymer Engineering Lectures

"To Be Announced"

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Polymer Science Lecture Series

February 21, 11:00AM

Professor Edward J. Kramer
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Tough, Optically Clear Materials from Block Copolymers
with Unentangled Glassy Matrices"

February 28, 11:00AM

Professor Donald L. Paul
University of Texas
"Polymer Nanocomposites by Melt Processing"

March 7, 11:00AM

Professor Samuel I. Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science,
Chemistry and Medicine
Northwestern University
"To Be Announced"

LCI Seminar: "Optical Fibers: Properties and Applications"

On Wednesday, 6 February 2002, Professor Isabel Carvalho, of the Department
of Physics, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will speak on "Optical
Fibers: Properties and Applications."

The seminar begins at 3:30 PM and will be held in the Samsung Auditorium at
the Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

This seminar will be video taped. If you cannot make the seminar and would
like to have a copy of the presentation, please let me know.

As always, we welcome your suggestions and comments about this or any other
IPP service.

IMID Excerpts available on line

Excerpts from the program of the 2001 International Meeting on Information
Displays (IMID), August 29-37, 2001 in Daegu, Korea are now available
on-line at the IPP Members Only Web Site. Please go to
<http://www.lci.kent.edu/ipp/index.html> and click first on the "Conference
Proceedings" link in the "Contents" frame and then on the "IMID 2001"
link. You'll need your company's Username and Password to access the site.

These excerpts include listings of the following sessions which may be of
interest to you or your company:

* New Liquid Crystal Technologies
* AMLCD Special Session
* LCD and FLC Technologies
* New LC Material and Alignment Technologies
* FPD Roadmap & Market Special Session
* Material and Components I
* Display Measurement and Manufacturing Equipment
* PDP Special Session
* Material and Components II
* Poster Session P1: Liquid Crystals

If you would like a copy of any paper from the proceedings, please contact
me directly and include the session number and the name of the paper.

Also posted on this page is a photograph of Samsung's new 40-inch diagonal
TFT-LCD, unveiled at IMID 2001.

As always, we welcome your suggestions and comments about this or any other
IPP service.

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