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Penn State Intercom......November 7, 2002

George E. Andrews, Evan Pugh professor of mathematics, was among the mathematicians selected by the National Science Foundation to participate in a roundtable discussion at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

Peter K. Forster, associate director of academic programs for the World Campus/Distance Education, gave a presentation on "Balancing American Involvement in Uzbekistan" at the NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium meeting at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany. The University is a participant in the consortium.

Lee Hammarstrom, special assistant to the director of the Applied Research Laboratory, was invited to participate in a workshop at the Institute of Information Infrastructure Protections to help develop the National Research and Development Agenda for information infrastructure protection. Congress established the institute in response to recommendation by the President's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology and the Office of Science and Technology policy.

Raj Mittra, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory, which is affiliated with the Communication and Space Sciences Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering, was an invited speaker at the City University in Hong Kong. The title of his talk was: "Development of Efficient CAD Tools for the Simulation of Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Microwave and Millimeter Wave Integrated Circuits Packages."

Anton Petrunin, assistant professor of mathematics, gave an invited lecture concerning differential geometry at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing.

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