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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT holds a meeting to discuss the role of research in improving population and health conditions in the world's poorest countries.

AGENDA: Highlight:

Duff Gillespie, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development

DATE: June 4, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Rhonda Smith, 202-939-5427

WEB ADDRESS:usaid.gov

TIME: All Day

EVENT: FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION holds a symposium on "Enhancing Financial Transparency."

AGENDA: Highlights:

8:30 a.m. -- Adequacy of information that is available to form judgments about the prospects of individual companies

Laurence H. Meyer, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies

James S. Chanos, President and Founder, Kynikos Associates, Ltd.

Abby Joseph Cohen, Chief Market Strategist, Goldman Sachs

Steve Galbraith, Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Vickie A. Tillman, Executive Vice President, Standard & Poor's

10:15 a.m. - Reflections on the Financial Rules of the Road

John C. Murphy, Jr., Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

Dennis R. Beresford, Ernst & Young Executive Professor, J.M. Tull School of Accounting, University of Georgia

Frank O. Marrs, Chief Executive Officer, Gupton Marrs International, Inc.

Dennis D. Powell, Vice President, Corporate Finance, Cisco Systems

William L. Trubeck, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Waste Management, Inc.

12:30 p.m. -- Lawrence Lindsey, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council at the White House

1:30 p.m. - Policy Roundtable

Cynthia A. Glassman, Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Eugene A. Ludwig, Managing Partner, Promontory Financial Group

Honorable Michael G. Oxley, United States House of Representatives

Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman, Federal Reserve

DATE: June 4, 2002

LOCATION: St. Regis Hotel, 923 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C

CONTACT: 202-224-6037

WEB ADDRESS:fdic.gov

TIME: All Day

EVENT: U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT holds a meeting to discuss the role of research in improving population and health conditions in the world's poorest countries.

AGENDA: Highlight:

Duff Gillespie, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development

DATE: June 4, 2002

LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Rhonda Smith, Population Reference Bureau, 202-939-5427

WEB ADDRESS:usaid.gov

TIME: 8 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL holds a workshop on research to innovation discussing how to reduce the time it takes for basic research to result in an actual chemical product. Attendees will include scientists from companies such as Dow Chemical and Lucent Technologies, officials from government organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and scientists from MIT's Media Laboratory and other universities.

DATE: June 4, 2002

LOCATION: NAS, 2100 C St., NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program featuring Kamran Al-Karadaghi Deputy Director, Radio Free Iraq, discussing Who Are The Iraqi Opposition?

LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-457-6949

WEB ADDRESS:rferl.org

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL holds a workshop on to discuss how to develop better forecasts that could reduce airport delays and increase safety, as well as how best to communicate the weather outlook to air traffic controllers and pilots.

AGENDA: Highlights:

9:15 a.m. - FAA Overview of Delay Problem from NAS Perspective

Steve Brown, FAA, Acting Associate Administrator for Air Traffic Services, ATS-1

9:35 a.m. - Overview of Collaborative Decision Making process, planning process, teams, challenges when weather goes bad

Jack Kies, FAA, Manager for Air Traffic Tactical Operations, ATT-1

9:55 a.m. - Air Carrier Perspective of Delay Problem

Russ Gold, ATA, Director, Airline Operations/Meteorology

10:15 a.m. - Overview of delays due to weather, History of convective forecast, provision of forecast for traffic planning

Jim Washington, FAA, Director for Air Traffic System Requirements Service, ARS-1

10:50 a.m. - Overview of CCFP, Forecast Content, Production, Use of CCFP, Problems and Limitations

Bill Cranor, US Airways, Manager for ATC and Airfield Operations

11:10 a.m. - Overview of CCFP Verification, CCFP Calibration

Mark Phanef, AvMet Applications, Vice President

Current State of Development

11:30 a.m. - Overview of Operational Forecasting constraints in this problem

Fred Foss, Aviation Weather Center (AWC), Chief for Domestic Operations Branch

11:45 a.m. - Overview of Numerical Modeling applied to this problem

Jack Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Director, Office of Science and Technology

12 noon Working Lunch in meeting room:

Challenges-Overview of the accuracy requirements

Richard Heuwinkel, FAA, Manager for Aerospace Weather Policy, ARS-100

DATE: June 4, 2002

LOCATION: Holiday Inn Georgetown, 2101 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associate Program presents Robert Buck who began flying in the glamorous early days and has flown everything from biplanes to the Boeing 747. He still flies gliders today at age 87. In this interview, he describes the evolution of aviation, the early stages of NASA, and his own current involvement as a member of the FAA Air Safety Advisory Group. Book signing follows.

DATE: May 30, 2002

LOCATION: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu

TIME: 4 p.m.

EVENT: National Academies' National Research Council releases a report entitled The Scientific Basis For Estimating Emissions From Animal Feeding Operations, which examines the accuracy of methods used to estimate emissions of methane and other air pollutants from livestock operations. Advance copies will be available to reporter's only beginning at 9 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 4.

AGENDA: THE REPORT IS EMBARGOED AND NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE BEFORE 4 P.M. EDT ON JUNE 4.

DATE: June 4, 2002

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associate Program presents military historian Antony Beevor discussing the harrowing days of 1945, when the Red Army and German forces clashed for the final time, and reconstructs the experiences of millions caught up in the death throes of the Third Reich. Book signing follows.

DATE: June 4, 2002

LOCATION: Room 3037, S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu